Part six of my diary/travelogue/waytorememberitinyearstocome, recording a couple of weeks spent travelling around Europe, shooting mostly black and white film. Previous instalments are here: Part 1 – Cossington, UK – Wioska, PL – Bratislava, SK Part 2 – Bratislava, SK – Orosháza, HU – Szeged, HU – Cossington, UK Part 3 – Cossington – Newcastle Part 4…
Last weekend was Fathers Day here in the UK and we popped down my parents to see my Dad. Only in the last year or so I have been taking some photos of my parents when I realised that of all the thousands of images I have taken over the last 30+ years not many…
A little late with this weeks post as it was also shot as a bit of a test for another challenge that I am taking part in … #NOGEARNOFEAR. The challenge consists of shooting an ilford disposable camera containing HP5 and trying to take 6 images of the 4 subjects … Architecture, Street, Portrait and…
I am a little behind again, I have 2 other rolls in 2 cameras half shot and also the roll that I used for expired film day during the week. I am hoping to finish off at least 1 of the rolls today weather permitting so I can get them off to the lab. This roll…
My most favourite film by a long way is ilford HP5 but strangely I have never shot it in 120 format. I don’t really have a good reason why I have never shot it so a few weeks back when starting this 52 rolls project I bought a load of 120 film including HP5. What I…
Unfortunately I was taken ill last weekend, and had to go to hospital on Monday. Nothing serious and I am OK now, but it did mean I wasn’t able to get out and about for a few days, hence me not posting last week and the rather low quality of this weeks offering. Sorry about…
Checked out new gear and didn’t expect much with HP5, but that’s just because I don’t know how to process it properly and obviously I’m more into harder gradation. I was surprised by the results.
For Roll #18 we return slightly closer to the present. Last week Kiddo and I traveled to New York City for a brief couple of days. The first rolls back are HP5 developed at home. Grand Central Terminal during the evening rush hour. There is a couple in the center of the frame dancing. Camera:…
For Week #9 I decided on using my Polaroid Land 95A camera. This camera is not exactly the most “special” of Polaroid cameras. It’s a scale focus, with a EV value system for the shutter and aperture controlled via a dial. The lens is a very basically 114mm ƒ/8 Triplet lens which is unremarkable. It’s…
Last weekend I escaped from Riyadh and popped over to Doha, the capital city of Qatar. It’s a strange place in some ways, typical of the Gulf countries where they obviously have phenomenal wealth (it’s the richest country in the world on per capita GDP) and have spent a lot of it very recently on…
I’ve been travelling a lot recently, not spending much time at home. I spent most of April in Riyadh but I also visited Karachi. I find it very difficult to take photographs on these trips – there is very little downtime and they’re not the sort of cities where a 6ft tall Englishman wearing a…
For week #7 I decided to take a shot of my lovely wife. Using a very similar setup as the shot I took of Noah the previous week, even down to the HP5+ film. My goal, however, is to get a print of this one. One of around 16×20, but printed on Silver gelatin, not…
52 rolls 