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

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

Mamiya C220TLR + Mamiya Sekor 80mm/f2.8 + expired Fuji NPZ800 (pull to 400), JOBO CPE2 rotary development at 38C for 3.15 min

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

On the Berger Straße

Canon A-1 and Canon FD 50mm f/1.4, Kentmere 400 exposed as ISO 200 in Rodinal 1+50 for 15 min @ 20°C and digitalized using kit zoom and extension tubes.

Thank you everyone for your visits, faves and comments, they are always appreciated :)

A cold, bleak day in January.

View On Black

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

Shot on a Canonet 28 with Ilford Delta 400, pulled to ISO 200.

5 minutes at 22˚C - Ilford Ilfotec HC (1+31)

© Robert Turner 2008, any unauthorised use constitutes an infringement of copyright.

Fujica ST701

CZ Jena 58/2

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

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

Tuolumne Meadows

Yosemite National Park, California

Fujichrome Velvia 50 (Pulled 1 Stop)

Nikon F3

Nikkor 50mm 1.4

Processed @ Oscar's Photo Lab

October2024. Tangled rebar on the top of a grain tower. Probably because a top section collapsed at some point. Arkadelphia, Arkansas USA.Foma100@50.PentaxZ1p. SMCPentax-FA100mmF3.5Macro.CafenolCL@1hr.CameraScan:FujifilmXH2

Chinon CE-4s

Rikenon 50mm f/1.4 + K2 Yellow Filter

Arista Premium 400 @ 200

ID-11 1+3 @ 21°C 8m 30s

#staypoorshootfilm

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

September2024.The eight ball is not the letter O. Verna’s Bar and Grill on stagecoach Road in Little Rock.CatLabs320@200.FujicaGW69ii.DDX1to4. FujifilmXH2andLaowaDreamer

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

the earth, myself, diego and señor xolotl

-Frida Kahlo, 1949

Heard Museum

Phoenix, Arizona

Cinestill 50Daylight (Pushed 2 Stops)

Nikon F3

Nikkor 50mm 1.4

Processed @ Oscar's Photo Lab

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

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

Fujica ST701

CZ Jena 58/2

Citroën wheel trim in fence.

The police officers who stopped to enquire what I was doing advised me that night photography is not a “reasonable excuse” for being out of the house during lockdown. I explained that I had simply been walking for exercise when this potential subject caught my eye. They suggested that I might want to head straight home immediately after making my exposure. I suppose it was only going to be a matter of time until something like this happened.

19th 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

New mixed-use development at the bottom of Westdale Lane. The forecourt of the used car dealership that previously occupied the site makes for a really decent-sized footprint to build on.

30th 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

Thank goodness that hardware stores and garden centres are classed as essential retail, because we need some new secateurs before I can prune the apple tree! Although this certainly isn’t the right aisle...

25th 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

Fujica ST701

CZ Jena 58/2