Summer’s last hurrah

The Wild and Tameless Sea

Lindisfarne Castle

Watching

Mr and Mrs

When cameras go right and photographers go wrong

I got chatting to a lovely lady (who you can find over here) on Twitter today, and our conversation took me tripping down Memory Lane, to the time when I was predominantly analogue and to all the experiments with a million and one different old film cameras (more about which you can find over here – a blog set up by me and my husband to chart those very same trials, errors, dramas and successes).

And some of the photographs I found tickled me muchly. You know they talk about the cutting room floor, in film-making? Well these are (some of!) the pictures that never get shown off. I hope they amuse you almost as much as they did me.

Is the shutter working?

This was the inadvertent selfie discovered when I processed a roll from my Halina Paulette which, it turned out, also had a rather shocking light-leak. It has to be kept in its case at all times…

127 to 35mm conversion.
Note to self: the frame is smaller. MIND THE HEADS!

This was taken on a Comet Bencini iiS, on Fujicolor film, cross-processed at home. Neither love nor money will buy you 127 film just now but you can, with a little fiddling, load it with 35mm. It’s just that that makes the frames smaller. So… you know… don’t lose your head 😉

My two faces

Here I am on the beach at Blackhall Rocks. This was taken my my Beloved: “Oh hell! Did I take the shot? Erm… I don’t think I did.” He did. So here you see me, one exposure smiling nicely for the camera, the other telling one of my darlings to stop climbing too high while his little brother is following. *snort*! This was taken on the Halina A1 TLR

Is the shutter working? #2

Taken with the Ensign Ful-Vue (not to be confused with the Ensign Ful-Vue Super, which I love). Let’s pretend I wanted an arty shot of that fabulously blustery sky, shall we? But I think the line of the roof (is it?) at the bottom of the shot rather gives the lie to that assumption…

The last-minute protest

All happy and full of beaming smiles, you twiddle yer knobs, adjust yer settings… and the bottom falls out of his world, not to mention the focus. *sigh*… Canon AE-1, cross-processed Fujicolor

The Moon. It was never going to work.

I mean, what was I thinking?! Over-enthusiasm, I guess. Live and learn. Lomo Lubitel II – one of my all-time favourite cameras.

There are so many more, but they’re sitting on a hard-drive in a broken laptop, so it’ll be a while before they’re recovered. One day, though, bloopers #2 🙂

 

The sea is far away…

Another from the roll of Ilford FP4+ I put through my Halina A1 at the weekend.

I adore TLRs. I love everything about them. I think they’re stunning looking, the viewfinder is like observing life via a dreamy film reel, they’re simple to use. And I even love the way attempting to frame the shot with a relatively straight horizon has me dancing like a loon and leaves me feeling a bit seasick 😊

This shot was an experiment.

And I like it!

 

Brancaster Inlet

Where the sea sneaks up on the saltmarshes. Where we parked at low tide, slept in the van, and awoke to the sound of water lapping half-way up the wheels…
You live and learn!

(Experimentation with the lensbaby)

 

Rinsey Cove

Taken with the Lensbaby on the steep path from the car park to the virtually deserted beach.

Solitary Sea-Walk