Are you sure we are allowed to be here? is something I get asked a fair bit! On this particular day I was in search of Lyscombe Chapel. To say it’s out in the countryside would be a bit of an understatement!
Turning off from the nearest village, down a country road, ever narrowing, a deserted car parking spot, then a walk down a long, hot, chalk track, and there it was. It origins are 12th century and connected with the nearby (ish) Milton Abbey. It was partly rebuilt in both the 15th and the 16th century. Then for a while it was a dwelling in the 17th century, finally it became derelict, as the house immediately to it’s right still is. The chapel however was “listed” as a Grade II building in 1956 along with it’s retaining wall. Early in this century it was restored and re-roofed. Sadly it was closed, but I did poke my lens through an open window!!
I’ve was out photographing for another purpose on this particular day, (we’ll get to that in another post!) and so I was using my Canon EOS 30 loaded with a roll of Kodak Ektar 100. I realise it’s a negative film, but I think it’s the closest replacement to good old Kodachrome. I think it has that same warmth and higher colour. Although I’ll amit my scanning is not perfect. When I send the colour film to the lab for developing I always “hum and haw” about paying for them to scan it. I tell myself I have a scanner and should save money by doing it myself, knowing full well that they always get better results, certainly in the colour department. It’s a habit I must break.
S.H.O.U.T. 