Now the year is ending on my Island Crofters project, I thought I needed some new thing to concentrate on. Since I go and visit Roy on a regular basis to drink a cup of coffee, put the world to rights or just walk on a beach with Ziggy, his lovely dog, I thought this might make a nice subject. So, I grabbed a loaded camera from the festering pile on the warming room floor and took a stroll across the village for my mid-morning chat. As it happens, Roy was not quite up since he'd been toasting the night before with some new found friends in a camper van on one of the local beaches. Soon though, once I'd put the kettle on Roy was up and Ziggy was beating me up with his over-enthusiastic welcome.
It seems Roy might be OK with this project - I need to work on him a bit. Still, I shot a few frames and came home to get ready for the ferry ride to mainland on Friday [gale raging, sense of doom prevailing etc]. The camera I find was loaded with polypan-f rated at 200. And loaded back to front in that when I wound the stuff onto the cassette I must have taped it back to front -red-scale like! With nothing to lose I developed it in Bromophen 1:0.5 for 1.5 mins and came up with some rather pleasant images. Perhaps this is the start of my new project and film/developing combo
