Recent content by Tony Warren

This shot harks from 1971 and is of the entrance to Peterborough Cathedral Precinct. Shot on FP4 I believe or Plus X with a Microflex TLR. It was my first success in a competition and won me the grand amount of 10/-, 50p in a now long gone publication, Photo News Weekly.

Well Gerard was a trainspotter in my youth and I credit it with getting me hooked on photography. These are some of what I took around 1952 or so with my Dad's Folding Autographic Brownie.

Three tree shots - straight digital, converted in software digital and digital with 720 IR filter.

Great sequence Wes. I like the first shot which shows how the bird is is using its wings as a shade to better see its target.

Pages 126 and 128 Gary. Very late in his life when he finally saw anything printed. His comments on Cibachrome are interesting too.

Like Gary I am impressed with your organisational skills Paul. I have quite few adapters myself but scattered around several drawers. You put me to shame! They are incredibly useful though and allow quite a bit of mixing and matching between systems.

You are correct of course. But colour has subliminal meaning also, evoking responses beyond the rational. So if a monochrome image suggests a colour then maybe the same reactions are produced in the viewer. There is such a lot on a psychological as well as rational levels don't you think?

Hard to say, Gary. If he had the same influences growing up I would say he would. Spending his holidays in his youth in Yosemite and being influenced by the people around him as he was is part and parcel of the time factor I guess.

Photography as an artistic medium is in its infancy or maybe adolescence whereas painting and sculpture go back to primitive times and have reached great maturity. (I hesitate to suggest dotage!) Also, any art should be considered in relation to its time. Every medium in some way reflects the...

This is interesting Gary. It is like using filters with monochrome film but with the possibility of not just "lightening like" but also "darkening like" ( e.g. the yellow and the blue examples).

I'm sure you will find it interesting Gary and some of the images are really excellent.

I think you (and I) are feeling what Adams would have felt if he had been able to experience digital. I think he would eventually have enthusiastically embraced all the post processing possibilities of digital though which in a way are the equivalent of his Zone System in that they allow...

I have just finished re-reading a book you may not have heard of called “Ansel Adams in Color” (ISBN:0-8212-1980-4) that I came across some time ago. Adams and monochrome are inseparable but it transpires he shot around 3000 colour images and was retained by Kodak in the development and use of...

The printed word world has taken one of the biggest hits from the internet I think. And readership has shifted from practitioner to cognoscente especially in photography. I do relate to your implied regret about Aperture and magazines in general. I must have spent a small fortune on them over...

Blair Witch was hsot on a hand-held 8mm cine camera - so not really documentary! Nice atmosphere though.