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Chimney-piece
Richard Bell’s Wild West Yorkshire nature diary Friday, 20th June 2008
A LITTLE HOMAGE to one of my favourite paintings: Vuillard’s ‘Chimney-
Images have always been such an important part of my life and this week on eBay I’ve sold three items related to my fascination with collecting, processing and publishing images:
An Olympus Trip 35 mm camera which I bought at the pharmacy at Castle Douglas on my year’s ‘Britain’ sketchbook tour (published by Collins, 1981) because I felt the need for a more compact camera than my Pentax Spotmatic to fit in my haversack.
A Paterson System4 Developing Tank; but I didn’t ever have the precision and patience necessary to produce crisp black and white prints.
And the biggest item: my QMS Minolta Magicolor 330 oversize A3 colour laser printer. When I bought it in 2001 I felt that printing on demand was the way to go to publish my sketchbooks but the time and the expense of the colour toner make it impractical. I now get my sketchbooks printed professionally and I print my black and white walks booklets on a smaller A4 printer which has a duplex unit which means that I can print on both sides of the paper, so the book pops out collated and ready to bind.
As this was such a big item, the buyer called this evening to pick it up. The printer been such a part of my life, such a feature of the studio, that it was reassuring to meet him and know that it has found a good home.
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