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Not chilly
So, it’s pretty warm right now. Friday 28th June, 43C. There is a new national record today of 44C, in Carpentras, Vaucluse, not so far away from us.The last heatwave that hit France in 2003, claimed just shy of 15 000 lives. Sincerely hope there will not be a repeat…
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Almost 2 years…
Almost two years since my last blog post.So much has happened since then… my Mum passed away, I had a heart attack and we moved to the South of France.It’s been an ‘interesting’ time.We now live in a small village between Ales and Nîmes, called Boucoiran. It’s a beautiful place,…
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Marathon
Challenged myself again this year to capture some of Metz marathon on medium format.It’s fun with a manual focus Hasselblad and runners passing at 12-13mph.Missed a couple of shots, but quite pleased with the results. Might try it next year with the Fuji GX680
I’ve also used some Fuji Pro…
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Trees
Obsession. Seems like it’s becoming that way.Light filtering through leaves, branches, towering trunks, bark,. Trees. The planet’s oxygenators.I love them and hope that some of my photography can do these amazing organisms justice.This set below shot on Fuji Acros with a Bronica ETRS 645All of these vary from 1 to…
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More Bitburg and pictorialism
So, two weeks later I returned to Bitburg airport This time as an accredited photographer and to give a client five 12” x 16” darkroom prints.There were 5 other photographers there, armed with digital…seems I was the only one with a film camera.A medium format film camera at that!As the…
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Bitburg, Autumn…
Sorry…It’s been some time since I’d written any sort of blog post. I tend to use my Instagram account for day to day photos. All the work on my Instagram account is analogue photography. Film is quite popular again amongst younger photographers, some genuine, some just hipsters who want…
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Experimentation
I’ve been messing around with some different developers and film stocks…well, started this testing anyway!First one is Rodinal (Adox Adonal) with Ilford HP5+On one of my early morning walks around Metz, I shot a roll of HP5 at box speed and then stand developed it in Adonal for 80 mins…
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Is it summer yet?
Apparenly it’s summer, nearly…although it does appear to be raining rather more then I would have hoped and is not quite warm enough either.Apart from that, Britain is close to voting in a referendum regarding staying or leaving the EU. I’m concerned that GB will leave and feel it would…
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Hasselblads, Fujis and Bronicas…
All fabulous MF cameras to shoot film.My Hassy is a 500C with a standard screen and requires plenty of light for focusing, well at least for my poor old eyes! I also have an EL/M body, sadly it has a problem and I can, currently, not mount a lens on…
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Fuji FP 100C and other stuff…
It’s been a bad week for those of us who shoot and love pack film, on our medium format cameras, with Fuji’s announcement of the discontinuation of Fuji FP100C.Ok, they’re a business and being in business means making a profit or not bothering to be in business!I have heard that…
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More January ll
Here’s the next set of images shot in January…as I said in my last post, there’s been a bit of a problem with flash syncing the hasselblad, all seems to be a bit hit and miss at the moment.Sometimes the images are perfect and other times, horribly underexposed. Maybe a…
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More January
Some more film work of Johanna, who first came to us as a client 3 years ago Unusually for me, I shot four rolls of film, three with the Fuji and one with the Hasselblad EL/MThe only photos I wasn’t happy with were with the ones with the Hassy.. First…
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Christmas and stuff…
Merry Christmas!So, it’s out of the way for another year…the season of over-eating and over-spending. Not that I dislike Christmas, but I find it a tad excessive. Nice to see happy people though. It’s been a relatively busy-ish month again. Not in the same league as October, but ticking along…
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November
Friday 13 November 2015 Yet another dark, dark day for humanity. People murdered, cold blooded, unreasoning, brutal. Horrific. I don’t really know what else to say, it’s just so heartbreaking that our species can behave in this way. Been a pretty busy month, although not quite as hectic as October……
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Pushing Delta 3200
I decided to take a short walk and waste a roll of film last night! This was purely experimental I wnated to see how Delta 3200 would react to being pushed.Shot these pics with the Hasselbald 500C and Distagon 50mm…handheld 1/30th at f/4.With hindsight, it’s still better to shoot using…
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Autumn
So usually you see fabulous photos of Autumn colours shot in daylight.I thought I’d try a few at night…Shot with a Hasselblad 500C using a Distagon 50mm, Sonnar 150mm and a Planar 80mm.Kodak Portra 400
And a couple more that don’t involve Autumn colours…(same camera and film as before)
We…
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This month
Has been busy.Hopital Schuman awards ceremony which I shot on both digital (colour) and film (Hasselblad 500C // Kodak Tri-X)
Some of the client portraits, a couple on film.
Then some personal portrait/ series work with Solene and Lucie, all shot on film with the Hasselblad 500C
Some general snaps…