I think readers will be aware that apart from astrophotography my main interest from a photography viewpoint is landscape and architecture. These have featured the least on my degree course, which has spent most of its time covering genres such as still
Time for adventures in bookbinding. I went on my first bookbinding course last summer run by the Field Studies Council (FSC) at the National Trust property at Flatford Mill in Suffolk. I’ve just been there again. I’m acutely aware that my bookbinding
Before I get started, a bit of an apology. I forgot to update the blog about the Sinar and the Lake District. The cause was it was a failure – the plate I’d bought for mounting my Nikon does not fit a
Time for a progress report on the project with the RB67. I realise I have been a bit remiss in not providing an update on the saga of Clee Hill. Eventually on the Saturday following the aborted attempt I did succeed in
I did think of branding this post as: “The Trials and Tribulations of Photography in the UK…”. For my university course, I need to take some landscape photographs. I have chosen a location, and I undertook at digital test shoot in January.
I don’t yet have all of the needed facilities at home to process films, so I’m having to do that using the darkroom at university. I recently processed the film I took last year when I visited the luthier. The intention of
Time for an update on my adventures – or more often misadventures – with medium format photography. As you know, this is a completely new territory for me. Until last autumn when I shot some university project work with a TLR 6×6
I’m going to post this update in two parts in separate posts. This first one talks about kit changes and the next one about recent experiences with medium format photography. It would seem that my camera equipment is growing at pace at
I have a new project to work on over the next couple of months. The project will use B&W medium format film. Before getting to that stage, I needed to run a digital test shoot. For my genre I have chosen industrial
Starting in Ambleside, Day 3 was very grey with none of the local peaks such as Red Screes or Fairfield visible as they were covered in cloud and mist. Down in the town it was damp and misty. The first port of