Studio Journal 24-04-09 – Rock Collecting

Studio Journal 24-04-09 – Rock Collecting

It's been a hard few weeks here and I've been feeling disoriented and disorganized. Grasping at straws on a couple of projects that should have been in focus. Worrying about a family member who has been struggling for the past year and has now been diagnosed with...

Studio Journal 23-05-14

Studio Journal 23-05-14

Recently I've been making images with old digicams - a few I've owned since the 20 aughts, and others I've recently acquired. There's something about the images from the ccd sensors on these cameras that fascinates. All of these cameras have different colour looks...

Contemplating Work

Contemplating Work

Over the course of a few years, I made lumen prints during the summer. I just did it for fun, and incorporated a great deal of play and experimentation in the process. And was pleasantly pleased by the richness of the resulting prints.   A lumen print is...

In Praise of the Family Snapshot

In Praise of the Family Snapshot

I write to praise the family snapshot, not to bury it. Wait - what's that? What are they looking at? My cousin Brian is showing his girlfriend at the time the latest in image viewing technology - the slide viewer. It seems the slide (of no doubt either a previous...

The Reluctant Blogger

The Reluctant Blogger

  I’ve been thinking for a while that I’d like to begin writing a blog again, although I’ve been quite uncertain what it is I would write about. So tonight I took a fountain pen (that I’ve been meaning to start using regularly for some time now) and a notebook (that...