And very good it is too!

Jack's chat with former lifeboat coxswain & current crewman Tony is like a warm hug on a winter's evening 😊⬇️

https://toot.community/@jacklowe/109536639784439439

@jacklowe
@lsp

#LifeboatStationProject
#RNLI
#audio

Cuppa with a Coxswain: a link to the 5 minute preview of the recording I just boosted — a moment’s gentle listening to see the weekend out:

https://jacklowe.bandcamp.com/track/cuppa-with-a-coxswain-tony-cowell-fleetwood-rnli-preview

#LifeboatStationProject #RNLI #FieldRecording #Bandcamp #audio

I've just published a 5 minute preview of my conversation with former Fleetwood RNLI Coxswain Tony Cowell on the project's Audio page.

Listen to it here in the 'Featured Previews' section, along with many other sonic treats...

https://lifeboatstationproject.com/audio/

...or you can listen on #Bandcamp here:

https://jacklowe.bandcamp.com/track/cuppa-with-a-coxswain-tony-cowell-fleetwood-rnli-preview

#LifeboatStationProject #RNLI #FieldRecording #audio

I wrote the last newsletter of 2022 for my patrons yesterday, featuring a conversation I recorded with Tony Cowell, former Fleetwood RNLI Coxswain (and current crew) — now available in the Members’ Area.

Time for the last public newsletter shortly too...signup here if you’d like to receive it:

https://lifeboatstationproject.com/newsletter/

#LifeboatStationProject #RNLI #FieldRecording #audio #photography

Great moody colours over Holyhead Breakwater today. The longest breakwater in the UK, at 1.7miles long.

It was also the setting for the lifeboat crew's portrait made by @jacklowe in April 2019, as part of the epic @lsp

#photography
#coast
#LifeboatStationProject
#lifeboats
#wetplatecollodion
#RNLI
#Anglesey
#Holyhead

"That’s really powerful stuff. You don’t realise what’s around you until you sit and listen. It’s my environment every day, and I suppose you don’t realise how interesting it can be.”

~ Paul Heavyside, Barrow RNLI Lifeboat Station Mechanic, reflecting on my latest blog post:

https://lifeboatstationproject.com/2022/12/04/barrow-slipway-sounds/

Pictured below is the #WetCollodion portrait on 12x10 inch glass, which we made together in April.

#LifeboatStationProject #RNLI #photography #MastoArt

High Tide at Barrow: I’d normally make a post like this available to my patrons but life’s so noisy and topsy-turvy at the moment, I figured we could all do with some gentle coastal escapism.

So, this 20 minute recording is publicly available for everyone to enjoy.

Read on for a little more background behind its creation:

https://lifeboatstationproject.com/2022/12/04/barrow-slipway-sounds/

#LifeboatStationProject #RNLI #Cumbria #WetCollodion #SoundCloud #FieldRecording #soundscape #audio #photography #escapism #meditation

In 2018, I had a chat with retired Dover RNLI Coxswain Tony Hawkins about a very unusual call for the Dover lifeboat — the rescue of passengers from the Princess Margaret SRN4 Cross Channel hovercraft following a fatal collision with the harbour wall on 30th March 1985.

Here' a 5 minute excerpt:

https://soundcloud.com/mrjacklowe/dover-tony-hawkins-preview

[Listen to the full 15 minute recording in the Members' Area of The LSP Society]

#LifeboatStationProject #RNLI #SoundCloud #Dover #SRN4 #hovercraft #audio #interview #maritime

Pictures within pictures: Did you know that #WetCollodion is still the highest resolution #photography process, even 171 years after its invention?

This means there are often pictures within pictures, things you wouldn’t have necessarily spotted with the naked eye.

For example, take this photograph I made in 2017 of the view from #Whitby #RNLI lifeboat station.

Look closely and you’ll see people on *two* benches in the crop. I wonder what they were chatting about.

#LifeboatStationProject

Pictures within pictures: Did you know that #WetCollodion is still the highest resolution photographic process, even 171 years after its invention?

This means that there are often pictures within pictures, things you wouldn’t have even spotted with the naked eye.

For example, take this photograph I made in 2017 of the view from #Whitby #RNLI lifeboat station.

Look closely and you’ll see people on *two* benches in the crop. I wonder what they were chatting about.

#LifeboatStationProject

@mariegardiner Wonderful! I’ve taken so many of Neena during nighttime pitstops in petrol stations over the years. Here’s one from 2020!

#LifeboatStationProject #Neenaspotting

Happy Sunday! Here’s a lovely calm portrait to see the weekend out.

This was one of the trickier plates to make on the project because my mobile darkroom was parked a fair way from the station, so I had to scurry through the cobbled alleyways.

Pictured: The women of Clovelly RNLI lifeboat station, Devon, UK, June 2015, 12x10 inch wet collodion positive on glass

#LifeboatStationProject #RNLI #Devon #Clovelly #WetPlate #WetCollodion #MastoArt #handmade #photography #maritime #coast #community

Proud as punch to be one of Megan McGurk’s guests in ‘Heroes of the Mersey’, the latest episode of the National Museums #Liverpool Podcast.

We covered a lot including:

#Selflessness, #courage, #community, beauty in the #utilitarian, #environment, the #ClimateCrisis, the #EconomicCrisis, #necessity and #kindness.

Have a listen (Megan introduces me around the 12m05s mark):

https://www.podbean.com/ew/pb-surcn-13220bf

#LifeboatStationProject #RNLI #Mersey #maritime #museum #photography #podcast

Proud as punch to have been one of Megan McGurk’s guests in ‘Heroes of the Mersey’, the latest episode of the National Museums Liverpool Podcast.

We covered a lot including:

#Selflessness, #courage, #community, beauty in the #utilitarian, #environment, the #ClimateCrisis, the #EconomicCrisis, #necessity and #kindness.

Have a listen (Megan introduces me around the 12m05s mark):

https://www.podbean.com/ew/pb-surcn-13220bf

#LifeboatStationProject #RNLI #Liverpool #Mersey #maritime #podcast

Proud as punch to have been one of Megan McGurk’s guests in ‘Heroes of the Mersey’, the latest episode of the National Museums Liverpool Podcast.

We covered a lot including:

#Selflessness, #courage, #community, farewells, beauty in the #utilitarian, #environment, the #ClimateCrisis, the #EconomicCrisis, #necessity and #kindness.

Have a listen (Megan introduces me around the 12m05s mark):

https://www.podbean.com/ew/pb-surcn-13220bf

#LifeboatStationProject #RNLI #Liverpool #Mersey #maritime

From lifeboat postcards to prints, all purchases really help to keep The Lifeboat Station Project afloat.

My creations are already heavily discounted at the hands of high inflation, so my prices will be staying the same this weekend and with the same great value as always!

https://lifeboatstationproject.com/shop/

#LifeboatStationProject #RNLI #BlackFriday #MastoArt #art

Really enjoyed giving an online talk to the Wilmslow Guild Photographic Society last night. This is what it looked like from my direction — to think this would have been a novelty as recently as three years ago!

From glass plates to audio recordings to giant posters to building a membership platform and app, it seems harder and harder to summarise the many layers of this coastal onion within the space of an hour or two but I think I just about manage it.

#LifeboatStationProject #RNLI #Zoom

May I politely request that you follow the sublime @lsp

No reason, other than it's an inspiring example of excellence, both from the creator and the subject matter ⚓️

Photography, audio, coast, community & courage. Century old camera, converted ambulance mobile darkroom. What's not to love?!

I was lucky enough to be part of the #LifeboatStationProject in 2019, and have stayed involved since. It's enhanced my life is so many ways.

If you like people, and stories, you'll love it.

Earlier this year, Sean Tucker made a short film about the project.

At 21 minutes long, it's a great #introduction to the unusual journey I've been on for the last few years and perhaps some welcome coastal escapism for you:

https://youtu.be/2U9AmYdomf0

#LifeboatStationProject #RNLI #SeanTucker #WetPlate #WetCollodion #lifeboat #documentary #project #photography

My first foray into the #Fediverse has been such a pleasure that I’ve now made a feed dedicated to my ongoing life’s work, The #LifeboatStationProject.

Please head to @lsp if you’d like to follow my coastal odyssey.

Pictured: Plymouth #RNLI Coxswains Dave Milford and Sean Marshall aboard the station’s Severn class all-weather lifeboat, wet collodion positive on 12x10 inch glass, March 2020

#LifeboatStationProject #RNLI #Plymouth #WetPlate #WetCollodion #portrait #photography #handmade