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I found this film (Ilford HP3) in an old Agfa Box Spezial, that I got as a gift. After advise from Ilford, I developed it for 12 minutes in D76, stock solution. Ilford HP3 was on the market from 1940 until 1960. From the clothes and hairstyles, I am guessing late 50's. If you know the persons on the pictures, drop me a note
Found a few of these wasps on Desert Bird of Paradise (Caesalpinia Gilliesii)
I have looked all over and was not able to positively identify them.
I was told they are possibly a species of Ichneumon wasp, but I am not certain
female pictured, in flight composite
Girl touching the end point at Jishu Shrine, a shrine dedicated to the deity of love and matchmaking. Successfully finding your way from one stone to the other with your eyes closed believed to bring luck in finding love.
Found this spot almost like an accident. In the end, the picture turned out great! In my opinion! :D
Legend has it that the abbey was founded in the 8th century, when Aubert, the bishop of Avranches, was visited by the Archangel Michael in a dream; to this day the abbey is still crowned by a statue of Michael slaying a dragon, symbolising the triumph of good over evil.
According to Celtic mythology, Mont St - Michel was one of the sea tombs to which the souls of dead were sent. Following his vision of St Michael, Bishop Aubert of Avranches built a devotional chapel at the summit of the island in 708.
In 966, Richard I, duke of Normandy, gave Mont St-Michel to the Benedictines, who turned it into the centre of learning and, in the 11th century, into something of an ecclesiastical fortress, with a military garrison at the disposal of the abbot and the king.
(The masonry used to build the abbey was brought to the Mont by boat and pulled up the hillside using ropes.)
In the 15th century, during the Hundred Years` War, the English blockaded and besieged Mont St-Michel three times. The fortified abbey withstood these assaults; it was the only place in western and nothern France not to fall into English hands.
After the Revolution, Mont St-Michel was turned into a prison.
In 1879, the land bridge was fortified into a true causeway.
In 1966 the abbey was symbolically returned to the Benedictines as a part of celebration marking its millenium - religious community moved back to what used to be the abbatial dwellings, perpuating prayer and welcome the original vocation of this place. Friars and sisters from “Les Fraternités Monastiques de Jerusalem” have been ensuring a spiritual presence since the year 2001.
Mont St-Michel and the bay became a Unesco World Heritage site in 1979.
The bay around Mont St - Michel is famed of its extraordinery tides. Depending on the season and gravitational pull of the moon, the differences between low and high tides can reach 15 m, altough the Mont is only completely surrounded by the sea during seasonal equinoxes.
Today is the bay full of silt, French government is working on its removal..the plan is to built a built a bridge instead of the present access road, to let the water floating everywhere..for more information, click here... www.projetmontsaintmichel.fr/en/
Part of a large batch of vintage negatives I purchased at an estate sale. They seem to be mostly NJ, 1930s and 1940s. If you recognize a building, please comment and let me know where it is.
.. . they drained the pond in St James Park to reveal something Tracy Emin or Damien Hirst could only dream about, Nature's own installation. Hope the curator of theTate is reading this.
I recently purchased a bag of negatives at an estate sale. Most are WW2 era photos taken in Germany. I'll add more information as I'm able to identify locations.
Found 126-format Kodachrome slide dated September 1970. I'm not at all sure what is going on here. This appears to be a waiter in a white jacket pouring a drink for the woman. But look at the surroundings - it's all a bit odd.
Found Kodachrome slide dated October 1980 showing a woman and a girl dancing. Judging by the tight DoF I think it was probably taken with a long lens.
Found Kodachrome slide dated August 1969 showing couples walking hand-in-hand through narrow streets. Is this some sort of Cornish tradition?
Objects found in the sifted debris at Fresh Kills landfill, Staten Island. They seem to be mainly guns. And bullets. The legendary photographer Joel Meyerowitz was the only photographer given access to Ground Zero. His book is called Aftermath.
I found these films among a pile of unrolled films lying on the floor of an abandoned industrial building in Karkaraly, Kazakhstan.
Found Kodachrome slide dated October 1992 showing a pub called "The Lazy Otter". An online search finds lots of references to the Lazy Otter pub at Stretham in Cambridgeshire, but this building doesn't look quite right to be that one.