Harris

 We had a few hours on the Isle of Harris yesterday as Harris the Tibetan Terrier tries to bring his human pet Alethia over on the ferry - if only it would sail. This was there.

Later; Alethia , Harris and Daisy have arrived. Keith is not impressed.

I miss this lens

I used a kowa 6 camera for this snap. Stupendous thing although rather fragile which is why I don't have it now.

Pictured in Harrison - now at Uni and Jon of the GB cycling coaching team.

Sheeps by a pole

I might just have to

I might just have to stay in the darkroom for three months what with us living the epicentre of things and the like. I shall stay in the dark listening to Half Man Half Biscuit and print snaps of poles and towers. I might.

I have tears in mine eyes

Yes, I know, you have tears in your eyes too - and it's not because of grit or sand is it? No, I think we'll all have to have a look here won't we.

Perhaps I shall have to go and get treatment. I think I'm in love with these. Not sure why since I have seen them before, but in this light and with those delightful wires......

The Music

Women of the world....

Women of the world take over.

The world is seemingly falling apart. There's a virus about so stay well and keep happy.

Poles apart

I was listening to this as I wrote.

The poles are coming, trust me. They are flooding in, you can see one sneaking in here above!

I was out minding my own business the other day, unsuccessfully dodging the rain, mooching and everything and snapping a bit when I became more aware of the poles. Everywhere. I am sure they must have been here before but not really taken any notice of them. Like most poles, they really enhance the place.

Oooof, excuse me while I drool all over the keyboard as I look at these poles.  I mean ........

[I shall wash my hands while singing Happy Birthday x2, don't worry. and get a new keyboard]

ok, you have seen this place before - several times

But you haven't seen it snapped on this day in the sun and snow have you?

It's a wind and nuclear-proof bus shelter by the way.

I have used it. For the wind and bus I might add.

That day in February when the sun shone

It was only just February being the 29th and a leap year, but shone it did. A bit. Eve shot out on her bicycle and I took the opportunity to give the A3 Minolta an outing. It doesn't like bright sun despite being hooded suitably.

Here we are in the Glen, or at least walking to it. Nice innit?

I even managed to find some more plastic detritus around the place.

Around the village

On a cold day I took the Bronica out for a stroll. We saw this.

Apparently it was the wettest February since records began - and if you include the wax cylinders, that's a long time :-).

It certainly has felt wet I can tell you. I'm rusting all over!

The Crofter's place

Told you

There you are, snow and everything. It had melted a bit by the time I got out in the village for a stroll - but enjoyed it all the same. I took the Zorki6/Jupiter12 with me and some Kentmere 400 @800 and sloshed the latter in Bellini Hydrofen when I got back.

It was cold. So much so that one of The Crofter's sheeps succumbed overnight.

OOOOof, am lovin these

been playing in the cold dark room

I did have fun - for a few moments till the cold got to me. It was snowing at the time.

I wonder

I wonder if we will see some of this soon.

I wrote this two days ago and yesterday it snowed. Just a little be enough to make the ground white hereabouts in the village. Then the sun shone and most of it melted.

Snow is lovely to see and photograph. I dream of the day my best photograph will be made on the snowy day.

Dad

My late Dad, racing.

Bible black

Dylan Thomas might not have classed this as Bible Black but it was dark. Dark dark if you know what I mean. In the daytime - although it felt like night as the cold damp wind whistled round my ears threatening to whip of my hat into the Minch o'er the dunes.

I enjoyed the stroll behind the waving marram grass along the winding path. And back again. It threatened rain but gave hail in the end.

cheddar yeo

It's not all cheese you know.
Have you been there?
The caves ,the crowds and not forgetting the gorge which has a tough road for cycling through it.

ooof

Have I spelt Ooof correctly? Does it have more or less 'o's ? Not sure and I wouldn't want to get it wrong - especially since it's my fav word at the moment.

Anyway, this snap deserves an Ooof whether it's 2,3 or 4 'o's.

Keith

It's no good mumbling that you didn't want a cat snap to look at. This is Keith, hiding from the lens of the Minolta A3 and a flash. Don't blame him really.

a street

check

Just checking you know what sheeps look like. They look like this - or at least these do, on a sunny day. This is The Sunny Day we had last year. Or so it seems anyway.
It might stop raining soon. Before it snows again anyway.
I sneaked this little snap with me old Zorki6. Eh?

Bother !

It was drying but fell on the floor - which despite the floor being almost sterile [it was brushed this year anyway] collected dust. Hopefully, when fully dry it will brush off!

Anyway an Ilfobrom gd 3 print of a 6x6 neg. Toned a bit with sepia.

Of course

Of course I went in the darkroom. This was one of those prints - although print re-snapped with Eve's phone and re-aligned for here. On Kentmere Vc if you are interested.

Twas from a 6x4.5 neg which must have been from a long gone camera. Still, it's ok.

I snucked some more prints out at Toots' on Forte FB but you'll have to wait to see those. Oh, and some I did Sunday at home on Ilford FB Ilfobrom Grd3 - which you will have to wait for as well. It's a minor hoolie at the mo so I'm not sneaking out there again today - and the snaps need toning.

Tootling about

The Art Critic

Signalling he's an ex-town planner

Revisiting Taigh Taraxacum

A door

Sat here sorting snaps listening to old Glasto vids. Nice.

My lovely Valentine

The most wonderful and lovely Eve, here exiting the sea with Mr Windy after a bracing swim. Eve has spent the last twenty years or so with me and I am so very happy about this as she makes life so wonderful and puts up with my whinging.
She is the most wonderful valentine i could imagine being part of my life and I love her so very much.

I shall be 'doing' this

I'm going in darkroom soon. I mean, I may well have been in the darkroom already - with this neg. Trying to do something interesting with the neg like this digi knock off.

A wee breeze

As I write there's a wee breeze again today. And hail, and snow on the way I believe. I don't care to be honest. Not on working shift this week, no need to rush around, I can just take a little snap indoors and then disappear into the darkroom - or not.

I have just found this old seascape [sorry and all that] snap from 2011 taken on the Perkeo at the big beach.

Have a look here, I did.

a flowery thing

See. A tulip thing. Red and white. In black and white with a touch of brown.
I was playing in the Warming Room, next to the Raeburn as the wind howled and the rain lashed outside. Using some old Ilford RC as a neg and developed in the darkroom [via outside] . Here above shown as a digitally inverted and slightly coloured positive.

Not the usual view of a tulip I must say. Not sure John Blakemore would approve. I was using the FKD 'camera' that came via a good pal in Azerbaijan. It has no shutter, no anything much and mine is held together with elastic bands and gaffer tape. I stuck a 2x close-up lens over the lens to get closer and to be honest, I rather like the effect.

The neg is almost as nice - below.

Grain

I had an issue the other evening. The development of the film was less than accurate so this Kentmere400@800 came out a tad grainy in Bellini Hydrofen. I rather like it all the same. It has, i think, a nice mood about it; for a grasscape.

trolley time

It wasn't a Sunday so there were golfers out spoiling their walk round the castle grounds.

Stormy day; the day after

A storm passed though violently but quickly earlier in the week. The ferries and what have you all stopped, fishing boats sheltered in the bay here and the seagulls tied their sou-westers on. We stayed home for the day.
The next day it was lovely so we took ourselves out for a wee strollete to see if the sea survived it all. It had.

I am pleased

I think I like this snap taken just a few yards from home and depicting Storm and his pet human.

Just   as well since I am feeling a tad sluggish at the moment. My muscles are less than accommodating whilst my whinge factor has ramped up to eleven.

When one has been off the rock for a few days and feel the need to see if the sheeps are happy.

The sheeps were fine. Looking as happy as the white furry ones ever do.

At least they have their very own interesting landscape to look at and play in.

I feel better now I see nothing has changed.

Portrait

It's a lovely place here and the people in there are really interesting - although less 'interesting' than the people in the National Gallery in the same city. Why? No idea.

The formers cafe is better too and I think the exhibitions are as well. The building at the Portrait is definitely the  nicest in my 'umble opinion.

Window

Nothing new to see here, move right along there.

Probably the most famous traffic cone

See here, don't take my word for it.

It's only a place

Look, see?
That's the place we went to. And another place as it happens. Rode on a train and everything. To the other place, and back again.

But this place was the bestist. The most lovely. Even when it's shot with an XA and Polypan-f.

frocks

No I didn't buy one. Nor did Eve. In fact we barely looked at them just passed by and I took a sneaky snap with the XA.

Anyway, that's where we've been and everything. Seeing some lovely peeps, doing our thing and seeing stuff.

I came back with few snaps. My heart wasn't in it. I'm not city personised any more. I see things better in the countryside - when it's not raining and the wind not howling.

Went to a lovely artists gathering last night. Great talks by painters, writers and instalationists plus some fine music by Stephen and Urpeth. Oh, we know how to live on this island !