Have now completed the Affordable Arts Show in Wellington with success. Sold 6 wet-plate images from my South Coast Series. A great learning curve and would like to be back again next year.....Now have an exhibition at Quimzy Gallery in Leeds St, Wgtn from the 6th - 20th November. I'll be shooting new works for this show over the next few weeks and will add them to the site. For the AA Show we travelled to Ngawi on the Wairarapa coast, and over the whole weekend I managed to get one saleable image !! Apart from the rain and wind it was was amazing !! In all of the 35+ years that I've been diving, fishing and photographing this coast, that weekend has to be one of the roughest...the sea was an absolute turmoil, the foam was flying like snow and even with one huge rock on my wet-plate camera I was unable to keep it steady in the wind. This is what it is all about though....the grass-roots, on the spot capturing of a unique hand made image, compared to a quick snap digital image with Photo Shop enhancement that seems to be the way of the future.........( I do have a digital camera and totally agree that they are capable of amazing images and have a very important place in contemporary photography even if the "art" of actually producing the image has been lost....) But please someone, show me a digital camera that even after being covered in salt spray and knocked over by the wind will keep shooting images to the same degree of quality as the large format wet-plate camera will do......