So another day, passes, as we await to hear what’s going to happen in the case of insolvency in my friends’ business. I am sure everything will come out in the wash, but in the background, we are all making plans to ‘rebrand’ the business and begin again from fresh. The machines go next week, and then its crunch time. The lab must close, and the retail area must be refitted, and then we can relaunch their business as the “www.i-printroom.co.uk” in a matter of weeks (hopefully). Its a case of people asking me, why am I so involved in this, well its simple. I know that if that was my business and I needed help, and if someone was prepared to give their time and advice, I’d happily take what I could get in my time of need. I guess between us, we have all the answers and we can turn it around.

People we need to print more, we need to ‘go retro’ and start printing again, the more I think about it the more I realise where I’ve gone wrong for the last few years.

I had a bunch of 12×18’s printed last week, I laid them on the floor last weekend, and I loved every minute of it, digesting the images with my eyes, I will never tire of it. I feel like a preacher right here right now, and I don’t mean to sound that way, but I am passionate about this. Nothing beats a good quality print, trust me, get one done, or two and tell me I’m wrong, be careful where you go though, please don’t use a supermarket. Search out your Lab, the one with the closing down sign in the window, and give them a chance….

Oh and tonights’ image, well the image was really a response to one of Daves’ shots, and was my slightly crude attempt at this shot….. csj

• taken|30/03/2008 09:50
• camera|Canon EOS 20D
• lens|17 – 40mm L
• focal length|25mm
• aperture|f/9
• shutter speed|1/160 sec
• shooting mode|Program
• exposure bias|0
• metering mode|pattern
• iso|200
• flash fired|no
• image quality|RAW
• raw converter|Photoshop CS2
• cropped|3×2