Perfect Poise, Perfect Life
Bring your body into balance and revolutionise your life
By Noel Kingsley
Publisher Hodder Mobius
AVAILABLE HERE
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Traditional photography group
St Mary the Virgin Church, Powerstock, Dorset Photographed using manual Leica M6 with 50mm lens on Delta 100 film rated at 50ASA and developed in Dixactol Ultra. Printed in my traditional darkroom using wet chemicals under a red light!
Today my photographic group of specialist black and white photographers are coming to my practice for our monthly meeting. There are currently 5 of us who specialise in traditional printing methods and use darkroom chemical processes to produce our own images. We don't use digital because we all enjoy the traditional techniques. So I provide a lunch of sandwiches etc and we chat around the oval table about techniques, problems, news and recent adventures like Ian's recent trip to New Zealand and Richard's trekking trip in the Himalayas, then we clear away the debris from lunch, wash our hands then get the pictures out. We discuss each other's work, commenting on technical aspects as well as the visual appeal of the image. There is never any rush and each member gets quite some time to show his or her latest work.
This image is one I've recently developed and printed and brought along to show the group. I am pleased with the wide range of grey tones and lighting. I scanned it a few minutes ago and thought I'd share it with you before the others arrive. I hope you like it.
I recently bought a small digital compact camera, a Leica C-Lux 2 which is small enough to attach to a belt and is great for snaps. For all the photography I do, we lack having snaps of family events and holidays etc which I do not normally get the time to develop and print. This super little camera will now do the job of providing good quality snaps of all our little family occasions. :-) So you see....I'm not anti-digital at all. Everything has its benefits!
