Not being a professional photographer, I’ve had no real need for business cards – the only ones in my wallet are for my real job, and that’s got nowt to do with taking pictures. However, when I heard about Moo and their double-sided cards that you could put anything on, my attention was grabbed. They’re…
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#192 – Beauty in Decay?
“Everything has its beauty, but not everyone sees it”. Confucius “Bleak factory buildings and billboard-cluttered avenues look as beautiful to the camera’s eye as churches and pastoral landscapes. More beautiful by modern taste” Susan Sontag Wabi-sabi is a somewhat nebulous Japanese term without any straightforward definition. In this context, Wabi has come to mean humble and simple, while means rusted…
#191 – Published (again) in Amateur Photographer Magazine
May has been a good month, and the third bit of good news was today when I picked up Amateur Photographer (Saturday 4th June Edition) to see my pictures had been printed in Reader Spotlight, and had been chosen for ‘Editors Choice’! I don’t always buy the magazine, but if I’m out and about I’ll pick…
#190 – Royal Photographic Society Portfolio Part 7 – The panel
Finally some pictures!!!! I’ve been working on them for that long that I’ve now got some better images, but at some point ou have to freeze the selection, otherwise you’ll never submit. I’m considering pushing on and putting together a panel for the Fellowship, but that’s 20 images, and it sounds like they’re going to…
#189 – Royal Photographic Society Portfolio – part 6 submission
OK, so I’ve got a pile of prints and some blurb to describe what it’s all about, we’re now in the final straight. The guide in this is the RPS distinctions handbook which you can download from the RPS website, it’s superb – well written and very informative. It’s got pretty much everything you need to…
#188 – Royal Photographic Society Portfolio – part 5 statement of intent
For the ARPS and FRPS distinctions, a Statement Of Intent is required to be submitted with the panel. Basically this put the panel into context and sets the scene in the minds of the assessors. It’s not difficult to put together, but it does need some thinking about. As a professional engineer, I am fascinated by…
#187 – Royal Photographic Society Portfolio – part 4 printing and mounting
As mentioned before, I was considering getting my prints done by a lab, but given the amount of control I needed over the final output, I opted to print them myself, without quite realising the amount of time and money I’d end up throwing at it 😦 Calibrated my screen – wow, what a huge…
#186 – Runner Up
Time to blow my own trumpet again – after 5 years of entering, I have finally managed to place in the Brownedge Arts Festival, coming second with my Duke Of Lancaster photo! I also took two commendeds for Tornado and Dinorwic, thus giving a 100% record for my print entries! I’ve not seen the other…
#185 – Royal Photographic Society Portfolio – part 3 Post processing
As discussed in a previous post, I’d never really got into doing lots of local adjustments to my images, more global ones. The concept wasn’t new to me, as I’d done it in the darkroom at college, but had never followed through and done that much of it digitally. With my final selection pretty much frozen,…
#184 – Royal Photographic Society Portfolio – part 2 image selection and sequencing
As I was going to be submitting a panel of my urban exploration images, I had many to choose from, but only a few were actually good enough. I had a short list of about 30, and these I discussed with Margaret Salisbury. In these discussions, I picked up several things of immense value: 1)…
Mechanical Landscapes 