Reflection # 8

A reflection makes an interesting image in its own right
without the need to reveal the subject that made it,
often producing an abstract far removed from the original.

The photograph above was made just before sunset on the
River Stour, Dorset.

© 2006

Rust...

The image is of the stern section of a long abandoned boat
that I came across whilst bumbling around on the shore
line of Poole harbour, Dorset. It's part of a 'dereliction'
set of images I have been assembling for my LRPS. 
© 2006

Mill pond...

A long over-due project has finally got under way. I've wanted
to start a reflections gallery for some time, but never seemed to
get around to it. I had made a start earlier this year while I was
still shooting on film, but the clowns at my local lab lost the film
(not for the first time, either). The image included here is of a
local water mill photographed in early evening.

As of Thurday evening the fault on my phone line has still not
been rectified by the Telecom company I subscribe to. I've
made 4 calls to them since Sunday, and each time they've promised
me "It will be corrected in the next 24 hours". Obviously they can't
count, except when it comes to sending out bills.

© 2006

Ah, normal service seems to be resumed...

16 weeks ago, my local beaches had 1.1million cubic metres
of sand dredged up and pumped ashore in a replenishment
program. Today, I see the sand being removed to allow 
maintenance of the Groynes. Why couldn't this work have been
performed before the pumping started and the woodwork
was already exposed? More burden on the tax payer, no doubt.
Local councils in action. You can't beat it, can you?

© 2006

Normal service will be resumed...

British Telecom (bless their cotton socks) inform me that there
is a fault on my line due to re-wiring, so my computer will
not hold an internet connection. This is preventing me from
making posts. They say it will be another 24 hours before
my phone stops barking at me. Why wasn't I informed that
this maintenance was going to take place? So long as they have
my money, eh?
  

The rural post box...

Surprisingly, despite the failure of my camera earlier this week, 
the images on the memory card survived.
The image of the rural post box was made at the start of an
ongoing project to record man-made artifacts of the countryside to which we barely give a second glance.

Location: Knowlton, Dorset
© 2006 

The saga ends...

Today, just 67 hours after I returned the said Nikon D200, I received a new replacement from the good people of Warehouse Express (www.warehouseexpress.com). This, in my opinion, is first class service. OK, the camera was only 3 weeks old, and they could have made me wait whilst a Nikon service centre gave it the 'once-over', but no, their response was immediate and effective.
In this day and age service like this deserves a mention.

So, the saga begins...

Three weeks to the day, it lasted. The camera has been returned via Royal Mail special delivery to the dealer at 2:35pm. Up to now, the e-mail I sent last night outlining the fault has still gone un-answered, so a brief phone call to the company clarified the procedure for the return. They say it could take up to three weeks before it's been checked by the manufacture, repaired if possible, or a replacement delivered.
The customer is always the one who suffers. Maybe buying on-line is not all that's it cracked up to be.

Daily Grind

Daily Grind
Modern technology in action. The new digital camera (no names mentioned, for now) failed on me yesterday evening after only 3 weeks use. It just decided it had had enough, and would not work. I'd resisted the change to digital photography all this time, certain that film was giving me all that I needed, but I succumbed. For the time that the camera worked I was pleased with the way it handled, and the results I was getting, but how can I trust the technology now? Digital SLR's are jam-packed with electronics, just waiting for the right moment to give up the ghost.
I'd used a Nikon F5 for 4 years in all kinds of conditions and it didn't falter once, gave great images and was built like the proverbial...So, it's back to film for the foreseeable future whilst it gets sorted out. Maybe I'll just return to photography the old fashioned way.

Not happy.

90 years on...

90th anniversary of the Battle of the Somme

© 2006