#believeinfilm #filmphotography #monochrome #darkroom Good morning all. I hope you all had a stress-less few days? 😄 On my December Germany visit, I exposed 4 rolls of HP5+, all at 800 ASA, in my F90X. 144 images are now developed. DD-X. 10 mins. Hopefully some are worth printing up?

Hello @ianbartlett.bsky.social and @laurenswillis.bsky.social Yes, it was @noodels.bsky.social who ambushed my light leak print and gave it the Nano treatment ..... see replies to this below.

Wandering yesterday evening en route to the Christmas market, I happened upon this! It has opened since my last visit in May. Full of all sorts of goodies; discerningly no P&S but a lovely selection of 35mm, MF and a couple of LF in the other window! #believeinfilm #filmphotography

I've written this open letter to Keir Starmer & @rthonwesstreeting.bsky.social because, though I am desperately worried about NHS patients over the next 5 days, I know this strike by resident doctors is a desperate act of last resort. Please read.

#believeinfilm #filmphotography #monochrome #darkroom #MerseyMeetUp Liverpool in the lead up for Christmas.

#believeinfilm #filmphotography #monochrome #darkroom I am visiting Germany, and with 6 days remaining, I have loaded my last roll of 135 HP5+. I know the town well. All the old photo outlets have finished. Foto Erhardt is the only one I know. I bought their only roll of FP4. EU 9.99.

#believeinfilm #filmphotography #monochrome #darkroom #MerseyMeetUp Albert Dock, Liverpool. HP5+ 85mm lens.

#believeinfilm #filmphotography #monochrome #darkroom #MerseyMeetUp Shopping centre architecture. HP5+ 85mm lens.

Today I visited Luneburg. It is delightful. My only previous visit was 40 years ago. The weather has been lovely for December, and I have only 1.3 rolls of HP5+ remaining! I think I must buy some more - for the next 7 days remaining. #believeinfilm #Germany This is a rare (for me) phone snap shot.

#believeinfilm #filmphotography #monochrome #darkroom #MerseyMeetUp Christmas Market, Liverpool. The bratwurst stall. HP5+. 85mm lens.

#believeinfilm #filmphotography #monochrome #darkroom #MerseyMeetUp Albert Dock, Liverpool. HP5+. 85mm lens.

#believeinfilm #filmphotography #monochrome I have been strolling and lurking with HP5 loaded in a favourite part of Germany. Now time for a coffee break. ☕😊

❤️ Une soldate 🇺🇦 joue Shchedryk de Mykola Leontovych, l'un des plus célèbres airs de Noël au monde, devant #Pokrovsk, où les 1ères partitions 🎶 issues d’un chant 🇺🇦ont été écrites. ✨🙏 👉🏼Mykola est mort assassiné par la police soviétique en 1921. #StandWithUkraine #Ukraine #StopRussia #Щедрик

#believeinfilm #filmphotography #monochrome #darkroom #MerseyMeetUp Another from the Liverpool photowalk organised by @stigofthedump.bsky.social . Here is @jimgraves.bsky.social stalking his prey. I had sort of lined up this scene, then I spotted Jim approaching from the left .... HP5+. 85mm lens.

#believeinfilm #filmphotography #monochrome #darkroom #MerseyMeetUp I believe this is Albert Dock, Liverpool. A restored basin, full of outlets and cafés. HP5+. 85mm lens. This is a near full neg test print. If I enlarged it, I would be tempted to lose a bit top and bottom, letterbox style.

This got past the Telegraph's editor. Morning.

#believeinfilm #filmphotography #monochrome #darkroom #MerseyMeetUp Mostly, urban type photography is a solo occupation for me. So on my first ever organised, group photowalk, I was fascinated how others saw potential images - and captured them. This image - on HP5+ pushed 1 stop. 85mm lens.

#believeinfilm #filmphotography #monochrome #darkroom #MerseyMeetUp Liverpool, as evening started; finding images as the daylight receded.

#believeinfilm #filmphotography #monochrome #darkroom #MerseyMeetUp HP5+pushed 1 stop. Nikon FM2n. 85mm lens.

#believeinfilm #filmphotography #monochrome #darkroom Having suffered a subtle light leak on my bulk HP5 (using an oft used cannister) in my last outing - I have invested in a few new rolls, hopefully with better light traps! I am travelling for a bit, so will take my F90X, a 28-70, 35mm, 85mm. 😊

#fridayfavourites #believeinfilm #monochrome #darkroom Hello @ilfordphoto.com - you were encouraging entries yesterday.The following Ilford products were used: HP5+ pushed 1 stop. DD-X. Ilfotol in film washing. MG RC V paper. Multigrade developer. Ilfostop. Rapid fixer.

#MerseyMeetUp #believeinfilm #filmphotography #monochrome #darkroom I took 35, 50 and 85mm primes with me to Liverpool. It was my first visit. After a short while, given the conditions and the buildings, I felt a bit of instinctive need to change to my short telephoto ... for images like this. HP5

A great spot to contemplate... Bronica SQAI & @ilfordphoto.com PanF+ EI50. Developed in 510 Pyro 1+200 24mins semi stand. #believeinfilm #fridayfavourites #ilfordpanf

Hi @ilfordphoto.com I saw your post wanting stuff for #fridayfavourites .... so here is a print I posted an hour or two ago. It was taken last Saturday, using #HP5+ film pushed 1 stop, home developed on Sunday in #DD-X and printed Tuesday onto your #MGRCV paper, using @ilfordphoto.com chemicals.

#believeinfilm #filmphotography #monochrome #darkroom #MerseyMeetUp Another from the recent photowalk in Liverpool. HP5+ at ISO 800. 85mm lens.

#believeinfilm #filmphotography #monochrome #darkroom #MerseyMeetUp A puddle, pigeons and photographers - with contrasting architecture styles as backdrop.

Well well ... Peter has kindly carried out some digi wizardry (that I do not understand at all) and removed the pesky light leaks - caused by a slack light trap on an overused film cannister. I will still #believeinfilm, but I will also start considering, more seriously, somehow scanning my negs.

#MerseyMeetUp #believeinfilm #filmphotography #darkroom I exposed 1 roll of bulk HP5, so put a 2nd into my FM2n. I came upon a bratwurst stall and chatted with this young lady. I asked if I could take her portrait .... and it was my biggest disappointment of the day. Light leaks frames 1 and 2. 85mm

#MerseyMeetUp #believeinfilm #filmphotography #darkroom I printed selections from the 56 negs I made in Liverpool - my first ever visit to the city. I was taken by the eclectic mix of different architecture. Here are 2 - and featuring our Dear Leader @stigofthedump.bsky.social HP5 @ 800. 85mm

#MerseyMeetUp #believeinfilm #filmphotography #monochrome #darkroom I have been printing today. I have a bunch of selected, straight, test prints from the hugely enjoyable photowalk last Saturday. I still have more to do. I will post from tomorrow, once I have muted daylight, to take phone snaps.

#believeinfilm #filmphotography #monochrome #photowalk Yesterday I attended a Liverpool photowalk organised and hosted very kindly and gently by @stigofthedump.bsky.social . What a lovely bunch gathered. (I did feel for Stig .. herding cats!) I used HP5, pushed to iso 800. Dev DD-X. 1:4 10 mins

My train has just paused at Port Sunlight. Poorly named. It is grey and damp. #believeinfilm. #photowalk

Sitting in The Egg Cafe 📷 Nikkormat FT2 - 35mm f2 🎞️ Kentmere Pan 400 - D23 #BelieveInFilm #filmphotography

A day at the library. Stockholm, Sweden. Leica M3, Canon ltm 50 1.4, Fomapan 100. #believeinfilm #analogphotography

#believeinfilm #filmphotography #monochrome #darkroom Blackpool beach in November. Bulk 135 HP5+. 50mm lens. Y Filter.

The last few hours have proven 2 terrible things. First, the US and Russian governments are so close that the US government takes large parts of Russian proposals and passes them off as their own, and second that some people are so desperate to exonerate Trump that they act like this a good thing.

This analysis is correct. Indeed, obvious. Phillips P. OBrien: Trump's "peace" plan for Ukraine, which he at this very moment trying to force on the country with threats and intimidation, is grotesque. The US president is admitting what too many refused to admit. He wants Putin to win.

#cricket #believeinfilm #filmphotography #monochrome #darkroom Day 1 of the first test from Perth. An "exciting" start to the series. Back to photos; here is one from Lytham last week. Dark clouds, only 3pm, 12 hours of rain just starting ... and these lights stood out. HP5+ @1600. 50mm lens.

#bread #sourdough Thanks Tom @tomnorthfilm.bsky.social . I followed your tips! The experiment seemed to work ..... so I will pass this on to my son, and his ropey oven in Germany!

#believeinfilm #filmphotography #monochrome #darkroom Lytham - the seafront landmark. There was thick, even cloud. I did not attempt either in camera, or darkroom to get any cloud definition. @ilfordphoto.com 135 bulk HP5+ pushed 2 stops. 50mm lens.

#believeinfilm #filmphotography #monochrome #darkroom Blackpool in November. @ilfordphoto.com HP5+ pushed 2 stops. 50mm lens. Yellow Filter.

#soccer #Scotland Brilliant. Very well played. Astonishing.

#believeinfilm #filmphotography #monochrome #darkroom I posted the 5x7 earlier .... an example of HP5 pushed 2 stops. FX39 II. I chose to print it at A4, but over printed it by 10 or 15%. It was dark and muddy. Rather than use another sheet, I gave it a wash in Pot Ferri. Clarity and warmth. 🙂

#believeinfilm #filmphotography #monochrome #darkroom So, two 5x7's. Left - most of the neg, grade 2 straight, guessed exposure. Seems good tones, contrast etc with hardly any grain. Right - I then made an enlargement. About to 18x12. Wow. HP5 pushed 2 stops. @tomnorthfilm.bsky.social

#believeinfilm #filmphotography #monochrome #darkroom I developed a roll of @ilfordphoto.com HP5+ pushed 2 stops to 1600 ISO using FX39 II @ 1:9 for 24 mins. My first time this combo. @tomnorthfilm.bsky.social asked what I thought? Seems clean and contrasty with smooth transitions. Let's print!

#believeinfilm #filmphotography #monochrome #darkroom Late October side lighting. Expired 135 T Max 100. 50mm lens.

Last week we went to a gig in Lytham, making a break of it with a B&B overnighter. No light on Wed with thick clouds and rain, so I loaded HP5+ pushed to 1600 ASA. The next morning - all change, with buckets more light! Having a Nikon F90X with such fast shutter speeds really helps. Dev in FX-39 II.

#believeinfilm #filmphotography #monochrome #darkroom Really early, before buses and people start their busying. Bronica RF 645. Kentmere 100. A 10x8 print.

#believeinfilm #filmphotography #monochrome #darkroom Strolling really early with quite low light levels .... but enough to illuminate this table. Kentmere 100 film in 120 form.

I am pleased to see Dave putting out his blog once more. He can be such an inspiration ...... for evidence of this, look inside this blog. One image alone makes it. A perfect example of black and white imagery. A cafe interior, strongly lit. Perfectly composed elements of line, light, and shadow.