Category Archives: Adox APH 09 (Rodinal)

Hat Trick

Taken last year at the Gaza protests.
The photo makes me laugh though.

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Walking slowly and seeing more

One thing about walking a puppy is that I walk slowly with less purpose. I am out because the dog needs a walk rather than my usual need to get somewhere. So we are wandering slowly. Walking slowly allows me to see more than I usually do, it is almost meditative. Almost. It allows me...

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Second walkies

There is no visual record of Gizmo’s first proper walk. Why? Well I took the photos, processed the negs and when the great moment arrived, I took them out of the developing tank to find them totally transparent… what????!!!!
I used the effing fixer instead of the developer… both Ilford and both in white plastic 1...

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Altazimuth

An Altazimuth or alt-azimuth mount is a simple mount used for moving a telescope, camera, helostatic mirror, or solar panel along two perpendicular axes of motion, one vertical and one horizontal. The vertical movement is known as the altitude, while the horizontal motion is called the azimuth. (Wikipedia)
One of the greatest of words anyway!
My own...

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Tri-X semi-semi stand

During a brief respite from puppy-loving I shot a roll of Tri-X on the Bessa-T with the CV 28/1.9.
I wanted to try an alternative dev for Tri-X at box speed. APH09 (Rodinal) 1+40, 15 secs initial agitation, 2 inversions at 4 minutes and 8 minutes, empty tank at 12 minutes. I wasn’t too bothered about...

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London snow!

Statement of the bleeding obvious or what…
Lets debunk a couple of things quickly:
<curmudgeon In one day 15 cms of snow achieved what Hitler and the nazis failed to do in the second world war – bring London to a halt. Outrage! />
<analyst We need to know what what the failures were that prevented people from...

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Street

Walked around Camden Town with Kate poking my lens into people’s faces. Instead of having the camera around my neck, I wrapped the neck strap around my wrist, scale-focused, guessed exposure and composition, then just lifted the camera one-handed to my eye to snap – in what I was hoping to be one confident fluid...

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Light, shadow and a cross

Let me have my Lee Friedlander moment…
Self portrait:
Friedlander produced a brilliant book of photographs in 1970 titled “Self Portrait”. Most of the images are intrusions of himself into photographs he took during the 1960’s. Intrusion is probably the correct word, accidental they are not (for the most part).
John Szarkowski, in the afterword to the reprinted...

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