Twitter Part 3.

One Phil Adams (of Blonde) and family are now proud owners of one of my Shadow Nudes. Phil won the print in the raffle run as part of the recent Twestival here in Edinburgh which raised £3500 for CHARITY:WATER. Enjoy it Phil.
The total raised from the Global Twestival stands at $250,000 USD on 18 February 2009 - confirmation from over 80 cities is still pending. Not bad for something conceived and delivered in just one month.
And what's this? A photographers blog page without a photo? That's a first.

Twitter or Twestival part 1

You'll have been stuck in a jungle somewhere or you'll have heard of TWITTER. It's one of the simplest and greatest of the Social Networking devices currently available. And at less than 3 years old it is having it's first global festival or TWESTIVAL next Thursday, 12th Feb, 2009. Moving from the virtual to the real, faces behind the avatars will meet and greet in person at over 175 different venues throughout the world and all in aid of CHARITY:WATER.
In Edinburgh it's happening at 19:00 at Hawke and Hunter, 12 Picardy Place, Edinburgh EH1 3JT.
And one part of the evening is an auction that I've been persuaded to contribute to. So if you want a print from my Shadow series (normally £150 at Bohemia, Dundas Street, Edinburgh) get on down there.
(Further images and info on next post).

Twitter or Twestival part 2

Here's what Bohemia Design have to say about me and the images:
This series of archival quality limited edition prints are made on a heavyweight watercolour paper with natural pigment inks.
An elegant play of light, form & shadow in gorgeous rich tones describe the enduring mystery of the female figure.

Brendan MacNeill is a graduate of London Central Polytechnic & now works from his studio based in Leith, Edinburgh.
With a portfolio of portraits which include David Bailey, Terence Conran, Mohammed al Fayed, Jimmy Boyle, Hugh Collins, Carol Smillie & Murial Gray, MacNeill's photographic skills are in constant demand. He shoots for a wide range of clients across the editorial & design industries.

Limited Edition of 25 copies

Image size: 53cm x38cm
Paper size: 61cm x 43cm

Supplied unframed

Printer's darkrooms

The digital revolution has certainly given us all a huge degree of added freedom along with a bigger and more complex workload. And just as the hot metal boys disappeared from Fleet Street (and Albion Street if you're going all Weegee) in favour of digital type setting, so too the darkroom giants are fast disappearing.
And to document these usually unseen working spaces Richard Nicholson has managed to gain access to many of the unique and personal spaces of top London printers to produce 'Last One Out, Please Turn On The Light'. Worth a look if you've too young to have been in one or you want to invoke the smell of hypo again. Featured here is Debbie Sears enlarger at Metro in Clerkenwell. And no that's not an early AppleMac.
And talking of another Weegee... he worked in 30's and 40's New York shooting crime scenes and victims and the dead. Frequently arriving before even the police (he had permission to listen in on their frequency) he shot fast with a handheld 5x4 inch camera and processed the film in his car as he drove back to the paper. Who needs digital?
Thanks again to JM Colberg at Conscientious - always available on the sidebar.

Remembering summer

Sitting in a drafty studio I started to dream of summer. And to remind myself of what I'd shot when I last wore a pair of shorts I hit Apple+F and found these timelapse movies. All a little over crunched by Bloggers processing they nevertheless make me yearn for a bit of heat. And the forecast? More snow!

FEBRUARY

That's January gone then!