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This shot is an old one that I have posted on Flickr, but since doing so my processing skills have come miles. The shot is now much closer to what I saw than was in the original version.
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Vintage Wash Action 100%
Luossavaara-Kiirunavaara Aktiebolag (LKAB) is a Swedish mining company. The company mines iron ore at Kiruna and at Malmberget in northern Sweden. The company was established in 1890, and has been 100% state-owned since the 1950s. In 1918 the company purchased the Francis Flower business in the UK which included the GBSS processing plant at Scunthorpe steelworks.
Ground Granulated Blast furnace Slag (GGBS) is produced by quenching molten iron slag from a blast furnace in water or steam, to produce a glassy, granular product that is then dried and ground into a fine powder. It replaces up to 70% of the Portland Cement in concrete, and can significantly reduce CO2-emissions. Francis Flower produced GGBS in Scunthorpe on the grounds of British Steel upgrading their blast furnace slag. LKAB is also a significant supplier of highly upgraded iron ore products to British Steel, the first deliveries were made in the 1930’s. Francis Flower was the second largest supplier of GGBS in the UK.
The plant in the near background is operated by Calumite Limited which supplies glassmakers in the UK and overseas with Calumite, a refined blast furnace slag. Calumite is a glassy calcium-alumina-silicate that is used as a raw material in all types of soda-lime-silica glassmaking.
Shooting colour like it is 1877. Three monochrome images captured through red, green and blue filters. Then recombined via the additive process to create a colour image. Where the subject moved, a rainbow appears. I have deliberately used slightly imperfect colours when recombining, to try to recreate the antique feeling.
Piles Creek, Girakool near Somersby NSW.
Another example of the kind of affectless photographs I take in order to get body language and proportions right for my comics.
iPhone processed with Silver Efex Pro 2
British Summer Time In Hyde Park – an annual day out provided there is a decent headliner. Sunshine helps. And I’ll even put up with the overpriced but tasty drinks and food (lemon sole gorgons anyone ?). None of this could excuse one of the worst support slots by an established band I have ever witnessed – yes, that’s you Mike (and your Mechanics) – music for washing the car to in the dullest suburbs of Britain. Blondie – a hot party band of my teenage years – surpassed expectations. Of course we’d have all swapped the new album tracks for Presence and Denis but the opening One Way and a frenetic Rapture more than made up. Debbie ? 72 ? I’ll have some of whatever she is on… So the headliner Phil Collins. Easy to denigrate. Frighteningly decrepit due to recent medical shenanigans, his standing for the encore is the first song this tour that he’s not sat to perform. Mixed bag, not helped by a sound system that sometimes struggled with the conditions, but anything that was supported by the wonderful brass section flew. A surprisingly moving version of Follow You Follow Me underlined via the accompanying visuals how frail Phil Collins has become – and getting an emotional reaction to anything in the vastness of Hyde Park has to be considered an achievement for anyone.
Phil Collins, Hyde Park, London, UK
So...I had solutions left from tea toning more cyanotype fabric and decided to play around with some old cyanotype prints. I have had a stash of less than optimal pieces for just such an occasion. I was attempting split toning, working to keeps some of the blue in the print and not bleach it all out. On a few of these it worked. Often times, as per what seems to be my usual, I get more such results when I'm not actively trying! But that's okay. Just trying to get myself back in the swing of things.