Crazy busy at the moment so I’ll take this opportunity to say a big thank you to everyone for viewing/commenting/faving just in case I don’t get a chance to thank you all personally.

Have you ever had that experience where you’re trying to tear off some toilet-roll and instead of tearing across the perforations it tears down the length of the roll? Annoying, yes? Not as annoying as doing that to a roll of film



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Not much to say this week, just cruising along towards the Christmas/New Year break. I am so looking forward to having some time off work.

I finally finished reading E H Gombrich’s excellent “The Story of Art” [link] - a big thank you to *cheekymonkeyali for recommending it to me. It covers the history of the various artistic movements from the earliest cave painting up to the 1980’s. Obviously, even in a book this size – it’s huge – it can’t cover everything in great detail, but it is a fantastic introduction and I just wish I’d read it years ago.

If you’re looking for something a little smaller, I can also recommend “Isms: Understanding Art” by Stephen Little [link] - short, lots of pictures, identifies the key artist in each movement.

Of course, all of this begs the question: is a knowledge of the history of art worthwhile?

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First up a big thank you to all of you for the recent favs. It’s been a crazy week and I didn’t have to time to thank you guys personally.

Living in Technicolor
This next bit is probably of no interest to most folk, so feel free to skip on down to the features.

Still here? Good. So, yeah, I’ve started processing colour film. I mention this because way back when the world was young and so was I (the ‘70’s) I had a black & white darkroom setup and colour was the holy grail – so this is a bit of a personal milestone.

If you’ve considered processing colour film and decided against it, it was probably for these reasons:

It’s too expensive – yeah, it’s more expensive than b/w but it still works out about 5 times cheaper than lab processing.

It’s too complicated – it’s a little more fiddly than b/w, but if this idiot can do it, anyone who can read a thermometer and a stop-watch can do it.

The results won’t be as good/consistent as a lab – this is probably true if you’re on assignment for National Geographic, but for the rest of us the results are good enough and might actually be an advantage if you like the lo-fi, de-saturated, retro look.

Anyway, if you got this far, the magic cookie word is “Tetenal”


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Please congratulate the winners of *signmeupscotty’s November mini contest

1. Duel by =DianaCretu




2. Magic Light by `Nuninh0




3. Star Tram by *SeaWhisper

Please congratulate the winners of =Aziot’s Passion Contest

1st Place
by =fabriloddo


2nd Place
by *ssg-McGary


3rd Place
by *mario19