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Double exposure experiment – Kodak Box Brownie ii
I picked up the Kodak Box Brownie ii during the pandemic between lockdowns. Seeking to reconnect with the slow process of analogue photography, it took my gaze as I window-shopped on a local walk. Taking it slow and working with strictly defined limits suited my new understanding of time. Deep focus on my very local…
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Tintype photography and preservation
This past week, as an activity for my studies, I investigated one photographic process and I chose the tintype process. I now need a medium format camera as I just want to dive in and start taking tintype photos! The tintype was discovered by Adolphe Alexandre Martin, in France, 1853 and patented in the USA…
025 ~ Library Operations, 026 ~ Libraries for specific subjects, 060 ~ Associations, organisations & museums, 070 ~ News media, journalism & publishing, 306 ~ Culture & institutions, 370 ~ Education, 600 ~ Technology, 700 ~ Arts, 770 ~ Photography & computer art, 900 ~ History, 990 ~ History of other areas -
History of photography (The quick version)
I’ve been fascinated with photography since a very young child. My father was an avid photographer with a darkroom set up at home where he would develop photographs and experiment continuously. It’s no surprise that I developed the passion for photography and this later translated to teaching photography in a highschool a few years ago.…
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QR Codes
I just generated my first QR Code and there it is above. If you have a smartphone and have the app QRReader, you can scan the image above and it will take you…. well it will bring you back to here, my blog, as the link for this QR Code is my blog URL. The…
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Building a New Library in North Fitzroy
I met with Anne Horrigan-Dixon today, from Friends of the Library in North Fitzroy, to have a chat about future directions for Libraries. She is on the Design Reference Group of the North Fitzroy Community Hub and has been behind the campaign for a Library in North Fitzroy for the past 25 years. She showed…
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Celebrating Shaun Tan
I absolutely adore Shaun Tan and have been extremely excited about his recent successes. On the back of his Oscar win for the short animation based on his book The Lost Thing, he has just been awarded the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Prize. The second Australian to be awarded this prestigious prize in the last five…
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What’s in a Name?
Officially I haven’t started. My course does not begin until the end of February. However, I do have my subject outlines and assessments available…. Therefore, PrePrint the blog. What’s in a name? That which we call a rose Would smell as sweet by any other name. The naming of a blog is a task in…