The Limbo Connection's photos with the keyword: letterpress

Because I created this collage on a computer, and made this picture by simply photographing the screen, it has never had much fidelity. I have used Lightroom to attempt an injection of contrast and clarity, not altogether successfully I'm afraid. So I posted it in ipernity afresh just to use picmonkey on the image, because I have discovered that what one photo processing program cannot do, another one sometimes can. And although it is not perfect - nowhere near - it nonetheless is an improvement. The collage comprises clipped newspaper articles and advertisements; items found in old magazines (some very old indeed); an old knitting pattern cover; a detail from the cover of a book published by university undergraduates in the early 1970s; an old family photograph (but I don't know who they are/were); a detail from a letterpress printing project by Walter Partridge of the Perdix Press; stuff noticed on the internet; and even an original photograph taken on a day out. Photographed with a Nikon D700 and a 55mm Micro-Nikkor f/3.5 AI lens direct from the computer screen.

Fleet Street at its apogee. Letterpress and half-tones. Colour register (could do better). Hot lead and thunderous printing presses.

Everybody loves grub screws. I discovered them in Meccano. Then later in the printing industry.

Nikon D700 + 55mm Micro-Nikkor f/3.5 AI lens.

A detail from an oil painting which has been stored in damp conditions. Canon EOS 30D + Chinon 55mm f/1.7 lens from the M42 era.

Nikon D700 + Nikon Series E 75-150mm f/3.5 lens with a Nikon No. 4T Close-Up attachment.

Nikon D700 + Nikon Series E 75-150mm f/3.5 lens with a Nikon No. 4T Close-Up attachment.

Nikon PK-13 extension tube on a Micro-Nikkor 55mm f/3.5 AI lens.

Letterpress by Walter Partridge, the Perdix Press, Salisbury.

Letterpress. John Eikhoff, the Acorn Press, Bristol.

Letterpress printed by Walter Partridge of the Perdix Press, in the Cathedral Close, Salisbury, England. Walter, who had worked as a commercial printer, spent his retirement in ambitious letterpress projects, such as The Prologue to the Canterbury Tales, where the original text is augmented by a modern translation printed alongside. The pages Walter gave me were not wanted for the limited edition book he published in 1984. He generously allowed strangers to look over his press and gave them all a keepsake such as this.