Eve at Barvas

Tolsta Head

.... in Plastic

Kodak TWin 20. LUCKY100/R09

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Island Sweep

Kiev 60, Lucky100 R09

Ultra wide

Plastic fantastic camera, APX400s surveilence film and R09 - a Rodinal clone. Point it in the right direction and you have a passable snap!

Ness

Ok, the pic is not sharp. The 'camera' [Kiev 6c] is shot with holes in the shutter curtain and film transport issues - all of which wasn't really helped by using Lucky100 film. But this snap does something for me. Must be the lens - and th subject - Donald, a local chap who used to work the fishing boats from our beach many years ago. He's not too well these days but found the energy to go out with a fishing rod to the end of the old concrete peir.
Would love to know what you feel about this one.

My village

I live on the Isle of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides. Usually, you see the chocolate box pctures of the beaches and the like. Here's another view of my wonderful village overlooking The Minch - the strip of potentially rough water between here and the Scottish mainland.
The first snap is looking down the road from the house in the evening light.

A day out

The sun shone - again. I took off to the Butt of Lewis [at the top of the island] with a pal. Such a lovely day and of course I feel so good to be living here. Here's some images

The Harris Tweed Weaver

House of Sheep

Sun in Lewis

If proof was required that the sun shines in Lewis, then here it is; WhiteSettler PaulTheCrofter squinting into the sun while I capture the moment on my Voigtlander 6x9 RF.

Flower

Mr Batty

Bayble

Snap taken with Spotmatic, APX400s /R09.

While I'm posting this I find myself getting a bit on edge since outside my window the US navy are bobbing around playing war in the Minch. Here's hoping their fingers don't slip on the triggers!

Pinholery

I threw together a pinhole camera tother day made out the remains of an old folder, some card and gaffer tape with a pinhole poked in tinfoil. Loaded with FP4 and pointed at the pier near Bayble on the Eye Peninsula.

Paul's Peats

I bumped into Paul just as he was about to take in his peats he had cut earlier in the year. So, I grabbed the Spotmatic with some Delta 400 [in LC29] and followed him up.

Hebridean Homestead

My good friend in her favoured position next to the warm Rayburn.
Hassie/HP5@800/LC29

This one

Lochs Show sheep Judging

Bit of a day

Terrible day today. Felt like death warmed up this morning for some reason, couldn't get going at all. Then the old car decided not to start this evening so I could not get into work! Oops! Somehow I have lost faith in that car and may have to fork out for another - soon.

Visitor

Keith came into town with MiLady Mcglynn [see link] so I took them off to Bosta beach. Driving rain all the way there but sunshne on the beach. A wonderful spot like nowhere else I have been. Once Keith had sorted my pooter he went off home to Glasgow. This was taken with the Kowa.
Listen here while you look

Here we go again

After a longish walk before breakfast this morning in the warm sun that was showing itself over the island I got round to scanning some snaps taken with some Pentax cameras i have. Chinese ERA100 film and R09 as per usual. I took some of these a while ago and they have just surfaced.
The snap above is over Lochs way.

A few from the Kiev 4a and APX400s

Road to nowhere with North Tolsta, my village on the headland
Wood in Stornoway
... I am the walrus [Paul, the eggman]

Either souped in R09 or Suprol

Playing with istant film

Fuji Instax camras go for nothing - so I got one. Film is a bit more pricey but isn't it great?
First snap from this set-up.

100 percent MbE

Just had the pleasure of a visit from MiLady McGlynn MBE fresh from her recent World Championship winning rides in France at the World Paralympic championships where she won both the kilo and the pursuit with her pilot Ellen Hunter. Ms Mclynn has just started a blog and you can find it here

From the weekend

Kate here and I took of to the village beach for a shoot at the weekend. As it happens the weather was benign so Kate didn't freeze - too much.
Taken on the Kowa FP4/r09

Nothing

Nothing has happened. Apart from a trip to the beach this morning and meeting with a chum there with his little boy. hen the mist rolled in and I retreated to my darkroom. Such is the excitment of our lives.
LAst sunday we took a trip to Bhaltos and on the way picked up this Polish gent. Slav was on the way to Callanish to see the stones. We took him there so he could delight in being bitten to death by the midges!
Seems to be too many stones in this snap taken with the Perkeo

The morning meditation

I took an hour from my busy schedule to get down to the beach for a spot of centering meditation. I sat on the old peir facing the sea and drank in the air.
Kiev 4a. APX400s R09

I'm back

Been outwith my little village over the past week doing a spot of work related training on the mainland. Nightmare really. Not one chance to get my camera out and tired out now.
Still, I fished this neg out of the Jon Norfolk Suite and ran it through the scanner.
Callum is our local Blacksmith. His father started the business in 1920 and i spent a happy hour listening to tales of shoeing Clydesdale horses when Callum was a boy. Taken in natural light with the Kiev Klunker 60 on FP4 /R09. There is another image on my Flickr.

Ducked off

Our eggman is a mere 20o yards from home so the food-miles are low. Paul has ducks too - this little chap wasn't too keen on having his snap taken!

KOWA 6MM FP4 /R09 Kentmere Fineprint

Morning stroll

...took me along the 'road to nowhere' from the village and the light was wonderful. It wqas so cear I could see all the mainland mountians even though there are some 40 miles away across the Minch.
This was taken with the Voigtlander 6x9 Bessa RF on HP5 wrongly rated at 160[!!] and devl'pd in LC29. Just a neg scan

Getting towards the end of the day - 3pm actually. The gale is still blowin and the beach is behind!

A bit of a day

The storm cameth and then went away leaving a elctricity pole burning somehow - despite the rain. The men in the big red lorry came along and looked at it. Then the leci went off. That was yesterday. Now the leci is back on - and off and on and hopefully here to stay now the men have set up a new pole.
A day in the darkroom was planned but the enlarger needs some juice so, i set to doing some POP printing with a 5x7 neg I had not long developed. Good fun. Nothing to show for it here - yet. Howeer, here's a scanned neg from the Vivitar Ultra plactic fantastic camera. The landscape is wierd - on the road down from the house to the beach here on the Isle of Lewis

Sheepless in Tolsta

The village gala was resurrected after 17 years or so and held on the machair next to the beach. We had sheep reacing and everything planned. Foot & Mouth put paid to the sheep race; the weather the Gala. We almost took off over the Minch before we called a halt.

The old track

I've gone and the old wood has gone. But Brian is still there.

Morning

At last some colour!