2024

....and that's nearly a wrap.... this last year has mainly been feeding the Getty monster with all manner of Scottish landscape images as I trek around in the camper van in all the weather that Scotland decides to launch in my direction.
 Still, time for a bit of personal stuff (yes I know...it's all personal stuff) and mono is always there at the forefront. I was musing the other day that I still have Ronnie the Bronica (S2a) and maybe he should have a runout this year as it's....drum roll...... 50 years since we met across a crowded room or was that the ads section of the local rag..hmmm. Tanks , chemicals and a dobbing great Durst 600 enlarger and maybe a red or yellow filter. Different days and masking usually entailed a bit of cut out cardboard or twisting your hands into origami esqu shapes...calmer, quieter days as each frame cost real money, so you really took some care before hitting the shutter release.
So the image above is what I have found interesting when converted into Black and White..all these toys in Lightroom, I can imagine me talking to my younger self from back in the day trying to explain how taking an image has changed...wouldn't know where to start. Voice activated AI enhanced is probably not that far away in exchange for a monthly subscription, you may find that you want to talk to your younger self from 50 years in the future explaining how tricky Lightroom was and thank God for the multiple brain implants that allow you to 'imagine' imagery on a screen or possibly floating in space and roll your eyes at the thought of keyboards and monitors.

​Oh well done for surviving 2024, here's to 2025