Friday, December 27, 2002

I wish the WEB existed 20 years ago!

Between 1975 and 1989 I formed a collection of photographs of megalithic sites around the British Isles. For several summers I travelled the British Isles taking black and white and colour photographs. The original idea was to follow the list from ‘Megalithic Sites’, Alexander Thom, OUP, 1967. Many of the photographs have been published over the years, but how I wish the Internet existed in those days. Well, in fact, I wish desktop / laptop computers were available then. I spent hours in the darkroom (I can smell the chemicals now) crafting beautiful black and white photographic prints, many were exhibited.

furthermore...

If computers and the internet had been available 20 years ago, I could have done these marvellous things:Paola Arosio and Diego Meozzi have crafted this fantastic site.Tom Bullock's CD-ROM When I look at these and other projects on the WEB, I'm intrigued that others have shared an obsession with me and travelled the same journey. I have this large collection of photographs, and I am now posting these up on a new 'photolog' that I call Megalithic Journey. The black and white photographs were taken with either a Mamiya 6cmx6cm or a Mamiya 6cmx4.5cm. The bromide prints (still in good condition) were scanned on a Microtek flatbed scanner. The colour photographs were taken as 35mm transparencies on a Rollieflex or Pentax and scanned to PhotoCD.