Hello again, moved away from pinhole pictures for the moment. I was also taking pictures with my rangefinder camera, small, light and with only the single 40mm lens to worry about photography becomes simple.
Julie and I were wandering around the back "streets" of Venice, about as far away from St Marks Square as you can get with the crowds mercifully left far behind. We walked past this guy only to sit down bt a canal for a break a few minutes later. Always a sucker for such photos I went back and put some coins in his hat and asked if it was alright to take his picture. He nodded so I made a few exposures.
The first print was made on Ilford Multigrade Resin Coated paper just to see how well it printed, I have made some 12 X 16 prints since and toned the highlights slightly to give an overall warm feeling to the image.
Why take photos?, why continue to use film, "old fashioned cameras" and, most strange of all why lock myself away in a dark room with only a red light and an I Pod for company??? Themes to return to I think.
