My 200th Blog Post!

Welcome to my 200th blog post! This really is a landmark moment for me and I'm surprised at how important constructing the posts each week has become. I can't quite believe how many words and pictures I've put out there over the last couple of years. A massive thank you whether you are a regular reader or occasionally dip into this blog, I love sharing my thoughts and photographs and keep going because of the encouragement and kind words.

I reckon that every hundredth post can be some form of self portrait, or selfie as they've become known. If you missed my 100th blog post please have a look here:

My 100th Blog Post!

I popped back to Fred Aldous in Manchester armed with some cameras and discovered they now have an original colour chemical passport machine too, so hey presto:

To my mind these machines have much more soul than the modern digital ones that have replaced them and I love the iconic orange or blue background curtains that draw across to give you a splash of colour.

The four cameras are from my continuously growing collection which went past the 30 mark sometime ago. I can't help it, its hereditary!

Can you identify the cameras? Leave me a message or if you want to keep it analogue, answers on a postcard...

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A Lovely Pair of Pins

I knew the expression 'pins' referring to legs but had to Google what the Cockney rhyming slang comes from. It looks like 'pins & pegs', but there are some great alternatives like 'bacon & eggs' and 'dolly pegs'. I think I might start trying to incorporate more Cockney into my everyday speak, I do have London roots but they are more South (Saff) London than East London, where I think it originates. Anyway this is all to illustrate a new picture that sits quite neatly with an older picture. So brogues, legs and a sea view from my two main muses. This might be turning into a set... Oh by the way the top view is Morecambe Bay and the lower image is from The Wirral looking across towards Wales. The North West of England is a beautiful place, with some stylish residents.

Linda McCartney Video Commission

If you'd like to access my cyanotype video workshops, they are still live on The Walker Art Gallery website: Cyanotype prints for beginners Advanced cyanotype prints

Hold Your Hair In Deep Devotion

At last after a week of being indoors, I walked into the light! I went solo and had a photography day in Liverpool, just what the doctor ordered, as they say. I'm a bit out of words at the moment and was going to include a Philip Larkin poem, but I've been thinking that Alex Turner is my modern day poet hero and this is my favourite track on AM, tucked away at the end. He's in his twenties and yet the words suggest a time before he was born, filling my head with images and memories. I've included a link to the track if you want to listen to The Arctic Monkey doing their thing whilst taking in my pictures... UPDATE Well since writing the above it has been pointed out to me that the song is actually based on a poem by John Cooper Clarke, which makes sense of the time frame (being written in the early Eighties) and the fact that I responded to the lyrics like a poem. Apparently Alex Turner first heard it read by his English teacher whilst at school. So mayb...

Marc Provins

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