Category Archives: seeing

A nice discovery.

I was looking through a box of old lenses and collected junk earlier this year, with an idea to sell off some bits on Ebay. I had sold some unused brass lenses, enlarging lenses and old cameras, and was about to list a little lens I had found languishing in the bottom of the box. [...]

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Winter light.

I love the low sun and long shadows that are a feature of winter days. Shadows have been a fascination of mine for many years and will continue to be I expect. Every sunny (winter) morning the light shines directly into our kitchen and on this occasion I placed a piece of driftwood on the [...]

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Paper negatives in Kent

Last month I visited an artist friend in Deal, Kent and took along the Kodak Specialist 5×7, shooting paper negatives on some of my remaining stock of Kentona paper. I had a really nice time. We went to see a painter called Jo Aylward and stayed in the house of another artist called Ruby.

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Paper Negative workshop

I’m writing a last minute post to mention a two day paper negative workshop I’m running in Haverthwaite, Cumbria (UK) at the end of April.
I have two places left and thought that perhaps I might find a couple of interested photographers here. The workshop will cover the use of different paper types, establishing a working [...]

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Words are the enemy

In my opinion, there has been far too much written about photography throughout it’s history. The intensity is increasing and unfortunately I’m going to add another few hundred words here;
As a practicing photographer I am concerned with staying as ‘visual’ as I can be, for as much of the day as is possible. Modern life [...]

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