Over the past years I haven’t been uploading any of my black and white film photography here on the blog. Having not used the camera for years there is nothing fresh and new to consider. But today an idea began to develop.

A couple of my past photographic images have recently been used as little experiments. To make the FRAIL AUTUMN project name and a list of song titles a bit more visually interesting for the blog music theme.

It made me think about attaching more of my old photographs to the new music project. Maybe apply them to use as artwork for a booklet of lyrics inherent within a future CD cover. If everything comes together where song titles are able to provide relevant words to certain past photographs, then it would be cool to get some linked up for future use. I can take new photograph ideas if I have no appropriate image for certain song titles.

‘Alone in my obscurity’, ‘Stop the Rain’, ‘The Whisperings’, ‘Cacophony of sound and dreadful thought’ and ‘Harbour that Horizon’ are actually not song titles I have written at all. The words chosen are more akin to my old photograph titles. But it gives an idea as to what is possible.

Mind you. It could be fun to write songs with these song titles……..

And no! They haven’t just been subliminally thought of due to state of mind. Positivity exists currently.

I gave my photographs titles in the past due to my Aphantasia. It means lacking of a visual ‘Mind’s Eye’. Close my eyes and there is nothing there. Simply darkness. Hence no visual memories. So…..I could never bring to mind the photographic images I had taken. So giving them unusual titles helped me to remember that I had actually taken the photograph. I had all the names of my favourite images on my Moonfruit Photography website years on years ago. That has long gone now. Maybe modern technology has no permanence when you have to keep paying ever increasing costs for it. So creating a CD cover can stamp my images down in hard copy format. I gave many of my photograph prints away to family and friends. I own very few now. But I still have thousands of negatives, so can scan them.

I do love high contrast black and white with slabbed areas of dark or light evident. So titles could stand out. As a young child, I was fascinated with the vinyl cover of the album ‘With The Beatles’. I still have a copy. That is why I have a fondness for the photograph of myself holding the iconic Fender Jazz bass guitar I suppose.

If you tap on the individual images below they enlarge.

ALL THE PHOTOGRAPHS ABOVE BY GRAY SUMMERS.