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Pre-Christmas Update!
Its been a while (again). Damn lockdowns and an almost total lack of inspiration have made it a quiet few months on the updates front....
Alan
Dec 19, 20201 min read
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Pictorialism. Print #3
This will be my last pictorial print for a while, there are other processes and styles I need to explore. The last one was of the...
Alan
Oct 20, 20201 min read
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Pictorialism is in my head still
Following on from one of my previous posts, while I have been prevaricating and delaying getting back to working with tri-colour gum...
Alan
Oct 20, 20201 min read
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Happy to announce....
I am delighted to be able to announce that my work is also now being represented by Gallery5x7. This is a website based in America which...
Alan
Oct 1, 20201 min read
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Pictorialism in Photography
Evening. I have been interested for a few months now in the work of the early pictorialist photographers, particularly a Belgian by the...
Alan
Oct 1, 20201 min read
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Woohoo...
And finally I heard today that my new order of Frames and mounts is ready to collect. I am hopeful that these will be of a higher quality...
Alan
Jul 14, 20201 min read
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Sunrise over Venezia Take 2
OK. After the previous scare with my first attempt, I decided to go back and print another Gum using the same negatives, but try to get...
Alan
Jul 14, 20201 min read
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Sunrise over Venezia, and how I nearly ruined it!
This is a Gum Print of an image I took at Sunrise in Venice a few years ago. Don't feel sorry for me, we went in December so the sun...
Alan
Jul 14, 20201 min read
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Got The Blues
The second process was Cyanotypes. I have done these before of course, but i had a day printing and trying different toning techniques,...
Alan
Jul 14, 20201 min read
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Breaking the Lockdown Routine
Humdrum days indeed, and very strange times. Lockdown has caused problems and issues for all of us, and whilst I have been able to carry...
Alan
Jul 14, 20201 min read
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Last one for now!
This one is much nearer to home, the second from a series of photos I took locally, a few weeks before lockdown. I like the 'Old Master'...
Alan
May 31, 20201 min read
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Third of Four
This one I have wanted to print for a while, as it was taken in Korcula, Croatia a couple of years ago. I had a pigment called Opera...
Alan
May 31, 20201 min read
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Second One, another variation.
This gum print I set out with the intention of making it like a hand toned old tintype print, and I think I got there. I used four...
Alan
May 31, 20201 min read
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I have been batch printing!
A couple of weeks ago I amended my process with a couple of things, in the hope of 'improving' the prints I produce. How I measure...
Alan
May 31, 20201 min read
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Sample Photobook Page
Hi again. Following on from the photobook review, here is a photo of one of the pages of the book. The image is of inside St Peters...
Alan
May 7, 20201 min read
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Phonebook Review...Saal Digital
OK. Disclaimer first, Saal Digital are makers and printers of quality photobooks, posters, cards, calendars etc. I first came across them...
Alan
May 7, 20203 min read
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Image #3 Leigh Court Barn
This is a view of part of the exterior of the barn. It reminds me so much of American plains, straight roads and miles of nothingness....
Alan
May 7, 20201 min read
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Image #2 Leigh Court Barn
This one is another single negative gum print, made of 4 layers. In one corner is this old grindstone/milling wheel. The building dates...
Alan
May 7, 20201 min read
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Lockdown (In)Activity!
Strange times, 6 weeks plus into this weird lockdown. I was hoping that this would trigger me into an amazing spell of creative...
Alan
May 7, 20201 min read
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Black is Black!
This new piece was intended more as an experiment. Although a lot of my work is monochrome I don't often get deep blacks, so I decided to...
Alan
Mar 15, 20201 min read
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