Today is the day to vote in the UK. Don't forget your ID. And vote for the benefit of everyone.
This snap is my neighbour Bernard when we use to to live in England. Lovely chap and I snapped him up on a glass plate. Hey, I was really cutting edge in those days.
My good friend Ian.
I went down to his place to help finish a film in one of his cameras - a Mamiya c330. Never used a camera like this before but I did take to it once Toots had finished taking his snap. The lens on this machine seems really nice. The film was FP4 and sloshed in Rodinal.
Yes we went to Manchester. Both Eve and I used to work there but that didn't help finding our way around. So much seems to have changed although the graffiti is still there. The Manchester Art gallery is still lovely as is the obvious visit to the Real Camera Co. I did manage to get out without buying anything despite Eve trying to fob me off with some old Leica she saw. Not a patch on the 1955 Minolta A3 rangefinder which is my current brick of choice. Ok the Leica looks like a jewel, takes nice snaps and everything but I can buy a lot of film from the cost of it.
A nice little place sadly overrun by tourists like we were. Home of a wonderful photog and darkroom worker and not too far from where we used to live before we were 'saved' and moved up here to this breezy damp rock on the edge of the Atlantic.
I might add here the TDF has started so expect a delay now and again on here.
