Photo Print Day- Ukraine

[ChrisR]

Over on twitter, there has been a suggestion started, I think, by Jim Mottram of an annual, charity-based Photo Print Day (see #PhotoPrintDay and https://BANNED/PhotoPrintDay), on 1 September each year (IIRC). In view of the humanitarian and refugee crisis unfolding in and around Ukraine, a Flash Photo Print Day for Ukraine is taking place tomorrow, 4 March 2022:

https://BANNED/JAMortram/status/1497986632007487504

In case that's not clear:

March 4th The maker tags & tweets the prints, any print & size is acceptable.
Donator leaves a comment. 1st come 1st served.
Maker and Donator agree on charity (eg see ukrainewar.carrd.co).
Donator provides screen grab of a minimum £$€10 donation receipt. (The "minimum" part was added later on in the twitter thread.)
Maker ships print.

I thought some TPers might be interested in taking part, though obviously I've left it rather late.

 

[ChrisR]

I'm thinking of taking part, despite being a very amateur photographer and an even less skilled printer with cheap equipment! Not really expecting any takers, but it seems worth a try. I mostly take black and white (film) photos these days, but it's hard to make decent black and white prints on a cheap (Canon MG5250) printer; the colour casts that I often get are OK for me, but I don't think I want to inflict them on anyone else. So I've found a very old image taken on Kodachrome in New Zealand in 1974 (on my Pentax Electro Spotmatic, probably a 55/1.8 lens), that I rather like. I'm a little reluctant to show the image rather than a print, as my non-colour-managed workflow is not producing accurate representations, but anyway, worth a try...



I think of this as "The Drop". It was taken on Christmas day, 1974, on a group walk up the Franz Josef Glacier, west coast of South Island. Neither the drop nor that part of the glacier are there any more. On that morning, we had woken to the news that Cyclone Tracey had roared into and destroyed most of Darwin, so the image is associated in my mind with beauty, joy, impermanence, climate change and disaster.

It would be printed on A4 Fotospeed Photo Smooth Pearl 290 gsm using Canon inks (it's a 5-ink printer). So far, I have one test print slightly too green using printer-managed colours, and two test prints with a slight magenta tinge using colour managed by Capture One Pro (which isn't offering me the set of profiles I used to have access to in Aperture). So, this might go all pear-shaped and get withdrawn, but I thought it was worth a try. Someone might be able to help me make a better print, too (I also have Affinity Photo, but I've never printed from there).

I would cover UK postage, but overseas postage might be a problem...

PS, I hope this isn't against forum rules, please delete if so.