Sheila's Splendid Photographic Studies

 At the start of 2023, I have arranged to put on an Exhibition to display a few of Sheila's prints. They will be in Gallery 4 Salisbury Library.

The show is in three sections 

1. her Fellowship panel 
2. her Associateship panel
3. and the rest - a variety of prints spanning a whole range of genres and techniques.

Below I put here some poor versions of her work.

Her Fellowship images. These were made in the Darkroom on Kentmere Document Art paper. 
The requirement for entry was 20 print panels. Sheila made 21 panels and some had 3 images. To produce them Sheila placed a piece of Doc Art Paper on the enlarger easel. Then with the negative focussed in the enlarger, she carefully balanced two L-shaped pieces of card around the image to vignette the result. Over the printing paper, she placed a used sheet of Bounce, used when Tumble drying, and tracing paper to diffuse the result. When exposing she only used half the time needed. Then removing the Diffusers to continue the exposure.

The print was then placed in standard developer, then in a stop bath and the normal fixer. It was washed thoroughly for the next stage. This was the Toning stage. The prints were immersed in a tray of Selenium toner, washed and transferred to a tray of a ferricyanide bleaching solution. The bleaching had to be carefully timed to expose the Selenium oxide layer beneath. This layer has a lovely reddish colour unique to this method. Getting them evenly toned was very tricky and it caused some headaches.

Her Associateship pictures below

Here are the other studies

I hope this page was enjoyable especially if you were unable to see the Exhibition for real. None of the images shown here is correct for colour or feel. Prints have qualities, unlike projected images. They are tangible and have textures you can feel.

Homington in Infra Red in Spri

 On 25th May 2021 early in the morning, I took a few photographs.
I add them here processed to get maximum contrast without losing highlight details.

More of Autumn 2022

Compton Chamberlayne walk

 On Thursday 21st October 2021 after a night of gales and very heavy rain Andy Croker and I ventured on a country walk around Compton Chamberlayne village. Sheila and I walked this route in 1998. I did not recall any of it.

The walk starts north of the village where we parked on the verge. We strolled into Compton in glorious warm sunshine. When got to the church we decided to look inside. I took various photos as below.

Siberian Iris

 

Using Paint 3D I was able to make this animated Siberian Iris video

Click on the White Triangle and 
then click on the Square at the bottom right to get a Full-Screen view.

 Back in 2002, Sheila began using a digital camera. Here are a few of her results of the centres of flowers. Her small Nikon camera was specially suited for these close up photos.

Below Eryngium and a Daffodil

Lily Pattern

 Sheila worked on a series of images using just one bloom of a lily plant in 2004.

A pattern made by Sheila in 2004 and never used.

Here she produced a Variation

This is Lily of Lagona.

Another Variation