Volume 2 will finally arrive next year, huzzah! Email flurry with Key Publishing and my manuscript is to be in to them by the end of this year, but no definite time line yet, just; next year. I’m already half way through yet another read through and edit, a copy has gone off to my mate to sanity check and make sure I’ve got the right captions to the aircraft, which is harder than it sounds as I don’t have images for all the archive photos I’ve selected. This might entail another trip down to Stamford and the Key offices, a journey I’ve done that many times over the years, I can do on autopilot.
Once they set a publishing date, it will be a month getting printed, because the finished product has to sail back to the UK from India! Then they have to decide when to make it available, next year, obviously 🙂
Once the text is out of my hands and editing is over, I really don’t know what’s next, if anything. Having already canned what I fancied doing, never easy when they were all supposed to be secret projects, was probably for the best, as trying to get images for projects that never materialised, or have all been seen before for the ones that did surface from the cloak of secrecy, may have made it rather dry reading. Revisiting my “Seeing a City” is very much just for me, I doubt anyone would want to publish a comparison of Sheffield in 2010 to 2025, the council won’t, it’s just a bigger mess now than it was and with even fewer shops, but its not their fault, naturally.
Meanwhile, one of the 35mm compacts has departed, the Cosina CX-2 went back on eBay after managing to produce a blank film. Not a clue why, it certainly seemed to make all the right noises when I ran the film through it. The roll of Fomapan B&W I put through the Chinon Bellami was..OK, exposure was fine, but a number of frames had lines on, which makes it hard to determine why. If they’d been on all the frames I’d say it’s something on the camera, though that feels smooth across the film runs. I might have to put another roll through just to check, but if anyone wants to buy a neat little 35mm compact to play with, let me know.
