Sending all the #FollowFriday energy to these #art and #photography accounts:

@ACo - director of @BNUStrasbourg

@blag - capturing #signpainting, signs as art

@mhaustria - expert on the #wetcollodion process #analogphotography

@ObsidianUrbex - #urbanexplorer who chronicles #abandonedplaces and decay

@thegraffitiexpress - #train #graffiti

#ff #mastoart

"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

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

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

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