Personal News
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Collecting Victorian Carte de Visite Photographs
What are cartes de visite and how to start a collection.
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Posies
I decided to make some posies of flowers out of a large arrangement that I have picked apart. They filled several small (and large) vases and I photographed the small bunches in the conservatory using natural light then added some textures to them to finish.
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Saddleworth Photo-walk…Early July
Looking for some different angles in a well photographed area in Saddleworth.
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Victorian Giants, the birth of art photography
Although I already had the book of the same name, which accompanies the exhibition, there is absolutely nothing to compare with being in the presence of the actual photographs by mid 19th century greats, Lewis Carroll, Julia Margaret Cameron, Oscar Rejlander, and Clementina Hawarden.
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A Victorian Society – Now available from Amazon
My new book, ” A Victorian Society” is now available to buy from Amazon UK, EU and USA (UK price is £15). It’s a strange feeling to have such a major work in print. I’ve published books before but nothing on this scale. Whilst the book is local history in content, it has a lot of information about Victorian society in general and the world of photography and photographic societies in particular, so I believe that it will be interesting to a wider range of readers than just those with an interest in Oldham. I hope so anyway! Price £15 Product details Paperback: 326 pages Language: English ISBN-10: 1545379858 ISBN-13: 978-1545379851 Product…