
On Friday I found someone local to me selling a Bowens Illumitran 3 slide copier (I plan on modifying it a bit to try using it with a DSLR for "camera scanning" negatives). While I was there, I asked if he had any other photography/darkroom related equipment for sale. He said:
"Well, my neighbor was a photographer who sold his work at shows/conventions all over the country and, when he passed, his wife gave me a lot of his supplies. I've sold most of it, but I still have tons of frames, museum/conservation frame glass, and a few other things if you'd like to take a look."
He gave me a price I couldn't say no to and said I could take "as much as I could fit in my car". I walked away with:
- ~50 unused, hand-made, hand-stained wood frames of various sizes
- An incredible amount of glass (I can't even guess how much)
- A very nice mat board cutter,
- ~20 boxes of new frame hardware
- A new, unused roll of backing paper.
It looked like I burglarized a frame shop.


COLUMN - In de nasleep van de Tweede Kamerverkiezingen leggen de internationale media de nadruk op het zetelverlies van de PVV (“forse klap voor radicaal rechts”), terwijl de nationale pers vooral ingaat op de verrassende overwinning van D66 (het zogenoemde “Jetten-effect”). Beide frames dreigen echter twee belangrijkere ontwikkelingen te verhullen. De eerste is de verdere […]