Here is a couple of images from a roll i took earlier this winter. The weather was nice and cold at about -20 degrees celsius. Camera: Canon 1V. Lens: Canon 24-70 2.8l Mark I. Film: Fuji Superia 200 @iso 50 developed in Tetenal, scanned using Pakon F135+.
Early in September the wildflowers start to blossom at Barren Grounds Nature Reserve. It is a windswept plateau covered in dense thickets, but in spring comes alive with colour and bird life. On the day we were there it was overcast with occasional showers passing through. The only others around, apart from us taking photographs,…
My cousin from Holland wanted to go shopping at the QVB (Queen Victoria Building). The time needed for the exposures left her plenty of time to wander the shops. It costs nothing to window shop, and, I was particularly enarmoured by the spiral staircase in the QVB I also took her to The Strand. As…
On a rainy day the ochre tones of the rocks were enhanced by their wetness and the light. From offshore these rocks must be striking standing out from other physical features in the landscape, and serve as an aid to navigation. Taken with Holga-120WPC on Portra 160 and developed in Tetantal C41 two bath rapid…
August can bring cold frosty mornings, clear blue skies, a chill in the breeze, and a rapid fall in temperature when the sun starts to set. It is on these days when the winter sun is distant, that it seems perfect to be the only person on a beach, in the surf, or walking the…
The sky was clear when we left the beach near Red Point taking the trail through the woods to Hare Point and Carama Inlet. Walking through woodlands parallel to the beach we were out of the breeze, and could enjoy the first of the wattle scattered near stands of young banksias and gum trees. Arriving…
Deep beneath the Illawarra escarpment, where the Macquarie Rivulet exits the rainforest into farmland, is a world of tall trees, vines, fallen logs with mosses, and boulders covered in lichens. It is place where the sun barely penetrates onto the forest floor in winter, always feels damp and smells of decay. Typically, the sort of…
Trees can be vertiginous reaching straight up to sky, although some have limbs that are twisted and seem to wave instead. There are trees that have bark which is thick and hard, whilst others have thin mottled skins that flakes off. Grass trees on the other hand really have no bark at all. Trees are…
Invariably, there is a film that has been sitting in the fridge for a while needing a camera to roll in. It could be treasured a bit longer, left in that dark trove and not moved, but the world has called. Somehow it seems like the perfect film for pinhole, with its fine grain, high…
Painfully, I have become occasionally obsessed with mapping the spatial relationship of places to astronomical phenomena. The ephemeris is the perfect device for me. It allows me to determine when, and where, to position myself within a landscape to optimise the necessary impact of celestial events. In my imagination, I search for landmarks and aspects,…
Deep in the Monga National Park are the headwaters of the Mongarlowe and Buckenbowra Rivers. Whilst the Mongarlowe River flows behind the Budawangs into rugged country covered by snow gums, the clear Buckenbowra flows down the escarpment into a rainforest wilderness before finally reaching the Tasman Sea. Between the headwaters of these rivers, near the…
Last year on 52 rolls I posted two series of cross processed Velvia 50 photos during September and December 2013. One of the photos, a sunrise over tidal pools which I particularly liked, I posted elsewhere. It drew a question that felt like an implied criticism: why would I want to cross process Velvia? But…
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