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Rockery

Some more from our holiday: This pair of Converses took a beating. They were pink and silver before the holiday. These photos were taken with the Zero 2000 pinhole, average exposure approx 2.5 minutes. It amazes me how this lensless camera has almost limitless depth of field. The bluring is a result of the flowers…

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Pyro

This was waiting on the mat at the Concierge for me when I returned home: Pyrogallol was a very popular dev for glass plates in the 1880s, the most popular in fact. It (the modern PMK formula) is a staining developer that emphasises sharpness and detail very subtly. It has been described as ‘Rodinal on…

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