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Introduction I flew back to the UK last month. I had taken a few nice photos (digital) in Idaho (see prior posts) and at the time I sought out a local shop to get larger prints made of some of them. I contacted an outfit in Spokane and after a little effort on their website got some photos uploaded to be printed as 8x10s for test prints. A week or so later they arrived in the post and I immediately thought yeech!. They all had this strange green tint. Now these were C-prints and I have never really had trouble with C-prints as it is a pretty mature technology. I hemmed and hawed about contacting them as some of this is quite subjective.  Finally, I decided to call and was put in touch with the owner who said she would check. She called later in the day and agreed they had a process problem. She said it would take a few days to sort out. I went away on a week-long camping trip and completely forgot she was supposed to send new prints. It took another ...

I am preparing a longer post on my journey to find another source for color prints after the collapse of Peak Imaging here in the UK. During that journey I discovered that my favorite photobook publisher Mixam also offers what they call art prints. I decided to see what they offered and ordered some A3 prints. One turned out not great, but I think this is due to a particularly challenging image and some of my poor post processing. The other image turned out really well. So let me answer what do you get, how does it work and why might this be my 'go to' place for prints.  First of all, I like the look of traditional C-prints. Chromogenic prints (not what people imagine is continuous tone prints) use silver halide color paper from either Fuji or Kodak (Kodak does not actually make the paper any longer.) and expose the paper using lasers or LEDs. They are not continuous tone because they use a digital image and the light from the LEDs or lasers...

I spent the summer in Sandpoint Idaho with my Fuji GFX 50s ii medium format digital camera. My digital philosophy has been to retain and integrate the aspects of film that I enjoy so much. I tend to work with mostly manual lenses and not use a lot of the camera features and menus aside from shutter speed aperture and a new one for me, ISO. I made a series of earlier posts on some of my work which I list below. Old Glass  Lake Vibes Lake Morning June 5 2022 Trestle Creek August First Lake Pend Oreille I have travelled to this area over the years to visit my father and have always found the lake to be a challenge to photograph. It is predominantly blue in tone in the summer owing to many days of bright blue skies. The lake itself sits in a bowl of mountains that makes golden hour somewhat muted. This was an attempt to channel some of the mood of the lake and reflect that in my photographs. I found th...