Working on old negative scans does make me miss the grain and texture of film photography - but I really don’t have the time to indulge in it any more.

Sunday adulting. 🌷

Fascinating how much cars date photos, even after “just” 15 years.

Big fan of the Extinction Rebellion art style.

The guest WiFi at Twitter UK’s pretty good…

Easter egg hunt 🐣

And here’s the final image of Adam, a sculpture at the Eden Project, shot back in Spring 2004.

There was a lot of construction work still happened at the Eden Project back in 2004. I loved these art plants that part screened the construction. Nice hard hat fruit.

Eden Project, 14th April 2004

Ah, my weekend reading is here.

Woe betide any pony that fails to perform to the expectations of Iris.

May not have thought relative mug and scanner positioning through properly…

My coffee mug being knocked by my film scanner

Wow. Early 2010s-era One Man & His Blog. In many ways, the “classic” era of the site…

One Man & His Blog in 2011

Something my daughters will never do…

A negative packet, with promos for Boots' reprints service

Bittersweet memories of 1999

Scanning colour negatives in Vuescan on a Mac.

Wow.

The current batch of negatives I’m scanning right now really capture a moment in time. They must be from 1999, one of the more significant years in my life - and 20 years ago, almost exactly.

The first few photographs are of the woman who was soon to be my ex-girlfriend in the flat we shared (and, honestly, the coming storm was written all over her face in those images), while the next batch were of a party at the flat of the woman who is now my wife.

Those really were a few months that changed my life forever, and in ways that were only good.

However, the deep sadness is that one person in those images is no longer with us, passing too, too young.

Plenty of pain in those images and the memories they evoke - but also joy. I wouldn’t surrender either.

Spring appears to have arrived in our garden.

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10 Mothers’ Day without you, Mum. Still missing you.

Thought for the day:

Sign sayin that coffee and denial are coping strategies some days, outside Ginger & Dobbs in Shoreham-by-Sea

Just spent 8 hours in this room with a great bunch of journalists and communication pros, talking editorial analytics. I really enjoyed it. I hope they did, too.

The Southwark Room at The Bridge after a day's training.

Hello.

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