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New Studio and Whattaroll magazine publication
Been a while since I wrote a blog post.Since my last one, we’ve moved: I have a new studio space.Space being the operative word!It’s been a hard month, fitting in clients and moving home at the same time isn’t easy, but we’re installed and running again…relatively smoothly.A couple of snaps…
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Recent work
A portrait shoot for Helene with her beautiful (and totally disarming) daughter Sasha, in the studio.Digital, Nikon D700
I’ve also been shooting (yet) more film, both 35mm and 6x6 medium format whilst wandering around Metz.A few from the Jardin Botanique and a few from Canal de Jouy and environs.Films used:…
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Portraits
A couple of recent portrait shoots. Mainly digital, but a couple of pictures on film using the Rolleicord V.Helene was photographed in the studio on digital and Julien shot on location in one of the forts that surround Metz (Mont St Quentin, Plappeville) using film and digital. The first two…
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Ossuary and Les Eparges
I took a good friend, who has been visiting us, from the UK, to The Ossuary at Douaumont (Verdun). A memorial to the soldiers who died during the 300 day Battle of Verdun. 230 000 were killed out of a total 700 000 casualties. Beggars belief.Underneath the main building are…
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Metz at night
I have, recently, bought a couple of photography books, one in particular is filled with excellent work by a Hungarian photographer, Brassai.His work ‘Paris de nuit’ is sublime, especially when you consider that they were all taken in the late 1920s and early 1930s on very low ISO film/ plates…
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UK trip
Had a short trip back to the UK this week; not for photography, but I did manage to use a roll of Tri-X Exposed at 200 (pulled a stop) and developed in Perceptol, which I think is a little bit beyond it’s use by date. Quite pleased with the results…
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Fort de Queuleu, Metz
Had a bit of a wander around this amazing place today; it has a slightly checkered past in that it was used by the SS to torture and kill a number French Resistance fighters during WW2 Apart from that rather dark piece of history, it was one of the inner…