Crew Training, R.N.L.I – Morecambe, England

So with my eagerness to travel and the impossibility of it is this climate, I shoot the R.N.L.I on their many crew nights, launches and returns. Again with everything I document I find it great that these guys Volunteer to do this.

Most of the crew are Firefighters, Police and Ambulance Services in their day jobs but when they have 5 minutes and there bleeper blares at 3 in the morning they get to the boathouse to suit up and rescue some drunk fool on the rocks, or in the worse scenario a lost child in the sea. Either way it is an honour to be allowed the privilege of documenting an on going project on the men and women of Morecambe Lifeboat Station.

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R.N.L.I TTV Photography – New Wave

Some initial photographs from the R.N.L.I meeting tonight, hoping to get more in depth with this type of photography..i can feel its opening up a new style for me. Oppostunity for portraiture and location shots with this TTV Kodak/Canon.

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Through The Viewfinder – TTV

Through the Viewfinder photography is a new photography craze that seems to be picking up pace across various forums online. The concept is to design a contraption made of card that snugly fits on top of your Kodak Duoflex camera, I bought mine at http://www.sepiamemories.com in Morecambe, UK. Using these rough sketches I was able to draft up a non-black version of the TTV and thus create the image above. This will go nicely with the portrait work I am hoping to do within the R.N.L.I

Using the sketch above, some card from an old portfolio box, duck tape and compass, I was able to create the TTV. It works by sliding the DSLR over the opening above to read the bubble viewfinder on the Kodak, thus getting a cool old image using the 1970′s obsolete camera. Here is the first one:

And some of my first images…

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R.N.L.I

Over the past 2 months, I have been working with the R.N.L.I given full access with pager to document the crew and their struggles. It has been a good experience, meeting various people within the organisation and gaining valuable experience.

The determination of the volunteers to help the public is second to none, and a thoughour documented assignment must be achieved to reflect this. It is challenging, heartwarming and beyond achieveable.

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