Category Archives: Kodak Tri-X

Hat Trick

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

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Skem Bare Market

Long time Skelmersdale council housing tenant Hazel Scully is pleased that West Lancashire borough council is planning a facelift for run-down Skelmersdale town centre – there’ll be a new high street, shops, cinema, library, sports centre, swimming pool, housing, and a lovely landscaped park to replace the spooky weedfest along...

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Mass Photo Gathering In Defence Of Street Photography

Dear viewer, look away now if you don’t like grainy poorly exposed and focused B&W photos…
I pushed Tri-X to 1600 and in a fit of madness developed it in Rodinal. Since I was also guessing exposure and zone focusing the results are somewhat ‘interesting’. The images look slightly better resized when you click them.
It was...

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More Of An Interlude

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Swing low

We regularly go to the park at St Alfeges with the dog. I’ve photographed it before (often…) but one of the advantages of repeatedly visiting somewhere is that you get the chance to both develop ideas and take advantage of different light. It becomes possible to anticipate and execute pre-visualisation more effectively.

The playground holds a...

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Three different

Three different subjects. Nothing except the chemistry and camera to relate the content.
First a bricked up arch containing a bricked up door covered with an entrance to the fouth dimension in Millwall Park on the Isle of Dogs. Looks like sci-fi to me anyway.

Second, a child’s broken trolley abandoned on Point Hill

Third, a tree in...

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Kites

We came across a kite fair on Blackheath Common. The clouds provided a dramatic backdrop. I only had a green/yellow 060 filter with me, I could have done with the red 090 for the clouds.
I found these big ‘kites’ absolutely hypnotic, moving slowly and lugubriously in the wind, stangely synchronised in their movement.

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What took me so long…

…to use HC-110 with Tri-X?
Love it.
I shot this test roll at EV 320 and developed it in HC-110 dilution ‘H’ 1+63 for 13 minutes. 30 secs initial agitation, 3 gentle inversions every minute. Leica M6 with Summicron 35/2 IV plus yellow green filter.
Fence
Shop
I’m going to have to start varying the dog walks because I’m...

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