Lost Film & Polling Stations. 27th October.

I took this photo back in April when I was in London for a friend's birthday. A couple of weeks ago I found the roll of film containing this photograph on a shelf... so I finally got it developed today! I'm a little annoyed that I waited so long to get it developed as the photos have, but I'm still happy that I've found a whole load of lost photographs. 

I'm scanning in a few rolls that I got developed today, so the scans may be uploaded sometime soon.. either on here, my website, or facebook (look below for links). 

It was voting day in my little town on Thursday, this small parish hall was garbed in "Polling Station" signs, definitely thought it was worth a photograph!

I'm off to London tomorrow to start at Rankin on Monday, quite excited.. I aim to blog daily if everything goes to plan.

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Police Cars and Film Scans. 9th October.

Today's photo-a-day ^ ^ ^: a picture hanging in my house which I thought was a little bit interesting.

Most of today has consisted of Negative Scanning, these photos are from my early days of shooting film... they're definitely not the worst of my early-days photos, I cringe looking at the over exposed, out of focus, chemically-stained negatives, these were some of my successful ones:

Les Paul Epiphone (Mamiya RZ-67)

East Finchley Tube (Centon K-100)

Positive Negatives, a brand new scanner. 8th October.

I have FINALLY bought myself a decent scanner so I can now start the massive job which is scanning in my hundreds of negatives. I have a collection of Negatives from the past 2 years, some of which I don't even remember creating, it will be a journey of discovery as I haven't printed the majority of these beyond small contact sheets... I am quite excited and I shall share any beauties I find along the way... 

Here are 2 photographs from the Unison strikes in November 2011 (taken with a Bronica SQ-Ai):

Nikon. 8th May.

Old Hunstanton - Birthday! 6th April.

So, today was my birthday! I celebrated it by going to the beach with a few friends and having a little BBQ.. .it was really nice. I didn't take my DSLR with me, but my iPhone and 35mm SLR were on hand. Snapped a few iPhone landscape shots (such as this one) and took a few Martin Parr inspired street photographs on the 35mm, I have quite a few frames left on the 35mm though so you wont be able to see them for a while. It was a great day and I love the location, I am definitley going to re-visit it and use it as a location for one of my project shoots. 

Time for some film! 20th October.

Today I decided to go for a walk around the city and find interesting things to photograph as I have a roll of 35mm 36exp colour film in my SLR waiting to be used! So I went for a little walk in my spare time and found some rather interesting things to photograph. Some people may say that I was wasting film, as I had no real reason or purpose for my photography, I simply took photographs of things I wanted to photograph. I have still got a few exposures left, but when I get my film developed & printed I will upload the best shots :)

The Cathedral through a Pinhole. 13th October.

You might be thinking "that photo looks a bit weird and fuzzy", but actually I am really proud of this photograph because not only did I take it, develop it, and print it... I made the camera that took it! I used a matchbox to make a pinhole camera and this was one of the first photographs I took with it. I was very excited when I had developed the film to see the negatives and even more excited to see how it came out on a print! 

Pinhole cameras are great fun, everyone can make one, everyone should have a go!!