Full Steam Ahead ......... ---- by Angie Sharp
Anything Nautical ... . ... .. . . by Sheila Brown
Doubletake .. -. . . . . . . . . . . by Nigel Hargreaves
Visionary Experiment --------- by Marie Stuart
The Boat Trip --------............ by Anonymous Dude
A Basic Guide .... . . . . . ...... by George Inglis
Slop Bog visit = = = = - --- - by Mike Legg
2 Boys & a Red Arrow- --- -- by-Mike Legg
Canada Rail Trip -------------- by Ruth Dix
Photo's for fun & sharing------- Submitted by Members
Doubletake
By Nigel Hargreaves
Sad to say I believe my printing of photographs days are over. I have just returned from a splendid trip to Italy, and took over 200 pictures. I went to print some of them on my Epson R1800, and there was banding on the first one. I did a nozzle check and found the magenta head to be clogged, so I set up the head clean procedure. “Insufficient ink to carry out task”. Okay, so I put in a new magenta cartridge and tried again. “Insufficient ink to carry out task”. Now it was the gloss enhancer. Replaced the gloss enhancer, tried again. “Insufficient ink to carry out task”. This went on for some time, and eventually I had replaced 5 of the cartridges, whereupon I was at last able to print the pictures.
But I then found that all this head cleaning had almost used up the magenta cartridge I installed in the first place.
On to 7 Day Shop’s website to order replacements and I find this little exercise has cost me £50!
What’s more, I have become more than disenchanted with spending several evenings producing prints only to get 7s in competitions. And there are plenty of much better photographers than me in the club. Not only that, I am a landscape photographer at heart, and I am afraid judges these days are looking for something different. So I had started trying to take photographs I thought might impress the judges, which is not what my photography is all about.
And how many times do old prints get shown to anybody? You take thousands
of pictures and, at a camera club, you only ever show a couple of dozen. The
rest are tucked away in a box never to see the light
of day again. The upshot is I have decided to put all my pictures now on digital
medium. One can then relax in the armchair and either project them onto a
screen or show them on the television. I don’t think I bore friends
by doing a slide show after dinner.
I hope the above is not too negative. I don’t want to discourage others, but I do suspect that we are moving to a new age of photography, and we need to embrace it. I wonder if, in a few years time only one or two die-hards insist on a print competition? When I joined the Club digital was considered to be cheating, and there was only a small proportion of members doing digital printing. Now it is rare to see a wet print, and slides are almost extinct.
As I said, I have just arrived back from Italy, and amassed a good lot of pictures that are really only a record of a very pleasant holiday. Individually, none is a competition shot. But shown as a sequence they would certainly be of interest to more than just me.
And how many times do old prints get shown to anybody? You take thousands of pictures and, at a camera club, you only ever show a couple of dozen. The rest are tucked away in a box never to see the light again.
The upshot is I have decided to put all my pictures now on digital medium. One can then relax in the armchair and either project them onto a screen or show them on the television. I don’t think I bore friends by doing a slide show after dinner.
As far as my club activity is concerned I will not be entering any prints this year or probably ever again. But I will be entering the digital competitions because doesn’t involve any time or effort or, crucially, money. After all, I am only a poor old age pensioner.