Interview: Sarah Roach

In my last “feature find” I told you how I met Sarah Roach at various events here in Nottingham. She is a photographer and printmaker whose style is easily recognizable. I came across her work on various occasions in and around Nottingham. Most recently I saw her represented at the Derby Print Open at Banks […]

Night At The River

I mentioned before that at the moment I spent too few time on free work for a healthy inner balance. Last Thursday I decided it was time for a quick fix, and I sneaked out of the flat after the kids fell asleep for a photo session. I planned to try some long time exposures […]

Extreme Macro

I have been fooling around and built some kind of extreme macro lens for my camera. Well, essentially I made photos through a magnifier glass. If you have not yet seen the images on Facebook or Flickr (click and choose “older” to see more flowers and berries, and “newer” to see spiders and moss), go […]

Darkroom

I think I was 16 years old – maybe I was already 17- when I started at the best job I ever had: For one or two days a week I would be running the B&W photo laboratory of the small newspaper near my hometown. Thinking back, I can almost feel the tingle of sharp […]