Waiting at the bus stop in a gale

Oooof, that's what it feels like anyway. When the wind is howling, the rain coming at you horizontally and you have just had your hair done. Not that I often have my hair done you understand but I should, only I have to look at myself in the mirror for the time it takes to make the cut and I'm less keen on that I can tell you.

The image? Chemigram.

Getting the 6x9 out

Down t'road

Oooof

The flippin pooter thing keeps trying to 'Poof' my ooof which does rather irritate me. Got the feeling this fella wasn't too keen on a full frontal as he rushed off, I use the term loosely here.

He did me a favour really - I quite like the resulting cropped imge

That day

Outside Notn

 Behind this place

In front of...

This day

What else does one shoot on a dreich day in Stormoway when you have a Minolta 505si/50mm f1.7 with Foma 200 in your bag? Eh. Tell me that?

xa madness

A few more from that cold stroll around the village

I wasn't having the best day of my life

It wasn't the best day of my life when I processed this snap. Nor the worst either thank goodness but the day did rank low on my good days list. I'd not been feeling so well. My hands ached as did my tummy and my sinuses pained me. And that's the bits I am going to tell you about. Maybe this cold winter is getting to me. Maybe I need a change of scenery for a day or two. Just as well we are have a few days away booked soon. I am so looking forward to that.

Oh yes, I shall take a camera. And film.

I went down there

That was a nice day, the sun shone and it wasn't quite freezing.

Maybe the world will seem a sunnier place today.

I'm officially bored now

The snaps are nice enough but, oh so boring they are. Not sure why I'm snapping them up to be honest. All can say here is that is HP5 shot at 100asa by mistake.

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See this house

Ooof, such a potentially nice house in a lovely location. I can even remember the gentleman who lived here a few years ago. On Harris.

Not sheeps

Well yes there are sheeps actually but that's not why I posted this snap. The sheeps are on a croft which still shows the lazybeds that helped the crofters feed themselves in this harsh environment. This on the east of Harris, a fine if rocky lunar-scape of a place where crofters were placed during the clearances after being cleared from the relative lush east of the island.

There are plenty of lazybeds to be seen here if that's your thing, I just liked the look of these. Taken with the OM1n/Kentmere 400.

The Grate man

Now look

A Soviet camera [Zorki 6 / Industar61 ] and some cheap as [and including some] dust film [polypan-f - doused in PQ developer]. And I can still make a mess of it. At least there were some telephone lines in the shot to spice it up a bit.
Down Harris way.

I wish I could remember why I wanted to show you this

It's not all a bed of roses

Dear reader [I am hopeful] please may I refer you back to yesterday's post. and now here you see this. eh? Took the snap from inside the car [passenger] as Toots drove us to Harris. Twas cold and wet. It wasn't at all hopeful and took a coffee and cake at the Harris Distillery cafe to restore out faith in the day. The rain stopped and the day was good in the end.

I couldn't help myself

 As you well know by now, although how I don't know, I am not a landscapist. Yes I take snaps and yes I must admit they do often seem to feature the land in them. And here is the reason why; I can't help myself. "Hello, I am Andrea and addicted to snapping up whatever". And whatever round these parts when one is accompanying the great Toots on this weeks' project is the island here. You get out of the car and there it is slapping you in the face with all its whatever it has.

You'd do the same.

13th

The 13th eh? Must be why the whites are blown out, the black not black and greys only just.

These sheeps were posing down Harris way for that Toots fella while he twiddled this and that on his camera.

I'll think I'll go back to bed.

I wish Fay Godwin had been here

I rather like the work of Fay Godwin. She was here on the island once though not sure she saw this gate. I wish had, she would have made a better fist of the snap than I did.

I heard this lovely little song on t'radio today. What's that all about then?

Not what I intended

This bloggette was not meant to be a homage to my pal Toots Wilson and his photographising, neither was it mean to be a picturing-up of the island we live on. It just seems like it. I did envisage having a little more to say about photographising - but it seems to have slipped. Sorry about that.

almost a proper snap

Out o'er Bernera way with a Minotla 505si and F1.7 lens. Hp5 @ 800 and rodinal when I came home.
Was it worth it? Well, the trip was. I love that place accessed by a short bridge over the sea.