Another run to the hospital, left me with 5 hours to fill so I drove 8 miles south to my hometown of Weymouth. I moved away over a decade ago, but spent over 40 years there, and so have many memories of almost every nook and cranny! I have some great memories but these days also some that are bad, so I wouldn’t say that I avoid the place, but it’s not far off that. One could say “too many memories”!
Weymouth does have a terrific beach. It slopes very gently and so in the summer season is safe for kids. One would have to walk out a long way to get up to waist level in water. Ice Creams, amusements, and fish and chips are all well catered for, and there is history too – but we’ll come to that.
I took my Leica M4-P for this seaside walk, loaded with a roll of my ongoing “movie FP4+”, I only took the 35mm lens, I’ve got so confident that’s all I need these days. The “prom” in Weymouth is, give or take, 2.5 miles long, end to end, so a walk up and down is 5 miles with a tiny de-tour. The weather was kind, no rain, short bursts of sun here and there, and only a light wind, cold, but not bitterly – just fresh!
I developed the film in FX55, I’m liking the tonality I’m getting from it, combined with FP4, all of these scans are straight out of the scanner, albeit reduced in size for net use.
S.H.O.U.T. 