Re: Introducing myself

Hi Philip,

Please pardon our collective manners and welcome to the list. I
don't know if everyone's out making pictures, or off on an end-of-summer
vacations or, like me, loaded down with crises at their day job.

> However my pinhole camera of choice is
> the cookie tin with a piece of 120 film taped to the inside. You can
> see samples of my work on my website, www.griffphoto.com, currently
> under renovation, but the pinhole section still works.

It's nice to see some color cookie tin work. How do you give the
pieces of 120 to the lab? Or do you do your own color development?

Some of the Holga portraits are quite compelling, and I'll be
interested to see some pinhole portrait work..

A couple of things about your site. I *know* it says to "click on
the number..." but clicking on jpegs is so ubiquitous that I found
it kind of off-putting to get a message about not stealing your
copywritten images. The clickthrough images were a little disappointing
for not being all that much larger. I'm speaking of just the pinhole
section here.

I'd also suggest that you explicitly set your background color to
white, either in a style sheet or with the BGCOLOR tag. Most people
do have their default browser background set to white, but I don't,
and so I see a mostly gray site with snippets of white things (your
name, contact info, and the "Imagine a cookie tin..." block.

That probably sounds nitpicky; I don't mean it to be, and hopefully
you'll take it as constructive criticism.

I look forward to seeing more of your work, and if I'm ever in
Birmingham (again), maybe we could head off to Dreamland
( http://www.dreamlandbbq.com/ ) (Hey, wait a second, *franchises?!?!*).

--Eric
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Received on Wed Aug 17 21:09:55 2005