An Alternative Viewpoint

As part of our college course this year we are required to undertake an Alternative Processes module, which allows us to look at some of the most interesting old techniques such as Aygyrotypes, Cyanotypes, Gum Bichromate Prints, Salt Printing, Albumen Printing and many more.

I decided to do Cyanotypes (the blue main image to this post) and Salt Printing (the bottom picture).

Both processes are horrifically complicated, but great fun to do.

Apologies for the rubbish quality scans, especially on the cyanotype, which almost looks dirty, yet my original is spotless :(

Sweden 2009

This little trip had been planned for a good few months and the initial costs (Ryanair flights for £1 each way and hotel for under £40 for 2 nights B&B) meant the travel and accomodation were really good.

Once we arrived the costs of everything else were much more than we expected, we knew the cost of a pint was expensive (around £6) but to pay £16 for a burger and chips wasn't what we expected.

It was however a great trip with some very cold, but mostly dry weather.

We stayed at the hotel in Skavsta but travelled to Stockholm and Nykoping for some trips away. Both of them being miles apart when it comes to the look and feel with Nykoping more of a traditional Swedish town and Stockholm could really be any major city in the world.

In Stockholm the number of bikes was unbelievable, don't think i've ever seen so many before... and they were pretty much all left unsecured which we found quite amazing.

A good time was had by all and I've attached some of the pics I really liked from the trip.

'Ello 'Ello 2009

Tuesday the 10th March 2009 was a fun day in my life as I was joined by Alex, Keith and Scott for a day trip to France.

We got the 06:40 flight from Prestwick to Paris Beauvais and returned on the 22:50 arriving back in Prestwick at around 23:30.

We decided not to go into paris but instead to stay in Beauvais which was a good choice with lots to see and do. We even had an interesting chat with a frenchman (who spoke no English) about an exhibition in Paris in June...that was fun.

It was a good fun day with lots of different weather, lots of cheese and lots of coffee to keep me awake.

A long day, but a good day, the next time we really need to do a longer trip...

A Possible Photo Holiday

It's something that i've been thinking about for a while and has now come much more to the front of my mind.

My very good Photographic mate Bruce and I are looking into the possiblilty of a few nights in the Spanish sun with a some gorgeous models for a few days or photos on the beach and in the gorgeous Spanish towns and Cities and some nights of good food and drink.

Date wise it's likely to be around September / October and we'd be looking to take a MUA with us.

If you're interested drop me a line and we'll add you to the list of possibles for the future.