Time-Zero…
I thought I would share these. They were taken on an old but beautifully made Polaroid SLR SX-70 land camera and Polaroid Time-Zero film. The beauty about the process was that after the image developed there was a window of an hour or so to manipulate the emulsion under…
New Year, new name…
Salty Dog Picture Library is born… After several years I’ve decided to re-brand my picture library, from now on it will be known as Salty Dog Picture Library or www.saltydogpictures.com Why Salty dog? it’s the product of a thought shower (apparently it’s illegal to say brain storm in the uk, seriously google it) with my…
100 years in the making…
And I don’t mean blog updates! RMS Titanic is probably the most famous ship in the world, everyone knows the story. What a lot of people don’t realise (Irish people know this, I hope!) is she was built in the industrial powerhouse that was Belfast, Northern Ireland. You think I’m joking? At the start of…
We are at the centre of the golf universe…
Apparently Northern Ireland is now the centre of the universe… as far as the golf world is concerned, a world superpower! Three major golf Championships in 13 months, that’s some going for a country with one and a half million people. The last time a golfer from Northern Ireland won a golfing major was Fred…
L’Italia classica…
Much to my surprise and delight Verona airport is just over a two hour flight from Belfast. Our Lady captain managed to do it in two hour and 5 min. I won’t be cracking any jokes as my wife will be reading this! After a very smooooth landing we collected our car… eventually. Now it’s…
Who doesn’t like fresh food?
I was walking through St Georges market in Belfast, surrounded by nothing but people and food. Smells were everywhere; freshly baked breads, earthy smells from the freshly dug vegetables, the smell of the sea from the sea food caught hours earlier by the fishermen from Portavogie. Some of it still moving! The place was full…
Yes it’s 1st April…
and no it’s not an April fool’s joke! That’s right, it’s a blog update! I’m embarrassed to say it’s something approaching 170 days since my last blog update, but there is a good reason….okay it’s not a great reason. I have been migrating The Stock Library to a new hosting company – yep that’s all…
My kind of Taxi…
Most of us probably have our favourite form of public transport, whether it’s a taxi, trains, rickshaws or whatever yours is. Well I have just found mine! On a recent visit to the Maldives (what a beautiful place) we had to use taxis. We all have to use taxis from time to time, we’re all familiar with the…
Where it all began…
Modern man that is. Without cutting and pasting the entire Wikipedia we are all reported to have evolved from Africa, many moons ago. For me, there is something magical about Africa, from the lush plantations in Tanzania in the wet season to the dry arid desert in Namibia not to mention the creatures that call…
