Print Details:
- Print style: black and white silver gelatin
- Paper type: warmtone fibre base
- Paper finish: gloss
- Print image size: 7″x 7″ (17.8cm x 17.8cm)
- Mount window size: 7.5″ x 7.5″ (19cm x 19cm)
- Overall mount size: 12″ x 10″ (30.5cm x 25.4cm)
Do you want to consider it’s merits, or otherwise, in isolation from the artist’s influence?
We believe that what you see in a piece may well be different from the our view.
With this in mind, we give you the opportunity here to view our prints prior to knowing any of our views. We initially present the title of the work and the bare bones of the physical aspects of a print. When (if) you are interested in our views about the work or the story of it’s creation, then this can be seen by clicking on the plus sign (+) next to “What we see in the print” panel.
We trust that you will understand and appreciate our thinking behind doing this. Your views of our work is of interest to us – why not drop us a message with your thoughts! We’d love to hear from you…
Three poppy flowers – we were surprised how quickly a poppy flower can start to dry out, especially once in the studio! From where they were growing we didn’t have to go far with the flowers. We knew how we wanted to arrange the group of poppies. Apart from final adjustments, we were set up and ready to take the photograph. Even so, due to a petal wrinkling up too much or just falling off, more than one stem had to be replaced before we got to this, the finished picture!
We feel that we achieved a balance between a new, fresh poppy flower and a totally dried up flower. We do like the way that the light captures the crinkles, folds and curls of the drying petals. The petals look quite fragile in the print – nobody sneeze now or, oops, there goes a petal… again! The width of the stems seems to be quite out of proportion to the size of the flower head – how it stays up at all is anybodies guess. To us, a quite astonishing achievement.
The intention was to explore the disparity between the flower heads and the supporting stems, in a sympathetic grouping. Being able to show the differing surfaces of the petals was, to us, an added bonus!
What do you see in the print? Do let us know.
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Or perhaps as a gift for someone special?
All of our prints are available for purchase.
Currently, we create each print in response to an order request (i.e. we have no huge warehouse full of wonderful prints!!) fulfilling your order is not an overnight operation. To avoid any disappointments, we ask that you contact us with your print request below. Please add any date(s) that you would need the print by e.g. the date for a birthday gift or the date for an anniversary gift or other relevant information.
This will enable us to let you know if a finished Hand Printed Photo can be printed in time for you and additionally to supply you with payment information.
We want you to be happy with your print and trust that you will understand our reasoning behind this.
Each print is from our own film negative and will be hand printed by us, The Printer, in our photographic darkroom. We only use quality silver gelatin fibre based paper for any prints.
