s1b.com LED lighting

24/12/2022

16/12/2022

25/11/2022

Available from the pop up shop next week or message me if you are interested and can't get into Dumfries

24/11/2022

Bit of a dilemma. Which one to print. This is a small selection of Roxy music which in turn is a small selection of the full archive. This is going to take longer than I though.

22/11/2022

Christmas presents. Pop in and see us in the pop up shop.
A share would be gratefully appreciated. All work will be advertised on here too.

05/11/2022

Coming soon

https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=569929008466105&set=a.459279576197716

If you know anybody between the ages of 55 and 65 this is their youth, 1979/80. Brian Ferry and Roxy Music live.
This is one from my archive of a years worth of shooting bands. Rod Stewart, Lemmy, Kiss, there's quite a few. Over the next few days I'm going to put an album together then start some printing.
It's film, 35mm film, Kodak, Ektacrome 160 pushed to 320 most likely. The camera, my Nikon FM. Fully manual and I mean fully manual. ISO or ASA, manual, colour temp is the film, shutter, manual, aperture, manual, and finally focus, that was auto. It wasn't. It was manual using, I suspect, a Vivitar Series 1 70 - 210mm F3.5. One of the beauties was that the kit probaly weighed half of what the same would weigh today.
It was a great time in my life. I got to see and shoot bands, 17 years old. So, time for some time travel.

12/10/2022

Something new.

Here we go! The offical launch of my large format printing page.
PLease share it for me. TIA.
Plain paper up to 60" (1.5M) wide.
Canvas from 10" to 40" (25cm - 1M) wide on an 18mm thick frame.
Epson glossy photopaper up to 44" (1.1M)
Big prints of your own photos or perhaps friends and family. Make your own montage and have it printed up big. Ideal for Christmas presents, birthday presents or just to give a gift.
There will be prints of my own and a whole series of live action shots of bands from the late seventies/early 80's, ideal for anybody who was a teenager in that period. Rod Stewart, Roxy Music, Gary Numan to name but a few.
Wall art. I'll be printing some of my own landsacpe shots onto a self adhesive wall paper to really fill a wall.
Don't forget to check out my photopage s1b.com photography if you see anything you would like a print of then either message me from the page or comment on the photo and I'll get back in touch with you.

10/05/2021

The US acts to keep fuel flowing after its largest pipeline was hit by a ransomware cyber-attack.

24/12/2020

HAVE YOURSELF A MERRY MERRY CHRISTMAS.
Peace, Joy and Prosperity
for 2021 and beyond

31/10/2020

One of my pet hates.

Light pollution is not down to street lighting. No shhhh Sherlock. Still I guess it's better to have evidence rather than no evidence.

There are many aspects of modern lighting design that are not good for our night skies but the LED is singularly the most important reason our skies are lightening at night. It's down to two factors. One is that the light produced is almost coherent. That is to say it does not spread out. Early LEDs carried warnings in the same way LASERs carried warnings. The problem is it takes a very long time for the light to fade unlike normal tungsten filament lamps.
The second reason is poor installation.There's been a long held belief that the more you tip a flood light to the vertical the further the light spreads. This is true, but it does not put the light where you want it. Most of it will go to the sky. Up, up and away. With the old halogen sources this was a problem but not nearly as much of a problem as LED.
If you like the dark skies, watching stars with your children or grandchildren then please, check your exterior lighting. In an ideal world no flood light should be above 5 degrees horizontal. Up lights should be focussed to light as much of the subject as possible. If you need more coverage then you need the lamp to go higher not be tilted.
In many respects the lamp manufacturers have been complicit in this problem by very, very, poor design. If it can't keep the sky dark then it should be illegal to sell it. For the sake of a beautiful star filled night please ensure all lights create minimal skyward spill.

Entire city dims its streetlights, enabling scientists to measure light pollution from space.