Black and White

Just scanned in the negatives of my first black and white roll shot on the Agfa Optima-Parat. I've stuck a selection of the photos up on my Flickr site, generally I'm really pleased with the results. I think because of it being black and white I considered the composition a bit more than I would usually, or at least I did until the booze kicked in – well, it was a bank holiday!

Home Baking

My latest t-shirt design has just gone live on Teepay. It's different to my first two designs in that it's been fully drawn by hand. It's been donkey's years since I've tried to draw anything at all so it was nice to have a little go at it again (could still do with some more practice though!).

Teepay Three was not to be

This was due to be my third Teepay t-shirt design but it was rejected. The email you get back is a bit vague so I don't really know why. I don't think it breaches any copyright but I did a quick google search afterwards and there is a band on MySpace called Mild Horses so maybe that was it? Or maybe they just objected to the idea of straw boater wearing horses smoking pipes?


I have just submitted another design instead based on a strange mixture of old anti-piracy warning and muffins, fingers crossed I have better luck with this one...

Teepay Two

Fired up with enthusiasm after my first t-shirt design for teepay.com I've gone ahead with another couple. Here's my second attempt, on a similar theme to the first. The sales for both t-shirts are currently at zero so I've set myself a pretty easy target to beat!

Teepay

A couple of days ago I was sat on the toilet flicking through the new Howies catalogue – after all, where else is a man meant to do his reading? In amongst the clothes and some great photos of China which made me a bit jealous, I saw a simple spread for something called teepay.com. I could try and explain what it is in my normal laborious manner, but instead I'll copy the text of their ad:

How it works
You create your own design
You upload it
We tell everyone about teepay
You tell everyone about your design on teepay
It's our platform
It's your business
When you sell your design, we pay you a royaltee

So right now I'm on stage 4, telling everyone about my design on teepay. Once a design has received a minimum of 50 orders it goes into production and the designer (me!) gets 10% / £2.50 of each shirt sold, hurrah!

I've got another design waiting to be approved and go live and a few more ideas written down on a scrap of paper which may yet see the light of day. I have a feeling I may not be able to retire on the proceeds just yet, but if nothing else it gives me yet another excuse to be designing stuff which can't be bad?

Neon Neon

I've just had a couple of films come back that I shot with my Agfa Optima-Parat over the last few weeks. I've added a smallish selection to my Flickr page. Enjoy.

New Old Camera (Part 3)

Over the weekend I scanned in the negatives of the second and third films I shot using my Agfa Optima-Parat. As it's a half-frame camera, the negatives are half the size of a standard 35mm camera. This means that when the negatives are scanned you get two exposures in one go which can lead to some interesting juxtapositions:


Overall I'm really chuffed with the results, tonally the shots have a real warmth to them and I've been really impressed with how well the camera works in low light. There's a selection of shots on my Flickr site.