Chester Canal Walk

Another busy day ends with a night away from home. Ah but the sun is shining and the evenings are stretching out AND I have my Polaroid 103 Automatic Land Camera and Olympus 35RC rangefinder cameras with me.
A walk along the canal soon began to reveal shapes, shadows and textures.
The Fuji 3000b instant peel apart film coped pretty well given the high level of local contrast.

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More from Great Yarmouth with the YashicaMat

Took the YashicaMat 124G out for a spin, loaded with Ilford FP4.
Ivy's "Noted Teas Shop" has been there for years, goodness knows how they continue to make money. Likewise Pertwee and Back, the local Ford Garage.
The bonus was spotting BONO in disguise feeding the pigeons!

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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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Vivitar Instant Slide Printer

My latest toy is a Vivitar Instant Slide Printer...it's rather good......pop in a slide from the past, load a pack of Fuji Instant Peel Apart Film, press Print and away you go.

Of course I could have bought a slide or film scanner...but where's the fun in that!

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Two Impossible Images

Long live the Impossible Project...bringing instant photography once again to the masses and making millions of otherwise useless Polaroid Cameras usable again.
Two images here both shot with an SX70 folding SLR

Much like this one.

The Black and White pic uses Impossible PX100 Silver Shade film whilst the bottom one of the "friendly peppers" is made using Impossible PX70 Colour Shade. There is something about the colours, not quite natural, that gives these tiny jewel-like pictures a rather beautiful quality.

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Snowy Cross, Morzine, France

Another archive print from 5 or 6 years ago. This was one of the first rolls of film I put through the Voitlander Bessa R3a - see image below. The film was Ilford FP4 developed in staining developer Prescysol and printed onto Ilford Multigrade paper in my darkroom.



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Fenland Project

Fenland revisited, big skies, straight roads...beautiful....at least it is to some of us...I guess moutains streams and spectacular scenery does it for others.
Appreciate where you are, where you live....look at it through fresh eyes....see the unseen, the overlooked the forgotten and above all......

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Accordian Player, Montmarte

I may have posted this image or a similar one a few years ago, anyway just rediscovered it as I load stuff onto my Flikr site (Search for Andrew Bartram (Warboyssnapper).
Julie and I had a weekend in Paris when our Son was very, very small. Wandering around Montmarte on the last day with the Olympus OM1n and YashicaMat 124G we stumbled upon this man playing his accordian. Typically French of course.

Printed in the darkroom on Ilford MG RC Paper with some selective bleaching here and there to boost local contrast.

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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.

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Instant Flowers

If you have a Polaroid 600 typr camera or any SX70 cameras (folding or box plastic) then did you know film is still available? Not from Polaroid, they stopped making it in 2009. Within a year a group of Polaroid enthusiasts and some former Polaroid employees had bought what was left of the Polaroid Machinery and re-engineered Instant Film from scratch. Much of the material that Polaroid had used in their original formulations was not available or too expensive.
What has followed, over the last 2 years has been a remarkable colaboration beteen the Impossible Project and their Customer. Films have been developed, each new issue brings improvements in emulsion, colours, tones and spread - Customers have in effect been beta testers for Impossible.
Visit the Impossible Project at http://www.the-impossible-project.com/

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The Cat in the Hat

Julie had returned home from a successful World Book Day at our Village School, I had to grab the Polaroid SX70 and flash away.

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British Museum

A trip to the British Museum a few years ago.
This time with the Olympus OM1n with the super sharp Zuiko 28mm lens

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Three Random Images

These have absolutely nothing in common save for the fact they were all shot using the Polaroid 103 and Fuji 100c peel apart film.
The Album playing on the Rega is Erpland by Ozric Tentacles...if you are interested...the phone boxes are at Hopwood Park Services on the M42 South of Birmingham and the Alloy Wheel Garage is in Great Yarmouth.

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More Archive Stuff - Woodbridge, Suffolk

At the time I shot this I was using pretty much exclusively, my Olympus OM1, usuall with the 28mm Zuiko Lens. It's still a combination that's hard to beat.
A low viewpoint coupled with a red filter to enhance the contrast has helped with the drama.

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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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More from the "Home town"

Another weekend....another trip to Great Yarmouth.....Found a new model to photograph although she hardly stopped giggling...I wanted her to look m"Mournfully into the distance".....

Saw the heads in a little shop in the town centre, hand held the Polaroid 103 and very pleased with the odd result.

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West End Garage, SOmersham

Another favourite subject, this time returned with Polaroid 103 and fuji film - bit of a dull day but I had to capture it whillst the snow was on the ground.

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Caister On Sea - Blurry Sea Cliche

OK, so slow exposures, water looking like smoke engulfing water soaked rocks.....yeah it's all been done before...still like it though.
Bronica ETRSi, Ilford FP4, printed on Ilford MG paper

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Media City and The Lowry Centre

Not much more to say other than the beautiful combo of the Polaroid 103 Land Camera and Fuji 100b peel apart film.......

Salford Quays #2

I was fascinated by the modern architecture sprouting out of the ground in Salford Quays. The Imperial War Museum's award winning building was conceived by Daniel Libeskind and is based on a globe shattered by conflict into 3 pieces or shards.
Fuji 100b instant film has now been discontinued but I have a few packs in the fridge....ready for New York in the Summer

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