Articles by Mikeinlagardette

I need to have further surgery for an ongoing digestive illness, so I will not be able to add any more photos for a few weeks, but of course, I shall continue to look at all the inspirational images from my many friends and aquaintances on Ipernity whilst I'm recovering! It's nice to be able to do this in a more relaxed manner than was the case last year, when I suddenly disappeared without trace for four months! I have several nascent ideas for little photographic projects to think about, an…

I have recently spent a little time using a point and shoot digital camera, and trying out some of the software options that are associated with this sort of photography, and I got to thinking about what would happen if the same, or similar, processes were applied to a silver image, - a kind of "imitation digital", - the opposite of "imitation film" ! Of course, to do this properly would need an exceptional negative to start with, but just for fun, I used a recent image of a friends car, take…

Once more, I have been away from Ipernity for quite a long time, for all sorts of different reasons, mostly concerned with health issues, but during that time I have continued to amuse myself with photography, and of course, I have often looked at Ipernity for inspiration and ideas, and I have also had the time to think about why I still make pictures, and what my expectations are, so here are a few thoughts that have crossed my mind! I am slowly beginning to realise that one of the aspects o…

Firstly, my apologies for any unanswered mail, or unacknowledged comments. I have been in hospital since December 22, when I suffered a severe attack of pancreatitis, a truly agonising experience. I spent ten days in the local hospital in Gueret, and, the pain gone, and eating normally, I returned home, but sadly, the following day, suffered another attack, this time even more severe. I returned to hospital in Gueret, but after some days I was transferred to the intensive care unit of the U…

As my sixtyninth year draws to a close, I need to get a grip on my terrible habit of recklessly acquiring cameras, and even reverse the trend. We shall see!

The pleasures of using consumer level cameras!

The changes that have occurred at Flickr have prompted my migration here, together with many others, it seems, and it's nice to find myself among friends again! With a new environment, one always thinks of the possibilities of doing things in other ways, and the internet is no different , so although I initially thought that I would transfer all my Flickr stuff here, and I did transfer one block of pictures, using the Greasemonkey script, I am now considering importing only those images that…