Monday, July 15, 2013

and a fine old time was had by all

Just back from smelling the ether. Bit high and all that. Mr Gillanders was the man wielding the stuff as he explained and demonstrated the intransigences of Wet-plate-collodion photographising. It's really quite simple when you know how. Slosh some stuff on some tin, dip that in some silver stuff, stick it in the fancy camera and shoot. Then slosh in developer and fix and there you have an image - all lovely and everything. Then to finish one has to dry, coat with a special varnish and harden over  flame. Fantastic fun.

Lovely peoples there too as well as family Gillanders; John Maher, Murdo Macleod, Colin Myers, Toots Wilson and loads more. We even had a fine Model T ford van to look at - shoot. How good was that?

Meanwhile the summer continues. Here's two snaps I shot yesterday - you can tell it's summer because Eve only has three layers on.







2 comments:

Keith said...

that's not snow in the bottom snap, is it? If so you are having a worse summer than us in Canada . . .

Andrea Ingram said...

Well, it felt like it but no, just sand showing through the machair! :-)