some photos i took thismorning

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Maybe you could send him like a coat hanger or soup mix in the mail with a post it-
"when you paint with your eyes closed, you never become picasso, you just become an ironic narcissist with uncomfortable shades".
Throwing people off is thrilling.

-ktlr

I've totally neglected to visit here recently...

Since my last visit

- I've started developing my own film, and I'm getting better at it, but still need plenty of practice.

- My dad's Olympus OM-10 35mm camera has died - it was 30 years old though, so what would one expect...

- My other Olympus 35mm is terminally ill. A screw fell out of it from inside, and so far, my strip-down attempts have failed to find the source of the screw, and the lens wobbles around when you wiggle it.

- I've got a loan of my mate's Rolleicord TLR, although I'm still struggling to see why they sell for so much more than my cheapo Seagull!

- I've been busy on ebay and should hopefully have a Nikon 70-300 zoom lens and two other Olympus OM-10s arriving in the post this week.

Anyway, some pictures...



Went to a wind farm last week and found a way to get right up to the turbines:




This is my living room, shot with the dying olympus Trip 35:




A lesson in why not to spend too long fucking about trying to take photos of toast:




Contact Sheet of home-developed HP5 120, from the Rolleicord:

awesome big muff! how did you get around your flatmate who wasn't keen on your developing? what enlarger do you use> i have a huge 40kg heavy durst that does colour but i don't have the laundry light tight enough to do colour, plus the toxicity and i don't know how to do colour (i have a jobo for colour temperature etc).
i'm back on colour this semester so i went to the dark side and got a canon 5d. i'd prefer a hassy but $$wise and stuff i had to go digi as that way i can keep my costs down low for doing any paid work if i ever get any.

I'm basically just doing the processing without prints and planning to get a scanner next month when I get paid. I'm just using the bathroom during the period between when I get home from work until she arrives, which usually gives me a comfortable couple of hours to mix all the chemicals and lock myself in the bog for a while. Even the "contact sheet" above was made just by scanning the negs in my flatbed scanner and inverting and sorting the levels in photoshop!

Man, I'd LOVE a Canon 5D. I'm generally a Nikon guy through-and-through, but I love the low-light performance from that big full-frame sensor on the 5D. The images from the 5D at ISO3200 are better for noise than my old fuji was even at ISO400. Still, looks like it'll be a while before there's going to be a full-frame Nikon I can afford

deer with a jackdaw sitting on it. i like the jackdaws' intent look in its eye

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they made soup out of my research turtles.

i think these are fallow deer. the above one is "melanistic", this one is "common". i love my new lens, vibration reduction is GREAT

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they made soup out of my research turtles.

aaaw bambi the bird one is great, I keep trying to take photographs of birds but they just fly away. I think I need to be camoflagued, in Glasgow that might consist of dressing up as a bag of discarded fish and chips.

There are a few I took of my lovely friend Rebecca for school:

for some reason I love this picture

boxbythebed, i really love the colours you got there and i love old ragged furniture and houses, so BIG TICKS

went with my brother to see a band yesterday. he insists we take joint photocredits, but i took most of these. ive been getting a bit too blackandwhite happy, but i'm sure ill get past it soon.

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Maybe you could send him like a coat hanger or soup mix in the mail with a post it-
"when you paint with your eyes closed, you never become picasso, you just become an ironic narcissist with uncomfortable shades".
Throwing people off is thrilling.

-ktlr

LOL.

haha
was it you who also did the orange one? because i have that saved on my computer and grin everytime.

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Maybe you could send him like a coat hanger or soup mix in the mail with a post it-
"when you paint with your eyes closed, you never become picasso, you just become an ironic narcissist with uncomfortable shades".
Throwing people off is thrilling.

-ktlr

Haha, I remember the orange one

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Oh no that wasn't me! I haven't seen it, will someone post it up please?

I love the eggs Amber Sky.

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Now honies play me close like butter played toast