Brain dumps
It’s camera club talk season, and over the next few months I have three scheduled. 04/10/2011 – Cumbernauld and Kilsyth 11/11/2011 – Inverclyde 01/02/2012 – Stirling I’ve been to Cumbernauld and Kilsyth once before, so I’m looking forward to meeting …
This coming Sunday (07/11/2010) I’m running a light painting workshop for North Lanarkshire Council at the Summerlee Photomedia Studio in Coatbridge. The cost is £15 – some places are still available. To book, call David Peace on 01236 638463 or …
After several years acting as a mirror address for this site, LightPainting.org has now been re-launched as a community based site dedicated to light painting. Please go take a look and sign up if you’re interested in light painted photography. …
If you want to have a go at light painting but don’t have a lot of high-end equipment, have a look at the Light Painting with Basic Equipment article in the Techniques section. It covers basic light painting using a …
After documenting my collection of cameras, I’ve just done the same thing for the lights that I use for my light painting work. They can be found in the Lights Gallery (under Techniques in the main menu) with each image …
Over the last couple of weeks I’ve been photographing my collection of cameras. They’re now in their own gallery and each image here is linked to the camera that took it – click on an image and you’ll find the …
On Wednesday my latest eBay purchase finally arrived from the Ukraine – A LOMO Sputnik stereo TLR. It’s basically two Lubitels fused together – a Bakelite monstrosity with all the light leaks, shiny internal surfaces and dodgy engineering familiar to …
I’ve just had the pleasure of being interviewed for Univers d’Artistes, the blog of Carrie Leigh’s NUDE magazine. Univers d’Artistes interview A big hello to everyone who has found my site from there.
I’m going to be working in Nottingham for the next couple of weeks if I can get there through the snow tomorrow. So I’ll be spending my evenings in a hotel room with no internet access, which should at least …
One of the greatest disappointments of my musical life was the day I bought the ZZ Top album Tres Hombres on CD. What I heard on that disc wasn’t really the same album that was released on vinyl; it had …