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Monolith

skinnyvoice — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 06:56:38 +0000

Not quite Jupiter. British Museum

Camera & dev

Leica IIf RD, Summitar 50 f/2, Delta 100, DD-X 12mins

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British Museum 09/11/2008

The adventure with film and the site is now over one year old, so it was about time.

The photo above was one of the ones that started this project off – Leica IIf RD, Summitar 50 f/2, Delta 100, DD-X 12mins. Obviously in the days when I could afford Ilford DD-X and Ilford Delta! I also rapidly lost interest in both that particular developer and film. I was going for something bombproof at the time and the combo looked good. I now prefer the older emulsions and developers, particularly when using old lenses (The Summitar on the Leica is about 60 years old, the Leica itself a mere 53 years).

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Broken thrones and bones, cher

skinnyvoice — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 11:00:06 +0000

Spent a sunny(ish) day with Lobster Boy walking round the Greenwich peninsular. An unusual amount of bizarrely placed chairs and even a sofa presented themselves, together with knee-deep quantities of rubbish on the shore.

Used the Bessa with the Leitz Summitar 50/2. Could have done with a wider lens and the Summitar is prone to flares without the big bucket hood. I’m using up the Delta Pro 100 & Ilford DD-X. When it has gone I’ll stick to FP4+ for ISO 100 film and use the wonderful Rodinal for developing the negs, a combination I am more happy with. Cheaper too…

King of rubbish:

This ‘beach’ is seriously blighted by rubbish. It looks like a tip. I’m trying to remember what was on this site before, some kind of warehouse or a wharf for recycling? Lots of crap left over after the demolition anyway. Copious quantities of trainers too. All washed twice a day by the tide.

Lord of light:

Lots of evidence of flare here because the sun was low and the Summitar is not at its best pointing in the direction of the light source. However, the bench glows and there is a slight air of mystery.

Embedded:

More seating

These had sunk deep. The chair looks like it has fallen from a great height.

Sad Diner:

Another broken chair here. We had coffee at the ‘London Diner’ at the Dome. Another tea-hut with a grandiose name with a woman serving coffee who has strong opnions on americano and esspresso coffee a la anglaise. I agree with her and have a filter coffee instead. The crap they call esspresso from the machine they have there is unspeakably bad.

Boneyard toys:

Fisher-Price. Indestructible. Looks like a dinosaur pelvis to me.

More Fisher-price crap. It is having a laugh. You can see the rubbish behind…

Meta-trash:

A trash-can in a trash heap. Recursive or what. It wasn’t the only one. Where do you throw the trash cans?

And finally, da da da:

There is only one caption for this.

Fuck..

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