Life Observed

Well here's an old one. This is a slide I took of the Kennet and Avon canal back in 1997, scanned with my DSLR and a macro lens. I am always surprised how poor my results were from film, compared to the modern super clean digital cameras with their comuter optimised lenses. Furthermore, the old 3x2 format of slide film seems strangely long and narrow after a few years with 4x3 format. This is part of the canal that leads to the Newbury marina: A place to tie up your boat and pop into town.

I like taking pictures. The actual process of seeing the image and capturing it in the way I wanted is endlessly fascinating. I put them on the web, and I print and display a few of them. I do not sort and catalogue my images exhaustively, that would take too much time. I used to use Photoshop Elements, with its slightly toy town interface, and that included an image catalogue section. In fact it was quite hard to escape its vice like grip, so I did attempt to sort and tag my images by date and context, but it was such a pain that I soon gave up. This cavalier attitude does come back to bite me now and then:  Here, for instance,  is a picture taken at Newbury Lock on the Kennet and Avon canal. This is located in the centre of the town and I have countless boring and conventional shots of it, but I wanted to show something different. So, here is my alternative take on it. Now I wanted to add another image I remember taking in the same place, something equall...