Gimme Shelter: Number 1
Oh, a storm is threat’ning My very life today If I don’t get some shelter Oh yeah, I’m gonna fade away – Gimme Shelter, The Rolling Stones Back, by popular…
2018
The Secret Life of Gloves
Many years ago, a partner of mine and mistress of mirth mused that every road in the United Kingdom had its own ‘highway glove’, such was the prevalence of the…
My Lunchtime Stroll
This woodland is a five minute walk from where I work on the university campus at Durham City. I took these today during a lunchtime stroll with workmates. I sit…
On the Horizon
In currently have two cameras with partly exposed films in them. I have one roll of 120 waiting to be developed. I haven’t written a post for days and days,…
Digital Monochrome
I have been enjoying using a Nikon 1 V1 lately, a 7 year old digital camera, for the purpose of a retrospective review for an online magazine. I have noted…
Three Chillin’ Pigeons
I watched Spring come to the north. It burst open upon it like blossom on flowers. In his poem ‘The Waste Land T. S. Eliot said, ‘April is the cruellest…
Smile, You’re On Camera
The saying used to go, ‘You are never more than 6 feet from a rat’. It may well apply to CCTV these days.
That Feeling
That feeling you get when you load a fresh roll film into your camera (in this case Pan F Plus 50 into a Yashica Mat 124G). That feeling you get…
The Results Are In – Yashica Mat 124G and Ilford SFX 200 Film
I received the scans today from my first attempt at using extended red sensitivity film and my Yashica Mat 124G. Only six images were exposed correctly. Of those, three are…
Runners
South Pier is a quiet place to run, and to do hair arranging on the hoof too!