JamesT

It looks a bit like a bicycle chain separator, though they usually have a T handle.

22 minutes ago, JohnP said:

When I was just a kid I remember my grandad using one, I seem to remember him putting the end of the sprayer into a bucket of mixed spray and pulling on the handle to draw fluid into the sprayer and then pushing the knob back into the sprayer to squirt out the fluid.

Exactly. It's great for misting the tomatoes in the greenhouse or soaping the blackfly on the beans, far better than a squirt bottle.

Here's the whole thing.

7 hours ago, JohnP said:

A vintage garden sprayer.

Correct. Well done.

Clue #2

6 hours ago, Clicker said:

I really like some of these old  Soviet    cameras  ...      They built them like tanks didn't they ...   Made in Ukraine  I  believe ... in the same year as the Chernobyl  disaster ! CHIAROSCURO is an apt title  for the  last image ....nice !

This one is actually just post-Soviet, from 1991. It's often said that they were made in a munitions factory (the Kiev Arsenal), but actually during WW2 the factory specialized in artillery rangefinders so they did have optics experience. Though it's (to put it mildly) quite solid, I find it easier to hand hold than the Bronica.

We haven't had a "what is it?" for a while so here goes

A few from around the local wildlife trust reserve at Dry Sandford Pit.

Kiev 60 and Fomapan 200.

A couple of the old working faces

I'm not sure if anything lives in the larger holes in the faces, the "pencil" sized ones are mining bee nests.

Low Water:

chiaroscuro

Super shots.

The holes in the leaf in the second make it look like it's been leaving muddy footprints.

Thanks every one.

I set up the camera there as I was aware that the hedgehogs do use those steps regularly. The first time I saw them going that way it was a surprise considering how high the steps are in relation to the size of the animals.

@skullfunkerryI get quite a lot of cats on mine.

Yesterday evening, I got round to putting the camera trap out again.

I was sitting at the table on the left finishing dinner when the smallest of the hedgehogs came round the corner of the house and up the steps onto the lawn.

By the Thames near Culham. Kiev 60, Volna-3 (80mm), Ilford FP4+

41 minutes ago, Paul said:

How odd to use a pram for moving your gear from the back of your truck!
Paul.

Why? if you need wheels use what is to hand.

Actually my interpretation is that he is collecting donations for a charity shop, and the sewing machine, pram and other boxes are being loaded into the van.

I like how the gap between the screen and the canopy combine with the eyes on the canopy to make a lop-sided grin.

13 hours ago, Ryewolf said:

A very interesting set James and very unusual to see macro's in mono.

Thanks Ryewolf.

The P30 is frustrating as it works really well for macro, but is very tricky for other uses (slow and very little exposure latitude) and I don't want to dedicate my main 35mm camera to mainly macro. Ferrania have been hinting at a medium format release for ages, but still no actual film.

Bencini Comet, Shanghai GP3 in 127 format

Restaurants

The King

Letcombe Brook (and plenty of pincushion distortion)

On Call

Testing out a macro rail.

Two with the Minolta setup, on Ferrania P30.

Shield Bug (50mm macro + 1:1 extension, ring flash)

Garden Snail (no extension ring here)

And two with the Bronica ETRS and 100mm macro lens + 28mm ring, Fomapan 200.

Daisies

The berry of the goose

Bowdown Woods, early May, but only got the scan back from the lab this week. Bronica ETRS with the (then) newly-released Kodak Gold 200 in 120 format.

Good to hear that you're out and about again.

And you haven't lost your eye for a shot.

An excellent study, but as a scientist I am frustrated by not knowing what the driver and the pack of ratsies are seeing.

Mostly wildflowers from the part of the lawn I've let grow as a bit of meadow.

White Clover

Buttercup

Self Heal (Got an ID from Flickr).

And a detail of the floret in the middle:

And finally a rather confused runner bean:

Usually they are all red or all white, but some this year are half-and-half (I think this is either the third or fourth generation of saving the has-beans and planting them next year).

Since the Friday of the Jubilee weekend would have been my Mother's 98'th I put a nice roll of film (FP4+) into her old Rollop TLR and took it out for a wander around Ardington & Lockinge.

Approach to the (modern) stone circle at Ardington:

The noon stone:

The Parkinson's community garden East Lockinge:

I like the last one with the marker in the moonlit strip.

Hard to get close to a hare, those protruding eyes give nearly 360° coverage, and they're a bit on the quick side.

Took the large format camera out on Saturday for the first time in a few months.

The little waterfall I've posted a time or two is on the branch heading off bottom left.

Intrepid 5x4, 90mm Super Angulon, Ilford FP4+. 1/4 s at f/11.