Category: General
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Last pictures of 2024
I’m using up my remaining holidays for 2024, taking every Monday off until Christmas so that I have long weekends to enjoy for the rest of the year. Unfortunately, the weather hasn’t been great, which has ruined our plans for hiking. On Saturday and Sunday, we actually had Storm Darragh sequestering us at home, and…
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Sunday photoblog
We started today’s walk at Basingstoke Canal in Mytchett and progressed to Pirbright where we crossed Curzon Bridge into the MOD managed land to head back to our starting point. Along the way, we stopped at Frimley Lodge Park for pictures and for feeding the birds. P had a lot of fun throwing bread scraps…
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Pictures from Saturday walk
It’s this time of the year when the sun sets before 5 p.m. Every afternoon walk becomes a race, as we try to get back to the car before it turns dark. The shorter days make it more difficult to take pictures, but at least there are the autumn colours to be thankful for.
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October snapshots
Last month, P and I hiked a lot across the many MOD managed areas surrounding our town. Here are some snapshots from our walks.
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You win some, you lose some
These are the “you lose some” from a roll of Fomapan 200 exposed with a Nikon FM2. What happened here is that I opened the camera back with the window of the Shirley Wellard film cassette still open. The winding lever was sticking every few frames, and so I rewound the film and opened the…
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Shirley Wellard film cassette in pictures
Here are some pictures of the Shirley Wellard metal film cassette.
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Farnborough International Airshow 2024 on film
This year’s Farnborough International Airshow pictures were shot on film with a Nikon FM2 and a Nikon FE2. The lens was a Nikon AF-S 300mm f/4. Both colour film and black-and-white film were used, although only the colour pictures are shown here. First, there were the fast and loud. *** Then came the fat and…
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Shirley Wellard Universal film cassette
The Shirley Wellard Universal film cassette was too much attractive vintage photography equipment to pass on. I bought two of them on eBay and successfully used one today with my Nikon FM2. The Shirley Wellard’s beautiful design and solid build are not my only reasons for buying them. In fact, having recently started shooting with…