Got the bike Eve is going to use for a forthcoming retro bike ride down from the loft. A lovely campag equipped Euroba - race owned by a good pal Vic Posse. The freewheel is being super-efficient as I write, freewheeling in both directions which it shouldn't. I have let loose on the wd40 and hope that will do the trick.
Bear with me while go out to the darkroom to develop a film. Will not be long.
It was Eve's significant birthday recently so, as it happens, once we had paid our carbon offset took the nightmare that is traveling by plane to a warm place. Lots of bikes and electric scooters all over the place. Cafes here and there and all places; blimin cars everywhere too.
We have just about recovered from this trip. Not sure I'll do it again.
The wind may be from the frozen north but we are just dandy in our little mouse house.
Been away to the big smoke for a few days taking in the galleries and the pollution as we traipsed around the galleries and met some pals from times past.
This time from a while back at the SamyeLing Buddhist centre. I have a great deal of time for the Buddhist way of life.
Yes, we have been off island. Back to some sort of normality soon.
This time Kodak 500T film which was a cinema emulsion that uses a different development protocol that the usual c41 film. I tried it because I could. I don't like it.
The snap was in the town hall in Stornoway at the Horticultural society show.
Another from the Harman colour film taken with the little Olympus xa camera. Looks like The Crofters on Christmas day.
I don't 'do' colour. It doesn't do much for me. having said that I thought I'd try some of the new Harman Phoenix film.
Hoping this white stuff doesn't make an appearance here again in the near future. I mean, I like the look, but makes getting anywhere difficult especially off island as the mainland opposite usually cops it worse.
The exhibition we went to visit had fine sandwiches and coffee. The snaps were great as were the paintings and poems. Best of all the peeps there were lovely.
We stopped here on the way back. Why not? It was just a momentary stop.
The village has been a tad damp recently. The crofter's croft is a mud bath, the peat tracks are fine frog-spawning places.
There are new houses going up all over the village. This one one down on a croft all black and just so. I photographed here in the barn in foreground a year or two back as the local crofter wrestled sheeps - see here.
How life moves on so quickly.
The Scottish opera came to Stormoway recently and we, that's Eve and I went along. Lovely evening though the story was hard to follow unless one had a babelfish stuck in one ear as it was variously in English, French, German and Russian.
I suspect it was a take on local politics but who could tell?
We are off to an exhibition opening as I write over on the west side, the other side of this island. Snaps, writings and drawings - so lots to look forward too. I shall report back in good time.
I can hardly believe that no-one mentioned much yesterday. I love that snap.
Another Ilford G3 print this time from a 6x6 I came upon in the pile that is my filing system. My system seems to have gone to pot since we bought a new settee. anyway, this was taken using an auxiliary close up lens I think. looks like it anyway. Nice shine on the print from the kitchen light too.
I was in the darkroom yesterday and produced a couple of prints on some G3 Ilford paper I found. Did the job nicely unlike the scan here. Still a nice snap of someone going about their days. No idea where it was not that it matters.
Was taken on Polypan-f film which I really like and still have a fair amount of thank goodness. I shall be taking a few rolls of it with a suitable camera when we have a short sojourn in Edinburgh soonish on the day when Eve was born - a few years back.
