AMAZING!!!

I was sitting at my computer thinking about the pinhole image from my last post. I was trying to decide how to show just how much and, strangely just how little detail was included in a pinhole image.

This image is a crop from the image below. I think that it is a beautiful, eerie image with just enough detail and looks awesome as a panorama on the wall.

Melbourne from Brighton Pier...

Some time ago I went down to Brighton pier and took this image of the yacht club marina with Melbourne in the distance...

I love my pinhole camera and I'm getting better at using it. The 5x4 inch negatives are so full of detail and I'm amazed at what a box with a tiny hole in it can do.

I've printed this image up to A3+ size (329mm x 329mm) and it looks awesome.

The one thing I am yet to work out is how to avoid dust on the negative. This one came back with so many spots and squiggles that I'm not sure I would even think about printing it in the darkroom. With Photoshop it's easy, if a little time consuming to clean things up.

Click on the image for a larger view...

The next step...

Wow! 2010 is turning out to be an awesome year so far...

Romance, engagement, wedding... Well, the wedding happened a couple of hours before the engagement party... :)

So we've now made an offer on an old bank building in a country town. We are waiting for all of the pieces to come together so I don't want to tempt fate but giving up all of the details yet. The plan is that Marion will work at a library nearby and that I can build up a photography business.

Being an old bank, the building (with residence attached) has a vault! Awesomeness!!! It is big enough to be turned into a darkroom (or cellar if that doesn't work) and I'm eagerly awaiting a chance to work out if there is a way to get plumbing into it.

So a tree change is on the way with chooks, a dog, bushland, Wilson's Prom nearby and an old (Ye Olde?) bank with a vault...

What a year! And it's not even halfway done yet...

On a related note; I finally managed to get to the third session of one of the basic darkroom courses at the Melbourne Camera Club on Monday night. I'm having visions of a photography business that has a component of traditional, hand printed, black & white imaging and maybe a gallery with local landscapes taken with my pinhole camera...

Hmmm? Bring on the rest of the year! :)

Wedding Bells...

Marion & I organised an engagement party quite some time ago and somewhere along the line (fairly early on) we decided to visit the wedding registry first. This bit was kept as quiet as we could and we managed to get quite a few very surprised guests on the night! :)

So, it's official, Marion and I are married. We've spent a few days away and here are some of the photos...

The proof...


The "engagement party"...


Some scenic shots from the Tuki retreat where we stayed for a few days...




PS: There aren't any photos of us both together at the Tuki retreat. To explain is unnecessary, I think... :)