Category Archives: Ilford FP4+

Deptford Lamp Post

Stretching the point a bit (but there is a lampost in the background

I didn’t realise quite how ‘clinical’ the Fujinon lens can be. I’ll have to think a bit more carefully about the exposure with FP4+. However, it makes an interesting juxtaposition with the previous post.

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Overgrown And Flared

It was sunny! So I broke out the FP4+ and felt an overwhelming desire to use the 1934 Voigtlander Bessa RF rangefinder with its to-die-for f/3.5 Heliar lens and gigantic 6×9 negatives. Set the light meter to ISO100 and trotted off to Ladywell Fields where the dogs roam unmolested and unmolesting.
The bad news is that...

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Footprints

Too much digital recently. Too much colour
Gizmo walked across this bridge and left his footprints.

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Stones standing

This one looks a little like a Japanese stone spirit to me.
I can remember building henges with my children when we visited beaches both in Pembrokeshire and Brittany. Even building a ‘replica’ of Stonehenge on Mwnt Beach. We always had to go that bit further. Sadly, I have no photos of that one. They were...

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Power

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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 blowing in the wind.

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Striped

I walked past No 6 Deptford Creekside with Gizmo and had to go back and get my camera. Never forget a camera… or you don’t get the photo
Going in a bit closer
The chalk sign on the door had me puzzled at first but a quick search on the interwebs revealed what Deptford|Tributes is. The link...

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Double vision

Or Rock faces
It has always been thus. Shapes of mountains, rocks, natural formations etc are often named after things we are familiar with because it makes them more comprehensible to us. But there is familiar and familiar. On this holiday we could see the stars because the nights were so dark. Most of the constellations...

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