Similar to the previous lockdown in 2020, I have now started to run low on new photography to keep the blog going.
My response last year was to delve into the photography archive which resulted in a series of posts from a trip to Scotland in 2013. The process turned out to be an enjoyable one and an opportunity to reprocess old photographs using current processes/software. With a fresh eye, I found many images that I particularly liked that had been previous forgotten or overlooked. By placing them into the blog I now have a better record of the trip and subsequently I have made a personal book from the photographs.
With that good use of lockdown time in mind, I have started looking at images taken in January and February of previous years, starting with this selection from 2014.
The subject is the Library of Birmingham* who were kind enough to allow me to take some photographs shortly after they opened one morning. There were few people in the library which allowed me to explore the internal architecture without disturbing anyone. I used a small compact camera for all the shots and a relatively high ISO. As a result, I rejected many of the results at the time due to digital noise and some burnt out of the highlights e.g. the ceiling spotlights. Today, I am less fussy about these issues and prefer instead to concentrate on the compositions and the dynamic colours.
*Information about the building of the Library of Birmingham can be found here:
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