BRIAN REID PHOTOGRAPHER

New Big Prints for the Gallery
Sunday, 10 August 2025 15:34
Gallery might be an exageration as it really is just the wall up the staircase to the upper level in the house. It is a decent area of hanging space which I have covetted for some time but with a dicky printer and no means of accessing the wall I have been patient. The stimulus came when I wanted to print posters and flyers for the Moggies Band Bedfringe show and actually broke the old Epson 1500 while trying to clean the heads. It turns out that it is too old to repair and I had already found you could not longer purchase Epson ink cartridges. In its place there is now a new ink tank printer form Epson, an ET18100, which provides the same, maybe better, print quality but at a vastly reduced consumables cost. Yipee! Then it was only the practicalities of access a tall wall without falling and a stair platform has done the job. The frames are very similar to frames I have used before from Ikea but subtly differently designed to mount on removable wall hooks, which work very well. No more picture hooks and wires, although I still had a few older frames which still required wire but could use the adhesive (removable) mounting hooks. Here are some of the new prints mainly on the ‘gallery’ wall but also other locations. The headline picture from 1988 at the observation roof of the World Trade Center South Tower is in the downstairs cloakroom. The first of the pictures after the poor quality gallery image actually sits below the main gallery. Each image is captioned as acurately as I can. The final picture is mounted on the wall perpedicular to the left end of the gallery
Berlin 2015
Monument Valley 2016
Grand Canyon 2010
Mount Fuji 2017
Yosemite Valley 2010
Pont Valentré, Cahors 2024
St Peters, Vatican City
Near Grindelwald ?, Switzerland 1986
Barringer Meteor Crater, Arizona 2010
Grear Wall of China, Badaling 1986
Pompeii beneath Mount Vesuvius 2019
Sacsayhuaman Inca Site, Cuzco, Peru, 2018
The General Sherman Tree, Sequoia NP, California 2010 (The largest living single strem tree on Earth)