Real Photographs

Part of a series of images from a visit to this stone circle in May 2010

Hasselblad, Ilford Delta 400 film processed in PMK developer.
Printed on Adox Nuance Grade 3, Neutol WA developer, Se toned.

From an early morning trip on a very dull day to Walcott on the Norfolk coast.

Hasselblad, Ilford Delta 100, PMK developer.
Print on Adox MCC 110, Neutol WA developer, Selenium toned.

Gallery published automatically from Lightroom 3 using the ‘Dossier de Presse‘ plugin from Luc Renambot, that utilises NextGEN.

I made these photographs in 1989 following the death of the renowned artist Edward Bawden. They depict his house and studio in Saffron Walden, just as he left it. The photographs were made at the request of the late Olive Cook on behalf of the Fry Gallery, Saffron Walden.

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This gallery, produced using the WordPress NextGEN plugin, is set to display using Thickbox Highslide. It is a very neat and comprehensive plugin and appears to work well.

It is able to use Highslide, which is my preferred method of display and used for other entries here, but I have yet to work out how to get the image captions to display in the pop-up by this method. They appear by default using Thickbox and also in my other blog entries using Highslide.

Update: By installing the latest Highslide/Wordpress integration, Highslide for WordPress *reloaded*, I can now get the images to display titles. Unfortunately, these cannot be drawn from the WordPress ‘caption’ element, only from the ‘title’ or ‘alt’ tags of the images, not a big deal, just some cutting and pasting required.

There is still no capability of navigating through the thumbnails whilst in Highslide mode, but I guess this is because they are treated as individual images, rather than as a set of images.

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Contact print from an 8×10 negative on Adox CHS 100 negative processed in Rodinal 1+25 6mins 20°C, printed on Adox Nuance G2.
Print developed in Beers #5 and split-toned in Kodak RST 1+4.

The first exposure on a borrowed Toyo 8×10 monorail camera.

Zeiss Protar 18cm shutterless lens, 10 second exposure at f36 on Adox CHS 100 sheet film. Processed in Rodinal 1+25 for 6 minutes at 20 deg C. continuous agitation in a dish.

I’m waiting until I have a few negs before I print them conventionally. This is a scan from the negative.

This is a view outside our kitchen window. When I put the bird box up its position was not pre-determined, I just fixed it in what I thought would be a good position.

Some time later, I looked at the tree and saw that the arrangement was quite remarkable, creating this rather amusing scene.

Lith print on Fomatone 131, processed in LD20 1+1+50 at 25 deg. C., untoned. From an Ilford Delta 400 negative, made on Hasselblad, processed in PMK.

This was photographed some 30 years ago, whilst running a photography workshop in Cambridge. Contrary to everyone’s belief, the flower was not placed there by the photographer!

The film was Kodak Royal-X Pan, rated at 800 ISO (which was ASA then) and the print was made on Agfa Record Rapid paper, selenium toned.

From a 5×4 film negative, straight bromide print on Ilford Galerie fibre paper, selenium toned.

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