More Holga Street Moments

There's a moment that often passes me by, a moment when I dont have a camera only the one in my mind. That's OK, it's good to train your mind to see images everywhere you look. But if you have a camera with you, then how much better it is to make that image permanent and share it with others.

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Broughton Church

Julie and I went on the 2012 "Rogation Walk" between Wistow Church and Bury Church. We stopped on the way to pray and sing hymns to give thanks for the land and the harvest.
At Broughton Church, before the service I wandered around with my Olympus Trip and made some exposures.
Marjory plays the organ and she didnt seem to mind me taking photos of her hands.
Old photos on the wall in the bell tower caught my eye as light streamed in from a window...it fell on a wooden bench also.
Back in the darkroom and the images came to life.

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Street Photography

I have gone back to using Ilford ID11 film developer at a dilution of 1+1 for the recommended time of 12-13 minutes. The negs are probably a bit on the dense side but print WONDERFULLY well. The scans come out great too.
I have been in London quite a bit recently and always make sure I have a camera with me. The Voigtlander Bessa R3a is a rangefinder camera ideally suited to street photography.

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More Underground

Some more candids with the Bessa

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London Underground

Been spending a bit of time working in London.
Took my Voigtlander Bessa R3a rangefinder camera with me.
Motion captured

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Dungeness

I find myself wandering along this desolate but somehow beautiful part of the world once a year or so drawn here by work comittments.
It's always a bit of a lottery because the weather can be really bad. Not ideal conditions for this image, I prefer less direct light and some clouds in the sky. But, it's better to have an image than no image.

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Watch Out

Low viewpoint, wide angle lens (in this case the bitingly sharp Zuiko 28mm) and a red filter.
All great stuff

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From the Archives

James was a baby in the pram when we went to the Orsett Show in Essex, in those days I shot exclusively on my Olympus OM1n camera, still a favourite and those Zuiko Lenses are so crisp.
This old man was driving a traction engine and had leasnt out of his window to chat with a mate.

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Fenland Project revisited

Wheeled out the Bronica ETRSi medium format camera for this image shot just outside Ramsey. Ilford HP5 developed in Prescysol, a staining developer. Printed in my darkroom onto Ilford Multigrade paper.
The menacing mood of the place and the landscape comes over rather well I think.

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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.