For Sale

After pondering the inevitable for some time I have now presented images on my site for sale. Along the top of all images the details can be retrieved for prints, e-cards, downloads and sharing. The joy of this for me is that I use a third party vendor for the printing, payment and delivery of the images which gives me time to do other things. The company, if you're interested, is Fotomoto. I've seen and used a couple of these types of vendors but none have been as simple to use and as easy to adapt to my site. Image quality is also top notch...best idea all round methinks.

Feel free to contact me if you want further information about this provider or my site.

Merry Christmas

To all my friends, relations and colleagues may I wish you a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. Here's to the future.

It's been a while

For anybody following this blog - my apologies for the obvious lack of input since February. It's been a quiet time on the photography front. But I'm back making shapes again.

Over the next couple of weeks I'll be making a few changes to this blog and also to my website. I'll be adding the feature to buy images from my site but that'll mean restricting images from that part of my site to sale-able images. On the other hand it'll give me a reason to update this blog a little more.

So watch this space for the changes and thanks for hanging in there.

Film...the story so far...

A friend says to me "So, wonky...where's all this film stuff you've been doing". Well, it's been an adventure. First I got a Kiev 88CM...I was warned they could be difficult or might not work at all...but first shoot was quite good.

Then it went a little downhill. I went to Johnstown Castle and I found a little light leak...just a little one.

OK, this I could have fixed with a new seal. But then this black band happened on all exposures with the next back.

Ignore the scratching...I have that one sussed. But I thought this was a shutter problem so sent the camera back. Only tonight I discovered looking back at mixes (or soups...if you like) that I had only made a 500ml mix instead of 600ml...so the black band is not developed correctly. Ah well!

But in the meantime I had the Holga out for a run:

This turned out OK but in low light conditions it wasn't what I'd seen others doing...so slowly got disillusioned with this whole film thing. But I ran another roll through the Holga:

Faith restored. More recently I've run a roll through a pinhole and the Bronica GS-1 but got too brave and tried a stand development...stupid idiot...should have stayed with the basics first till I know what I'm doing. I have a film through the Holga drying at the moment run at Massive Development times and the negs look good. Now if I could only get to grips with the scanner!

To be continued...