I finished making up all the Jorgensen E series albums 🙂 they all look absolutely stunning. It’s a great feeling to complete such a large piece of work. My Motorola V600 mobile phone is broken so I’ve arranged for it to be sent for repair, luckily it’s still under warranty, it will apparently take a week before it’s returned so I’ll be back using my Samsung without bluetooth or GPRS. 🙁

Lunch at the Hollybush and I then spent the rest of the day making up Jorgensen E albums, still a little more to do though!

I spent most of the day applying 3M repositionable pressure mounting film to the remaining photographs that now have to be mounted in Jorgensen E series albums.

Isn’t Google Earth a brilliant piece of software? It’s amazing how much you can see that you didn’t know existed, even in your local area! I only recently downloaded a copy and haven’t had very much time to use it but I’ve found it absolutely fascinating.

Adobe have just released the latest updates to their DNG converter and Adobe Camera Raw, the most interesting feature is that Camera Raw now supports the new Nikon D200 camera.

More work preparing photographs for mounting in albums, it’s a long slow process carefully applying the 3M repositionable pressure mount adhesive film and trimming with a scalpel with the photographs for one more album still to be prepared.

I spent the evening preparing more photographs for albums, found out that the new scalpel is very good at cutting into my thumb. 🙁

David called in this morning and hogged the computer and phone!

A trip to the bank and then on to the local RS trade counter to purchase a new metal straight edge and some new scalpels and blades, I have so many prints to mount that these will certainly speed up the process. Another album delivery today, so it’s all systems go with making up albums. I spent several more hours preparing photographs for mounting into the albums.

My monthly copy of Radio Communication arrived today, very sad to read that an old friend of mine Bob Barett GW8HEZ had died recently while on holiday in Sweden. Bob had lived in South Wales for a number of years and had worked originally as a BBC cameraman before being one of the original group of people who started MRS Communications in Cardiff, a company that I worked for many years ago. Bob later moved to Cornwall.

More work making up Jorgensen E albums.

Welsh class this evening, unfortunately the steward didn’t arrive to open up the rugby club and he couldn’t be reached on his mobile phone. 🙁

I finished making up a Jorgensen E series album, it looks lovely.

David called in this morning.

I spent most of the rest of the day applying 3M positionable pressure mount adhesive to album prints in preparation for mounting the images into albums. It’s a very time consuming piece of work that involves aligning the print with the roll of pressure mount, applying light pressure to the print to position it, carefully trimming the pressure mount around the print with a scalpel and straight edge and then using a squeege on the back of the pressure mount, with the print face down on a sheet of release paper to bond the pressure mount adhesive to the back of the print. Today I’ve prepared twenty prints for one album. The next stage is to mount the prints in the album, this involves peeling back the pressure mount backing from the print, carefully aligning the print with the album page, gently press the print to hold it into position. The final stage is to cover the print with release paper and squeege over the front of the print to achieve the final bond. As you can imagine mounting the images in a Jorgensen E album takes rather a lot of time. I have quite a few E albums to make up so it’s going to be a very busy week or so.

I also completed two Image Book Albums today, they are so much easier to put together.

I called over to see my mum this morning. We had lunch at home today – beef, Yorkshire pudding, mash, winter roasted vegetables and gravy. David called in this afternoon.