"Impossible" Fenland Project

A Christmas Eve Drive to Somersham to test out the Impossible project's PX70 Colour Shade film designed for the classic 1979's folding SX70 Camera. This film, like all these experimental films need to be protected from sunlight for the first few seconds after the image has been ejected from the camera. As each image dries out, over days, the colours shift and change.

These unique mindividual works or art need to be dried out thoroughly before the image becomes stable. I use a biscuit tin with several 100g packets of silica gel for a few weeks.

http://www.the-impossible-project.com/

Fenland Project

More studies under the "Fenland Project" banner using the 103 Land Camera and the wonderful Fuji 3000b. This garage has now ceased trading and sits on the edge of the Fenland Market Town of Ramsei in Cambridgeshire

Fenland Project

What is it about old signs? well they make great black and white images for a start and doesn't the Polaroid 103 Automatic Land Camera handle it well.
With little time available to spend in the darkroom the buzz I get from peeling apart a new instant black and white print is enormous.
Both these photos were taken outside the home of a vintasge car collector in Somersham near Huntingdon/

Psycho Santa

Polaroid, 103 Automatic Land Camera "Packtastic" - the joy of instant photography.

Fenland Project

Been getting heavily into Instant film since the summer time.
This image was made using a 1970s Polaroid SX70 Camera using film from the Impossible Project. This will form part of an ongoing series of instant studies of the fens.

Bought an Agfa "GevaBox" Camera in the Charity shop recently.

I have to say it's one of the best £5 spends I have made. The camera was on sale in the 1950s, it takes 120 medium format film giving 8 6X9 negatives on a roll of film.

The Gevabox has 2 shutterspeeds and two aperture settings plus a B for "bulb" setting allowing the shutter to remain open for longer. This image of the showroom dummies was hand held on the B setting intentionally blurring the result.

Been using my new Polaroid 420 Land Camera over the last few weeks. The camera uses Fuji 100c colour and 3000b black and white, peel apart film. Focusing is via a rangefinder and you can attach a modern electronic flash via the camera's pc socket.
The photograph of the blue trainers was taken using a close up lens held in front of the camera's lens and guessing the distance, didn't guess correctly as the image is out of focus.....I think that adds to the effect though especially now that it is mounted onto watercolour paper.
1. Trim the photo's edges
2. Place in a glass tray and pour over nearly boiling water and watch the emulsion "lift" off
3. Transfer to cold water
4. mix pva glue and water 50:50 and brush on to the water colour paper and brush the lifted emulsion onto the new surface.

Not black and white but still traditional.....

Been getting into Instant Film. You may have thought instant film was dead and buried with Polaroid but no, "The Impossible Project" has reinvented instant film in colour and black and white.
Results are unpredictable but it's really exciting.

Bought a 600 instant camera and a Polaroid 420 Land Camera that takes pack film made by Fuji.

This image is made with Impossible 600 Silver Shade, the image is placed in hot water and eventually the emulsion floadts off! - carefully transfer it to a tray of cold water and lay it onto some watercolour paper.http://the-impossible-project.com/

The English Abroad

Wow can't believe it's been a YEAR since I last updated the blog....here's my New Year resolution..."I will post 1 new image every Month till next September"

So, starting Sept 11 here's an image from a couple of years ago, one of a number I made during a family holiday in Brittany. How typical is that....The English Abroad.

So, it's been an interesting year so far, not much time for darkroom work as proper work has been getting in the way, time to readress the balance methinks.