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Not chilly
So, it’s pretty warm right now. Friday 28th June, 43C. There is a new national record today of 44C, in Carpentras, Vaucluse, not so far away from us.The last heatwave that hit France in 2003, claimed just shy of 15 000 lives. Sincerely hope there will not be a repeat…
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Almost 2 years…
Almost two years since my last blog post.So much has happened since then… my Mum passed away, I had a heart attack and we moved to the South of France.It’s been an ‘interesting’ time.We now live in a small village between Ales and Nîmes, called Boucoiran.
It’s a beautiful place,…
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0ctober
I’ve been experimenting with some old film I was given; Ilford Commercial Ortho, use by date unknown and Kodalith 2556, which expired in the 1970s.The Ortho is 9 x 12 cm and the Kodalith I have in both 9 x 12cm and 4” x 5”.I’ve tried them in different developers…
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Early Autumn…
So, here we are again. Mid way through September and it’s just pretty unpleasant.The world’s weather seems to be going a bit strange and quite a lot of the world’s populous are following on!The rise of the (ultra) right wing is scary and racism, intolerance and neo-Fascism appears to be…
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New year
Fairly rubbish end of year…I took on a take pics of Santa with kids contract…it was hell; long hours, small pay etc.Never again!As a result, I’ve not managed to do much personal work and have a full week of client shoots this week.I did get out a couple of times…