TalkPhotography - New Old Film Challenge #188

 This was my entry for the ongoing New Old Film Challenge at www.talkphotography.co.uk the winner of each challenge gets to choose the new theme. We are up to number 188 and don't repeat themes if we can help it.  This one wanted old film shots relating to anything droughty, dry or dehydrated.

The following rules apply:

- Must be taken by you
- Must be on film
- Must have been taken, developed and scanned prior to the start date of this challenge.
- Discussion in the discussion thread rather than the Entries thread, please.
- Shoehorning and even Crowbars are positively encouraged!

Please include details of the camera, lens, emulsion and anything else of relevance if you can possibly remember that far back.

One Entry per person

Wildfire heading toward the Avenue of the Dead at Teotihuacán, Mexico just before I ran away.  

Pentax ME , Kodak Film, 1999

My Entries for TalkPhotography Film Photographer of the Year 2022

 Not sure if I'll do as well as last year when I came first (equal). This slide show will update as the year goes on.

TP Meetup 28 May 2022 - Smallwood

Some shots from the Smallwoood Vintage Rally Meet-up - 2022

All film shots, home developed.
First some shots taken with a Canon EOS 50E on Kodacolor 200
Next some taken with a Lomo SuperSampler. That takes 4 shots in succession on one 35mm frame so a mini movie. Used 2008 expired Jessop's 400 ISO Several pictures happened while I was putting the camera in the mesh side pocket of my camera bag, think some of them worked better than many of the ones where I pressed the shutter,

 

TalkPhotography Meetup - Smallwood Vintage Rally 28 May 2022

Planning to meet up with fellow photographers (film and digital) from the Talk Photography forums on 28th May 2022 

For details of event see https://www.smallwoodvintagerally.co.uk/ and to discuss on forum the thread is here Click HERE

Will be outside the beer tent (which will not yet be open) next to the central arena at about 1030am.

 If the weather is good enough I may be wearing this.   😏

 

 Otherwise look for a TalkPhotography logo on my camera bag.

Now a published photographer, again :)

My brother Roger Bloor wrote poems around his selection of some of my photographs and now you can all enjoy that and help support a charity. All profits go to the Dyslexia Association of Staffordshire.

 Available to order online at https://www.clayhangerpress.co.uk/store/p31/Dream_Sequences.html

 

Previous time I had pictures published, other than anonymously, was also working with my brother, back in 1980 when I was a student in Oxford. He wrote and I took photographs for a review of a hotel's long weekend English Civil War event, the magazine the article appered in was aimed at doctors looking for places to relax. The press weekend we attended was real fun with journalists and photographers from the national and local press.

12 a year photo challenge on Flickr - 2022 - Celebrations

I take part in this challenge with some friends from USA.  Llola started this for her 3D rendering artwork using Daz 3D and then we decided to do real life pictures too.

Llola's 3D Render Challenge 2022 - Celebrations

Our Photo a month Flickr Group 

Click above and take a look at everyone's art work. I'll post my efforts here as well.

The below will (fingers crossed) work as a slide show of my album on Flickr

FPOTY 2021 !

My 12 monthly entries for the Talk Photography 2021 Film Photographer of the Year Competition. I ended up in joint first place ! All taken on film and developed myself. Using everything from my home built 3D printed 4"x 5" large format  camera, vintage medium format rangefinder, 35mm SLR and half frame SLR.

1. Dim Sum,  4x5 on paper negative
   
2. Cluttered notice board, 4x5 on X-Ray film and cyanotype print
   
3. Let my little light shine, 35 mm SLR
   
4. Bullseye, 4x5 on X-Ray film
5. Which direction in this cave? 35 mm SLR
6. Random numbers, 35mm half frame SLR - Contact Print
   
7. Packed Lunch, 35 mm SLR
8. Glowing Lava Lamp Alien, 35 mm SLR
9. Tempting but how much ? Franka Solida II vintage medium format
10. Speaks for itself, 35 mm SLR
    
11. Magical Lamp, 35 mm SLR
12. Wet work in the darkroom , 35 mm SLR

 

 

Look at the 2022 FFFSFA Challenge on TalkPhotography

What is FFFSFA,(FFS)? Fixed Focus, Fixed Speed, Fixed Aperture​

In the past this was a 'Disposable Camera' challenge, however seeing how little chance there is nowadays to effectively recycle or refill all these cameras the FFFSFA challenge was created.

How it works​

The challenge is to post up to three photographs taken by you with a Fixed Focus, Fixed Speed, Fixed Aperture film camera¹ anytime between Santa Claus's visit in 2021 and the closing date in November 2022.

A thread on which to post those photos will be created on the last Sunday of October 2022 (30/10/22) . That will be the entries and voting thread. At the same time, another thread will be created on which to post any other photos you might wish to share, the reject/also ran thread.

The final date for entries is the last Sunday in November 2022 (27/11/22). Voting will take place from the close of entries for one week (to 4/12/22). You will be able vote for your three favourite photos.

The subject matter is open, up to you, do your own thing. Basic processing allowed, but nothing extreme. (I think we all know what is meant by this)

 If you are thinking of joining in then please let us know in this thread on TalkPhotography then you will automatically get updated if anything changes.

Footnotes:

¹ Any film camera that does not allow you to change, or itself change automatically, focus, shutter speed or aperture is acceptable. We are sure we can trust that if you have a camera that is almost suitable to put some tape over any controls that would break the rules. If you are not sure if a particular camera fits the rules then ask in this thread. There are some commercially refilled/recycled film cameras nominally 'disposable, single use' those are acceptable or any disposable ones you still have unused.

Over on Talkphotography Film and Conventional Forum

On https://www.talkphotography.co.uk/ forums, in the Film and Conventional area we have a long running challenge that asks us to post old shots against a theme chosen by the winner of the previous challenge. The shots have to be taken, and scanned or printed before the date the challenge is announced and we often use very old shots. The latest theme was Diorama.  This from 1982 taken with my Yashica TL SLR and a Yashinon 50mm macro lens! 

 

#fp4party 2021

Shoot week had a bit of a shaky start. Had to do a #fp4party film transplant into the Contax 137 after problem with the lens on my Rolleiflex SL35E and swap the Tamron mount from QBM to C/Y











Dev week had its hiccups as well, but all safely done. Mixed day so far. 1) Android 11 update to phone lost all my apps, passwords, and some data. Has taken 6 hours to recover this far. Boo! 2) #fp4party negs dry and sleeved and new bulk roll arrived. Yay!











On to Post week - Day 1
Tigger says 'I always get this warm fuzzy feeling during the #fp4party ' - Rolleiflex SL35E, Tamron 35-80 Macro, #Ilfordfp4plus in #ilfordphoto ID11





I find #IlfordFP4 gives me great rendition of textures from rough to shiny. #fp4party 2021 #filmphotography Contax 137 MD Tamron 35-80 Macro #ilfordfp4 #ilfordphoto ID11






For #fp4party from a family that's used #ilfordphoto products for a long time. The glass plates taken by my wife's grandfather in 1908. I shot other types in my youth and will use these, from a carboot, too.





The #fp4party brightened up my April, much as these little charmers do.





For **DAY 2** of #fp4party (remember to put the day!). Just liked the texture of the cut wood, shame the tree had to come down.




Re-posting my 𝐃𝐚𝐲 𝟑 #fp4party post (I accidentally deleted it
@FP4Party). Not as light-hearted as first day. Reading gravestones can make you think, even cry.



Magnolia buds reaching for the early spring sun. ⒹⒶⓎ ➃ of #fp4party





Some times I wonder if this is what folks think of my photographs? 𝓓𝓐𝓨 5 of #fp4party 2021.







𝓓𝓐𝓨 6 of #fp4party 2021 - You can imagine the yellow for yourselves.

𝓓𝓐𝓨 7 and end of #fp4party 2021 - The bells, the bells! Well wind chimes actually.





All in all some nice comments and quite a few likes.

Where it all began

The first camera I recall using was my Mother’s 1930s Kodak Six-20 Junior. 

This was the camera that held the first film I ever developed in around 1963. I still have the camera. It is starting to show its age (well it is old now) and apart from Time and Bulb only the 1/25th second works reliably. The 1/50th and 1/100th either give 1/25th or stay open.

One of my older brothers, as part of an MA poetry project a few years ago, asked me to develop an old 620 film for him and so I  had access to a spare 620 spool and backing paper.  In 2018 I rewound a roll of Ilford FP4+ 120 film onto the spool that would fit and set out to photograph some locations with linked memories.

The following picture has only been lightly edited but did require some retouching as the old backing paper shredded at the edge in areas and deposited fibres and particles on to the film and stopped light leading to black marks.

This is the house where I was born, in the front bedroom. Above that are the attic rooms and in the rear box room was where I developed my first film. We did not have a developing tank for 620 film at that point so I see-saw developed it in 3 pudding basins (developer, stop and fix) while my brother told me when to swap baths through the closed door. 

My Mother always joked that whenever we took photographs of our house there was always washing on the line. The current owners helped maintain that tradition.