Where I’ve been and what I’ve been doing
Plunged off down to Penzance, a distance of bleh miles, and a 10 hour train journey. Why? A buddhist memorial service for an old friend, and more about that in another post, because it’s interesting. If anyone knows how to edit/improve a .amr file, I’d be very glad to hear from you.
The new camera performed well when it performed, but also jammed, twice, quite spectacularly. Nice ultra-cheap Kodak 200iso colour film, rendering well in the thick seaside mist of the south coast. Felt like walking through soup. Maybe that contributed, but since it’s okay now, who knows?
A triple, quadruple, multiple exposure of Penzance, St Ives and thereabouts. Interesting.
Click through either of these to see a few more touristy-type experiments of ’street’ and architectural nature. Still very much finding my feet again with 35mm, so they all look better cropped to square. Seems I’m seeing in 6×6. More to come, including some interior black and whites of Tate in St Ives, which was truly magnificent. Apart from everything else, the trip was worth it just to go there, even jammed with tourists. The roof terrace - go to the roof terrace!
Apart from that, lots of renewal, some irregular family stuff and massive amounts of painting and decorating happening. So, not on the internet much this month. Apologies therefore if you’re awaiting answers. And email for me is mostly broken - I’ll post about how best to communicate soon. Promise!
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Temporary Hiatus
Things are afoot, including yet another template change after receiving several complaints about this one. Yes, the links are hard to see and the sidebar is squished, and yes some of the SEO seems to’ve suddenly gone a bit squishy.
Posts to come include:
• an interview with Pierfrancesco Celada
• Answers to “Film or Digital?” and “Good membership organisations for early career photographers?”
• a review of Louise Taylor’s new exhibition in Newton Aycliffe.
• a look at Laura Goodman’s new series of photographs from squats at the NO:ID Gallery.
• news on progress with The Photography Place.
• scans of some darkroom prints, both conventional black and white and some lith prints.
• notes and future plans from the Graft Websites for Artists courses last weekend.
• reviews of the Ricoh GR film and digital point-and-shoot cameras.
.. and a whole lot more.
Back in a couple of days, folks. Be good.
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Found family photograph
A remarkable email came this week from someone whose grandmother was my paternal grandmother’s sister, or some similar or more complex connection that we haven’t fathomed out yet. Young Joseph and Parker above are my grandma Cora Longstaff’s brothers. Our branch of the family knew about Parker’s death in France, there’d been a family trip to the war graves some years ago. What we didn’t know about is Joseph’s journalism, his published letters from the front. A visit to the newspaper archives to unearth those will no doubt prove fascinating.
Much has been written about the role of photography in family and historical records, and this is scanned from a book of locally published history called The People’s History: Willington Remembered by Olive Linge. Thank you Olive. More family history snippets to come.
This came among the largest and most consistently pernicious volume of spam, likened by Pete to a plague of slugs. An apt metaphor. If you’ve mailed TPP in recent days please bear with me as the system is restored to some normality, and email again if you’re not sure. Thanks!
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