Sunday 29 January 2012

St Petersburg

Final batch for St Petersburg. More here.

Thursday 26 January 2012

Sewardstone Marsh

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Tuesday 24 January 2012

Lanzarote

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A Seashell

Holga with a macro lens loaded with Fuji Pro 400H. More here.

The Photon Camera

Recently purchased on Ebay - a plastic 6x6 Diana type camera.

The body is plastic and made in Hong Kong, I'm not sure whether the lens is plastic or glass - though somehow I suspect it's the former! The "superior" lens has three aperture settings and a shutter speed of supposedly 1/50s. If you look closely below you will see that the rim of the lens is set at a jaunty angle against the lens body
Anyway, the film winding pin had no flanges which would normally fit into the film spools so it was at first impossible to wind the film on. This problem was solved by heating a paper clip and pushing it through the pin and then cutting it to size. Once this was done, the camera was loaded with Ilford Delta 3200 and off I went to the water meadow by the River Lea at Broxbourne. The results are promising, this is a toy camera to treasure! There is also a good amount of tension in the take up spool so that you don't get fat rolls as sometimes happens in the Diana. Another plus.
Anyway, the Photon I took the Photon to Toledo & Segovia over Christmas and I'll post these results soon.

Saturday 21 January 2012

London's Burning

The smoke from the Sony depot near Enfield that was burnt down this summer during the rioting. The photos were shot whilst riding to work, the morning after the disturbances. Luckily there are no JD Sports or Currys along the river so I was not menaced by any looters. The smoke was pretty acrid though!

More from the Olympic Village.

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Friday 20 January 2012

Nazeing Meads

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Wednesday 18 January 2012

Lanzarote

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Monday 2 January 2012

A Walk from Hertford to broxbourne

Along the banks of the River Lea last November. A distance of about 9 miles. Some examples of multiple exposures shot with a Holga 135BC loaded with Portra 800. The full set is here.