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Overcooked

Bright sunlight, dark shadows, contrasty lens, red filter, Tri-X and Rodinal. Asking for trouble… These turned out a little overdeveloped grrrr. Legs Whilst laying around this concrete pillar in the baking sunshine two guys came over and one proclaimed loudly to the other “This is a classic example of brutalist concrete architecure, possibly military in…

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Brollies, steps, doors & benches

A week of wondering around taking relatively few photographs. This roll seems to have a concentrate of my fave subjects… I can’t resist a broken brolly, especially in such a dramatic setting. A broken brolly implies some sort of drama anyway. There are plenty of benches on the roll Gizmo bottom left Steps… to nowhere?…

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Light, dark and zombie dawn

Walking in the evening with the dog gives me the excuse to photograph in interesting light. I was using a medium red filter on the Summicron to photograph some dramatic sunset clouds from Point Hill but took this of Kate facing the sunset. It looks like she is the spectator at a nearby nuclear explosion,…

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Reflections and mirrors

Laban in Deptford is such an obvious place for reflections. It has huge mirrored windows that give really interesting perspectives on the surrounding area. I assume the window glass is really high quality because it is not easy to tell which side is real and which is the strange mirror world. Sometimes there are obvious…

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Filled arches, faux arches, and a chair

Following on from the themes on filled and faux doors and arches and chairs… Silk Mills Path, Lewisham This next one isn’t filled but it is an arch (well ‘ish’, upside down anyway). Wurlitzer juke box between Creekside and Deptford Church St, Deptford This chair is not abandoned yet in the official sense but its…

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