Photographs

Eights Week, May 1980  Blasts From the Past  It's Eights Week in Oxford a gain - this time it's May 1980 and the Hertford College Ladies Schools VIII taking a leisurely paddle up the river.

Rowing, May 1981  Blasts From the Past  Every year during the Summer term the rowing races known collectively as Eights Week take place on the Thames (known as the Isis at this point in Oxford). So, despite never having set foot in such a contraption myself, it would be wrong of me to dismiss this from my collection. So here is a Hertford College eight splashing about in May 1981, shot on Ilford HP5. Below is the scan of the original negative...

Hollywood Comes to Oxford, April 1980  Blasts From the Past  The corner of Catte St. and the Broad in Oxford, April 1980, Kodacolor II with a Rolliecord TLR. This is one of my earliest photographs. It's from the first roll out of the Rolleicord TLR I borrowed to document my final term at university. I don't expect I'd have used the word "document" at the time; rather I would just have said "take some pictures". That was in April 1980. The image shows the corner of Catte St. in Oxford dressed up as Divinity Rd. in Cambridge, Massachusetts, for the filming of Michael Cimino's western, "Heaven's Gate". Note the anachronistic graffiti bottom left. The film itself was a commercial flop which ruined both the studio and Cimino's reputation. There is more about it here , although the photographs have since been removed. The original scan is shown below. I've tweaked tone and contast in Lightroom, then B&W co...