Last week was a hectic week. A thoroughly dull and wet bank Holiday saw me erecting my blow up Nova darkroom tent and cleaning and loading dark slides for 37 sheets of film – yes one odd sheet. I also serviced my Toyo 45A as I last used it in March and it is surprising […]
Four weeks and counting
Four weeks from now the bulk of our Lux Locus Degree show should be built. We open for the VIP view on the evening of 5th June. The next VIP night is 12th June in Free Range, London. All in all, these shows, London being the most expensive, have set us back £11,000 but such […]
Scanners and experiments with Ilford DDX
I ran out of Portra 400 the other morning and all I had left in my case was HP5+ or FP4+. The FP4+ had been loaded when I took delivery of the Toyo 45A and 135 mm lens. I went straight into full blown colour was was taken aback by how tack sharp that Schneider […]
Fly tipping – here today, gone tomorrow
I have or should I say had found a new site to explore for my Edgelands project this past Tuesday. I re-visited the site today in impossibly bright conditions to find that my tableau of found offerings had mostly been cleared away. The berries were still on the bare shrubs but the fly-tipped detritus had […]
High Tension Shoot
I have never been keen on high tension power lines draping over built up areas and there has been quite a number of reports over the years regarding the affect they have on the poor souls domiciled beneath them. Well, today I got a taster of what it is like. After 22 days of fruitless […]
Daft idea trying to shoot large format in this weather
I am shooting medium and large format images for my degree project. I am so glad that I got off to a good start back in the early autumn as just lately it has been a washout although nothing like the trauma suffered by people in the West Country and now the Thames Valley. […]