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Yin & Yang
Date: July 13, 2022
Camera: Leica M-A Rangefinder
Lens: Summicron 50mm (V)
Film: Kodak Tmax 100
Developer: HC-110
-Thomas
the date： year on film only can range from 1980 to 2019
Canon Sure Shot
Rollei Retro 400s
HC110 1+63 13:20mins
Fix 5mins
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Looking towards Scotgate in Stamford. Photo taken after dropping the kids off at school and nursery one morning, heading into town to do shopping before starting work.
Voigtlander Vito II folding camera
Fomapan 100 film
Lab develop & scan
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Praktisix II with 35mm kit
Carl Zeiss Jena Flektogon Zebra 4/50mm
Film: Kodak Motion Picture 5207
Develop：CineStill ECN-2 41C 3:30Mins
Blix: 8mins 39C
Wash： 3:00 mins
Stabilizer: 1min
Flo： 1 min
Scan：Epson V800
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The fine curve up the hill of Blackfriars Street in Stamford. The red brick terrace houses were built around 1829.
Voigtlander Vito II camera
Color-Skopar 50mm f/3.5 lens
Lomo CN400 film
Lab develop & scan
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I took the picture inside the restaurant through a glass of window.
Hasselblad 500C/M
Carl Zeiss Planar T* 80mm/F2.8
Kodak Ektar 100
F4, 1/250
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Hasselblad 503cw
Carl Zeiss 80mm F2.8
Rollei RPX 100
Kodak HC110 , 1+31, 19C - 9mins
Fix: 10mins
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An abandoned and derelict building (probably a barn?) spotted while out in the Fens. I think this might have been shot with the aperture wide-open or thereabouts, quite a grey day if memory serves. There's actually a pretty shallow depth of field in this photo if you zoom in, focus was towards the front of the roof, I think I selected a particular roof beam.
I do like taking photos of decaying things so was delighted to find this ruin. I didn't explore much as it did not look stable and there was plenty of asbestos about.
The address is 3 Long Drove, Thurlby.
Meopta Flexaret Standard TLR camera
Ilford Pan F plus iso50 film
Lab develop & scan
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Hasselblad 503cw
Carl Zeiss Planar 80mm F2.8
Kodak Ektar 100
Develop：CineStill Cs41 39C 4:35Mins
Blix: 8mins 39C
Wash： 3:00 mins
Stabilizer: 1min
Flo： 1 min
Scan：Epson V800
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Not much to say, it's the pier at Skegness, photo taken with one of my favourite cameras.
Voigtlander Bessa camera from 1937
Skopar 105 mm f/4.5 lens
Kodak TMax 400 film
Lab develop & scan
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Spotted parked up in Peterborough a few weeks ago. I did crop this (to remove a white modern car behind this one), but this was the intention when I took the photo. I don't usually crop my images, I do usually straighten slightly.
Voigtlander Bessa folding camera from 1937
Skopar 105 mm f/4.5 lens
Ilford Delta 100 film
Lab develop & scan
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Voigtlander Vitessa L
Voigtlander Ultron 50mm F2.0
Ilford HP5+ 400 ISO
HC100，1+63, 12mins 20C
Fix 8mins
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A scene from crossing the Trent.
I'm not sure what's going on with this composition tbh, either I pointed the camera in the wrong direction, or the marvellous clouds I might have seen are not showing on the film. :-) Anyway, I still quite like it so have shared it.
Cosmic Symbol camera
Kentmere 100 film
Lab develop & scan
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Zeiss Ikon Taxona
Carl Zeiss Jena Tessar 37.5mm F3.5
Film: Kodak Motion Picture 5203 ISO 50 push to ISO100
Remjet Remove: Baking Soda + 1000ml 50C hot water
60 secs shaking +60 secs soak water
Develop：ECN2，39C 4:40Mins (Push 1 stop)
Blix: 8mins 39C
Wash： 3:00 mins
Stabilizer: 1min
Flo： 1 min
Scan：Epson V800
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Hasselblad Xpan
Lens：Hasselblad 45mm f4.0
Film: Ilford Pan 100
Develop：Kodak HC110, 19C 1+31, 8:50 mins
Fix: 1+4, 6mins
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Zeiss Ikon Taxona
Carl Zeiss Jena Tessar 37.5mm F3.5
Film: Kodak Motion Picture 5203 ISO 50 push to ISO100
Remjet Remove: Baking Soda + 1000ml 50C hot water
60 secs shaking +60 secs soak water
Develop：ECN2，39C 4:40Mins (Push 1 stop)
Blix: 8mins 39C
Wash： 3:00 mins
Stabilizer: 1min
Flo： 1 min
Scan：Epson V800
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HMM....... the macromonday theme for today is "junk". methinks this one will be my choice for today.
Some seats near the gates at Basel-Mulhouse airport.
A bit overexposed I think, tricky to judge these high dynamic range scenes. I always err on the side of 3+ stops over-exposed, I think I could probably relax bit about this all. :-)
Meopta Flexaret Standard
Kodak TMax 400 film
Lab develop & scan
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Just some bullrushes which caught my eye on a cycle round Ferry Meadows in Peterborough.
Voigtlander Bessa 66
Heliar lens
Fuji Pro400H film
Lab develop & scan
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Eurasian Jay (Garrulus glandarius)
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My latest ANIMAL VIDEO (it's very brief but pretty unusual: a tiny wall lizard attacks two young great tits): www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQqkSsyrm7E
THE STORY BEHIND THE PHOTO: MY LONG AND ARDUOUS JOURNEY TO BIRD PHOTOGRAPHY
If you've set yourself the challenge of exclusively shooting the wildlife in your own back yard, you might find - as I did - that bird photography is really, really hard.
It's not that reptiles are easy to photograph either, mind - but at least the ones in my garden stay (for the most part) on the ground, and one can learn how to carefully approach them with a camera. They're also clearly egoists, which from a photographer's point of view is is a great character trait: if a lizard detects a human in its vicinity, it's only interested in saving its own skin, and it won't alarm its buddies.
But birds... oh man. Over the years, my feathered friends and I have developed a lovely routine that now defines our peaceful co-existence. As soon as I as much as open a window (let alone the door), I'm instantly greeted by an eruption of panicky fluttering and hysterical shouts from my garden: "SAVE YOUR WOMEN AND CHILDREN AND FLY FOR YOUR LIVES: THE HAIRLESS, PINK MONSTER IS COMING!!! (Yes, I speak bird, and I know that this is exactly what they are shouting 😉).
Needless to say, with the exception of the redstart I already showed here, all my efforts to get the kind of detailed shots I usually strive for with my nature photography ended in complete failure and utter disillusionment. I was ready to give up on stalking the winged misanthropes in my garden altogether, but then winter came - and changed everything.
One day this past January I observed my neighbor Signora P - a kind, elderly Italian lady - putting something on the low garden wall in front of my house. At first I thought she was just putting some treat there for her cat Romeo; the young tom patrols that wall constantly (it's his favorite spot in the garden, and during the warmer months he usually lurks in the thick foliage next to it to prey on lizards).
But once I detected a lot of movement on that wall through my window, I understood she had put a little pile of bread crumbs there; she was feeding the birds who soon arrived in flocks. This was certainly well-intended on my neighbor's part, but her noble action came with a catch, and I'm afraid quite literally.
When I took a stroll through my garden the next day I discovered a suspicious amount of feathers on the ground next to the wall. Romeo had apparently switched from his low-calorie summer diet (lizard) to more energy-rich meals consisting of "fowl" (it was winter after all, so from a nutritionist's point of view this made sense).
I would find fresh traces of Romeo's victims (mostly feathers, but also the odd wing) in my garden over the following days; so my first intuition that my neighbor was feeding her cat hadn't been that far off after all, as Romeo was now clearly being "served" fresh birds on a daily basis. And although the hungry visitors seemed to be aware of the danger and became slightly more prudent, they just couldn't resist the tasty snacks Signora P put on that wall - and neither could Romeo.
It was obvious that I had to act, but talking to my neighbor - who is as stubborn as she is kind - would have been futile, I knew that much. I pondered the matter long and hard - until a light bulb went off in my head. The idea was genius. If successful, what I had in mind would not only increase the birds' chances of surviving Romeo's appetite, but also greatly benefit my own photographic endeavors.
I started to enact my master plan the very next day by buying a giant bag of bird feed (consisting mainly of sunflower seeds) from the store. Then I dragged a huge piece of a tree trunk (approx. 120 cm in height) that we normally chop firewood on from the shed out into the garden and emptied almost half of the bag's content on top of it. Signora P's buffet for birds (and cats) was about to get some serious competition 😊.
My reasoning was as follows: not only would the birds be lured away from the fatally low garden wall to a place where they were safe from the cat - there was nothing around that tree trunk that provided cover for a predator, and the birds had a nice 360° view around it at all times - but I was also able to photograph them while hiding in the shed.
However, in order for my plan to work there was one little extra measure I had to take, and it was one that risked lowering my own life expectancy considerably once the owner of the property - my mom - discovered it. You see, our shed is completely windowless, so if I wanted to use it as a blind, I had no choice but to cut a hole into one of its wooden walls... which I promptly did (I figured all's fair in love - and photography 😉).
Granted, I have absolutely zero carpentering skills, and it showed. That hole was an ugly mess: the shed's wall seemed to have had an encounter with Jack Nicholson's ax-wielding lunatic character from the film 'The Shining'. Needless to say, I was incredibly proud of my work (I mean, come on: there now was a hole where before there wasn't a hole, and it was big enough for the lens of my camera to peek through, so it was mission accomplished as far as I was concerned).
Now all I had to do was wait for the birds to discover the tree trunk. In the meantime I started to mentally prepare myself for the inevitable confrontation with my mom and go through possible explanations for that splintering hole in the wall (it was either gonna be a rabid woodpecker attack or an emergency rescue mission with a feeding tube for a little kid that had accidentally locked himself inside the shed - both seemed valid options, though I slightly preferred the locked-in kid due to the involved drama and heroism 😉).
A whole day went by, and not a single bird visited the sunflower seeds. I had expected that it might take a few hours until the first of the ever curious great tits or blue tits would show up, but given how tiny my garden is, an entire day seemed excessive. Then another day came and went: the birds kept flocking to the bread crumbs on the wall, and my tree trunk kept collecting dust. To add injury to insult, a few fresh feathers on the ground were proof that Romeo was still feasting.
It was incredibly frustrating: I provided my winged guests with a much better view - plus a higher chance of surviving the cuisine - than Signora P's place; I risked (almost) certain death at the hands of my own mother (OK, the act of vandalism on the shed I had committed for my own benefit, but still), yet the birds kept ignoring me.
Then, after three days, just before sunset, I spotted a single blue tit on the tree trunk picking away at the sunflower seeds.
When I got up the next morning I immediately realized that the loud noise that accompanies each and every tit activity had shifted from the wall to the shed. At last the dam had broken: there was a flurry of movement around the tree trunk, and I counted at least 5 different species of birds feasting on the sunflower seeds.
From day 4 onward my plan worked beautifully: the birds now indeed mostly ignored Romeo's "snack wall" and kept to the tree trunk. And yes, I was able to play peeping tom from behind the shed's wall and photograph them!! 😊
Thus, dear readers, I finally managed to produce some acceptable bird photos, and I had even saved my feathered friends from a deadly foe in the process. All through winter and spring I took advantage of my new bird hide, and in late May I started mixing some cherries with the sunflower seeds. The idea was to attract a Eurasian jay (Garrulus glandarius), and as you can see, it worked!
It took me almost three weeks and more than a few tricks to capture that clever fella, but given how long I've been rambling here already, that's a story for another day. As for my mom, she still doesn't know about the hole in the wall, so please don't snitch! 😉.
I hope you like the photo and wish you all a wonderful weekend! Many greetings from Switzerland, and as always: let me know what you think in the comments 🙏 😊 ❤!
P.S. if anyone has their own funny tale about the obstacles we photographers are prepared to overcome for a desired photo, please write it in the comments: I love such stories 😊
One of the tram stops on the Old Market Square in Nottingham, at the time of the Christmas Market.
I quite like this scene, lots going on and the composition seems to work nicely.
Olympus XA camera
Fomapan 400 film
Lab develop & scan
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Hasselblad 503CW
Carl Zeiss Sonnar 150mm f/4 CF
Close Up Filter
Rollei RPX 100
HC110 1+31, 20c , 8mins
Fix 7mins
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A street scene from Castor with the church tower of St Kyneburgha's dominating the local skyline as it has done these last thousand years or so (re-dedicated by the Normans in 1124, the church had been wrecked by Viking raids by 1012).
www.greatenglishchurches.co.uk/html/castor.html
Olympus OM20 camera
Zuiko 50mm lens
Ilford HP5+ film
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