I’m really pushed for time tonight. I’ve been racing around getting everything organized for next week’s private view, popping to and fro from work to check on the prints as they come off the line at the lab.

Because of the rush, tonight is a “raid the archive” entry. It sits nicely alongside a previous post from the same series (archives/0004191201_clean.php). Both of these are from way back when I used to spend hours ‘under the darkcloth’, huddled at the back of a Sinar large format 5×4 camera, peering through the plate glass at my subject. That all seems like a lifetime ago now, but I still hold some incredibly fond memories of those days.

There is no EXIF data included for this image because it was essentially a copy job. To be totally honest, it was built up from so many different images and layers in post-production that it simply wouldn’t be fair or accurate to list a single set of camera settings. If you have a specific query about how the final composite was achieved, though, just drop a comment and I’m more than happy to tell all!

Finally, tonight is the absolute deadline for the Blog Book entries and choices to be made. Putting this book together will be my main focus over the next eight weeks or so. A massive thank you to everyone who took the time to vote. There were hundreds of choices made, and interestingly, about a third of them were “no” votes—which, for me, are equally as important in shaping the final edit. Thanks again, everyone… csj