Topic: Street photography in UK vs. Wetplate camera

[Francois]

Take an old Wet plate camera to the streets of London and this is what you get
http://www.mymodernmet.com/profiles/blogs/jonathan-keys-collodion-wet-plate-photos?context=tag-photo

[AJShepherd]

*cough* Newcastle!

[Francois]

Sorry... I must have skipped that part... 

[KevinAllan]

Yes, that is my home town - Newcastle.
I've not met the photographer yet but he is co-organiser of a photography festival in Newcastle later this year, so I may get to meet him then :

http://newphotofest.com/

[charles binns]

I spent 3 very happy years as a student in Newcastle between 84 and 87.

Thursday was nurses night at the Stage Door, Friday neet in the Big Market or doon the Level 2 disco in the union, Saturday neet student parties in Fenham or (if we were feeling posh) in West Jesmond.  Happy days.  The bottles of dog, the tabs and the kebabs, watching the locals fight and the girls wearing next to nothing even though it was -5 in winter.  I loved the city, if only I'd had my holga back then.

Francois, I suspect you have committed as mortal a sin as an Englishman mistaking Quebec for British Columbia (or vice versa).  I'd steer clear of the Tuxedo Princess for a while if I was you though.

[Indofunk]

This is a list of the words/terms in this post that I don't understand, although English (Americanish?) is my first language:

nurses night
neet
doon
bottles of dog
tabs
Tuxedo Princess

[Francois]

Francois, I suspect you have committed as mortal a sin as an Englishman mistaking Quebec for British Columbia (or vice versa).  I'd steer clear of the Tuxedo Princess for a while if I was you though.

I know... We have the same thing in the province itself!
There's a small town who's main street has been the divide between two regions for at least a hundred years. It all started when the clergy decided to put the church on one side of the street rather than the other. The other half of the town was so p***** off that they became protestant so that they could have their own church on their own side of the street!

[charles binns]

This is a list of the words/terms in this post that I don't understand, although English (Americanish?) is my first language:

nurses night
neet
doon
bottles of dog
tabs
Tuxedo Princess

Why Aye man!! Learn yersel Geordie!!

Nurses night = a couple of hundred drunken Geordie nurses.  In other words, carnage
neet =  night
doon= down
bottles of dog = bottles of Newcastle Brown Ale, the local intoxicant.
tabs = cigarettes
Tuxedo Princess = a liner converted into a nightclub moored in Newcastle city centre.  It had a revolving dance floor and was usually filled with a couple of hundred drunken Geordie girls.  In other words, carnage.

[Indofunk]

This is a list of the words/terms in this post that I'm pretty sure I know exactly what you mean

carnage

[charles binns]

This is a list of the words/terms in this post that I'm pretty sure I know exactly what you mean

carnage

Like I said, happy days!!!   

[KevinAllan]

Tuxedo Princess = a liner converted into a nightclub moored in Newcastle city centre.  It had a revolving dance floor and was usually filled with a couple of hundred drunken Geordie girls.  In other words, carnage.

Tuxedo Princess has been gone a few years now. I should point out that some residents of Newcastle are very civilised ...