Comments on Hard Light: Steve Walton's Outdoor Blog: What's in your Cupboard?

Hi, old post, I know. But I wanted to say that Ilf...

2011-08-16T09:23:40.993+01:00

Hi, old post, I know. But I wanted to say that Ilford XP2 Super isn't discontinued.

Steve.

Thanks, Dave. It is something that was often said...

2011-02-19T23:20:51.795Z

Thanks, Dave. It is something that was often said earlier in the digital era, but I agree that there is now a great interest in posting images on the internet via the sharing media you mention. The interesting thing is the rise in popularity of social documentary or 'street' photography. It was never as popular before the rise of digital. That can't be a bad thing.

I'm quite surprised by that criticism. I would...

2011-02-19T18:10:00.167Z

I'm quite surprised by that criticism. I would have thought that the digital age, with Flickr, Photobucket, Picassa and such like together with creative commons liscencing, that there are far more images "out there" than ever before. I now take immesurably more images than I ever did with film. Whilst many of those images are indeed tied up on various hard drives a fair proportion of them are uploaded and freely accessible to anybody who may be interested. My film on the other had is quietly collecting dust in my spare room.

Thank you, David. That archive of your Dad's ...

2011-02-19T14:54:28.075Z

Thank you, David. That archive of your Dad's is priceless. Look after it!

that first image is incredible, looks like a paint...

2011-02-19T11:55:45.334Z

that first image is incredible, looks like a painting. agreed on the film cupboard, i have a mass of film and slides to go through, and never get round to looking through them. My dad has a lifetime of scrapbooks about waist high that he is struggling to digitize even selectively - now that's a family archive!