Yep, 30" screen, 2560x1600 res (16:10 aspect ratio obviously). The ones either side are older 4:3 screens running at 1600x1200 (liberated from work). Bought the 30" screen last year after my old, trusty 27" ViewSonic finally packed in.

Glad to see you've still not relented on your anti 16:9 crusade.

Not really a crusade, I just consider it a downgrade from 16:10 and I don't like new products that are a downgrade from what I had previously.

Incidentally I bought my wife a new laptop last year, went for a Huawei Mateboox X Pro (3:2 screen). Interestingly, the chassis is almost identically sized to the HP Elitebook I have for work. Except on my wife's laptop the whole lid is screen, whereas my work laptop has the better part of 5cm of plastic bezels at the top and bottom. It's a bit shit.

I used to have a 30” (YJ) but I found it bigger than I liked for a lot of things so went down to 27” and a gsync panel. 

Patch! How the devil are you? Where the devil are you?
 

Where are you at nowadays, I wonder?

And you. 

Most of the art was my mum's (the flower ones she made), there's no particular theme. They were lying around for 2 years in a pile, wasn't sure where to put them when tidying up so i just banged a bunch of nails up all over the place and stuck them on the wall. I guess that's sort of what you're meant to do with them.

The fire extinguisher (and fire blanket) are from my welding bay (which no longer exists since I turned the garage into a wood and CNC workshop, need to build a new welding bay), I know use it to fend off H&S managers who want to do risk assessments for working from home.

Hello!

I'm still in Auckland, the part of New Zealand that isn't like the rest of New Zealand. Just coming to the last few days of the "Level 4" lockdown that we've been in for the last four weeks. The announcement of whether it gets extended or reduced to, say, Level 3 will be this afternoon. Level 3 being the same as Level 4, but the takeaways can open. Which will be great - I'd forgotten how hard it is to think of a different meal to cook every day of the week. Might even be able to make it to the beach without feeling guilty about not staying within the postcode.

I'd show a photo of my WFH desk, but it's a desk. A bit like Matt's desk, but messier, and a bit like Dave!!'s desk, but smaller.

I don't really have a desk but I have a garden which I'm very thankful for at the moment.

I was going to say that I may have gone a bit too far on the screen front, but I seem to be in good company. Don't have my own mancave anymore since the little monster came along, so it's just the corner of a bedroom.

Can't believe you'd have a canister of dihydrogen monoxide sitting RIGHT THERE on your desk, where a small child could easily grab it. Tissues won't help you if that happens.

It hurts my neck just to look at that.

She's full of it. Darn kids.

It's not as terrible as it looks, but yes it's not ideal... stuff that I look at less often goes on top.

hello! see other thread. i live in harringay in north london with my wife and 2-year-old daughter these days (actually moved in february, just in the nick of time for covid - upgraded from a basement flat in whitechapel to a house with a garden, thank baby jesus).

here's my desk!

Meant to reply the other week. I converted a flatbed scanner to a UV exposure box in Feb for my girlfriend to use, as she had experimented with the cyanotype process in the past but hadn't done as much as she wanted to due to the lack of decent sun in the UK. I saw some examples of UV exposure units and Rich off here sent me his old scanner to tear apart. Added a screen and used the existing buttons to control time and brightness. Arduino in the back doing the clevers.




This was my first (or maybe second) attempt. I printed a photo of mine on to tracing paper then exposed on some chemical covered paper.



Since done more, here are some examples. I tend to do photos, girlfriend enjoys exposing actual items (yj) (flowers, leaves, feathers etc). These were all 15 minute exposures using negatives printed on transparencies. 

  

This was an attempt to get as much feather detail as possible. Total unknown until you try various lengths of time. Tried 15 mins, 30 mins and 45 mins. This was the 45 min attempt. I think the 15 min attempt was mostly white where the feather is - meaning not exposed enough at all since the feather blocks the UV getting to the paper.



The 3 photos in the middle were exposed using a small 6x4 sized unit I made for myself

These are bloody great!

 

They are, aren't they. I missed this post somehow. Interested to find that the cyanotype process is the origin of the name 'blueprint'.

Fanx chaps. I have toyed with the idea of darkroom development and a bit of analogue film photography but felt it was a rabbit hole I didn't want to go down.

This on the other hand feels like a good balance of it all, especially because it is relatively simple (in comparison to darkroom development) and the results can be quite nice. The chemical use/process interests me because of my Chemistry degree so it ticks a box there.

I think I'll find it interesting to figure out what types of photo transfer well to this format.

Of the above
Forest (Sequoia National Park) - good
Train (Barmouth Bridge) - good
Sunrise (Madeira) - not good
Chapel (Madeira) - good

I think images with a good degree of difference between light and dark come out better.

What Kos said.

They're brilliant.

Like in traditional dark rooms are you able to control the exposure in real time, so remove the image from the developing process when you're happy with it, and is there another stage you need to do to fix the image to stop it from developing further?

What do you reckon you've spent to get your setup going?