Category Archive: Black & white photography

Darkroom coming? – maybe, with a giant Durst D659 in the wardrobe!

I’ve commented before on this blog that although I really like the blogging, and digitising my images is necessary for that, I’d really like to get back to making ‘wet prints’ but had… Continue reading

Hidden Places: Bradford 4 – Contax AX, Vivitar 19mm f/3.8, Fuji Superia 200

This one is much more obviously ‘in view’ than the previous two, but you have to be in the right place to see it. I don’t know what function it has, if any,… Continue reading

Weekly Photo Challenge: CURVES

Menston, Wharfedale (in the Metropolitan District of Bradford), West Yorkshire, UK. Olympus OM1, Zuiko 28mm f/2.8. Kodak B&W400 C-41 film.

Hidden Bradford 2 – Olympus OM4, Kodak C-41 black & white 400

This one is maybe just a little more difficult than the last one but again thousands of people pass within yards of it every day but few are aware that it is there.… Continue reading

Trees for Marie – Olympus OM, Vivitar Wide & Slim

I seem to have been taking a lot of pix of trees lately, and it made me think of Marie (tree and film photography lovers will know who I mean). I thought these… Continue reading

Hidden Bradford – Olympus OM4

Bradford has many hidden beauties, passed by thousands of people every day but rarely seen (and sometimes has very sunny days, as on this day, Tuesday 4 June). Here’s a stone and brick… Continue reading

Grand old Englishman, broken old Frenchman, resistant old German – RIP; alive – Olympus OM

Resting together alongside the Rhine in a very old part of Dusseldorf, Kaiserswerth: Rolls Royce, Citroen and the travelling kings’ castle (7 May 2013). Right alongside the Englishman is a Frenchman showing his… Continue reading

A Scottish English history in street signs – Olympus OM20, Kodak Tri-X

Another Bradford (Shipley) memory comes down – Minox 35GT and Acros 100

Out testing my Minox 35GT I came across this sad site (or sight) – the remains of the former Glen Royal cinema in Shipley (now part of the Bradford metropolis) where I spent… Continue reading

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