Almost halfway through '09 and not a great deal of wet-plate to show for it !! Have been rather tied up with my fulltime job at Park Road so haven't shot half of the images I'd promised myself I would shoot. Coming up over the next couple of months is the NZ Affordable Arts Show ( I've been selected for an Single Artist's Wall again ) then a week later I'm off to New Plymouth for wet-plate demonstrations at Puke Ariki ( New Plymouth museum ) where my travelling darkroom cart will reside for the duration of the "Fixated" exhibition. I'm currently making a replica of a camera obscura for the exhibition. My friend and fellow wet-plate practitioner Wayne Pierce "The Company Photographer" from San Diego USA  will visit at the end of September for a few days which will be a memorable visit I'm sure !! Added to all of this, I'm still trying to get the house in Waitangi Rd finished......

My dear old Dad passed away at the end of February this year. A blessing in a way as he was totally disabled after suffering numerous strokes over the past few years. This didn't make it any easier for the family but we all know that he is at peace now and no longer suffers the torment and humiliation of total dependence on others. He kept his wicked wit through to the very end and will be sadly missed.

I'm always promising more images for the site and have added quite a few during the year but will try to add more, as I am now doing more Cyanotypes than previously and hope to get more wet-plate images on as well.....