The view from Waterloo East station
I laugh when my wife says to me, as she often does, that I need to keep my brain engaged. She thinks that if I don't stay mentally agile in a few years time she'll be having to look after a senile old codger who says inappropriate things at odd times and forgets why he's standing in front of an open fridge door (wait, I think that might already be happening!). I imagine she has a good point and in fact I'm not in the mood to let that happen myself. But what she doesn't realise is that I'm a film photographer and as such in the 3 years since I started on that journey I've spent hundreds if not thousands of hours consuming information that will, ahem, improve my photography. Granted, being male, a fair bit of that time has been spent drooling over overpriced German camera gear that I can't afford but in general if nothing else this obsession with film and how to shoot it keeps my mind in constant motion. It has been a steep learning curve, really steep in fact, and even now, when I meet a 'proper' film photographer I'm still in awe. But I am learning, always learning. The journey continues and let's hope the brain fog stays away...
An image taken from the platform at Waterloo East train station, the much smaller sibling of Waterloo station proper. I've always loved this view and in fact I really like this old station which has a wonderful retro feel to it and shows a bit of character. Shot using a Kodak cinema film which gives lovely muted colours which I am very much a fan of.
35mm film photography
Leica M2
Thypoch Eureka 50mm f/2.0
Kodak Vision3 500T
The view from Waterloo East station
I laugh when my wife says to me, as she often does, that I need to keep my brain engaged. She thinks that if I don't stay mentally agile in a few years time she'll be having to look after a senile old codger who says inappropriate things at odd times and forgets why he's standing in front of an open fridge door (wait, I think that might already be happening!). I imagine she has a good point and in fact I'm not in the mood to let that happen myself. But what she doesn't realise is that I'm a film photographer and as such in the 3 years since I started on that journey I've spent hundreds if not thousands of hours consuming information that will, ahem, improve my photography. Granted, being male, a fair bit of that time has been spent drooling over overpriced German camera gear that I can't afford but in general if nothing else this obsession with film and how to shoot it keeps my mind in constant motion. It has been a steep learning curve, really steep in fact, and even now, when I meet a 'proper' film photographer I'm still in awe. But I am learning, always learning. The journey continues and let's hope the brain fog stays away...
An image taken from the platform at Waterloo East train station, the much smaller sibling of Waterloo station proper. I've always loved this view and in fact I really like this old station which has a wonderful retro feel to it and shows a bit of character. Shot using a Kodak cinema film which gives lovely muted colours which I am very much a fan of.
35mm film photography
Leica M2
Thypoch Eureka 50mm f/2.0
Kodak Vision3 500T