Kieran Turner's photos with the keyword: black & white

I've just rescued this picture of Margaret's grandparents for my friends Margaret & Ian Anderson. (The parents of my old friends from growing up, Gavin & Dougie.) The original is about B3 (square A3) size, warped, torn, scratched, peeling, and the silver nitrate has become actually silver and very foxed. The date is a complete guess. I discovered the trick for getting the scanner to see it. At first it saw the silver as a reflection, and the whole image was very very burnt out, especially the darkest areas and the lady's hat. But turning the green and blue levels right down and scanning only in red fixed it. Seems the silver was largely reflecting the green. There's also high contrast and low brightness set at scanning time and a lot of playing with the grey level. At the end of the stitching and healing, I desaturated and killed off the blue and green channels and made the red mono before making the image mode greyscale — doing it to all three channels lost the contrast. Good result I think. It prints very nicely.

Uploading an old pic of Suzi just as my little way of marking the birth of her baby boy on Tuesday last week. When she called me, he didn't have a name yet. It should most certainly be "aardvark", but that's another story. Anyway, happy birthday. Truck would take you for a spin if he only could. He shares with you the lack of a name, although in his case it was because he didn't approve of names. Every time I gave him one, he broke. So... "truck".

Truck was having a rest somewhere in Germany (on the way to Ukraine) and I just liked the lines of this bike. I work in Ukraine helping the victims of the ongoing effects of Chernobyl. www.aidconvoy.net Taken with a Pentax ME-Super (50mm f1.7 lens) on Ilford XP2 (from memory).

Somewhere in Poland, en route across to Ukraine. (I work in Ukraine helping the victims of the ongoing effects of Chernobyl. www.aidconvoy.net ) Taken with a Pentax ME-Super (50mm, f1.7 lens) on Ilford XP2 (from memory).

En route to Kosova, from the top of one of the amazing Pindas mountains in Greece as we wound around the twisty roads. www.aidconvoy.net/ A shot showing somewhere near where i was standing is here . Taken on the old faithful Pentax ME-Super, 50mm (f1.7) lens, yellow filter, Kodak Tri-X. Sorry about film scanner losing the highlights!

Just one of those hoboes who hang around ferry terminals begging for scraps from truckers. Taken with a Pentax ME-Super on Ilford XP2 (from memory). I work in Ukraine helping the victims of the ongoing effects of Chernobyl. www.aidconvoy.net

The title is what a very senior person (ahem, naming no names) said to the local Vice Consul. Border of Greece and the Republic of Macedonia, July 1999, en route to Kosova. But that's not so much the point of this upload, I just like my "Michael York" look in the photo! ;) Taken with a fairly old Nikon (don't remember which) with a 50mm on Kodak Plus-X, by Suzi. For technorati, the telephone is my old Ericsson T28, which – like the T39 I was to have a bit later – was an excellent phone I wouldn't object to having back again. Infinitely more reliable, and nicer to handle, than any phone I've had recently.

Well, it was about time I uploaded this one. I always love when you can see the shutter opening through the lens in mirror shots like this... naked camera... kind of a feedback thing going on. Well, *I* like it, anyway! ;)

Jim Browning is an "adventurer", and a bit of a hero. Seen here with Suzi in Prishtinë, Kosova, in the midst of an unlikely and unplanned expedition to rescue truck from Albania. Jim hadn't been to Albania before, but nevertheless after we'd finished the aid delivery we were doing in Kosova, he agreed to take me across the mountains. My truck had been languishing there since dropping his propshaft just ouside Rubik. Six months on, and apart from the rats' nest in the heater he was basically okay. Made it as far as Bari in Italy before the improperly repaired prop fell off again, but we got him home and he did four convoys to Chernobyl after that :) Tales on www.aidconvoy.net Not sure which camera produced this, either the Pentax ME-Super or an ancient Nikon. Either would have had a 50mm lens and Kodak Tri-X or Plus-X.