Category Archives: Monochrome

Stape Village Hall

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I didn’t date this negative but it’s from around 2017 or 2018 I think. It was a great photography subject – as can be seen from the number of times I stopped there to photograph it. A couple of years ago I was passing through and was brought up sharp as the village hall had gone – burnt to the ground. All that was left was the foundations and a pile of burnt wood. Last time I went through Stape it was a field full of sheep – no sign except the outline of the foundations with bales of straw on them. I know a few people round there – … Continue reading →

Darkroom session!

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I’ve been re-looking at my 35mm negatives from the last 12 years and was thinking about printing some of the older negatives. I have a particularly decent set from our visits to Paris from 2008 to 2010. It was an eye opener! Some of the very early negatives hadn’t survived too well. My processing wasn’t up to scratch then and some of the negatives are starting to degrade – not massively – but from tiny (miniscule!) dark spots. On the print they hardly show up but when I scan them….well, I haven’t the patience to go through the scan and ‘heal’ the white spots! I’m not sure what it is … Continue reading →

Going 10×8

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I bought a 10×8 camera last week on eBay. It’s a Bender view camera which was a self assembly wooden field camera. It hasn’t arrived as yet but I’ve been spending the weekend gathering together the accessories I need to shoot and process 10×8 film. I already have a rotary processor which can do either prints or film. It’s a French made bit of kit called a Labo. It came from Bob, a photographer I knew in Manchester, who passed away last year unfortunately. He used the Labo for print processing. I had it in my loft for a year or so and brought it down today to check it … Continue reading →