Footpath diversion around works for the new Gedling Access Road.

15th January 2021 — GBR, Nottinghamshire

Ilford Delta 3200 Professional (pulled to 1600)

Voigtländer Bessa R3M

Voigtländer Nokton 40mm f/1.2 VM aspherical

B+W 022 medium yellow filter

I treated myself to a new portrait lens... now I just need to start photographing people. (I also wanted to have another go with Delta 3200... overexposed and underdeveloped is obviously the way forwards!)

17th August 2013 — GBR, Nottinghamshire

Ilford Delta 3200 Professional (pulled to 1600)

Canon EOS Rebel G (500N)

Canon EF 85mm f/1.8 USM

Canon AE-1 Program, Canon Lens FD 50mm 1:1.4, Ilford Delta 3200 Professional.

Model: Pille-Riin

Tallinn, September 2014

It’s 30 for a reason.

8th January 2021 — GBR, Nottinghamshire

Ilford Delta 3200 Professional (pulled to 1600)

Voigtländer Bessa R3M

Voigtländer Nokton 40mm f/1.2 VM aspherical

B+W 022 medium yellow filter

As my workflow improves and gets more detailed, I've wanted to go back and re-scan and reprocess this shot. I've done this with a handful of other shots, but I had to make this a new post rather than replacing the old photo because Flickr for whatever reason won't recognize the higher resolution and displays it only in the lower resolution.

For those that are interested, you can follow me on Instagram at: @the_real_jason_combs

Currently Listening:

Andras - Stereo Dunnies

One year on from the country’s inaugural National Lockdown, and two weeks into the slow process of emerging from its second, we’re still not quite out of the woods yet...

23rd March 2021 — GBR, Nottinghamshire

Ilford Delta 3200 Professional (pulled to 1600)

Voigtländer Bessa R3M

Voigtländer Nokton 75mm f/1.5 VM aspherical

B+W 022 medium yellow filter

Some kind of blue-coloured hyacinth, my younger sister’s Mothering Sunday gift (to our Mum, obviously), unfortunately misfocussed.

After four days in our little utility room it’s almost like somebody’s been hotboxing with Febreze in there – apparently this is what botanists mean by “fragrant”.

18th March 2021 — GBR, Nottinghamshire

Ilford Delta 3200 Professional (pulled to 1600)

Voigtländer Bessa R3M

Voigtländer Nokton 40mm f/1.2 VM aspherical

B+W 022 medium yellow filter

Another lonely walk in the rain.

2nd February 2021 — GBR, Nottinghamshire

Ilford Delta 3200 Professional (pulled to 1600)

Voigtländer Bessa R3M

Voigtländer Nokton 40mm f/1.2 VM aspherical

B+W 022 medium yellow filter

If we allow that Colwick Country Park is “local” to both of us, and that Rob might constitute some kind of “support bubble” for me, and that a long walk should provide a degree of “exercise”, then we didn’t break any of the rules this afternoon. And our enjoyment of this woodland shelter that we discovered was unquestionably “necessary”!

18th January 2021 — GBR, Nottinghamshire

Ilford Delta 3200 Professional (pulled to 1600)

Voigtländer Bessa R3M

Voigtländer Nokton 40mm f/1.2 VM aspherical

B+W 022 medium yellow filter

Late-night post-concert ill-advisedness with Miriam.

21st March 2013 — GBR, Merseyside

Ilford Delta 3200 Professional (pushed to 6400)

Pentacon Praktica LLC

Pentacon 50mm f/1.8

The most depressing bench in the world...

I was supposed to be going for a socially distanced walk with Zosia, but then something came up at the last moment and she had to take a rain-check. I decided there was no point in sitting at home and feeling sorry for myself, so I went for a walk anyway – whereupon I found this, and then felt sorry for myself outdoors instead.

It’ll be all right, we’ve rearranged our meeting for tomorrow!

4th January 2021 — GBR, Nottinghamshire

Ilford Delta 3200 Professional (pulled to 1600)

Voigtländer Bessa R3M

Voigtländer Nokton 40mm f/1.2 VM aspherical

B+W 022 medium yellow filter

Twelfth Night: take down the Christmas decorations, bring out the... Easter chocolates? Sure, whatever.

6th January 2021 — GBR, Nottinghamshire

Ilford Delta 3200 Professional (pulled to 1600)

Voigtländer Bessa R3M

Voigtländer Nokton 40mm f/1.2 VM aspherical

B+W 022 medium yellow filter

Assorted bits of wood in the corner of a car park. I probably should’ve stopped down slightly, instead of shooting wide open.

19th January 2021 — GBR, Nottinghamshire

Ilford Delta 3200 Professional (pulled to 1600)

Voigtländer Bessa R3M

Voigtländer Nokton 40mm f/1.2 VM aspherical

B+W 022 medium yellow filter

Taking the new secateurs for a test drive! I’m sure I should’ve done this weeks ago, before all these little buds started to show... let’s hope this late pruning doesn’t send our poor apple tree into some kind of shock or something, doesn’t ruin the harvest or whatever, because this really is quite a substantial amount I’ve just taken off.

31st March 2021 — GBR, Nottinghamshire

Ilford Delta 3200 Professional (pulled to 1600)

Voigtländer Bessa R3M

Voigtländer Nokton 40mm f/1.2 VM aspherical

B+W 022 medium yellow filter

Yet another stroll around the neighbourhood.

17th March 2021 — GBR, Nottinghamshire

Ilford Delta 3200 Professional (pulled to 1600)

Voigtländer Bessa R3M

Voigtländer Nokton 40mm f/1.2 VM aspherical

B+W 022 medium yellow filter

Ten years ago, when I undertook my last 365 Project, there was a magnificent camellia bush in this corner, whose spring buds I photographed on this very date after the old woman who lived there at the time had given me permission to come and take pictures in her garden whenever I felt like it.

Now, ten years later, the old woman is dead, and the new occupants of the house have removed the camellia bush, along with part of the fence, to facilitate their ongoing renovations.

7th March 2021 — GBR, Nottinghamshire

Ilford Delta 3200 Professional (pulled to 1600)

Voigtländer Bessa R3M

Voigtländer Nokton 40mm f/1.2 VM aspherical

B+W 022 medium yellow filter

Two months in lockdown.

(New challenges require new approaches: for the duration of my time off work, and with my horizons severely limited, I’ve decided to experiment with shooting and presenting pairs of images, instead of the usual single frames. The results might not turn out to be anything special, but there’s got to be something worthwhile in the process.)

21st May 2020 — GBR, Nottinghamshire

Ilford Delta 3200 Professional (pulled to 1600)

Canon EOS-3

Canon EF 100mm f/2.8L Macro IS USM — Sigma 50mm f/1.4 DG HSM Art

B+W 081 dark blue filter — B+W 022 medium yellow filter

It won’t be all right. Yesterday’s planned get-together with Zosia, already rescheduled for today, has now been further postponed... by the announcement of another National Lockdown. Apparently Tier 4 restrictions weren’t making enough of a difference?!

We’re still allowed out to exercise “locally”, although what exactly that means hasn’t actually been defined – but for her to drive through several different boroughs (and cross the river!) just to go for a stroll would probably be difficult to justify to any over-zealous law-enforcement officer who might stop her. So here I am, alone again, this time after dark, on the riverside embankment behind the industrial estate, pretty short on inspiration.

5th January 2021 — GBR, Nottinghamshire

Ilford Delta 3200 Professional (pulled to 1600)

Voigtländer Bessa R3M

Voigtländer Nokton 40mm f/1.2 VM aspherical

B+W 022 medium yellow filter

International Women’s Day, and also the first step on England’s “Roadmap out of Lockdown”. Anyway, here’s the underside of a bridge, because I hadn’t seen anything relevant on my walk and the light was going.

8th March 2021 — GBR, Nottinghamshire

Ilford Delta 3200 Professional (pulled to 1600)

Voigtländer Bessa R3M

Voigtländer Nokton 40mm f/1.2 VM aspherical

B+W 022 medium yellow filter

Nice. 😏

10th March 2021 — GBR, Nottinghamshire

Ilford Delta 3200 Professional (pulled to 1600)

Voigtländer Bessa R3M

Voigtländer Nokton 40mm f/1.2 VM aspherical

B+W 022 medium yellow filter

If we allow that Colwick Country Park is “local” to both of us, and that Rob might constitute some kind of “support bubble” for me, and that a long walk should provide a degree of “exercise”, then we didn’t break any of the rules this afternoon. And our enjoyment of this woodland shelter that we discovered was unquestionably “necessary”!

18th January 2021 — GBR, Nottinghamshire

Ilford Delta 3200 Professional (pulled to 1600)

Voigtländer Bessa R3M

Voigtländer Nokton 40mm f/1.2 VM aspherical

B+W 022 medium yellow filter

Photographed sometime in May 1999. Shot on Ilford Delta 3200 Professional B&W Film with a Pentax K1000 and recently scanned negative on Epson V600 scanner. Slight adjustments to contrast and cropping made in Photoshop.

Chinatown, Liverpool.

25th September 2013 — GBR, Merseyside

Ilford Delta 3200 Professional (pulled to 1600)

Canon EOS Rebel G (500N)

Canon EF 85mm f/1.8 USM

Works for the new Island Quarter development.

15th March 2021 — GBR, Nottinghamshire

Ilford Delta 3200 Professional (pulled to 1600)

Voigtländer Bessa R3M

Voigtländer Nokton 40mm f/1.2 VM aspherical

B+W 022 medium yellow filter

New spring daffodils amongst old dead montbretia, again misfocussed.

I’m starting to wonder if there’s actually an issue with the calibration of the rangefinder, given how consistent the misfocussing seems to be: always slightly in front, but only really obvious when shot wider than about f/2.8, below which the increased depth of field starts to render the intended subject sufficiently sharp that any slight softness might be more readily blamed on user error. The problem becomes most noticeable in close-ups, of course, even when not taken wide open (both yesterday’s and today’s examples were stopped down, just a little, to f/1.7), but it’s significant enough in those photos that were made at f/1.2 to be apparent even at longer focus distances (19th January and 12th February in particular stand out to me, as I can remember exactly where I was trying to place the focal point on both occasions, and where it ended up being definitely isn’t quite where I wanted it). I probably should’ve put a test roll through the camera before embarking on this year-long project with it, shouldn’t I? But it never occurred to me that an Ebay seller’s “Top Mint” designation might be only cosmetic, and not also functional! Well, I’m an idiot...

And I still haven’t explained how I ended up snoozing away the afternoon in a chair whilst waiting for the wind to die down and the sun to move off the garden, which is how this picture ended up being quite so dusky, and with unanticipated bokeh from a neighbour’s fence-mounted fairy lights.

TLDR: multiple fuck-ups result in shitty diary entry.

PS: Happy tenth birthday to my eldest nephew.

19th March 2021 — GBR, Nottinghamshire

Ilford Delta 3200 Professional (pulled to 1600)

Voigtländer Bessa R3M

Voigtländer Nokton 40mm f/1.2 VM aspherical

B+W 022 medium yellow filter

No sooner had I left the house to look for my daily picture than I bumped into my older sister and her family coming up the twitchel. She declined a group portrait, knowing that the photo would at some point end up online as part of this 365 Project, and wanting to protect her children from the weirdos of the Internet for as long as possible – which seems perfectly reasonable.

With the light already going, even in the middle of the afternoon, we kept our catch-up brief, and then continued in the opposite directions in which we’d already been heading. I don’t know where they all ended up, but I stopped walking upon discovery (and capture) of this quiet suburban scene.

10th January 2021 — GBR, Nottinghamshire

Ilford Delta 3200 Professional (pulled to 1600)

Voigtländer Bessa R3M

Voigtländer Nokton 40mm f/1.2 VM aspherical

B+W 022 medium yellow filter

I would’ve thought that this was the absolute worst time for the council to decide that glass collection was non-essential.

(New challenges require new approaches: for the duration of my time off work, and with my horizons severely limited, I’ve decided to experiment with shooting and presenting pairs of images, instead of the usual single frames. The results might not turn out to be anything special, but there’s got to be something worthwhile in the process.)

1st June 2020 — GBR, Nottinghamshire

Ilford Delta 3200 Professional (pulled to 1600)

Canon EOS-3

Canon EF 100mm f/2.8L Macro IS USM — Sigma 35mm f/1.4 DG HSM Art

B+W 061 green filter — B+W 022 medium yellow filter

Minolta Dynax 4

Maxxum AF 50mm 1.7 lens

Ilford Delta 3200 Professional

Developed in Rodinal 1:25

More snowdrops. Not just a little cluster this time, and in a better condition as well.

13th February 2021 — GBR, Nottinghamshire

Ilford Delta 3200 Professional (pulled to 1600)

Voigtländer Bessa R3M

Voigtländer Nokton 40mm f/1.2 VM aspherical

B+W 022 medium yellow filter

WORKMEN WOZ ERE.

28th March 2021 — GBR, Nottinghamshire

Ilford Delta 3200 Professional (pulled to 1600)

Voigtländer Bessa R3M

Voigtländer Nokton 40mm f/1.2 VM aspherical

B+W 022 medium yellow filter

Another cold snap! Temperatures below freezing brought more snow this morning, and although it was hovering around zero again by the time I made this photo, it still felt like minus six with the wind chill factor. Which is probably just about the coldest I’ve ever been.

8th February 2021 — GBR, Nottinghamshire

Ilford Delta 3200 Professional (pulled to 1600)

Voigtländer Bessa R3M

Voigtländer Nokton 40mm f/1.2 VM aspherical

B+W 022 medium yellow filter

Friday night fish supper! A much-needed taste of normality.

26th February 2021 — GBR, Nottinghamshire

Ilford Delta 3200 Professional (pulled to 1600)

Voigtländer Bessa R3M

Voigtländer Nokton 40mm f/1.2 VM aspherical

B+W 022 medium yellow filter

Not sure if this is a very late dinner or a very early dinner, but in either case it’d appear that ten months on furlough hasn’t yet been enough to unfuck my body clock after nigh on fourteen years of shift work.

16th January 2021 — GBR, Nottinghamshire

Ilford Delta 3200 Professional (pulled to 1600)

Voigtländer Bessa R3M

Voigtländer Nokton 40mm f/1.2 VM aspherical

B+W 022 medium yellow filter

Yet another Saturday in lockdown.

6th February 2021 — GBR, Nottinghamshire

Ilford Delta 3200 Professional (pulled to 1600)

Voigtländer Bessa R3M

Voigtländer Nokton 40mm f/1.2 VM aspherical

B+W 022 medium yellow filter

After the last week of rainfall, plus the snow that preceded it, the Trent has burst its banks rather substantially.

23rd January 2021 — GBR, Nottinghamshire

Ilford Delta 3200 Professional (pulled to 1600)

Voigtländer Bessa R3M

Voigtländer Nokton 40mm f/1.2 VM aspherical

B+W 022 medium yellow filter

A desperately uninspiring walk under increasingly heavy rain.

13th January 2021 — GBR, Nottinghamshire

Ilford Delta 3200 Professional (pulled to 1600)

Voigtländer Bessa R3M

Voigtländer Nokton 40mm f/1.2 VM aspherical

B+W 022 medium yellow filter

;-) Dont know the context of this advertising, but it caught my attention.

Exakta RTL 1000

Meyer-Optik Görlitz Oreston 1.8 50mm

Ilford Delta 3200 Pro + ID11 (stock)

After my first dose of AstraZeneca yesterday, I feel how this looks...

And yet in spite of the hot and cold shivers, and the aches in parts of my body that I never even knew existed, I still managed to find my daily picture, do some grocery shopping, cook myself a small meal AND take a Spanish lesson! Which is more than I accomplish in some twenty-hour days, never mind the mere four that I was out of bed today.

1st March 2021 — GBR, Nottinghamshire

Ilford Delta 3200 Professional (pulled to 1600)

Voigtländer Bessa R3M

Voigtländer Nokton 40mm f/1.2 VM aspherical

B+W 022 medium yellow filter

Spying on the Sainsbury’s delivery.

Downstairs, Mum and Matt were taking in the groceries; upstairs, looking out the window, I was wishing that the driver had parked further up the street, so that I could actually see him working at the back of his van.

23rd February 2021 — GBR, Nottinghamshire

Ilford Delta 3200 Professional (pulled to 1600)

Voigtländer Bessa R3M

Voigtländer Nokton 75mm f/1.5 VM aspherical

B+W 022 medium yellow filter

Still two months until spring, but some of these buds are just too keen!

21st January 2021 — GBR, Nottinghamshire

Ilford Delta 3200 Professional (pulled to 1600)

Voigtländer Bessa R3M

Voigtländer Nokton 40mm f/1.2 VM aspherical

B+W 022 medium yellow filter

Works for the new Gedling Access Road.

3rd January 2021 — GBR, Nottinghamshire

Ilford Delta 3200 Professional (pulled to 1600)

Voigtländer Bessa R3M

Voigtländer Nokton 40mm f/1.2 VM aspherical

B+W 022 medium yellow filter

In this book store I bought two interesting books about photography: central-antiquariat.de

Exakta RTL 1000

Meyer-Optik Görlitz Oreston 1.8 50mm

Ilford Delta 3200 Pro + ID11 (stock)

Footpath diversion around works for the new Gedling Access Road.

15th January 2021 — GBR, Nottinghamshire

Ilford Delta 3200 Professional (pulled to 1600)

Voigtländer Bessa R3M

Voigtländer Nokton 40mm f/1.2 VM aspherical

B+W 022 medium yellow filter

New decade, new daily photo project!

2011 included a relationship, frequent international travel, and lots of time spent at the theatre.

2021? Dunno, might go back to work at some point, might even be allowed to visit a neighbouring county eventually.

Until then, under these new Tier 4 restrictions, I guess I’ll just be making a lot of “New Topographics”-inspired studies of the local area during my permitted daily exercise.

I always like to be up bright and early on New Year’s Day, and apparently I’m not the only one.

1st January 2021 — GBR, Nottinghamshire

Ilford Delta 3200 Professional (pulled to 1600)

Voigtländer Bessa R3M

Voigtländer Nokton 40mm f/1.2 VM aspherical

B+W 022 medium yellow filter

Minolta Dynax 4

Maxxum AF 50mm 1.7 lens

Ilford Delta 3200 Professional

Developed in Rodinal 1:25