A Slight Pause and other stuff

Over the last few weeks I've been adding as many photographs as I can to my various blogs and Flickr badges, but I've run into a couple of problems. Cd's that won't open. So I've been hunting through my negative archive and re-scanning the original negatives. Thank God I'm on film!
These Cd's are only about 6 years old and have been sitting in a box for about that length of time.

I just don't trust digital photography. It's great for speed, but not for duration, it scares me the "fragility" of this whole new world.

It's a little like the story of "The Emperors New Clothes" Everybody is so happy with what they can "see", but it's that one voice from the crowd that everyone eventually hears.

My voice I think will be lost in the din of the crowd.

So if you find images on any page or badge with a different tag it may just have been because I've re-scanned and ended up with a different file name.

How many digital files have you lost and not been able to retreive?

The Happy Sideshow

As I have mentioned briefly before, I had never seen or photographed The Space Cowboy or Any of The Happy Sideshow until about 7 years ago.

When I got the shots I did of The Space Cowboy I just had to pass them on, and he wanted to give me something for them, but it's not why I really do this.

Through my contact with all the street performers I became a sought after photographer the year they, Shep, Captain Frodo, Tiger Lil and The Space Cowboy brought their Show to the Fringe and not just the street. They asked if I'd do some promo shots for them.

They were performing at Dynamic Earth. On the opening night I headed down to see them and get some photos.

But it seemed that Dynamic Earth had no idea of what they were letting themselves in for and almost wanted to cancel the show. But with tickets and posters printed and sold a compromise was agreed and the underground car park became their theatre.

As everything Grows and Grows

Over the last few weeks things on my blog have started getting bigger and bigger.
There are now a few hundred photographs on my Flickr badges, there maybe a little duplication with one or two. More photos posted to pages I've completed previously.



Spent a little time over the Christmas, New Year break working my way through my negative archives from previous years.

The hardest thing about my collection of negatives is that most of the time I don't have a print for reference. Anyone whose been to my exhibition party will understand why.

So I spend a bit of time just choosing images at random, they may not be the image I was truly looking for , but they may just do..