Sunset

A spectacular sunset tonight.

Reflective Mood

Today would have been my late wife birthday. Day off work and I went down to Whitstable. Had fish and chips, but so busy I came home.

Warm night

Weather has really warmed up today. Not that it's been cold, but it's summer heat now.

Travelling

Pictures from the start of my day and the end.

Sunny morning Stratford

Easy run into work this morning, so some pictures around Stratford.

Upnor

For many reasons I missed a post yesterday. Today I had a drive down to Upnor on the river Medway.

Another Sunset. (Must do better)

Work has been emotionally draining so pictures are a bit mundane.

Sunset

Afraid the pictures are a bit rushed and mundane at the moment. Restarting work has been hard and stressful, so simple pics just to keep things going.

A thunderhead of judgment

The thunder clouds have been looming in the sky recently.

Stratford

Well back in the same old, same old, But with a new twist.

Sunset skyline

The view from my attic.

Back to Work Today.

After nearly 11 months I'm back in work.

After the Shower

Beautiful day before the thunder shower rolled in, and then out again.

Around town

Had to do a trip to the bank this morning, so dod some pictures at the same time.

Acer and Fern

Love the colour and shape contrasts between the leaves of these plants.

Editing

Started going through some of my boxes of transparencies. First cull is of the real rubbish. This has removed 75% of the images. Next will be a cross check against the images I have in hangers. It may be that I have master versions already saved. therefore this remains ng 25% may also be culled by 75%. No idea how many images I have looked at, but a box of mounted slides in boxes is 1000 images approximately, un mounted in sleeves possibly 2+ times that many.

Tuesday Beer run

It's Tuesday so a walk to town for my beer. Then a leisurely walk home.

Arcanthus

Visit to a friend today.

Bread

Got to see daughter for first time in nearly 5 months.

Took a homemade loaf.

Archives and Space

One of things I'm starting to look is my photo archive.

Having photographs that I have shot, going back more than 50 years, plus all the family archives that now stretch back well over a hundred years I am running into a problem of space and what to do about the future.

It is hard to count how much I have but at a very conservative guess over three quarters of a million images.

It was brought home to me strongly today when I opened an archive box. The contents are over 5000 slides that are spares from early shoots.

No idea what exactly is here. Many will go straight out but even a quick check shows there are lots of pictures of the family, houses and cars that I don't have anywhere else. 

I also tried to do a list of how many different formats I have stored. At a rough count I recon that there are nearly 80 different film formats counting, colour and B+W and slides. Plus all the polaroid formats. Ranging in size from 110 to 10"x8". Plus digital and some video and a bit of audio. 

Yellow Lines

A couple of shots from my beer run this week.

Beach Huts

Beach huts at St Margarets bay

Deal Pier

The cafe at the end of the pier at Deal.