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...the 13th century with the actual destruction of the Culbin estate by wind blown sand happening in 1694. Did a substantial community comprised of 16 farms really vanish overnight in a sandstorm in the late 17th century? The book 'The Culbin Sands - A Mystery Unravelled' by Sinclair Ross, published in 1992 (a PDF version is available), goes some way...
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...trying to do this with a knife and straight edge. I recommend www.bookbinding-supplies.co.uk who make and sell well made and reasonably priced ploughs and presses. Commercially Printed Books If you have a need for more than a copy or two there is clearly a problem in printing and making the books completely by hand, especially if it has a large...
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...the abstract kind, where dimensions can be difficult to understand. That is also my intention. I want the viewers of my work to look more for compositions and geometry, rather than trying to understand what they are looking at. [vimeo https://vimeo.com/162575495 w=556] Green Room Interview Following the talk, Tim Parkin spoke to Hans in our Green Room. [vimeo https://vimeo.com/162557194 w=556]...
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...Photographer of the Year Awards (Australia), etc. Ironically, the more awards his work obtains, the less Rafael likes his photographs! Rafael Rojas is co-director and one of the founders of the company WHYTAKE - The Global Community of Nature Photographers TM, a global, free and multicultural inspiring community of nature photographers. Cooking up a Classic Rafael will explain how landscape...
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...well put together and varied portfolio covering a wide range of practitioners and techniques. ISBN: 978-0890135884 I also looked around at various websites and here is a selection of ones I found useful. F/d. Exploring the art of pinhole photography - fslashd.com The pinhole manual - pinholemanual.wordpress.com And finally, you can find some calculators on the Mr Pinhole website. ...
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...to raise or lower the quality. Standard Quality is 600x600px , Medium Quality is 1200x1200px, and High Quality is 1936x1936px, so with the highest resolution you can comfortably make a large print. Indeed, you can order high quality prints up to 30" directly through the software. I have also printed them at home on an Epson Printer as a comparison...
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...tests can be quite painful. Quite often the tests take a great deal of knowledge to understand where they are coming from and secondly they are not ‘universal’. i.e. you can’t compare one set of tests with another (without knowing they used exactly the same methodology, test charts, lighting, etc). The problem is so complicated that we’re running a live...
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...my photographic energy wherever I am. I have a long term commitment to a series of photo essays that describe life in Spain: these are an amalgamation of documentary landscape and people. 'Living with Loss' and 'People of the Sierra' are pretty much completed, and I am contemplating 'Barrio' and 'Casino' (a sort of old peoples club) as the next...
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...it doesn't do well if you hurry it. The slow process gives me more time to enjoy the scene that I am photographing. When mistakes inevitably happen, I get angry, and I might cry, but eventually, it encourages me to come back and try again. I’ve found a small but great community of large format photographers out there. I've had...
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...and my work took me to many of the pits instaling the rapid loading facilities. The thing which struck me at the time was how many of the collieries were in rural locations. You could drive for miles through open countryside and then come across a huge colliery complex, usually surrounded by its own village, seemingly dumped there from space....
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