Through the last four months of 2016, Emulsive.org ran the @FP4Party. Film shooters were encouraged to burn up a roll of the Ilford film during the first week of the month and post results on Twitter during the third. There was a competition for the best entries, voted on by the site’s followers.
Week 50 was ShootWeek for December’s #FP4Party. In the UK, the weather was pretty grim with the few hours of daylight barely noticeable because of widespread, freezing fog for most of the week. I had a couple of hours on Sunday morning free and took my photofriend Iain to see the Nature Alive reserve that…
Week 49 was another during which I shot more than one roll of film. I posted about the first here – the second was a roll of Kodak TMax, shot through my Canon EOS5. I’d been reading about ephem’s EOS3 and remembered that my friend Iain, who also uses an EOS3, used a multi-exposure mode that…
Today, I discovered an area that I’ve passed by hundreds of times but never realised its history or significance. The Nature Alive nature reserve is the former Swannington coal stocking yard that served the mines around Coalville for 150 years. Coal arrived from the pits in the area, was dragged up the Swannington incline, loaded…
On Friday night I went along to the opening of the Inside the Outside group’s exhibition at the Photo Parlour in Nottingham. One of their founder members is Al Brydon, a photographer that I’d met a few years ago, who produces tremendous landscape work from the Peak District. As part of the ITO exhibition, he was…
Overlapping nicely with the 52 Rolls project, last week saw the first ‘Shoot Week’ of the #FP4Party.The plan is to shoot a roll of Ilford’s iso125 stalwart during the second week of each of the next four months, posting the results during the fourth week. I chose the Lomography Sprocket Rocket, loaded up the film and shot…
I went for a nice 7 mile walk on Saturday morning right to the top of the valley I live and according to my runkeeper app I reached a climb of 2700 ft which is a record for me especially as I have ben recently diagnosed with bloody arthritis in both my feet. Last week read and…
I had a two-seater, convertible sports car when I was 26. I’ve (sort of) played a guitar since I was 35. I’ve divorced and married a younger woman when I was 38. I’ve had a carbon bicycle that cost almost a month’s wages since I was 40. But I can’t ride a motorcycle, so a…
Earlier in the year, a friend of mine bought a Mamiya RB67. It was a strange choice given that his photography is usually fast-moving, spontaneous stuff, but like many of us, he identified the type of work he wanted to move towards and bought a camera suited to it. Having tried it, and frustrated by its size and…
Week 23 saw me shoot my 41st and 42nd rolls through the 16th different camera of the project. The subject matter was the Great Central Railway’s World War Two weekend.
I’ve been working all weekend again, so apart from a little walk yesterday I didn’t get much time to myself. (Oh the joys of being a contractor – all or nothing). Hopefully I’ll be able to get out for a few hours tomorrow though. So not all bad.
You may recall that we moved house a couple of months ago. The new place is great – a big house, great garden, nature reserve right next door. You get the picture. In fact, the only thing I can fault the place for is the terrible beer in the village’s one pub. Cossington (pop. 568) is…
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