I just printed this ...

[wgerrard]

I'm not 100% sure about this one, it may be destined for the shredder

I like it. Crop out the car, leave the parking sign, and bring it in a bit on the left, and you have an image that centers attention on the couple and all those signs shouting "Free Money!". That's a good story.

 

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[Sparrow]

It seems only a couple of years ago I was throwing Curtis around in the pool. He's 16 now and has shot up to 6'3" over the winter. He is joining the cadets in September and is already training to pass the parachute regiment's selection in two years time, he spent his holidays this summer tabbing round Corfu's hills in 35c heat carrying a pack full of 2 ltr water bottles.

This print is for his grandparents

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2280/3867494874_5587c98768_b.jpg

 

[Benjamin Marks]

Stewart: you've got a great eye. Your pictures have that quality of seeming to reveal something essential about each subject. My hat's off to you.

Ben Marks

 

[Sparrow]

Thank you very much Ben, I do take a lot of duds too you know but it's nice to be appreciated
🙂

 

[Sparrow]

I love that town

 

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I must admit, on this one, to removing two distracting details from the background, one of which would have been very difficult to achieve in a traditional darkroom

 

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It only took two years to get round to this one, the chap, "Mash", was pleased with his copy

 

[Sparrow]

This chap can dance, for a full three or four minute at a time he was, beautifully, on a single heel or toe

 

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[FrankS]

Stewart, all your pics are wonderfully and perfectly printed, judging from my computer screen.

 

[Sparrow]

Many thanks Frank, I really appreciate that, a lot of it is the lab's agfa digi enlarger-printer thingies, I'm nothing like as good in my own darkroom.

Silver prints from a computer who'da thunk it possible?

 

[pipal]

I did some prints yesterday, this one is one of them:

 

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I should have moved to the left a bit, so the face was contrasted by the dark bit :yes

 

[Sparrow]

I over-exposed this neg, it's been a bugger to scan but looks fine "in the flesh" ... peeping is perverse

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2626/4038422984_1b18463e4f_b.jpg

 

[Sparrow]

I had to take out the back wheel of a bike at the RHS, but I left the sign at the top left, amazing what one still misses in negative space.

I got dead lucky with the exposure, I think the shadow detail makes the shot ....