ARCHIVE AT 600

 

 

Shop window mannequin: Truro, Cornwall; 15 Sept 2011.

(Clicking onto any image here will open a larger version in a separate window – particularly recommended for the 3rd image, the flowering Blackthorn).

After nearly 10 years of FATman Photos, the Archive series has now reached 600 posts.  In the “early days” I can remember some surprise that I was posting images for a second time but, to me, this is fine so long as a reasonable interval has passed since the previous posting – after all, few want to see the same picture reposted in rapid succession.  To ensure that such rapid reposting does not occur (and as perhaps the single positive spin off from my 20 OMG!!! years in data analysis), I log the date of each posting onto an Excel spreadsheet, which gives me instant feedback.  The photos used in each post are stored in their own separate folder on my PC and backups, so that relocating them is never a problem.

There is also the important point that reposting of early images makes them easily accessible to recent followers of my blog who may otherwise never see them at all.

I am also posting two more specialised Archives now.  One (nearly completed) presents film images, taken in Kenya from 1977 to 1989.  And the other (which also includes some new images) looks at cars in a range of ways.  Another specialised archive, on the Somerset Levels – one of the loves of my life – is planned.

Due to the dangers and restrictions of the covid pandemic, I’m not taking so many new photos at present, but I have found the compact Olympus TG-5 camera very easy to carry in my pocket while out walking the streets for exercise – most of these photos from these walks can be found in the Outer Suburbs series.
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Windblown poppy; Newquay, Cornwall; 11 Sept 2013.

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Flowering Blackthorn (aka Sloe) at the bottom of our garden; 14 Apr 2010 (best viewed enlarged).

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Geoff was a good friend and neighbour who each summer gave us fruit and vegetables from his immaculately kept garden.  Here is one of his delicious apples.  I post this with sadness because Geoff died sometime back, and we no longer have the warm friendship and neighbourliness of this real English Gentleman of the old school –  nor his tasty fruit and veg.  27 Sept 2008.

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Saker, a falcon, at the International Centre for Birds of Prey, Newent, Gloucestershire; 2 July 2014.

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Quite early on a morning in spring, and Jack’s Drove, the road north across the Tadham and Tealham Moors, on the Somerset Levels, is blocked; 10 Apr 2014.  The jet black area that cuts horizontally through my shadow is the water-filled ditch that separates the rough pasture of the field at the top of the frame from the road on which I’m standing. 

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