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ChrisR

Not the golden hour... flooded field in !

, SMC K 55/1.8, reversed expired Kodacolor 200 at EI 50, lab dev & scan by Filmdev.

Colour photo of a flooded field reflecting a clump of trees. The image is dominated by a golden/orange colour, which comes from the use of a reversed colour film.
#BelieveInFilm#FilmPhotography
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ChrisR

Trees dancing? Intentional camera movement () with

, SMC K 55/1.8, reversed expired Kodacolor 200 at EI 50, lab dev & scan by Filmdev.

Orange-coloured portrait format phot showing vague vertical shapes with some diagonal streaks. Nothing is in focus. There could be just a suggestion of two trees dancing together!
#BelieveInFilm#FilmPhotography
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ChrisR

Fire and light? (Crackley Wood...)

Intentional camera movement () with

, SMC K 55/1.8, reversed expired Kodacolor 200 at EI 50, lab dev & scan by Filmdev.

Colour photo, mostly orange streaks, darker at the bottom and light at the top, it might almost be fire but instead it's the trees of Crackley Wood taken on reversed film by moving the camera.
#BelieveInFilm#FilmPhotography
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ChrisR

Castle and flood, one of the few passable photos from the expired Tri-X roll afflicted by print-through.

Fuji , TRi-X expired 2018, yellow filter, EI 400, home dev in HC-110 dilution E in the Lab-box.


Black and white photo showing a ruined castle reflected in flood waters, with a ragged sky above. There is little detail in the scene from this grey day.
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ChrisR

Castle in the sun. This is a roll of expired 200 from my pocket camera. A roll does often take quit a long time, given I'm mostly interested in black and white in cameras where I have more control, so most images on this roll are from last autumn!

Developed and scanned by Filmdev.

Photo of Kenilworth Castle in late afternoon autumn light, with a cloudy, slightly yellowed sky above. The foreground grass is in shadow, but still shows a sliver of water from one of the many floods we've had in the past 6 months.
#BelieveInFilm#FilmPhotography
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ChrisR

Autumn beech tree colour. This area is right beside the main road into Coventry, a 2-mile long avenue with woodland strip each side. A taxi-driver once told me an American passenger had labelled this road a "million dollar ride to a ten cent city"! Ouch.

Expired 200 in mju2, dev/scan by Filmdev.

A large beech tree stands to the left of this colour image, its leaves bright yellow in the autumn sun. A small tree stands further right, and the floor is carpeted with orange leaves.
#BelieveInFilm#FilmPhotography
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ChrisR

Stile in the sun. (I'm never sure how much the concept of a stile needs explaining to folk who don't have ancient footpath rights of way, but I guess it's self-explanatory!) The field it leads into is known locally as "Parliament Piece", see khas.co.uk/archives-parliament.

Expired 200 in mju2, dev/scan by Filmdev.


A wooden stile, a bit of low wooden fence with a board set to help a walker get over, leads into a field in the afternoon sun. The sun shines on the brambles nearby, but the further trees are in shadow. Colour photo.
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ChrisR

Playing on the beach at Portobello. That's the Figgate Burn flowing out to sea.

Expired 200 in mju2, dev/scan by Filmdev.


Colour photo of children playing beside a stream flowing strongly across a beach to the Firth of Forth. The sky is greay with a slight tinge of colour, but otherwise the colours are muted.
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ChrisR

It's damp!

, SMC M 35/2 lens. 400 at box, home dev in HC-110 dilution E.


Damp paving slabs on the approach to a supermarket (guarded by metal posts) reflect the alley between two coffee shops, where two people approach. Black and white photo.
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ChrisR

Splash! More local entertainment in the wet.

, SMC M 35/2 lens. 400 at box, home dev in HC-110 dilution E.


A car drives through the local ford when it has flooded, raising a splash higher than the car's roof. A group of locals stand at the railings on the left, while a young man walking towards the camera turns to look back. Bare winter trees behind. Black and white photo.
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ChrisR

Afternoon light.

, SMC M 35/2 lens. 400 at box, home dev in HC-110 dilution E.


Black and white photo showing the silhouetted castle through a fringe of trees, over a meadow with tussocks of grass showing strongly in the low afternoon sun.
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ChrisR

Magnolia.

, SMC M 35/2 lens. 400 at box, home dev in HC-110 dilution E.


Black and white photo of a profusion of light-coloured, slightly veined magnolia blossoms against a background of dark twigs.
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ChrisR

Graceful winter trees in The Common.

, SMC M 35/2 lens. 400 at box, home dev in HC-110 dilution E.


Black and white photo of a glade through sparse winter trees with little undergrowth. They appear to be swaying this way and that, but frozen in the act.
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ChrisR

Larch forest.

, SMC M 35/2 lens. 400 at box, home dev in HC-110 dilution E.


A forest of larch tree trunks in winter, mostly bare and vertical but a couple leaning diagonally in this black and white portrait format photo.
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ChrisR

Three cars in the Alvis yard. The Coventry factory stopped production in 1967, but since 1968 the Red Triangle company has been maintaining and now re-manufacturing Alvis cars in Kenilworth!

, SMC M 35/2 lens. 400 at box, home dev in HC-110 dilution E.


Black and white photo showing 3 old cars against a wooden fence. Two men are peering under the bonnet of the second car.
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ChrisR

Castle Green.

, SMC M 35/2 lens. 400 at box, home dev in HC-110 dilution E.


Black and white photo showing a wooden bench in the foreground, behind it an old-fashioned street lamp and a waste bin. Two roads come fgrom left and right to meet and continue up through the image with a grassy area to its right. At the right hand edge is a public house, beyond it a strip of cottages. At the left is a conifer and a car park.
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ChrisR

News and tobacco kiosk in Sofia, Bulgaria, early 1970. Taken with my 1 with (not Plus) film; no meter (I used the metering hints inside film boxes in those days, essentially Sunny 16).

I worked in Sofia for 4 months at that time, so plenty of time to get to know the communist world a little. The adventures there are described in a series of blog posts starting at unsustainableideas.wordpress.c .



Black and white photo, taken in bright sunshine in winter on what is obviously a cold day, showing a "PressPoint" (name in Cyrillic text) selling postcards, newspapers, cigarettes etc. There are several people, all in heavy coats; one woman wears a head scarf. Two telephone boxes on the right of the picture are in use and a woman is waiting her turn.
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ChrisR

Stratford Canal. This is taken on the bad batch of expired 120 Tri-X, but this time taken at EI 200. Only signs of print-through on these negatives were in the inter-frame gaps.

[EDIT] Home dev in HC-110 dilution E.


Black and white photo in portrait format, showing a towpath and the canal to the right running from the bottom of the frme to the centre, where they curve away to the right. Buildings are visible near the curve, and two distant figures are walking on the towpath. A tree overhangs from the left.
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ChrisR

Stratford canal again.

, Tri-X (expired, bad batch), EI 200, home dev in HC-110 dilution E.


A muddy canal at the bottom of the image dimly reflects two houses backing onto the canal, and the trunks of two closely-planted silver birch trees, bare of leaves. Black and white portrait format photo.
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ChrisR

The river Avon with swans and a big wheel.

, Tri-X (expired, bad batch), EI 200, home dev in HC-110 dilution E.


Black and white portrait format photo of a river. On the far side and dominating the skyline is a big Ferris wheel against dark moody clouds. There are bare winter trees in front of it, with a half-timbered boat house. Part of a bridge can just be seen to the left. In the foreground several swans, some immature are swimming from right to left.
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ChrisR

Stratford swan sculpture.

, Tri-X (expired, bad batch), EI 200, home dev in HC-110 dilution E.


Black and white portrait format photo showing a stainless steel sculpture of two swans greeting. They are on a four-legged plinth set in a pool. There is a group of people chatting on the lawn behind. Beyond them to the right is the bulk of the RSC Theatre, under a dark cloudy sky.
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ChrisR

Stratford church, across the river. [Edited for typo]

, Tri-X (expired, bad batch), EI 200, home dev in HC-110 dilution E.


Black and white portrait format photo showing the tower and spire of the church at Stratford, across the Avon, under a moody sky. In the foreground is an ornate bench under a willow tree.
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ChrisR

Hanging basket window flowers in the sun.

, 44K 58/2 lens, at box, home dev in HC-110 dilution B.



Portrait format black and white photo shows a shuttered window in a brick wall almost obscured by a large flower basket hanging from just above. There is a small gable end immediately above, with some interesting decorative detail, looks like tiles with small circles. Above that, a tiled roof. The hanging basket is casting a strong shadow down and to the left, in the afternoon sun.
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ChrisR

Inside the Castle.

, M 35/2 lens, Kentmere 400, yellow filter,, home dev in HC-110 dilution .


Black and white photo showing massive stone walls from inside the Castle. The walls seem almost to be stepped from lower to the right and higher to the left, where tall stone windows can be seen. A wooden structure of steps near the centre allows visitors to climb to the top of the middle wall.
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shom 🐧📷🤿🏔️🪚✊🏽

@carusb I learned of these through UK YouTube photographers, what a great concept for land use rights. I understand you can also camp for a night in some areas while transiting?

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ChrisR

@shom Footpaths in England and Wales (not Scotland) are ancient rights of way; it's quite hard to extinguish them, thankfully. Wild camping rights are currently very controversial; the only place you could do it legally without consent in England/Wales was Dartmoor but some bastard hedge fund guy bought up the land and managed to extinguish the wild camping right, subject to appeal October this year! But if you Leave No Trace you'll usually be safe...

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shom 🐧📷🤿🏔️🪚✊🏽

@carusb that's disappointing to hear. Not that I was ever going to attempt it as a brown foreigner, but still a bummer to hear.
I like jurisdictions where there are public right of ways to nature. Hawaii has a lot of colonial land use problems but all beaches are public and have access requirements. I got to do a shore scuba dive off of the property of a 5 star resort without staying there, that's nice!

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ChrisR

@shom Scotland has Right To Roam law, which makes up for the lack of public footpaths (there are also plenty of long distance trails). I think the majority of UK foreshore (between high and low water) is owned by the Crown Estate, but that doesn't necessarily allow access, except again in Scotland where there is, apparently, a common law right. Note, IANAL.

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shom 🐧📷🤿🏔️🪚✊🏽

@carusb you're not getting out of this with a disclaimer, I'm quoting you if I get in trouble ;)

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Mike

@carusb
Gosh!
Although the computer stuff mostly goes over my head it makes a great read of a snapshot in time.
Thanks for taking the time to write it.

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ChrisR

@MikeFromLFE Thanks Mike. I'm not quite sure why the series suddenly stopped, well short of finishing, but coming out of lockdown probably had something to do with it!

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Michael Meckler

@carusb A fascinating look back at what must have been an exciting experience at the time. Thank you for sharing.

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ChrisR

@michaelmeckler Thanks Michael. It was cold, it was exotic, it was somewhat terrifying, exciting, hard work and fun!

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Tony

@carusb Thanks for the link to your blog; I read the whole Bulgaria series in bits between emails over the last hour or so. Really fascinating read - must have been the trip of a lifetime!

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ChrisR

@coldkennels Thanks Tony. It was certainly interesting, as well as grim. We did have a lot of fun, and got to know a few people and a bit about a totally different culture, as well as participating in "diplomatic ex-pat" life a bit (endless games of liar dice in the American Embassy!).

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Preslav Rachev

@carusb Wow, pretty cool! I've recently begun drafting away a short alternate sci-fi story about Bulgaria cracking AI back in the 80s, and your blog post series came completely out of nowhere. Call that coincidence :)

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ChrisR

@preslavrachev Thanks Preslav. I was tempted to reply that the whole hard currency thing would have made AI a bit tricky, but then realised I was stupidly trying to jam 20-20 hindsight into alternate science fiction... Go you!

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Rom | Tapas in the sun

@carusb They had similar kiosks in Poland when it was part of the Communist block.

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tf

@carusb @tapasinthesun we used to have those in old Czechoslovakia, lot of these things go back to the ways of the Austria-Hungary empire, I’d not be surprised if this is one of them, it was called ‘trafika’, which is not a Slavonic word.

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