tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8635427135333425336.post2520342608148484248..comments2024-03-11T08:59:46.846-08:00Comments on FogBlog: The Transformed Man (And Other Tales)Herman Sheephousehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16187303211437458425noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8635427135333425336.post-78954142988067626302016-08-16T02:01:09.988-08:002016-08-16T02:01:09.988-08:00Julian:
"you are probably right and it is gre...Julian:<br />"you are probably right and it is great to hear some people appreciate your wok"<br />they might even appreciate your WORK as well . . . <br /><br />Personally, I've never had a wok appreciated by the general public, even back in the glory days of Ken Hom and the whole 'yes, you can cook Chinese food at home' period when vast swathes of cheap woks flooded the country rendering older, hand-hammered woks as arcane artifacts from a forgotten time . drone . . . drone . . . . drone . . . Herman Sheephousehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16187303211437458425noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8635427135333425336.post-5086474117270932092016-08-16T01:27:15.404-08:002016-08-16T01:27:15.404-08:00Julian - you are probably right and it is great to...Julian - you are probably right and it is great to hear some people appreciate your wok, that's a good thing. The only people I've had admire any print I've made have been Ali (my wife), Joseph McKenzie (now deceased legend), Malcolm Thompson (who said I had produced a very "fine" fine print, which utterly gobsmacked me as he is a hell of a printer) and some friends at Scottish Photographers meetings . . this being said, I've never exhibited or really shown prints around that much, so maybe that explains my despondency.<br />At the last SP meeting we had some people from Glasgow through, who knew and worked with Thomas Joshua Cooper - I think, though because there was a lot of art-speak going on I couldn't be sure, that I managed to stop them in their tracks. I had a few large prints made with the Hasselblad on some ancient Agfa MCC, and the art-speak paused for a couple of nano-seconds! Maybe I should get my shite together and get out there - it would be an interesting experience.<br />Have you got a site with any of your prints on? Would like to see them if you do.<br />PHerman Sheephousehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16187303211437458425noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8635427135333425336.post-63249772684635792722016-08-16T01:17:03.329-08:002016-08-16T01:17:03.329-08:00You say:
"We as photographers are seemingly ...You say:<br /><br /><i>"We as photographers are seemingly redundant, because we have nothing to say to anyone except other photographers. Who gives a monkey's nuts about the fine monochrome photograph and print these days? Other photographers. That's about it, or so it seems."</i><br /><br />I was amazed at the reaction to a print of mine done on Ilford MG Art paper - the change from polite "nice" to gobsmacked "Wow!" was palpable. People do appreciate good photographs, printed well. <br /><br />I could go off on one about how photo editing software will emulate HP5+, the faded look of 1970's Kodak, hyper saturated Fuji, or whatever. But that's the point, it's just virtual, an approximation, a fake, something a bit like something. In the same way keyboard can make a sound like a guitar, it ain't a real guitar. My cry to people would be if you want the look of HP5, why not use the real stuff, for pity's sake?<br /><br />There are philosophical discussions to be had about the nature of traditional photographs, but the actual real tangible presence of a print made with care on quality materials still speaks to human beings today. To quote that great philosopher of the 20th C, Madonna, "We're material beings in a material world..."<br /><br />J<br /> Julianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05474089108788967111noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8635427135333425336.post-2607510726786881062013-08-08T00:05:50.203-08:002013-08-08T00:05:50.203-08:00Fully understand Bruce.
I am a member of Scottish...Fully understand Bruce. <br />I am a member of Scottish Photographers (not a club, more a collection of photographers) and I've attended one of the Fife meetings, but they've now moved to somewhere in deepest South Fife, which is too far . . . <br />There's not a Dundee 'cell' . . .hmmmmm<br />Ms Farsey-ArseyHerman Sheephousehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16187303211437458425noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8635427135333425336.post-38524538673979719262013-08-07T15:56:12.941-08:002013-08-07T15:56:12.941-08:00I joined the DPS so I could see up close prints fr...I joined the DPS so I could see up close prints from visiting lecturers like Tony Worobiec, Glyn Saterley and Leigh Preston. The only other good prints I saw were once a year at the Scottish International Salon, or whatever it was called, in Edinburgh. The DPS was good from that point of view but I then discovered that you didn't have to be a member to attend the talks so I never joined after the second year. Then I got fed up sitting through all the club stuff on lecture nights and didn't go back. Now, it would be a 25 mile round trip to visit their club nights and I can't be arsed. There are a couple of clubs in Carnoustie as well, believe it or not, but I can't even be arsed going to see them! The name's Arsed, Can't be Arsed. :-)Bruce Robbinshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13888340033630703603noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8635427135333425336.post-23831271576739309372013-08-06T20:33:03.424-08:002013-08-06T20:33:03.424-08:00Thanks Bruce - feels funny to be back in shoes aft...Thanks Bruce - feels funny to be back in shoes after wearing sandals all Summer if you know what I mean . . <br />As for Malcolm - told you he was curmudgeonly, and sorry to hear he was even more so towards you! <br />Ah, the legendary Dundee Photographic Society . . never even been remotely interested in joining or thinking about it . . the only clubs I have ever joined have been to do with fish . . and they weren't the Blackness Road Pudding Supper Club either.<br />PHerman Sheephousehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16187303211437458425noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8635427135333425336.post-19376018907239693002013-08-06T11:52:56.201-08:002013-08-06T11:52:56.201-08:00Good to see you back again, Phil. This is a very i...Good to see you back again, Phil. This is a very interesting post. I like the triptych best of all - you can't beat a bit of haar. Mention of Malcolm Thomson took me back a bit. As a judge, he once described some prints of mine in a Dundee Photographic Society competition as "enlarged beyond their resolution" or something similar. They were 8x12 prints from 6x9 negs - or the equivalent of 6x4 prints from a 35mm neg! He never recovered in my eyes after that. :-)Bruce Robbinshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13888340033630703603noreply@blogger.com