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A few more from the out-dated roll of HP5, of un-known storage. This was the roll that when developed like the others turned out pretty heavy, and showed much more grain. That said for some of these images I don’t mind it too much! These images were all made with the Olympus XA2. I seemContinue reading “Heavy HP5”

Back on August 19th ’21, I made this photo of a Peace Lilly I’d recently purchased. I liked the shadows flowing from the bottom of the subject. It was one of my earlier posts. At some point it out-grew it’s pot, so I had to split it up and repot the bits. They grew! 1Continue reading “Growth”

I just shot the last roll of my outdated HP5 batch. This one was un-boxed and I had no idea how it had been stored, it’s expiry date was 2008. I’ve had pretty good results, from the others, but I did wonder if I would get anything at all out of this one. In aContinue reading “Pylons”

A few more images from my walk around Poole, with my 21 year out-of-date roll of XP2 in the Canon EOS 30. I have noticed that the focus with the older 50mm f1.4 is more “touchy” than my favourite 40mm STM. By touchy I mean I have to pay more attention! It was a dull,Continue reading “Along the Harbourside”

I had been given a small batch of film that was way out of date. I’ve dumped the colour, or rather the film in the cassettes and just using them to reload with bulk film. I’ve worked my way through the few rolls of HP5, and that left remaining 1 roll of Ilford XP2 Super,Continue reading “XP2 Super in B/W Chemistry”

I am very lucky where I live, in that there are four or five nature reserves close buy. Slop Bog, is one of them. It is walking distance to get there, and although it is surrounded by road and housing (mostly) it can be a quiet oasis, certainly a “get away from it all” forContinue reading “Slop Bog”

I made my way to San Francisco, I’d been before on a previous trip by this point. I arrived lunchtime one day but my flight home was the following afternoon from LA. I decided that I’d book a flight from SF to LA, and just change planes for the international flight. I phoned and bookedContinue reading “End of my USA trip”

Continuing on with my re-visit, i.e. scanning negs from the 1990’s – I reach Grand Canyon. I’ve been very lucky to have visited again after this, but that first glance into the huge, expansive canyon, takes some beating. The image above is a photoshop creation. Back in the day when confronted with such a view,Continue reading “Grand Canyon”

A while ago I wrote about the closure of the “Cine and Video Club” that I was once a member of. It was housed in a hut, that I believed was a relic of WW2 – now I’m not so sure! You can read that story here. Quite by accident I found another hut butContinue reading “Another Hut”

Last post but one I wrote about how my Hasselblad seemed to have jammed itself whilst not being used in a bag. I made a “googled repair”, i.e. unjammed it! It was high time that I actually put a roll of film though it, so I set off on a lunchtime walk around Dorchester. IContinue reading “First and Last in Hasselblad”