Things have definately taken a turn towards slowing down, October was not great and November is looking broadly similar at the moment, although with a couple of bonus shoots which should lift things (and will probably invoice a bit late so that I get a little bit of a lift in January whilst hoping that the market wakes up early!)
So… plans for the slow times… shooting more film, shooting more art and working on the craft of printing and mounting are on the cards. I fancy doing my own framing eventually too… but I am short on space just now! There are a few things I still need for my darkroom before I can get into full scale, high end, production though - a print washer would be handy which washes vertically to really allow me to get the prints right. I need some drying screens for the fibre paper to try and keep them flat(tish) during dry down and a single large tray for toning. Once that is all set up then I really want to get some archival mounting supplies and a mount board cutter to bring that in house too… and perhaps eventually when we have an outside workshop area… I may even do my own framing. But for now I think buying in custom made frames is probably the easiest route to take!
I have plans… I just need to put them in motion!
But today… today I am utterly exhausted. No idea why, I may be fighting off a bit of a bug (Angus was not so well last week… it may be related). Unfortunately it doesn’t look like a hugely relaxing weekend coming up, and next weekend I will have had a load of Ikea storeage furniture delivered that will need put up! The first stage in that plan… I need some more yet for both the darkroom bits and bobs and also some better camera storeage (which I think will be some wall mounted cabinets in the office.
The road repairs are entering the final phase too so hopefully we can start getting the huts moving again soon, plus fibre broadband will be heading up the hill - the rest of this year is falling into a preparations for 2027 I think - with hopefully enough work coming in to keep the wolf from the door!
13th November 2026
