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Year five

fishyfisharcade

Here I am again, beginning a fifth year of daily posting on my blog. This will be the one thousand, four-hundred and sixty second consecutive post (I now fearfully await someone telling me I missed a day somewhere. Eek!). I don’t have any real plans to switch things up from the current format – a mixture of stuff about making photos, to random, usually brief, journal posts of my life and experiences – but who knows what this year will bring?

I’ve got a new camera to post about soon, but I need to figure it out and – importantly – take and develop some photographs with it first. Hopefully something to come on that in the next week or two.

For my first post of the year, here’s a picture from the Photographer’s Gallery in London. The gallery is split across a number of floors and the usual route it to take the lift to the top floor and then work your way back down to the bottom. The quickest way to do this is via the stairwell and, between two of the floors, there is a window that opens into a small offshot of one of the galleries where photobooks and other documentation about the current exhibition is available to be viewed by visitors. When I visited, the work of British photographer Chris Killip was being exhibited and my photo depicts two people perusing books of his work.

The exhibition was excellent, by the way.

Reading the photobooks

Olympus OM-1N, G-Zuiko Auto-W 35mm f/2.8 & Ilford HP5+ (@1600asa). Ilfotec DD-X 1+4 12mins @ 20°

Taken on 29 November 2022.

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8 thoughts on “Year five”

  2. Hello! Many congrats on reaching the 5 year mark! That’s quite some achievement! Love the first image this year, although it presses all my vertigo buttons!! I’ve never been to the photographers gallery, and that’s something I need to fix this year for sure! Congrats again and happy new year!! Cheers Andy

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    1. Thanks Andy.

      The Photographer’s Gallery is well worth a visit, particularly if they’re exhibiting work that appeals to you. There’s a great bookshop in the basement (that also sells film!) too.

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    1. Thanks -N-. Happy New Year to you also.

      I’d not spotted the vertigo-inducing edge when I posted it – probably because, knowing where I was stood when I took it, there would be practically no chance of falling. I guess without that context the picture might take on a different air.

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