Photographer: Tom Griffiths Shot on the Huawei P9 In collaboration with EE
From the column ‘Snap Judgement.’
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As part of a collaboration with EE, food photographer Tom Griffiths took a Huawei P9 and headed home to Cornwall to catch and eat some fish.
Growing up in Cornwall, I have a very healthy connection with the outdoors. As a teenager, most of my time was spent outdoors with friends and family by the sea, surfing, fishing, cycling, or on my BMX. Now I live in London, and although the city has been incredible for my work as a photographer, I’ve always missed being close to vast open spaces. First world problems, for sure.
Me and my mate Tregs ventured back to the motherland, armed with a Huawei P9, to relive my youth and spend a couple of days camping, fishing, and finding food along the edible seashores of a Cornish beach.
We set off from London in a tiny rental car packed with rods, a tent, sleeping bags, and a few bags of jelly snakes—the essential driving snack. Our first job was choosing which beach to head to, it had to be somewhere with good fishing, but quiet enough so that we don’t get don’t get kicked off for camping and starting a fire. Eventually, we decided on Vault beach, near Mevagissey, coincidentally a hotspot for Cornish nudists.
We set up camp in the dark, had an uncomfortable sleep and woke up at at 8 AM ready to head straight out to fish. Tregs hooked into a healthy sized wrasse on the second chuck of the line, but that’s not what wewere after. Wrasse are too bony—we wanted a pollock or sea bass.
By 11.30 AM, we were getting pretty hungry but thankfully Tregs hooks into something. Although the fish put up a good fight, after a minute or so of reeling in, he brought it to the surface and we see that it’s a 3 lb pollock.
There’s dinner!
We headed back to our camp and prepared the fish by gutting and then filleting it. I picked some rock samphire and sea rocket to serve with the fish, and we also brought chili, garlic, and a few herbs along with us.
We fried the pollock fillets in chili and garlic, with a few sprigs of thyme too. It was served on a mixture of rocket and sea rocket, with boiled rock samphire and a few cherry tomatoes.
We spent the rest of the afternoon fishing some more—slightly sun stroked and burnt—but catch no fish worth keeping. The sea was rough and the tide not quite where we want it to be, so dinner is trail mix by the fire pit.
Friday morning and it was porridge for breakfast, then on to pick mussels. We found enough for two plates and stashed them near the tent, then headed out again to go fishing. Unfortunately the sea was still too rough even though was beautiful weather, so we call it a day. And to be honest, we were pretty excited to cook our mussels for lunch. We served them on a bed of rock samphire with crusty bread, a slice of lemon, and some lightly fried chili and garlic.
After lunch, it was time to head back to London (the five-hour drive not inviting in the slightest) but we had an amazing time in Cornwall reliving our youth. Catching, picking, and preparing our food in the wild for a couple of days also reminded me of the value of knowing where our food comes from. If you’ve never set up camp in a random location and relied on just yourself (maybe a bit of Google too) for your food, then I highly recommend it.
These photos were taken on the Huawei P9 with the new dual lens camera co-engineered with Leica.
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