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Which Board? => Main Forum => : Ailsa May 27, 2011, 11:15:42 AM
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What a momentous occasion - it's the first time I've started one of these threads. :)
The pics here were all shot the other week (but scanned in the last couple of days), in a village on the north-east coast of Scotland. I was there to take pictures for a friend who's been making a film - called Dummy Jim - for ten years. This was the last week of filming, and it was the best few days I've had in years. My brief was pretty open - to take some pictures of the surrounding area, some portraits of the actor Sam, and some stills of the filming.
The film is based on the true story of James Duthie, who was profoundly deaf and mute, who cycled from the village of Cairnbulg and Inverallochy to the Arctic Circle in the 1950s. You can find out more here: http://dummyjim.com/ (http://dummyjim.com/) and here: http://www.facebook.com/DummyJim (http://www.facebook.com/DummyJim)
Scuse the plethora of images, but I hope you like.
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And some more...
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And a wonderful set of pics to start it with too :)
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Cracking stuff, Ailsa.
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..oh, I like, Ailsa, I like VERY much. Beautiful foties, all of them. :)
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Very nice.
I like the one in the church the most.
Happy bank Holiday weekend everyone!
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What a great start. The last three are tremendous.
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Gulp... how do you follow those!
My favourites have to be 2 and 4 though
Paul
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A couple more recent pinholes taken on a trip to the Dorset coast earlier this year. The weather was pants for LF image making (what I originally went for) but ideal for pinhole... and no lens to be sprayed with salt either!
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Paul
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First two are from my Polaroid Automatic 250 on some old Polapan 400
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The next two are from the Rolleiflex 3.5F on HP5 developed in D76 1:1
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What a great start!
Ailsa the second set is just great. My fave is the church one.
Paul, I go for the second one
I went to take some pictures of a friend of mine here in Manila. I like it very much to take pictures of friends; it puts pressure on trying do do something different and obtain some decent portraits which I find really difficult. Two with the POlaroid 195, ligth was soooo weaaaak. The color one with the Pentax 67 and portra 800.
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More great shots. My starter for 10 - Taken last weekend on a Rollei B35. Fomapan 400 and Rodinal 1+100 stand developed
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Beth, waiting for pizza, Sutors Creek Cafe, Cromarty (http://www.flickr.com/photos/acf_windy/5762274137/#) by windy_ (http://www.flickr.com/people/acf_windy/), on Flickr
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Hasselblad 501cm - Kodak bwcn - New Mexico
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Patrick - Love the first two Pola's
Paul
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This was from my second roll ever of slide film (Provia 100F), shot 2 months ago, but I never got to scan it until now as I didn't have the proper equipment. WOW!!! The colours are much more amazing than I thought. I only auto-colour corrected in photoshop, no more tweaking or extra saturation or any manipulation.
These are from the dock area in Kaohsiung, Taiwan
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Wow! As always we start the weekend with a bang!
Ailsa- love the last one in the second set. Great to see you first out of the chute!
Paul- those pinholes are extra sweet. Love them!
Mil- those scooters-wow!
and Phil- as you mentioned once before....cars should definitely have fins again!
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a couple black frame poor pod shots. also took a bunch of peel-apart but haven't scanned anything yet...
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Those provia shots are sweet! I exposed a roll of it two weeks ago and had a devil of a time exposing it properly. But you nailed it.
From this week (Zeiss Ikon with ZM35mm/2.0). . .
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Mil - my favourite has to be the scooters, great effort for your first roll
moominsean - the horses are something else! would definitely have that on my wall
Paul
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Great work everyone so far...!
What a start Ailsa! I particularly like the second series...
I love the two polaroids two as well Patrick ;)
I have a few pictures I took with my newly fixed Kodak Vest Autograph. Following the "glue and detergent" recipe from the web, I fixed the bellows... no light leaks.
I used an original 127 back paper film as a template and cut a new one from a discarded 120 to cover the 35mm film. I them drew the frame numbers following the template an loaded the 127 spool with some Fuji Across...
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I noticed when I point the camera up I get a strange blur right in the midle of the picture...
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Oh. Love these threads. Dont mind if I jump in with a pair or three
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A punch and judy show
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Usual brilliant weekend thread again, I see....... :)
Ailsa's set will take some beating. Paul Mitchell's second shot is superb (and the first one ain't too shabby!). Patrick Ryan's shots are fab - but I especially like the last one. Windy's shot of Beth is lovely - very natural and uncontrived and Mil's junk robot is hilarious.
I got the first roll back from my Rollei 3.5t. Not good, I'm afraid. I couldn't get the camera to wind onto "12", so I opened the back and wound the film off manually. This seems to have caused a bit of light leakage around the edges and I don't think I had the hang of using the meter. However, a couple have come out okay. There a nice of of our Heather and her hubby and another I took (in a hurry) on the way to a meeting near Embankment on Tuesday.
I've got a roll of Tri-X in the Rollei now and I must find out of there's any trick to unloading the camera safely as well as testing the meter readings against my Minolta Auto Meter IVF.
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Coming in late again so there is too much to comment on specifically but Alisa, those shots are amazing!!! All of them are very moving to me, especially the very last one in the second set.
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Man, this has all the feel of a vintage weekend!
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Hasselblad SWC and Fuji 160C - Crete
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Ok, went back through and:
Paul, love those pinhole coastal shots!
Patrick, feels like 1950 America. Love 'em!
Carlos, such wonderful portraits of your friend. Love the second one the most.
Windy, great composition with the shot above her head.
Phil, what a fantastic angle!
HS, is that your new subject? Cant wait to see the story unfold!
Mil, wonderful textures in those shots!
Sean, I saw that second one, as you know, but not the first. Totally awesome!!
Cant read my writing here but those shot of the kids, especially on the bench, awesome!
Sapata, those panos are great and really love that strange blurriness!
Soap, wonderful mood, especially the first.
Cwilk, great summer shots. Love the mood.
LD, wonderful light!
Here is mine. TIP black frame of Descanso Gardens, the California oak tree forest. It got blasted with light so I had a lot of fixing to do.
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superb pics one and all.
Ailsa - a rare showing of your pics ... and well worth the wait. Nicely done indeed.
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Good stuff this week :D
sapata - have you checked the film pressure plate is feeling nice and springy and doesn't move around when you tilt the camera like that? Wondering if something like that is causing the odd centre fuzziness.
LD - That may well be my new favourite photo of me by a FWer. It may well replace ArtsyKen's picture of me with that one heheh :)
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sapata - have you checked the film pressure plate is feeling nice and springy and doesn't move around when you tilt the camera like that? Wondering if something like that is causing the odd centre fuzziness.
Thanks for pointing that out Heather... I guess you're right. Although it's not easy to see as the pressure plate is hidden in the same way of screw mount Leica cameras. I will have to open the camera for a closer inspection...
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a lot of bw stuff so far. me like~
moominseans horses and mojaves shot stood out for me. dreamy stuff~
I managed to develop 6(!) rolls between getting off work and a lateish dinner. I'm almost starting to catch up, only 11 rolls left now ;D
here's some I managed to scan aswell...
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Lovely Ailsa. Particularly like the one of the man sitting in the church. Great composition and mood. So glad it was a worthwhile trip for you!
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Ok, I know it´s going to sound weird but today I dreamt with filmwasters, I was with couple of filmwasters, that may be were sean and francois... then I started to take a picture and one of them advised me to modify the composition so I could get better use of light... and in the dream made sense!!!
Sean horses and Mojave dark forest my faves! IP I do not want to say it but it looks cool!!
Three more with the Canon A1, some images from the PHilippines. One is from a celebration in a small town, the other school inauguration and the third one at home. We were cooking and the fire alarm went on and three security guards from the building came to my apartment... That very same day we were almost kicked out from one mall because I went with baby and Elena to ladies bathroom to change baby´s clothes... That was a weird weekend.. Oh, yes, the shots 8)
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Some portraits of my youngest brother shot with my Canon AE1. Terrible scans compliments of the "pro" lab down the road. Need to rescan them on my own scanner, but I'm too lazy :)
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Bank Holiday? What bank holiday? We're working! I'm still experimenting with FP-100C in my Buroni (in the rain)...
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Some great stuff here, especially Dummy Jim, thanks all again. Skj.
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Bank Holiday? What bank holiday? We're working!
hear hear! :D
oh, heck. here's a few more to celebrate that I scanned so much yesterday~ (even though most of it was crap haha) all shot with my minolta srt-101 and 55mm rokkor lens on expired kodak royal supra film.
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It all just gets better!
16mm - that 2nd shot is wonderful
jojonas - my first proper camera was the SRT 101 and your posts make me realise how much I miss it... was sadly stolen a few years back
Paul
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This is good--I'm getting to be able to identify people's work before I see the name tag. Some outstanding examples this holiday weekend.
I started the holiday early and went for a walk in the city with my trusty and reliable Exakta (Fomapan 100 souped at 1:50):
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Cwilk - that second one made me snort out loud! Good stuff. ;D
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Bank Holiday? What bank holiday? We're working! I'm still experimenting with FP-100C in my Buroni (in the rain)...
Yep, Bank Holiday Monday and not working! Experimenting with FP-100B in my Pinhole Goose (in the dry)... ;)
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How on earth do you get such a wide range of tones?
Pure black to pure white, through all those lovely greys.
My scans never look anything like this!
Film? Dev? Neg size? Camera? Exposure?
Gob-smacked
Chops
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Bwahahah! I love The Onion newspaper vending box!
Just back from meeting up with Late Developer, saw half of the Museum of London angry street photography before a fire alarm had us ushered out at high speed, went to some other galleries and caught the last day of the Bruce Davidson exhibit at the Chris Beetles Photography Gallery. Not a bad day considering I was originally planning on sitting at home tidying up my flat all day ;D
anyway, I did manage to scan some film this past week... 2 rolls of 35mm and 1 roll of holga. I like my dorky cliche' waterfowl holga pics and the pavement is some random alley in Edinburgh
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Adventure this weekend: epic train ride (http://"http://www.kpraslowicz.com/2011/05/28/blood-on-the-tracks-express/").
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Some portraits of my youngest brother shot with my Canon AE1. Terrible scans compliments of the "pro" lab down the road. Need to rescan them on my own scanner, but I'm too lazy :)
The timing on the second image is a winner.
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Posting this for Late Developer on his behalf since he took this earlier today and it's the weekend!
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heather! lovely holga shots. if only mine were as well exposed as yours :D
paul, I'm sorry to hear that about the minolta srt. :( but if it's any comfort, they're easy to find on auction sites for a nice price :) you've got any lenses left? I've only got my 55mm mc rokkor-pf 1.7 and some 40-135 soligor zoom... so far ;)
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Damn it...! The first half decent SX-70 photo I've ever taken....!!! Clearly, the subject matter is what makes the difference.
Fantastic meeting up again with Heather and her hubby - who showed me a fantastic selection of galleries in the West End. Shame about the fire drill at the Barbican - excellent exhibition of street photography in London from the mid-19th century to date. Well worth the visit if you're in the vicinity.
Congratulations also to Barcelona and all their fans. They're a plentiful bunch and in great spirits before the game - and probably in even greater spirits afterwards. Mind you, I'm really not biased. I genuinely don't care who beats Manchester United... ;)
Oh, and I lurrrvvvv Heather's third Holga shot. Great depth and, being a northerner, cobbles make me feel right at home......
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Ahh Sorry the third one isn't a holga picture, it's from that chunky grey camera I was using yesterday too - Finetta 88. Obviously I was too tired yesterday to post things properly yesterday hehe :)
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More great shots :)
Particularly like Sapata's buildings, Calbisu's last pic ;D , 16mm - skateboard action shot great, Heather's holgas and KP's train journey - what is happening to the girl on the second pic :o ???
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Thanks Windy ;)
I really like jojonas shot of the car! The expired film worked really well with the subject...
Agfa ISO Rapid cassete loaded with Fuji Across 100
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Bank Holiday? What bank holiday? We're working!
i know you're bloody working, as such im in also.....
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No Bank Holiday here either :(
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A few more. Brought my Recesky TLR to Ford's Greenfield Village in Detroit during Civil War days.
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Hey! I got a decent shot out of the 4 left in that pack :) 25% keeper rate isn't so bad for a new camera, right?
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I think it's more black because i wasn't holding it against my body and warming it up. I just shoot into a dark plastic bag (the 4x5 film inner bag), leave it a while, try to wiggle it out into the bag without too much light then abandon it for 5 minutes or until I remember it again.
Had to get used to not having a tripod mount and something went funny and overexposed on the last picture I took. I *think* the cheap polaflash I bought a couple of years ago at photographica, which just sort of hugs the SX-70, has a tripod mount on the bottom of it... Have to remember where it is since I moved a few months ago though.
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a pal doing a jig
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More 50mm Super Komura testing with the Buroni and Ektar:
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This is some sort of nice lens! More here: Bronica S2a Review (http://www.filmwasters.com/forum/index.php?topic=3856.0). Skj.
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More 50mm Super Komura testing with the Buroni and Ektar:
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This is some sort of nice lens! More here: Bronica S2a Review (http://www.filmwasters.com/forum/index.php?topic=3856.0). Skj.
I like it! Ektar is a great film, once I'm on budget again I'll have to buy some again. The Mat needs to get out again.
Urban
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Love your Polaroid Heather can't wait to try my pack that I bought at Photographica.
Paul
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Ailsa - all I can say is just wow, wow, wow!! Love the blowing clothes line and the church-man bestest! ;)
Paul Mitchell - good googly-moogly. Stunners those are!
Calbisu - gorgeous polas, I just love the tones of the color image!
Phil - just the fin and a motel beyond... perfect!
Hookstrapped - strong black and whites! I particularly like that last one of the girl in the booth
Sean - love that horsie shot - and the smudgey sky!
Skorj - vintage sublime!
jojonas - ohh that last one, the car!!
K. Praslowicz - what a moment you captured in that last one!!
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there should be a law against needing this many layers on Memorial Day Weekend..
rained,hailed,and snowed...
4x5 paper pinhole..
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Hasselblad SWC and Kodak bwcn - Texas.
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buskers at Seattle's Folklife Festival. Land 250, Type 664
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1 from some old film that has been in my fridge for more than 2 years waiting to be developed, until this weekend. Slightly over processed in photoshop .... :
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@choppert
....I use the colorneg filter for photoshop. It's a great starting point for scanned negatives. I generally overexpose my shots by a stop at least because I personally like the look I get plus its easier to harness and control the levels in photoshop after the fact IMO.
FYI: http://www.c-f-systems.com/Plug-ins.html (http://www.c-f-systems.com/Plug-ins.html)
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Phil, Heather, Sorj & Leon ... topper.
Just developed the first role from the Photographica Brownieflex and although boring from the subject matter it looks like she's dandy, also did a roll from the Coronet 6x6 and the Mamiya C3 I've been loaned and I think it could be a new favorite (to quoate Alison Krauss). A roll of Leg Pro died in the Fed Micron >:( winding on half frames can be a pain and an expired roll of Delta 3200 in a Chinon SLR but they look a bit thin.
Really need a scanner that can do 120 etc ...
Excited about the Mam C3 and Brownieflex now ;D ;D ;D
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Really need a scanner that can do 120 etc ...
I have one called 'Andrea' ;)
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Mind you, I'm really not biased. I genuinely don't care who beats Manchester United... ;)
Late Developer: Heh! Heh! I like you more and more, Paul :D ;D
Glad you guys got to go to the Angry Exhibition (sorry, the London Street Photography exhibition). I've been three times and enjoyed it every time. It's on until September, people, so if you're ever in London, don't forget to pop along. I've just finished editing a little segment about it for the next podcast, so even people outside of the UK will get a little flavour of the action.
Re this thread in general; great stuff as always and I'm gutted I'm not in a position to contribute. If I wasn't all at sixes and sevens with the loft conversion we have going on at home (i.e. chemicals, cameras, black bag and tanks packed away again, so no developing for another month or two) and the fact that I'm trying to get the next bleddy podcast finished I'd be able to contribute to these things more.
BUT, it's good to see The Mighty Ms McWhinnie kicking things off this week with her lovely photos and doubly exciting to see someone called Susan commenting on them ;)
Paul Mitchell: Great to meet you at Photographica and I love, love, love your pinholes. We need to have another chat sometime because I'm about to resurrect my Zero 2000 and need some pinhole tips. Will start a thread when I'm set up and you and the other pinhole aficionados can pour your wisdom into my brain.
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First few from my developing session ;D
A TTV (but flim based Ed !) using my latest SLR a Chinon CE-4 and the new Brownieflex 20, a grave in Sheffield General Cemetery (recommend that place for wasting) and the first pic from the Brownieflex !
Label wrong, its FP4+ in the Brownieflex and expired Delta 3200 in the Chinon that always comes out "thin" for me ...
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expired Delta 3200 in the Chinon that always comes out "thin" for me ...
I've had similar problem with a Konica T3. The problem was the batteries: it's made for mercury cells. Zinc-air cells send the meter wild and I had to divide the ISO by 4 to get proper exposure!
Also, could be the film that is too old... overexposure should fix the problem. I have just run a test of a roll of HP5 that I got used inside a bulk loader. Even though it's rated at 400 ISO, I'll probably end up exposing it at EI 100 to get enough detail in the image..
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Miles Detla 3200 is generally a thin film if you expose at 3200 without using a speed increasing developer.
try it at 1600 (the true speed(or less as it is expired)) but develop it for the suggested time for 3200. You'll get a better result that way.
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Thanks for the tips chaps.
A couple more from the Coronet 6x6 and one from the Mam C3. Brighton Pavilion, Herne Bay Pier Pavilion and the lift door from the infamous Park Hill / Hyde Park Flats in Sheffield.
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@ Gregor - just beautiful work. Superb.
@ Miles - love your series but the Herne Bay shot is definitely the one for me.