Art Deco Viking Grandmas
Expired Ilford FP4+. Double exposure by me.
The film was developed at home by me in Ilfosol-3 for 9.5 minutes on December 7th 2014.
The Art Deco building was shot near Faringdon in London on a Cosmic Symbol camera on May 28th 2014. The image of the Viking Grandmas (a singing group) was taken in West Leeds on an Olympus 35DC on Sunday 3rd July 2011.
There is another photo like this on the roll, and it is amazing that I would manage to take the two photos of the art deco building on top of the two photos of the Viking Grandmas. Since the other photo is oriented landscape and favours the Viking Grandmas I thought I would favour the building this time and post it portrait.
This is an unintentional film swap. I originally put this charity shop roll of expired Ilford FP4+ into an Olympus 35DC in 2008, and shot the occasional frame on it until 2011, when the camera got put away in a tidying frenzy. In 2014 I pulled it out to finish the film but by then the battery was dead. I thought I had at least half the film still left to shoot, so I rewound it and put it into my Cosmic Symbol, which would need no battery. I thought I had shot through the correct number of frames with my hand over the lens to get to the unexposed part but evidently I underestimated this because there are a lot of double exposures.
The difference between my life in 2011 and now in 2014 is represented in some of these images. In many ways they show what my overlapping memories and feelings seem like. They are not a traditional film swap, but the "difference in me" between then and now almost makes up for the two images not being taken by different people, so I'm treating them as if they were.
Art Deco Viking Grandmas
Expired Ilford FP4+. Double exposure by me.
The film was developed at home by me in Ilfosol-3 for 9.5 minutes on December 7th 2014.
The Art Deco building was shot near Faringdon in London on a Cosmic Symbol camera on May 28th 2014. The image of the Viking Grandmas (a singing group) was taken in West Leeds on an Olympus 35DC on Sunday 3rd July 2011.
There is another photo like this on the roll, and it is amazing that I would manage to take the two photos of the art deco building on top of the two photos of the Viking Grandmas. Since the other photo is oriented landscape and favours the Viking Grandmas I thought I would favour the building this time and post it portrait.
This is an unintentional film swap. I originally put this charity shop roll of expired Ilford FP4+ into an Olympus 35DC in 2008, and shot the occasional frame on it until 2011, when the camera got put away in a tidying frenzy. In 2014 I pulled it out to finish the film but by then the battery was dead. I thought I had at least half the film still left to shoot, so I rewound it and put it into my Cosmic Symbol, which would need no battery. I thought I had shot through the correct number of frames with my hand over the lens to get to the unexposed part but evidently I underestimated this because there are a lot of double exposures.
The difference between my life in 2011 and now in 2014 is represented in some of these images. In many ways they show what my overlapping memories and feelings seem like. They are not a traditional film swap, but the "difference in me" between then and now almost makes up for the two images not being taken by different people, so I'm treating them as if they were.