Tag: photographs
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Developing a child’s 120 year old negative
Not exactly how Mathieu Stern got the date, but this amazing example of cyanotype printing of a 100+ year old glass negative. Yes those gloves are needed because although it’s low toxicity it can give off some cyanide gas in some conditions! But this is a lovely piece, especially for photog geeks, and also the…
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Flagtowns
I’ve been collecting my photos for various exhibitions and competitions – the latest was this competition by Olympus, which looking at the quality and the type of photographs (in order, bad, and cheesy chocolate box) got me posting over a hundred pictures to Instagram of what I think Britain is, and what I find interesting,…
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Ghost Towns
I seem to have been looking at a lot of ghost towns in the last few days…not sure why, but like their maritime counterparts shipwrecks and aircrashes there’s something haunting about them. I’ve even done my fair share of exploring ruins, usually of the more remote and open kind in the Highlands (there are a…
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Walking The Wrong Way
A new year, a new blog it seems! I’ve always intended to do a blog about my photographic walks cum art project, and planned to end of last season. So before I start this one, here’s Walking The Wrong Way. It’s got photographs! Maps, tracks and geolocation! Gizmos! Search by location! Tweets! My silly rambling…
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I Love the Love Police; yet I hate the fake/real Police
I’ve posted about them before (their excellent and funny Canary Wharf video I think as part of their ‘Everything is OK’ series) but I love how Charlie and co. deal with the Fake Bacon (aka Hobby Bobbies, aka PCSOs). They really do seem to be a menace, as they pop up a lot in Section…
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My best photographs
I’ve setup the ‘Best’ set in Flickr, which includes what I think to be my best photographs so far, well of the ones I’ve shared online, anyway (there are about 10,000+ film ones that have never been scanned!). Quite hard for me to choose, I’m very picky technically but also have to see the other…