Monochrome Wednesday

13-11-19

Last week I went to The British Motor Museum at Gaydon, Warwickshire with some old friends that I’ve known since the early 1960’s. The lens on my Olympus EPL1 has given up the ghost, it’s a fault with an internal ribbon cable according to the web, and quite common, so I took my old Olympus E620 along instead, it’s a bit noisier at higher iso’s but it didn’t do too badly.

Rovers
Speed 14 Saloon.

Gas turbine Prototype.

I have a bit of a soft spot for Rovers, I had a 1953 Rover 75 in the late 1970’s, exactly the same as the one in the picture above, and in the 1980’s I worked at an electrical engineering factory that made gas turbines. 

Jaguars

1932 -16hp coupe.

1935 Airline, love the style of this one, so elegant.

Aluminium XJ.

James Bond XKR, there have been a few times when I wished I had one of these on the roof of my car.

Daimler

1950 Daimler “Green Goddess” coupe, and a bit of a selfie.

It was a great day out with good company. 

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Monochrome Wednesday

06-11-19

Flowering Ivy

Pentax MX – Pentax 50mm f1.7 – +2 Dioptre Filter – Fomapan 100

With all the rain we have had in my part of the UK the Ivy has gone into overdrive, this is the first time I’ve seen it flower.

Monochrome Wednesday

30-10-19

Big Leaves

Rolleiflex 3.5 E3 – Ilford HP5+ – Kodak D76

Monochrome Wednesday

16-10-19

Rose Hips

Pentax MX – Pentax 50mm f1.7 – +2 Dioptre Filter – Fomapan 100

This is the first time I’ve used Fomapan 100, I’m quite impressed.

Monochrome Wednesday

09-10-19

Fleur With Feather

Olympus E620 Digital Camera – PP in Silver Efex.

Fleur had proudly captured this feather. Image taken earlier this year in my garden.

Monochrome Wednesday

02-10-19

Goosenecks State Park UT

Olympus OM2n – Zuiko 24mm f2.8 – Kodak TriX (I think)

An incredible place to visit, so spectacular.

Monochrome Wednesday

25-09-19

Steps In The Woods

Olympus OM2n – Vivitar 19mm f3.8 – Konica ir750 film.

This is an old one from the archive, mid 1990’s I think. Taken on a walk in Lathkil Dale  Derbyshire. I was quite surprised to see these steps abandoned in the woods, they were nicely covered in moss. It was quite dark and I thought the image would be underexposed, the lens was wide open (not good for the Vivitar) but the lovely Konica infrared film didn’t let me down.

Monochrome Wednesday (PhotoBuddies Outing)

18-09-19

Another contribution to “Monochrome Wednesday” combined with the PhotoBuddies outing to the Lincolnshire coast.

When I developed this film I thought I had already put 2 films through the stock developer solution so increased the developing time to compensate, I hadn’t put any films through, in consequence this roll was overdeveloped, but thanks to the latitude of Ilford HP5+ and with some help from Lightroom I managed to retrieve some images. 

Wide Open Spaces

The sea goes out a long way at low tide in this area.

Failed Group Shot

Placed the camera on the tripod, set the self timer and dashed back to the PhotoBuddies, the wind caught the camera strap and masked us out perfectly !

PhotoBuddies

That’s me on the right.

Tank

The military use this area for target practice, hence the old tank chassis. Apparently
it’s an A34 Comet Tank.

Danger Zone

Do not enter when Red flags are flying.

Military Buildings

It was a great PhotoBuddies outing. We went down the coast a bit to Mablethorpe, a very traditional seaside resort. Had some really excellent Fish & Chips and a walk along the sea front. Took some images with my film compact camera, will post these soon.

Monochrome Wednesday

11-09-19

Launde Abbey

Olympus OM2sp – Zuiko 28mm f 2.0 – Ilford HP5+ – Ilford ID11

Took this image on Sunday (08-09-19) It was a lovely day, and so was the lunch in the Abbey Cafe. Thought I had already used the developer for 2 films so increased the development time, of course I hadn’t ! This over developed the film blowing some of the highlights, with the help of Lightroom I managed to get some reasonable images.

Monochrome Wednesday

04-09-19

Stranger On The Shore

Not the instrumental by Acker Bilk (those of a certain age will remember) not even a stranger, but one of my PhotoBuddies admiring the view.

Yesterday me and the PhotoBuddies (and a PhotoBuddies wife) went on an excursion to the Lincolnshire Coast near Theddlethorpe St. Helen. The weather forecast had been less than promising but the sun shone all the time we were there, it was a lovely warm day in a great location. After the visit we went into the nearby seaside resort of Mablethorpe for Fish & Chips and a look around the town, the Fish & Chips were really good. This morning I had to apply aftersun cream as my head resembled a ripening tomato. I took along a couple of film cameras too, and hopefully will have some images from those to post soon.