Feeling not focus

Love these images made on the Koroll 24S half-frame 120. Using FP4 in R09 [Rodinal clone], the images i think are greatly enhanced by being soft or, out of focus. Great little camera with just f9 or f16 and scale focus. 2/6 on the auction siite, get and try one .

Who you calling a frog?

Waiting for the off

A few people I have shared the

last few years at work with.

Kiev 6c HP5 R09

Hassel

A day at Bosta

I having some trouble accessing my Flickr account so may have to put more here. This was taken with the Agfa Record 6x9.

Friends and Partner

Hassy

X-Process Vericolor

Koroll S

From the Sporti

Going north

In a few weeks, Eve, my dear partner and I will be ooping sticks and making a new life on the Isle of Lewis. An example of the place can be seen here;

This blog be quiet for a few weeks till I get the wires connected but I will be back!

Normal service

.. will return when i get round to developing a film. Been away you see.

Tea among the tyres

Kiev 4a Delta400 Lc29

An old snap

Rugby player Jeremy Guscott on a Old Ordinary.

Kodak Cresta

A crappy little bakalite camera with, I found out later, had a crack that lets in light. Loaded wih old safety film sloshed in PQ Universal it did produce these images.

A walk with Sporti

I took the day off from walk since i was feeling really under the weather. after a cuple of hours rest in bed, i decided a short wak was in order so i took off with my Ilford Sporti camera and some HP5

Another couple of snaps

A Lewis evening; Agfa Record.

from the archive that I rather like although technically it's not quite there. kiev60

Tummy of Love

Not sure if this one has seen the light of day. taken at the World Cup at the velodrome recently.

Heather

I don't snap riders at the velodrome that much. Bit like a bus-man's holiday and all that. But from time to time I have a camera with me and here a flash too lighting up the Tmax400 that had loaded in a kiev60 that sometimes works. Souped in R09 for a while @ 1:100.

The Old Car

We just got a "new to us" car - a red one as it happens with doors that all open and close and radio that works. While The Old Car was awaiting to be taken to that Car Place In The Sky, the local Yoof trashed it! As it happens someone noticed the drunken idiots and challenged them - only to be threatnd. Such is Gtr Manc. life these days. Hopefully, for us, for not much longer.

As a parting shot, here's a nic snap of The Old Car.

With an Ilford Sporti

A lovely simple camera given to me by my chum Malc. Thanks mate, tis lovely

Leci man

We had to have bill over recently - to tie some knots in wires and the like, As a result, I get the chance to snap him.

since the weather was nice, Eve I took off for a local stroll while Bill was doing his thing.

Minolta A5 Delta400/LC29

The Fence

Ziess Ikon 6x9 folder. Forte200 @ 100 FD10

Snapping at work

I took the P30 pentax in today as Simon wanted me to snap him in his glory as duty manager. Basically, the weights he does has filled him out so his shirt barely fits. I snapped him with the Pentax and took the kiev 60 too - just to give him a fright.

Here's a couple from the P30 and delta 400 in lc29

Spotmatic on the loose

Era100/R09

Kodak Cresta

Kodak Cresta camera. Perutz safety Film. FD10. A little bit of

PSS

Solarised Fp4.

Hasselblad FP4 solarised in development [R09].

Would welcome any comments

Franka Rolfix

Perutz safety Film @ 400 in FD10

Minolta A5 rangefinder. Delta 400 LC29

The Clan

Eve, my dear partner was another year older this weekend so we had a trip over to see her family. Could not resist a camera in the bag - Minolta A5 rangefinder with Delta400 -later sloshed in Lc29.

'Princess' Victoria

An 'old' snap of World Track Cycling Sprint Champion Victoria Pendleton looking particulalry regal while awaiting to present awards to other cyclists at the Manchester Velodrome. This snap should be on her web-site soon.

At the time of writing, Ms Pendleton will be putting the final touches to her preperation for the World Champs in majorca soon. I wish her all the luck!

Formby

Never been there before so my dear partner Eve & I took off in our ancient mobile and arrived in Formby to be confronted with hoardes of visitors. The NT site was heaving, car park full and ice-cream seller doing a roaring trade despite the overcast conditions.

Weather had taken it's toll on the dunes and the hundreds of feet takingshorts cuts has not helped.

Here, the sand moving had exposed mud-rock which had carved off creating a interesting residue at the base of the dune on the beach side.
The beach was too crowded for Eve & I so we took off up the path inland towards trees, home for red-squirrel [see top].

Here we came across the nice NT man who was evicting the frog spawn who, since they hatch earlier than the natterjack toads, see the toad spawn as legit food.

Had a lovely stroll along with my Minolta A5 rangefinder and some APX400 film which was then souped in LC29

simon - again

simon asked me to snap him again. So I did, with an old bakalite Kodak Cresta camera - no controls on it at all. Here he is posing again;

Forte 200 / Developer cocktail

..after Misonne

This is the sort of thing I get up to when there's work to be done at home. Any form of distraction will do. If you don't know Misonne, check here http://www.josephbellows.com/artists/leonard_misonne/

People from work

Tracy, bookings

Bill, the Lecci Man.

From time to time i take a camera in to snap the people at woork. Not the cylists ver much as they have their photo taken all the time.

Re visoned from the past

Seen and snapped with the Voigtlnder Bessa RF 6x9 in Cienfugo, Cuba.