Here are a small selection from me...
John Bruce's "Wherewithal Quay"
(https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8649/16457390699_6508e060e7_c.jpg) (http://"https://flic.kr/p/r5hqTv")
Andy Cundick's "Arigna"
(https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8625/16642546042_284de71174_c.jpg) (http://"https://flic.kr/p/rmDp81")
and Blair Hobson's "Vlčetínec"
(https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8642/16023646563_15ab4f221a_c.jpg) (http://"https://flic.kr/p/qpXnSk")
The rest of the 64 photos can be found in my Flickr album (https://www.flickr.com/photos/julien_webb/sets/72157650571838847/with/16023646563). Maybe not quite up to Mick Thornton's standards but I hope you enjoy them.
An excellent set of photos Julien, thanks for posting and also appreciate your compliment - undeserved though it is!
Regards
Mick
Wonderful - many thanks. The link needed a bit of editing to get it to work, however.
Thank you for posting Julien.
The Flickr link is broken. At the moment is reads:
http://"https//www.flickr.com/photos/julien_webb/sets/72157650571838847/with/16023646563/%22
it should be:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/julien_webb/sets/72157650571838847/with/16023646563
Kind regards, Harry
I thought I had checked it but perhaps not.
Now fixed - thanks Harry for the correct bit of script which I copied & pasted in.
All the photos in the album were taken with my somewhat elderly Nikon Coolpix P3 (stop laughing at the back there!) or (distinctly old-hat) iPhone 4s. None of this digital SLR with tripod etc. I spent a bit of time (on Monday) writing the captions for all 60 odd photos and doing a bit of cropping, then spent a small amount of time editing the captions and making a final selection (Tuesday) to send 16 shots in to Tom and Steve for the News via e-mail yesterday. Hopefully the resulting photos, both on Flickr and in the next 009 News, show just what can be achieved with minimal kit.
The point is that it is not really all that difficult to do, but Tom tells me that after the request put on the forum for photographic coverage of the show for the News as Mick could not make it I was the only one to offer to help! Given the numbers of 009 Society members who I saw at the show I'm sure that they probably got some more interesting / better shots than I did, and it really is a shame that no one else came forward to give the editors a bigger pool of photos to chose from.
So perhaps the next time you are at an exhibition take some photos, make a few notes for captions and e-mail them in to Tom & Steve - you don't have to be Mick Thornton to do so, and he can't be everywhere all the time.
Thanks for your efforts for the Society Julien, most appreciated. It's the writing of the captions that attracts the time bandits isn't it! Particularly when I lumber myself with doing 200 or so to cover Expong or NGSW etc on my blog!!
Just to make sure we are all on the same page, I don't have expensive digital SLRs and tripods etc either. Well I do have a tripod but I very rarely if ever take it to events nowadays. My camera of choice and has been for the past 2 years now is a Fuji HS30EXR "bridge camera" - My daughter brought its grandson, which has twice the lens range, more of this, even more of that and etc etc for about
Thanks for your efforts, Julien, very much appreciated.
I don't mind what people use to take photos as long as long as they're of good enough quality to print! :)
I'm hoping to get something in the News later this year offering some photographic hints and tips which I've been discussing with a society member... Then there'll be no excuse for people not sending in their own reports ;)
Looks like you all had fun, shame I missed it this year.
From our experience there were plenty of other people taking photos (including several well known 009 members!), perhaps they haven't seen the request?
That's possible, but they might have noticed that Mick wasn't there and put 2 and 2 together...
I'm not just talking about NGSW, Blair. As you've said there are cameras everywhere.
I've added a little something to 'footplate' for the next issue of the News to get people thinking a little more, hopefully.
Might be worth you contacting Lee Bryant, Tom!
Already been in touch with Lee :)