Guernsey Salon of Photography

Some good news - for me anyway - arrived today in the mail today, in the form of a CD from the Guernsey Salon of Photography. One of my images had been accepted for the 2009 Salon,  and the CD contained the results and acceptances for this Salon. My image is "Richmond Park in Winter", which (at the time of posting) is up on the banner to this blog. It's also in my FLICKR photostream - you can click on the link to my photostream in this blog - the image is a few pages in, and its called "Richmond Park in Winter #1" there. The CD also contained a slideshow of the accepted images and mine included also !

Fourth Plinth, continued ....

Passed through Trafalgar Square the other day for the first time since the "One and Other" project on the Fourth Plinth had closed (in mid October). I had heard that a new statue was in place there and I was curious to see it.

A new statue has indeed been placed there - of Sir Keith Park, a World War 2 RAF hero. It's larger than life size, made from fibreglass and should be in place for 6 months (until next April ? It was unveiled early November 2009). It has had some mixed reviews, but then so did the previous project, One and Other, and so will, probably, the next, whatever that will be.

The green coloured One and Other production studio (along with the 2 bright yellow cherry picker type vehicles) have also long since been removed from the Square, giving it back some space.

Points of View

Spent this afternoon at the "Points of View - Capturing the 19th Century in Photographs" in the British Library near St Pancras Station in London. The exhibition covers the early years of photography drawing from the Library's collections. Hardly surprising (and rightly so) that Fox Talbot features heavily.

The exhibits finish in the 1st decade of the last century, catching up to Kodak's box camera et al, so colour photography is still some way off, never mind digital.
Quite a few cameras as well as photographs are on display and compared to today's offerings the cameras look big, bulky and heavy. Coupled with long exposure times its aamazing that the photographers achieved the results they did. I liked the display on the cartes de visite - this were very popular in the mid 1800's.

The exhibition runs until March 7th, 2010, and is well worth a visit. Better yet it is free.