I have photographed there before some years ago as part of my 'Wildwood' exhibition. Those were colour images but the new work will address some different ideas and invite a different response from the viewers.
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| Strata Florida, 2004 |
The new work will be presented as platinum prints, made from the 10" x 8" negatives.
As I'm getting older, I have noticed that carrying a heavy 10" x 8" camera with even heavier tripod on my shoulders, plus a backpack with holders, lenses, meter, notebook etc. was getting more difficult. Particularly over rough, uneven and sometimes very soggy ground. So after over 60 years of lugging large format cameras around on my back, I came up with a cunning plan.
Made from bits of M.D.F. I had around, plus an old garden fork handle and two new pneumatic wheelbarrow wheels for rough ground, I present the Davis patent large format photo trolley. I gave it a good testing last week and it worked well. The box contains everything I need and is padded inside. The wheels worked well, even over rough stony ground and the various soggy bits of the woodland. Still quite hard work but does mean I can spend longer on location than before. Of course, being Welsh I couldn't resist putting a 'tongue in cheek' label on it.
Maybe the only down side is that whereas before I would carry the camera screwed to the tripod on my shoulder, now, to save the weight on me, I have to take the camera out of the box and screw it on the tripod for every
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| Strata Florida, 2025. Platinum Print |
The platinum prints are being made at the moment and this is just one of them. I'll post more as the work progresses and more prints emerge.
You can see me making platinum prints on my YouTube channel:
