One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest

December 9, 2018 by Phil Kneen Photography

This journal entry was made halfway through my outing on the Reul na Mara; We’d come back to Scrabster harbour to shelter from the storm which had chased us all the way from Orkney, a maritime rollercoaster ride that lasted 10-hours. Ross’ approach and entry into a turbulent and blindingly dark Scrabster harbour was an impressive display of boat handling and a testament to his 36-years experience at sea – he made it look as easy as negotiating a shopping […]

Categories: photojournalism • Tags: 1600, 35mm, analogue, black and white, crewmen, fishermen, fishing boat, Ilford hp5 400, pushed film, scotland, trawlermen

Sleep when you can

December 7, 2018 by Phil Kneen Photography

Some more meanderings from my recent trip with the crew on the fishing trawler, Reul na Mara, in the North Atlantic. ‘8th November 2018.  59°56.220N/6°44.813W Course 268°  Sea state – moderate to rough 00.20 – Trawler life is linear; there’s no set time of day when anything in particular happens, it’s merely, ‘Fish, Eat, Sleep, Repeat.’. Clock time is irrelevant, breakfast, lunch and supper are events rather than times of the day. Any sleep pattern I did have, we left […]

Categories: Photography, photojournalism, Uncategorized • Tags: 35mm, analogue, scotland, trawler, trawlermen

Sea state – moderate

December 5, 2018 by Phil Kneen Photography

For two weeks in November, I joined the fishing vessel, Ruel na Mara and her crew, working about 100km northwest off the Outer Hebrides. I don’t wish to romanticise something that these men do for work, all year round, but for me, it was an incredible experience. “A proper adventure”, as a friend dubbed it – two weeks on a 24 metre, wooden-hulled trawler, with two Scotsmen and four Filipinos somewhere in North Atlantic, wearing the same underwear for days […]

Categories: Photography, photojournalism • Tags: 35mm, 6x7, analogue, black and white, colour, film photography, fishermen, fuji pro 400H, I shoot film, Olympus mju II, personal project, portrait, scotland, trawlermen

Go West…

November 16, 2018 by Phil Kneen Photography

I’ve just returned from a two week trip with the Inverness  registered fishing boat, Reul na Mara. Most of the fortnight was spent in the North Atlantic, off the NW of the Outer Hebrides. I’ll be publishing photos as they are developed and scanned, and sharing diary entries of this, the first of a few trips in the project, over the next few months. I haven’t done a technical type article for a while, so I thought it would be […]

Categories: film photography, photojournalism • Tags: 35mm, analog, analogue, nikon f100, scotland, trawlermen

Highland Retro

November 19, 2015 by Phil Kneen Photography

Apart from a tent across the way from us, we were the only people in the Glen Nevis Holidays Campsite. The tiny two person tent was only about 30 metres away, but it was raining so hard that I could hardly see it. As it got dark I could start to make-out the figures inside the tent – silhouetted against the taut fabric. I couldn’t help feeling sorry for them, it hadn’t stopped raining for days… but maybe they’ll think […]

Categories: film photography, Photography • Tags: 35mm, 6x9cm, Ben Nevis, camp site, film, fuji GW690II, I shoot film, Kirsty Hamilton, kodak portra 400, Olympus mju II, scotland

Take the High Road

November 10, 2015 by Phil Kneen Photography

Monday 9th November, Ullapool, Scotland – It’s a good job I enjoy driving, because I’ve done a lot of it during the last 6 weeks, over 6,000 miles so far. In the 4 days since I left Calais, I have driven almost the entire length of England and Scotland, a distance of about 700 miles on the road. After leaving France late on Thursday, I dropped my friend/assistant off at her home in South London in the early hours of […]

Categories: Photography • Tags: film, film camera, I shoot film, kodak portra 400, london, pentax 67, scotland, VSCO

The Things I saw #4

October 26, 2015 by Phil Kneen Photography

Since returning home last week, following a string of unfortunate incidents, things have begun to gradually improve… my ex-wife Helen told me they would, twice. My continuing stories about campsites in Spain, and their perpetual residents, has stirred-up quite a bit of interest… I’ve been contacted by a couple of agents who’d like me to go back to Benidorm and extend the story. I must admit that the idea of going back to that area wasn’t something I had planned… […]

Categories: film photography, Photography, photojournalism, travel • Tags: 35mm, Ballachulish bridge, Benidorm, calais, film, film photography, fine art, I shoot film, kinlochleven, kodak, kodak portra 160, kodak portra 400, kodak portra 800, Olympus mju II, olympus mju2, personal project, phil kneen, photojournalism, portrait, scotland, Simon Campbell, spain, tourism

Suz and Simon get hitched.

May 14, 2014 by Phil Kneen Photography

I’ve just returned from a most amazing long weekend in Inveraray, Scotland, to witness the marriage of my close friends, Simon and Suzy. I wasn’t there as official photographer (I don’t generally shoot weddings), but I turned-out to be the only photographer there, so I willingly took-on the role! It was great just being able to wander round taking portraits of whoever I liked the look of…oh hold-on…that’s what I do anyway! I took a lot of photos, and I […]

Categories: Music, Photography • Tags: highlands, Inveraray, marriage, portrait, scotland, Simon Campbell, suz starlite, wedding

The arrow of time…

April 15, 2012 by Phil Kneen Photography

Spring 1989, I was 19. I’d been working in a local pottery making reproduction Staffordshire figures, hideous tat. My boss had been looking for an excuse to sack me for weeks. His opportunity came one Friday afternoon when I decided to come back from my Wednesday lunch break, two days late. So, I had two weeks wages, a second-hand Olympus OM1 and a Honda 125cc motorbike. I decided I was going to ride to Scotland. I got on the Isle of […]

Categories: Photography • Tags: 125cc, art, black and white, camera, film, film camera, film photography, fine art, glen etive, honda, I shoot film, kodak, motorbike, negative, personal project, phil kneen, road trip, scotland, sligachan hotel