JamesT

Lovely shot, with the red wings on the yellow flower. I'd have to say it looks quite battered for this early in the year.

Thanks all.

One thing that caught my attention was the difference between the foliage and the reflections. Significantly less IR brightening in the reflections.

Easter Monday at Culham.

High Water

This is usually a quay for boats waiting for the lock.

End of the road

Wet feet

Clear & Present

Flood plain

A stone tool that I found in the garden while prepping the bed for the beans last year. Some sort of scraper or borer I think.

No context, as the bed was previously the spoil heap from digging the pond and that wasn't undisturbed ground (there was a plastic horse about halfway down).

Delightful little critters.

Taken back in 2022, but only developed a week or so ago (along with the two I posted last week -- Rollei IR400 & Fomapan 200 have the same developing time in Ilfotec HC).

Schneider Super Angulon 90mm, Rollei IR400, Infrared filter, 1/2s f/16

A couple shot in the garden. The first large format shots I've taken since late 2022.

Both were on Fomapan 200 in the Intrepid, with a 135mm lens at f/8 exposure 1/125 and 1/60 respectively.

Daffodils (and compost bins).

Plum blossom.

Hello Stephen.

Welcome to the forum. I think I'm actually the only other predominantly film user here. But it's a friendly and supportive, if quiet, group.

James

Perfect imperfection.

to Pendennis Castle.

No prize for working out which birthday.

And just for fun a shot inside the coal stage.

The Sandford Brook, through Dry Sandford Pit Reserve,

Last weekend

And back last August in a more normal state

Well caught.

Nice. That mossy log (?) makes it look like the hoof on a pantomime horse costume:-)

11 hours ago, Clicker said:

Seems you take to hibernating in the winter months

Partly lack of light. even 400 ISO film can be difficult in the gloomy weather.

Bulbs stirring into life on January 127 day. Yashica 44, Rerapan 100 (slightly expired) [Also me slowly stirring back into life]

Was there a mallard stag night on?

Probably a good idea.

I'd say an Elephant and a dryad.

2 Ears & a trunk on the left of the tree, and there's a face on the broken  branch to the front. But no aliens.

When photographing the Moon I think that hardest thing is not to overexpose. Did you use spot metering to get it right?

3 hours ago, Ryewolf said:

Wow so many birdies, I wasn't expecting that.

Starlings mealworms.

They do seem to have a system. When I go out to fill the feeders there may be one or two around, and they start calling.

By the time I've done the other feeders, they are all over the ridges and aerials for a few houses each way.

Then when I go indoors or into the greenhouse they descend en masse.

I don't do a lot of video, but I managed to record this lot yesterday.

On 11/01/2023 at 12:27, JamesT said:

The beech fork had grown around the birch trunk, and then at some point the beech branch split away from its trunk and in the process shattered the birch tree. It was just chance that the bit of the birch embedded in the beech ended up close to the standing part. There were quite a few birch logs around from where it had shattered. I did take a shot at longer range but that's on the other camera that I had and I've not finished that film.

I am getting so behind, especially with colour films, this roll only got processed last month (and it started in July '22), and sorted today.

This one shows the split in the beech tree.

I'd have to go with the first, the processing matches to age of the ship, but also the attention is drawn to the ship rather more than in either of the others.

I think the plain mono would work better with a lower contrast, the dark rock dominates the foreground, maybe tweak the dark end down so the density on the rock is similar to the first one.

12 minutes ago, markknittle61 said:

Nice set, I am guessing 1940-1950s vintage?

Not sure when they were introduced, but they were the workhorses of the railway in East Anglia in the 1970's. I should think that about 80% of loco hauled trains through Cambridge were EE3 hauled in that era. I think that there are still a few in service hauling track maintenance trains.

2 hours ago, Hatter said:

I always struggle to tell the difference between doves and pigeons!

There isn't a difference other than customary usage. Among the UK's species, pigeon is usually used for wood pigeon and feral pigeon, though the former is also known as the ring dove and the latter is a variant of the rock dove.