Karl: I love your photo of the boat's silhouette. Outstanding stuff. I spend a bit of time down near the docks at Dover and often see a version of your photo as I look across The Channel and watch the ferries while my kids are paddling in the sea or walking on the shore. Occasionally I have a camera in hand and attempt a snap, but rarely do they have the same impact as yours. Lovely stuff.
Vicky: The Maisie photo is exacty my kind of thing. Bravo! I love the grain and the contrast....and the subject and the composition
I used to enjoy attemptingthe same type of treatment (albeit not so close in) with my kids before I temporarily phased out b/w in an effort to reclaim my life for a year or two (hence the recent 'all Polaroid' output).
There was guy whose work I used to follow online - I think his name is John Perkinson (?) - because he took the most beautiful pictures of his daughters. I stumbled across him when my own daughter was under a year old and his photos made me want her to become 7 or 8 overnight. I get the same sort of excitement from seeing your photos of Maisie. My daughter's 5 in a few weeks...and now I want her to be a whole lot older again so I can take photos of her like you would
All in good time.
In the meantime, here are some blasts from the past for illustration purposes (the first two are my daughter, Amy, the last one is her cousin, Emily). Film is either Tri-X 400 or Tasma 100 and the dev is probably Rodinal.
