I love storms

We had this great little lightshow over us last night. So whilst Anna mourned the loss of the king of pop, I stuck my camera out the window and took these. 

Super Eight

Last year I shot a load of Super 8 film, got them processed and then forced my friends and family to sit in a dark room whilst I projected them on the wall with my temperamental projector. Needless to say not many people stuck around till the last film. 

So, eventually I sent them off and got them tele-cinied. What that means is that we can enjoy them on the screens now. 

I personally think it's not the same...but it's better than letting the films gather dust in the corner. 

This one is mostly shot on Lundy Island and a little bit in wales. Silent and unedited...just how we like em. 

kit

Kit, it's a personal thing...but I'm always intrigued into what everyone else is using. Be it cameras, lens', film stock, wetsuits, bread...whatever...It's just nice to know.

So here is a little picture of what I am mostly using at the moment, no I don't keep them in the fridge, in fact I don't know why I put them there, but anyway...

a good weekend

Planning

big plans are being made...niiiiceeeee

The Project

It is by riding a bicycle that you learn the contours of a country best, since you have to sweat up the hills and coast down them. Thus you remember them as they actually are, while in a motor car only a high hill impresses you, and you have no such accurate remembrance of country you have driven through as you gain by riding a bicycle.

-- Ernest Hemingway

1952 Vincent Black Lightning

Click here for my favourite track. And as for the photo...this is Rollei Free, hitting over 150mph on a Vincent Black Lightning, in 1948 and smashing a world record for motorbikes in speedos (aparently he tore up his leathers in a crash just before this attempt)

Matt Squared

fellsy...no PS, no saturation slider, nothing...

Processing

Just picked up 18 rolls from the lab...it's been a good afternoon!

here is a few bits from oz mixed up with the batch.

Travel Companion

I've talked about it many times, but my Rollei 35 has risen the the ranks and is now sitting pretty as my favourite camera ever. 

Now that is a pretty big call, I mean I have alot of cameras (thanks ebay) but as a travel companion it's hard to beat. It may not have the sharpest, crispiest of lens', but it sure aint no coke bottle lens either. It's got that kinda trashy but sharp combination that is hard not to love.

The B35 model was one of the bottom end rollei 35's built in the late 60's/early 70's and to make it cheaper they put in an uncoupled solanium (no batteries) light meter. Sooo anyway, what this means is you can read the light meter, set the aperture, shutter and focus...all from waist level, it takes shooing from the hip to a new level. This means you can go for all sorts of sneaky little shots, and roam the streets firing this little mini away and G public is none the wiser.

I almost cried when I broke my Rollei in Warsaw earlier this year, got the shutter and lens barrel jammed somehow. So a few days later whilst sitting in my hotel room in Moscow, I set to work on it with my penknife (the little screwdriver bit to be precise) and rebuilt it, it was fiddly and I ended up with 3 spare screws at the end of it, but it was fixed...and worked like magic. Now try fixing a broken modern digi camera with a penknife, yup, It's just not going to happen.

So hats off to Heinz Waaske, the German designer that created the top dog in my camera bag.

Slides

So from my office in the garden I have been organizing all sorts of little things... and some exciting ones too, but along with that, I thought I would finally get aquatinted with flickr, so here is the first little slideshow of some of the film stuff from the train journey I took earlier this year. 

Ania

Ania, my connection in Warsaw (on the left) and the cousin of a good and talented friend from Tasmania, Pickles. Thanks to the both of you for all your help at the start of this year...

Chaff

So whilst the mass organisation of my life continues I'm still sifting through the Sweden shoot files, sorting the wheat from the chaff so to say. These are just a few of the offcuts I pulled off the pile this evening, they won't make the cut, but I like them none the less.

Jack being angry, Jon being stressed and Karin looking all country living.