Adam Tinworth

The news... it's so predictable these days

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Do I really want to return to journalism? ;-)

Looking Over, Looking Up

Looking over

Looking up

A couple of images from a stroll around the Wandsworth area of London with my brother and nephew…

Open The Work Pod Bay Door, Hal

Immersive Cocoon "2011" | 1080HD from adNAU on Vimeo.

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I love the homage to 2001: A Space Odyssey, but I'm not sure I could ever see myself working in one of these.

The things you find while scanning…

Students: always classy

Believe it or not, this is one of the tamer images that's just passed through my scanner. This is, I believe, the QMW Students Union Rag Orgy in 1994. So, it was all in a good cause, if not in good taste…

A photographic method and a career, in the rear view mirror

Portrait of the blogger as a young hack

I've been scanning again. One of my redundancy resolutions has been to use my sudden increase in available free time to catch up on some projects, including the digitisation of my own magatives and old family photos. 

The image to the right comes from a set of negatives I shot as a university student - probably in the spring of 1993, although exact dating is hard. I'm not quite sure who took the photo of me above - but I do know they took it with my camera.

The thing that has really struck me about this film in particular is how darn grainy it is. Honestly, I'm not sure if that's an inherent characteristic of the film - Ilford HP5 Plus - or some poor darkroom discipline on my part, effectively "push processing" shots that didn't need it. 

Or, am I now so used to using digital photography (which I've been doing since late 2001) that I've forgotten how much grain was an inherent quality of silver halide photos? I suspect the coming weeks of scanning will answer that question one way or another.

The other thought that occured to me was that, as these photos from the student magazine office remind me, I'm not involved in the production of a journalistic periodical in any way for the first time since probably 1987. School magazines, student newspapers, my professional journalistic career… It's been over two decades of continuous involvement brought to an abrupt end by redundancy.

And you know what? I'm amazed by how little it's affected me. Perhaps sometime in the last year I passed the point where I'm truly more a blogger - an online content afficicnado - than a journalist.

Where does that take me next?

 

Christmas Dinner in progress…

2011: you won't be missed…

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Mad, strange year. I'm hoping for a better 2012…

I am Captain Scrumpy: official

@newsmary @adders Bonus points AND 'Captain Scrumpy' ranking!

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A Bajan Lunch

In the last few days of my holiday. Should be back and posting soon…

The BBC's wholesale ripping exercise…

You may have read in the past week that the BBC is in the process of digitising it's entire radio archive with a view to putting the whole thing on-line, which is pretty amazing. 

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Really? Uh, wow.

Apparently it is true. Exciting stuff.