Nottingham in Wide-Angle : A Slideshow

Nottingham in Wide-Angle : A Slideshow Wide-angle stills around Nottingham from Insta 360 Ace Pro camera. 16mm lens / 35mm equivalent. #insta360 #AcePro #wideangle #nottingham

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Stonehenge Festival Campaign Quarterly News – Spring 2020 Equinox

This issue dedicated to Maureen Poole
Aka Mo Lodge – 30th March 1953

“Mo was famous – she spoke a lot of sense and walked the talk “ – Helen Dancer

Many of you, will by now, have heard of the unwelcome and sad news of the passing on of Mo this November – Mo, born in Lincolnshire was well known and will remain a gentle folk hero and legend where the ‘alternative’ travelling, and Stonehenge free festival scene is concerned.

With Mo’s support her then husband, photographer and qualified accident ambulance man Alan ‘Tash’ Lodge, is responsible for documenting a photographic history of the Peace Convoy, and the Stonehenge, and free festival movement, having first attended the Stonehenge festival in 1972. Mo and Tash were at the infamous ‘Battle of the Bean field’, having travelled down together in their truck, via Long Marston and Savernake. As well as being crucial witnesses to the awful police trashing, Mo and Tash were on hand to administer first aid & support. Mo and Tash were part of the subsequent court case and featured in a documentary covering the debacle called ‘Operation Solstice’.

Thanks to Tash & Festival Eye magazine, whom Mo also wrote for, we owe them both a huge debt of gratitude for their enthusiasm with regards to the Stonehenge scene. Among many other causes, Mo supported Festival Welfare Services, of which Tash was a trustee – helping to publish info material as well as writing literature on their behalf. Nevertheless, it was her love of freedom, festivals, and being around people that brought her into contact with thousands of people as she staffed the F.W.S welfare tent. They have two children, Siri, & Sam, aka Sam Poole  (Sam Distortion) (face book) Our thoughts go out to their family and close friends.

http://www.stonehengefestivalcampaign.co.uk

…… also, this from Festival Eye 1987

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As a child, I roamed Dartmoor – and it shaped me. But across England, that freedom is being trampled on

Rosie JewellHow can we expect people to care for the countryside if they are denied access to it? We must fight for our right to roam

When people ask me where I’m from, I wryly tell them “the middle of nowhere”. So, imagine my surprise when I saw that my old landlord and the remote place where I grew up were making national headlines over a court battle for the right to wild camp on Dartmoor.

Alexander Darwall bought the 1,619-hectare (4,000-acre) Blachford estate on southern Dartmoor in 2011. Dartmoor is the only place in England where wild camping is allowed, in designated areas, without permission from a landowner. Darwall successfully contested this right in court, arguing that the right to wild camp – as opposed to walking or picnicking – on the moors never existed. Then an appeal restored it. Now, he’s taking the case to the supreme court.

Dartmoor is only a tiny sliver of England, and only a tiny portion of its visitors are campers. But in the process of tussling over whether sleeping in a tent counts as “recreation”, Darwall has catalysed a much bigger, broader movement – one fighting for our “right to roam” across the English countryside, including its rivers, woodlands and green belts.

My family and I saw all this coming years ago. We had permission to go wherever we wanted in the countryside around our house until Darwall bought it. But I have never forgotten the freedom I had. And I know what we stand to gain, across the country, if this movement from the middle of nowhere wins.

From 2006, when my mum, brother and I first moved to a rundown farmhouse nestled in a valley on the estate, until 2012 when I left for university, Blachford was more than my playground. It was my natural environment, like a pond is for a tadpole. We were on friendly terms with our old landlord and the farmer, and they didn’t mind one jot where we went on foot or even on horseback, as long as we behaved responsibly.

Soon I knew every tree, stile and gate within an hour’s walk. There was the overgrown copse with a grassy path running around its perimeter where I pretended to be a horse, leaping over fences built with bracken and fallen branches. After I’d exhausted myself doing that, I’d climb the oak tree on the edge of the copse and lie along a particularly squishy, moss-carpeted limb. I wandered among regal beech trees and clambered over the colossal remains of an ancient riverbed. Each field had a distinct character and ideal use: this one for cross-country training; this one for letting my pony gallop; this one for blackberry picking. And then there was the moor: bleak, wild and etched with bronze-age stone circles – echoes of people who lived on the same land thousands of years ago.

During those years, my family and I experienced profound difficulties. But through all of it, the land gave me the nutrients I needed to thrive. Wandering through the fields, lying in my oak tree, or stomping across the moor – I didn’t just feel happier, I felt like me. It’s no exaggeration to say that the land shaped me, saved me, and meant more to me than the books I read or the food I ate.

Just as the land cared for me, I cared for it. If a gate was coming off its hinges, a cow had escaped, or a sheep was having trouble lambing, I would run home and Mum would call the farmer. Occasionally, I came across a dying pheasant that had been shot in the wing and overlooked by the shoot’s dogs, and dutifully wrung its neck.

I now know that my experience of responsible roaming was a rare one. With only 8% of the English countryside accessible to the public, it’s no wonder people see the land around them as not theirs to explore, enjoy, and care for. No wonder they feel so detached as to be able to leave litter in the countryside. No wonder kids are getting outside less and less, and missing out on opportunities to get curious, solve problems, take risks and explore the limits of their bodies. And why would we view our land and wildlife as worthy of protection if we don’t know and love them?

Darwall bought our part of the Blachford estate in 2013, by which point we had moved to another property farther up the valley, and I’d started university. Each holiday I came home to a less hospitable place. Where before there had been mutual trust, responsibility and freedom, there were now padlocked gates, new fences and more pheasants – hundreds of them. Eventually Mum told me everywhere was now out of bounds except one path behind our house and the common below the moor – something about insurance. Strangely, I never met Darwall. Like so many other landowners across the country, he was just a name: a mysterious force that came between me and the land I loved.

My mum moved away in 2018, and I didn’t return until a few years later. I walked all day across the southern part of the moor and eventually wandered down the hill to see my beloved old house. I met the new tenants, who humoured me as I told them how much this place meant to me. It dawned on me that in all likelihood, they weren’t allowed to go to any of the special places – the fields, the tracks, the woods – I had known and loved.

We are in a crisis of disconnection and dispossession, but we and the land have so much to give each other if allowed the chance to connect. It’s time we had the same rights of access in England that are enjoyed in Scotland and many other European countries. The Right to Roam campaign is calling for just that: the chance for all of us to know and care for the place we call home.

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How I Turned my Android Phone Into a Camera Monitor

I’ve used the advantage of using my phone larger screen as an external monitor. Useful for studio and location shots. landscape etc and especially useful for me in re-photographing my negative archive. [Not much cop in a riot though].

How to Turn Any Android Phone Into a Camera Monitor
Paul Figueiredo
If your camera doesn’t have built-in functionality to use an Android phone as a monitor, try this workaround
https://www.makeuseof.com/how-to-turn-android-phone-into-camera-monitor

What Software Do You Need? – this one works better for me.
The app we recommend for this method is called nExt Camera, available for Android on the Google Play Store.
nExt Camera – USB
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=pl.nextcamera

No Budget? No Problem
DIY filmmaking with inexpensive home-brewed solutions like the one we just described can be a reward in itself.
While this method won’t be competing with the likes of Atomos or BlackMagic Design with their Ninja and Video Assist series of monitors respectively. But thanks to the nExt Camera app and some inexpensive accessories, those of us with lower-end hardware can optimize our filmmaking skills a little bit more than we could before.

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Lecture 2 Festivals Events 400 pics. 60mins

Lecture 2 Festivals Events 400 pics. 60mins

Festivals, Travellers, Stonehenge, Glastonbury, Free Party, Music, Environmental Protest, Reclaim the Street, Unions, Civil Disobedience, Policemen and ……..

Lecture Slideshow 2 60mins. 400 pics / 9 sec change

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Traveller E Raver’ by Italian Publishers ‘Shake Edizioni Underground’

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Bristol van dweller numbers have quadrupled says report

By Pete Simson & Jasmine Ketibuah-Foley

BBC News, Bristol

The number of van dwellers in Bristol has quadrupled since 2020, according to new figures.

Bristol City Council report said the number had increased from 100-150 three years ago, to 600-650 in 2024.

Councillor Steve Smith said residents near the Downs in Clifton want to see “tougher enforcement action”.

But Deputy Mayor Asher Craig said other locals wanted to “find a happy medium because [they] respect the fact these people have nowhere else to live”.

She added: “They just want to make sure that the park is not impeded, that they’re not parked in an unsafe way.”

Leaflets are going to be distributed because many residents are confused about what the law is, Ms Craig said.

‘Not a passing fad’

The city council report contains a number of recommendations around van dwellers, which will be discussed by the council cabinet in the spring.

It said there should be a city-wide response and accepted that people living that way is not “a passing fad” but also “not a problem which needs to be solved, and not something which can be ignored”.

The report adds: “Vehicle dwellers are citizens of our city and need to be respected and represented as such, with equal access to services as would be available to any other resident or visitor.”

Recommendations include investigating providing more permanent sites, setting up a task group to explore options, and offering training to elected members on the subject.

Luke looking out from inside his truck that he lives in
Image caption,Luke said there is a “stigma” around the vehicle-dwelling lifestyle

Luke, who works 70 hours a week as a fine dining chef, has lived in a truck on the Downs for a year.

He said he could afford to live in a house if he wanted to but “doesn’t need to” and believes there is a “stigma” around his choice of lifestyle.

“I always wanted to live in a truck but also circumstances [affected my choice] and the cost of living and rent in Bristol is insane. I don’t want to pay a grand a month in rent ever again,” he said.

“I pay around £70 a month for insurance and tax and in the winter it’s around £8 a week for my diesel heater,” added Luke.

He said the community of van dwellers on the Downs and in the city in general is “an excellent community”.

‘Residents are exasperated’

The council’s official policy states it is to support and manage vehicle dwellers in places that are “low impact” to local residents – including areas such as the Downs.

However, about 40 residents have written to the council to complain about a lack of enforcement in the area.

Some described the report as “woefully inadequate” and have concerns over rubbish, sanitation and the view.

Henleaze and Westbury-on-Trym Conservative representative Mr Smith criticised the report for being “very one-sided”.

“It says almost nothing about the impact of encampments on the area and the people that live around them,” he said.

“Residents are exasperated over the inaction of the Labour administration to deal with the highway encampment on the Downs.

“The Downs is what David Attenborough described as the jewel in Bristol’s crown. This is a heavily-protected beauty spot.

“The city now has the largest population of van dwellers in the country.”

‘Where would they go?’

Speaking to the BBC, Bristol’s Cabinet Member for Housing Services councillor Kye Dudd said the policy wouldn’t be changing, and that vehicle dwelling sites considered “low impact” will be supported and managed.

“No site with a large number of people is going to be without problems, and we do get a large number of complaints – many of them are genuine concerns about rubbish and things like that,” he said. “But this isn’t a fad, the root cause is the housing crisis.

“If we took a possession order on the Downs and dispersed the encampment, where do they go? They could disperse into the nearby streets instead.

“At the moment, although it’s not ideal, it’s probably better that they are there,” the Labour councillor added.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-bristol-68512498

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‘Negative Art’

I the middle of re-photographing black and white negatives. Thought I do a couple of direct negatives without inversion.

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Much of England’s ‘national landscapes’ out of bounds, say campaigners

Right to Roam finds areas of outstanding natural beauty have on average poorer footpath access than rest of England

Helena Horton Environment reporterFri 15 Mar 2024 12.00 GMTShare

England’s most stunning “national landscapes” are largely out of bounds, and 22 of the 34 have less than 10% of their area open to the public, research has found.

The government last year renamed areas of outstanding natural beauty to national landscapes, and said part of their aim was to widen access to nature. Ministers said at the time the new name reflected a recognition that they are not just beautiful but important for many reasons including improving wellbeing. ………

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/mar/15/much-of-england-national-landscapes-out-of-bounds-say-campaigners-right-to-roam

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Right to roam: paths to 2,500 public areas are being blocked by landowners due to outdated laws

Vixen Tor is a distinctive, craggy granite outcrop on the western side of Dartmoor, the largest and highest upland area in southern England. But this secluded moorland beauty spot, with a right to roam provided by the Countryside and Rights of Way Act 2000, is hard to get to.

Close of up old broken wooden sign stating 'no right of way' with green leaves and countryside path in background
Right to roam protestors want fairer access to countryside in England and Wales. Peter Turner Photography/Shutterstock

Surrounded by private land, this tor is one of around 2,500 access islands in England and Wales. Other examples include Gillcambon in the northern Lake District and land near the village of Wylye in Wiltshire.

These wild places are open to the public but can only be accessed by helicopter or by trespassing over private land.

The right to roam campaign to draw attention to these legally inaccessible islands has been popularised by veteran campaigners such as authors Guy Shrubsole and Nick Hayes.

These advocates for access contend that it is now time to rethink access law in England and Wales. Based on my research into environmental and land law, I argue access islands seem to be a legacy of laws that have been poorly executed, and outdated before even coming into force.

The campaign for a right to roam predates the Labour party, but gained momentum under the post-war Labour movement. In fact, the promise of a wider right to roam over the English countryside can be found in most of the Labour party’s post-war general election manifestos. This included the manifesto that preceded Blair’s 1997 landslide victory, which had promised “greater freedom for people to explore our open countryside”.

Blair had promised to govern as new Labour however, and sought to distance his party’s policies from those of his predecessors. This included support for the politics of the “third way”.

This was a controversial ideology inside his own party, positing that political solutions are not always found on the left or the right, but can draw on a range of ideas with an aim of finding balance and compromise. The Countryside and Rights of Way Act 2000 can be seen as a product of this era, balancing a limited right to roam on foot with significant powers for landowners to close their land temporarily.

Specifically, the right to roam extended to common land, and to mountain, moor, heath and down, all described in this act as open country. Access was not extended to more accessible lowland areas, other agricultural land or woodland.

There are no access islands in Scotland, however, where access laws are more generous than those in England and Wales. The Land Reform (Scotland) Act contains a presumption in favour of the right of access, with small exceptions such as private gardens, schools and industrial land. By contrast, access law in England and Wales works on a presumption of trespass, with small exceptions allowing access.

My own research into parliamentary papers from the late 1990s shows that the current right to roam was also chosen because it was one of the cheapest solutions, and could be rolled out quite quickly at a time when Blair’s cabinet was looking for support from Labour backbenchers.

A lot of the mapping of open country was done quickly and cheaply through aerial photography. Surveyors would only be dispatched to a site with equipment to count plant species to settle the most contentious cases.

Landowners could appeal and, at times, exploit the uncertainties of this mapping process. According to the Right to Roam campaign organisers, possible trespass protests at the island of Vixen Tor are planned for later this year as a result of this.

Much of the surrounding fields were originally mapped as access land but this was later appealed by the landowner on the grounds that it was improved grassland rather than moor. This closed a vital corridor of access land and left the tor itself as an island.

Following the introduction of the Countryside and Rights of Way Act 2000, grants were made available for landowners to improve gates, stiles and footpaths. Local authorities have the power to negotiate with landowners to open or divert new footpaths. Some have indeed done so. In spite of this, there was no general power to provide pedestrian routes to these islands.

The future of access

Since the introduction of the Countryside and Rights of Way Act, improving and widening access has been a low political priority, but the possibility of a Labour victory in a 2024 general election has led many to believe that a new and more effective right to roam could soon be established.

Kier Starmer’s team has spoken of Scottish-style access which would provide a much wider right of access over woodland, green belt and other open countryside. Starmer has already been accused of a U-turn, promising better rights of access while protecting the rights of landowners.

Rather than a U-turn, this looks like evidence that Labour’s policy on access is still a work in progress. Access campaigners will be waiting for the next election manifesto with eager interest.

Meanwhile, future protests are planned and campaigners are still asking for Scottish-style rights of access to be extended to England and Wales. Whatever the solution, our access to the countryside should be given the parliamentary time and investment that it deserves

https://theconversation.com/right-to-roam-paths-to-2-500-public-areas-are-being-blocked-by-landowners-due-to-outdated-laws-224135

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Castlemorton, May 1992 : A Slideshow

The annual Avon Free Festival which had been occurring in the area around the May bank holiday for several years, albeit in different locations. [Inglestone, Sodbury Commons etc].

However, 1992 was the year Avon and Somerset Police intended to put a full stop to it. As a result the thousands of people travelling to the area for the expected Festival were shunted into neighbouring counties by Avon and Somerset’s Operation Nomad police manoeuvres. The end result was the impromptu Castlemorton Common Festival, another pivotal event in the recent history of festival culture.

In the event, a staggering 30,000 travellers, ravers and festival goers gathered almost overnight on Castlemorton Common to hold a free festival that flew in the face of the Public Order Act 1986. It was a massive celebration and the biggest of its kind since the bountiful days of the Stonehenge Free Festival.

West Mercia Police claimed that due to the speed with which it coalesced, they were powerless to stop it. The right-wing press published acres of crazed and damning coverage of the event, including the classic front page Daily Telegraph headline: “Hippies fire flares at Police”. The following mornings Daily Telegraph editorial read: “New Age, New Laws” and within two months, government confirmed that new laws against travellers were imminent “in reaction to the increasing level of public dismay and alarm about the behaviour of some of these groups.”

Indeed, the outcry following Castlemorton provided the basis for the most draconian law yet levelled against alternative British culture. Just as the Public Order Act 1986 followed the events at Stonehenge in 1985, so the Criminal Justice and Public Order Bill began its journey in 1992, pumped with the manufactured outrage following Castlemorton.

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Bristol venue to host legendary 90s rave sound systems and DJs at ‘free party’ exhibition

The event at Lost Horizon will bring together some of the most instrumental people from the early 1990s free party scene

By Mark Taylor Life Writer

The free party movement of the 1990s launched the careers of many DJs and sound systems

Festivalgoers these days are used to paying hundreds of pounds for the privilege of spending a few days under canvas in a muddy field. But a new exhibition in Bristol celebrates the 30th anniversary of the free party movement born with the secret raves of the 1990s.

Free Party: A Retrospective will celebrate the birth of the UK’s iconic free party movement, with a week of events, art, music and more hosted at the Lost Horizon venue in St Jude’s. The event will bring together some of the most instrumental people from the early 1990s free party scene and mark the 30-year anniversary of the legendary Castlemorton free festival, the UK’s biggest ever illegal rave which took place in Worcestershire in May 1992.

Inspired by and working alongside the creators of ‘Free Party: A Folk History’, a major independent documentary currently in post-production, Free Party: A Retrospective, is a mixture of free activity and ticketed club night events from the people who lived and breathed this movement. Organisers say it will celebrate part of cultural history and be a place to revisit memories as well as understand the journey that built today’s free party and festival scene from the perspective of those involved in it from the start.

The week-long programme of events will include free talks, panel discussions with Q&As, and an exhibition of photography, audio, artwork and film. Partygoers will also be able to buy tickets to an array of club nights from legendary sound systems of the time such as SP23 (Spiral Tribe), Bedlam and DiY, alongside Bristol collectives such as Duvet Vous.

Profits from the tickets and donations will go to related causes. These include Refugee Community Kitchen, Spirit Wrestlers, Drive2survive and Friends Families and Travellers.

One of the images on display at the Free Party retrospective

Speaking about the programme of events, director of Free Party: A Folk History and curator of the exhibition, Aaron Trinder, said: “When independently embarking on the idea to make a feature documentary about the Free Party movement I had no idea of the breadth and depth of the stories I would find when interviewing people from the scene, including Circus Warp, DiY, Spiral Tribe, Free Party People, Bedlam and many others within the travelling, sound system and rave communities.

“As a result, I realised that the film could only ever show so much of such a rich and interesting cultural history, so the notion of an exhibition, allowing many of the contributors to the film to tell their own stories came about.”

https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/whats-on/whats-on-news/bristol-venue-host-legendary-90s-7034326

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Free Party Exhibition and Show. A Retrospective

Free Party Exhibition and Show. A Retrospective Lost Horizons, Bristol Samsung S10 4K Video 3840 x2160 I’m there again next Saturday 28th May and on the panel discussion then: 4pm – 5pm – Talks w. Q&A – DiY (Harry H & Jack), Tash Lodge, photographer & Aaron Trinder, filmmaker 5pm – 9pm – DiY Day Party in the garden (Tim Wilderspin & Andy Compton) 10pm – Late – Sound System with Nottingham’s anarchic collective DiY: Pezz, Jack and Grace https://alanlodge.co.uk/blog/?p=6182

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Free Party, A Retrospective. Film and Panel discussion at Lost Horizon, Bristol

Free Party, A Retrospective. Film and Panel discussion at Lost Horizon, Bristol.

* Aaron Trinder, Filmmaker
* Harry Harrison, DiY
* Steff Pickles, Traveller
* Alan Lodge, ‘Tash’, Photographer

…. video of the panel by Sam

also check out the groove at ….

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My Castlemorton Exhibition of Photographs in Berlin. 18 January – March 2024

At the British Shorts Film Festival in Berlin, Germany.

As the co-organiser of the British Shorts Film Festival in Berlin, Germany. We are an independent weeklong festival organised with a love for all kinds and genres of short films and music videos and are quite grateful to have a wide audience attending our screenings. Our 17th edition will be taking place in Berlin from 18th until 24th January 2024.

For this edition I am planning a retrospective programme about the Acid House and Rave-scenes of the 90s, showcasing essential short films, documentaries and music videos from that time an beyond. Amongst the films we will be showing is the documentary RAVE (1997) by Torstein Grude and the music film WEEKENDER (1992) directed by Wiz. While researching (I was in contact with Aaron Trinder, the director of the recent documentary FREE PARTY: A FOLK HISTORY amongst others) I found out about your amazing photographs of the Free Party-scene and the Castlemorton Common Festival in 1992.

Since every year we have an exhibition as part of the British Shorts Film Festival at the cinema bar of Sputnik Kino (https://www.sputnik-kino.com) located in Berlin-Kreuzberg, I want to enquire whether there is a possibility to exhibit some of these great pictures in this setting. They would be able to provide more context to the retrospective film programme and give some great insights of this time to our audience attending the festival.To give you an idea, exhibitions in the past couple of years included “The Ties That Bind” by Grey Hutton, works from The British Culture Archive and “Don’t Call Me Urban: The Time of Grime” by Simon Wheatly.

You can find more information about our festival and past programmes on our website and social media:
https://www.britishshorts.de/history.html
https://www.instagram.com/britishshorts
https://de-de.facebook.com/BritishShorts

If this sounds interesting, I would be happy to hear back from you. Please let me know if you have any questions regarding our festival or this exhibition idea.

Henning Koch

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One Minute ‘sketch’ around Nottingham

One Minute ‘sketch’ around Nottingham Insta360 Ace Pro – 4K Video 3840 x2160

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A first test to see if this sends a tweet?

Have just set this up using the ‘Uncanny Automator’ plugin for my WordPress Blog.

https://automatorplugin.com

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Up to Kinder Scout by Jacobs Ladder

Kinder Scout, Derbyshire Peak District

60 second TikTok

https://vm.tiktok.com/ZGefxqFyP/

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Re-Photographing / Digitising my Photographic Archives

Illustrating my method of digitising the work. A Nikon Z9 mirrorless camera. A 50mm macro 1:1 lens and a Nikon ES-2 copying attachment with negative and transparency racks.

Then post-processing in Adobe Lightroom. Inverting from negative to positive and correction for brightness and contrast. Keywording and storage. Exporting to Photoshop, further correction for display.

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A Photographic Archive

Here at Tash Towers, this is my photographic library of Black and White negative and Colour Transparencies taken between 1979 and 2003. After 2003, my work has been most digital. Hence there is a shedload of scanning / re-photographing the work to make digital derivations.

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