On this day I'd donned my jammies and joined Darling Tonia on the couch and she was watching the 6 O'clock news, the doppler radar show's clear skies with one exception, the East side of Rainier. An hour and a half later replete with pants and even shoes I arrived at Tipsoo Lake, a hike that I'd taken twice prior to my camera fetish and so it was way up on my list. I'll have to go back when it's melted out, but you get the idea. Hope all of you are well, remember to hold your spouse daily, kiss your babies and always keep your I love you's current. :)
ps. it took me at least five seconds to remember which button needed pushing to post a pic.... :)
Tags: Tipsoo Lake Tipsoo Lake Mount Rainier National Park Mount Rainier Sony a7r III Sunset Darling Tonia the big c Rich Border Rich Border Landscape Reflections Governors Ridge volcano Stratovolcano
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Shot with a Kyoei "E-Acall Anastigmat 105 mm F 4.5" lens on a Canon EOS R5.
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A new apartment complex in the regenerated Coal Drops Yard area.
Tags: 120 film 6x6 Carl Zeiss Planar 80mm f2.8 Coal Drop Yards I shoot film London Medium format photography Rolleiflex 2.8E analog analogue film film is not dead Kodak Ektar 100 (expired 2012) Kings Cross, London
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Shooting on film always has it's challenges. I have a beautiful little Pentax ME Super 35mm camera that is an absolute joy to handle. Nice as it is I recently decided I'd sell it as I have about 20 film cameras and there is a certain amount of pressure being applied by my loving wife to clear the decks a little.
And so as I was listing the camera on eBay i gave it one last check to make sure it was all working and low and behold I took one shot and the mirror promptly stuck and refused to flip down. I tried this and that and couldn't get it to work so I put the listing up on eBay, selling for very cheap as "spares and repairs" and described the problem I had with it. Now photographers are a notoriously friendly and helpful lot and a day or two later I got a message from a photographer in Portugal who said he'd had the same problem with an ME Super that he had owned and described a fix. And wouldn't you know it, it worked. The mirror returned to it's rightful position and it appeared to work again.
I didn't want to list it again without putting a roll of film through it to make sure it all worked as it should so on a recent trip to the Natural History Museum in London I loaded it up with some B&W film and snapped away, shooting the whole roll. Well, I sent it off to be developed and disappointingly when the scans came back they were virtually all horribly underexposed. So now I find that the meter isn't working properly. C'est la vie (this time it really will be listed as "Spares and repairs". :)
All of that brings me to this picture and the concept of "happy accidents" which I've alluded to before. This grainy shot of the exterior of the museum building was probably 2 or 3 stops underexposed but there is something about the look of it that I absolutely love. I can't explain it but view it full screen on your computer screen and tell me I'm wrong. So for me at least, a happy accident.
Tags: Natural HIstory Museum 35mm film photography B&W Black & White I shoot film Ilford FP4+ 125 Pentax ME Super SLR Pentax-M 50mm f/1.4 WPOTY film underexposed film grainy days grain film is not dead
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Known for it's street art and graffiti and it's rather cool vibe, London's Brick Lane is a photographer's dream location. And best of all it is ever changing. The artwork you saw yesterday will be painted over tomorrow, that's just how it works. Some artwork lasts longer than others but eventually they all get painted over by other artists.
Tags: 120 film 6x6 B&W Brick Lane Carl Zeiss Planar 80mm f2.8 I shoot film Kodak Tri-X 400 London Medium format photography Rolleiflex 2.8E analog analogue black and white film film is not dead
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