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Over recent months, I have had one main photographic subject (look a few photographs back and guess...), which, for many reasons, is unlikely to make it to my photostream. Amongst other things, this makes me all the more eager to see something in the few photographs of other things that I *do* find a moment to take, and to search harder for something appealing from earlier rolls and dngs.
Here is one taken a few months ago (read a year-ish), with a Nikkormat EL I had recently purchased. Normally, and as I did when I first looked at it, I would dismiss the photograph: the exposure leaves a lot to be desired in the valley landscape, and the composition is not quite right. But, it is one of perhaps three photographs on the roll that are not intensely personal, and so, I have looked at it again, and again, again, and begun to see something else in it, a mood that is, perhaps, more than the sum of the not wholly convincing parts.
So, here it is. The valley below Bwlch Nant yr Arian, Ceredigion. Nikkormat EL, Nikon E 35/2.5. Ilford FP4 plus (@500), 510 Pyro. No editing beyond lifting the shadows a little.
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Asahi Pentax Spotmatic
Kodak Tri-X 400
Push Processed to 3200
HC-110 1:100 2 hours Stand-Dev.
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Kodak Eastman Double-X pushed 2 stops and reversed in PQ Universal + toned in Kala Namak or Himalayan Black Salt.
Best enjoyed with Dark Ambient / RUREX
Film: Rollei Retro 400S @ 800 ISO | Develop: HC-110B, 10:45 mins @ 20°C | Scan: Plustek OpticFilm 8200i
Lots of drama over the lake. I'm finding that I really like the grain of pushed Tri-X.
Tri-X shot at ei 1600, stand developed in caffenol-c-l.
After camping in the rain and snow for two days, I was restless and had to move. This is the Icefields Parkway, linking Banff and Jasper, looking south toward Bow Pass. When I broke camp and began driving south, there was nothing to see except dense fog. And then... shining mountains! I pulled over and squeezed off a few shots.
I happened to be using one of the certifiably worst lenses Nikon ever made, the cheaply made, low-priced, low-performance 35-70 mm, with a polarizing filter. It didn't matter all that much. Being there mattered. I used this shot in a photo column I wrote for Explore magazine, and then it was consigned to the archives.
Half an hour later I was in Bow Pass, above the fog, in glorious sunshine, tramping through fresh snow. I felt rejuvenated, but this was the best shot of the day - the promise proving more rewarding than the reward itself. Or maybe it was just me, seizing a moment. As for that lens, it fell apart in my hands - literally - two and a half years later, on a -20C morning in Saskatchewan. I threw away the pieces and replaced it with a Tamron 28-200 mm, which proved more versatile and optically no worse. It, too, is long gone. Lenses come, lenses go, I don't get attached. They're only tools.
Photographed in Banff National Park, Alberta (Canada); scanned from the original Fujichrome Provia 100 slide, pushed to ISO 200 (1-stop push in processing). Don't use this image on websites, blogs, or other media without explicit permission © 1998 James R. Page - all rights reserved.
Hasselblad 501CM
Carl Zeiss Planar 3.5/100 T* CFi
f11
1/250th second
Kodak T-Max 400 (EI 800)
Hasselblad Orange 21 filter
Hand-held
Self-developed in Ilfotec DD-X 1:4 at 20 C for 10 mins.
Digitised with DSLR
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May2025. The VFW on Kanis Road in Little Rock, Arkansas USA Foma100@200.Minolta505SI-super.MinoltaAF50mmMacro.YellowFilter.HC110-E.AGOFilmProcessor@6minutes.CameraScan:FujifilmXH1
Leica M6 TTL 0.85 | Leitz 50mm f2 Summicron | Kodak Tri-X @1600 | Kodak HC110b | www.JohnnyMartyr.com
The 50 1.2 is a remarkable lens, super sharp at most apertures, except wide-open where it just dissolves into dreamy blur. Kinda love that.
Nikon FE - Nikkor 50 1.2 - Ilford HP5 @ 800 - Rodinal 1+50 - dslr scan
Nikon FE - Nikkor 50 1.2 AI-s - Ilford HP5+ @ 1600 - Rodinal 1+75 - semi-stand dev 90 min, agitate every 15min - dslr scan
Toronto ON - Looking west from Gerrard Street East at night. March 2023.
taken on a Canon F-1 slr w/ 50mm FD f1.8 lens + polarizer. Kosmo Foto Agent Shadow 400 B&W film pushed to 1600.
Nikon F3, Nikkor 85/2, Kodak Tri-X 400@640, push +1 development. HC-110/dil. B, 8 min. Digitized with Nikon D700, AF Micro-Nikkor 60/2.8 D, Nikon ES-2, CS-LITE
Nikon FE - Nikkor 50 12. AI-s - orange filter - Ilford HP5+ @ 1600 - semi-stand develop - Rodinal 1+75 - 90 min, agitate every 10-15min - dslr scan
the things that make you want to scream
and the things that make you feel alive
are the things you gotta keep around
Cinestill 50Daylight (Pushed 2 Stops)
Nikon F3
Nikkor 50mm 1.4
Processed @ Oscar's Photo Lab