John Hooper

Is there hope on the horizon? 🗑️F♠️

Yesterday in Margate people started gathering around 6pm. My partner Lou and I set off from our place in Cliftonville with a trolly loaded with tripods and a telescope. Two cameras were poorly packed into two camera bags each with the longest lenses we had. Despite my belief in being prepared the cracks started showing around 11am that day. As I checked the telescope I noticed both eyecups on the eyepieces has perished and fallen off. Thankfully we have a 3d printer so I designed a replacement in Blender and printed two with a soft rubbery filament, they fitted well enough for tonights viewing so it was back on track. Or at least that’s what I thought, ten minutes before leaving I was packing up and I realised I had not made the Baader solar filters I wanted to use to photograph the eclipse (I actually had but couldnt find them)… I hastily cleared a space on the table to cut out two squares of film and glue them into the Lee filter frames I had. Once I had peeled my fingers off the superglued frames I threw everything into bags and set off. Read the full story on my website

Partial Solar Eclipse.

Dream Bags and Jaguard Shoes. It made Shoreditch what it is today!

Colour Pallet. Going out everyday and taking picture for this year long project is challenging for one major factor, deciding when I have the picture I want to post. I arrived at our studio this morning and was drawn to this scene but might I find a better image later in the day? Maybe but that’s all part of the fun.

Many people milling about before morning coffee.

A Slow Return.

The Early Birds. 7.55am Northdown Road

Outside table tennis.

Contemplation.

Tidal pool after John Baldessari, anonymous participants.

Taking pictures of the tidal pool.

Long exposure across the fields.

Summer Fruits, ❤️🔴.

Star spots.

8 minutes of sunlight. At the start of the exposure light began travelling from the sun to the camera. By the end of the exposure the light had arrived.

The Angel of Islington, Eviscerated and decapitated pigeon possibly the victim of a bird of prey. Left outside Angel station like a message to others.