St Ives Town Bridge, Cambridgeshire

Printed this yesterday afternoon, it's a negative from a roll of 120 film from my Wooden Pinhole Camera. With a fixed "pinhole" aperture of f138 this leads to logish exposures, blurring of water and in this case the movement of the swans.

Keep it Analogue

Summertime at Sherringham

And so I return to a recurring theme, that of British Seaside towns. Not in winter this time but actually around the August Bank Holiday 2008 I think. In any case we had braved the elements, left our West Runton campsite and headed for the coast. Once again armed with my 35rc loaded with Delta 400 I watched as the wind whipped the ice cream flags and sun seekers huddled for shelterfrom the rain. Then, out came the sun and an opportunity to bag a shot.



In the darkroom, negative in the Meopta Magnifax enlarger, Ilford Multigrade paper on the easel and 10 minutes later with some magical hand waving under the enlarger light source a picture emerges from the developer. How can anyone get satisfaction from a digital camera and a computer file.

Long live the negative is what I say....unconvinced then vist FADU.co.uk.

"Signs #1" - Shoreham by Sea 2010

I remain fascinated by the English Seaside, it is for many British photographers who like to photograph "found" objects, street scenes and people's eccentricities the equivalent of a City like New York. Victorian faded architecture fights for space amongst garish lights, tea stalls and amusement arcades. In the winter it just gets better.
Looking back through my negatives at the images I continually get drawn towards seasides and signs. In this picture both are combined.
 I waited for a while for a cyclist to pass to complete the picture. On reflection I think it works just as well without a person, in someways the absence of a human being makes the Prohibition Sign more strange and almost surreal.
I've moved back to using Resin Coated Paper in my darkroom 1) for cost, it's cheaper and 2) for speed when I don't have a lot of time on my hands to spend in the darkroom.
Ilford Delta 400 was loaded in my little Olympus 35RC rated at 200 with a yellow filter.

Sorry for the delay in posting.