A word about glass. There is something called ‘anti-glare’ or ‘non-reflective’ glass. A proportion of the light that falls on the picture hanging on your wall is reflected back off the glass and doesn’t get to the picture. This has a number of effects, not least of which is that the colour, the tonal contrasts and […]
When musing about how long photography has been around one should also consider why we’re asking the question at all. Of course, one could be considering how long it has taken for it to arrive where it is now. The fact that it all started in the mid 1820s on a French balcony would only be […]
In today’s preposterous world of almost infinite choice you would be forgiven for thinking that my views on print size as somewhat draconian. In days gone by, if you were to purchase a picture to hang on your wall you would have, before the advent of photography, bought it from an artist. He may have painted […]
