This week's entry for #ShareMondays2026 is some more marcescent beech leaves (those that hang on, dead, until the new buds arrive in spring!). Frithsden Beeches #Berkhamsted

This is a Patek Philippe Calatrava ref. 5120J that my parents gave me as part of a pair on the occasion of my wedding. They in turn received them from my grandparents. You don't really own a Patek Philippe (or wear it for that matter) you take care of it for the next generation.

A few from this morning’s misty dog walk

The scavenger

I am a passenger And I ride, and I ride I ride through the city's backsides I see the stars come out of the sky Yeah, they're bright in a hollow sky You know it looks so good tonight

Safe driver?

A banyan tree deep downtown.

Downtrodden

Amazing selection!! Thank you for including mine. 💚

The sun has appeared. So getting out to grab some vitamin d. Taking this with me for some #shittyCameraChallenge action. Ker-chunk… though a rather ‘sleek’ one. 😎

The eyelashes complete the look.

A vintage Omega De Ville "Ellipse" model from the late 1960s or 1970s, featuring a square case with rounded corners, textured black dial, and a stainless steel mesh bracelet. Comedy Wrist Roll: youtube.com/shorts/SDftj...

Seiko ref.SRPE72K1 "SKX Street Style" in yellow gold tone, offering 100m WR, Hardlex sandwich (exhibition caseback), Lumibrite, day-date at 3 o'clock. I bought it to salvage the movement, but it's in good nick and perfectly fits my housekeeper's wrist, so that's that.

Any #believeinfilm friends develop their Acros in #510pyro? Debating between the same method I did with Delta 100 with a 1:100 ration, or a longer stand development with a 1:300 ratio. Curious if any of you had some dev times that you felt were particularly successful.

I used ID II 1:3 for a reduced time of 14.5mins as I know how contrast can build up with fomapan 100. I exposed at 64iso to make sure I get shadow detail. Negs look ok and this is what the inside of a CombiPlan tank looks like if you haven’t seen one #believeinfilm #filmphotography

Eh, not my bag, but I hope it does well. It's a retro style video camera that can print selected stills onto Instax Mini; incorporating a QR code link to the uploaded clip. www.bhphotovideo.com/explora/phot...

One of our group companies issued a limited edition watch to commemorate the repoening of one of our historical pawnshops and its temporary repurposing as an art gallery. My cousin's choice of red dial isn't my usual preference, but Chinese new year is coming up!

I'm fed up with gear reviews that are basically sales pitches because they want freebies and sponsorship. I want to learn, to hear balanced opinions and recommendations for better alternatives. I want reviewers to be on the side of the consumers.

This is why I'm the photo guy.

Giving the Schneider Super-Symmar XL 110mm f/5.6 a try on the Wehman 8x10. We will see how this turns out.

If you’re looking for a known good 6x6 folder for the next folder week, National Camera has just listed the Zeiss Ikon Nettar 517/16 that I traded in to them. They’ve got it priced at $50, which is a great price. They’ve rated it at exc/VG for the body and optics. www.natcam.com/products/zei...

On a cold winter's night, curled with a pipe. #煙管

This Dewitt Academia Out Of Time Sparkling in 18-carat rose gold and on a black alligator strap was a USD50,000 watch. Trade didn't want it. Someone called it a Dewalt. Everybody laughed. Microbrands, even big ones don't get any respect.

Another watch that failed to sell. A Waltham pocket watch, but non-running and missing the crystal and one hand. A potential fixer-upper that didn't sell for the value of the gold case. The trade looks for easy flips, not projects.

This Piaget Polo Ref. 27700 in 18k white gold is everything I'm not: elegant and sophisticated. But it is heavy, and at least I'm working on that. Not for me. It didn't reach reserve and that was basically around the value of the gold. Buyers could melt it and sell the movement. But no.

This is glorious vintage ladies Omega with a finely woven silver strap. There is only one problem: it fits my 7 1/4"wrist and few Chinese ladies can wear it. It failed to reach reserve at even less than Tudor charges for just a NATO strap.

Rolex 124060 no date sub vs 16610 date sub. The no date is the latest tech, the date was the last of the aluminium bezels and still a good daily diver. I'm wearing the former and sold the latter today.

I submitted photos from my 2018 trip to Ethiopia on a medical mission team to an open call at a local gallery. I believe these photos represent some of my best work. I swear if none of these photos are picked for the exhibit I'm going to completely give up on calls for entry. Nikon D850.

The closest current equivalent to this 2012 Breitling Superocean Chronograph sells for $6500. You can buy vintage ones for $3000. But with weak demand, the trade won't pay more than $500 if you want to sell. Lucky for me, because I got this one at trade price. I'll probably give it to my brother.

Buying a Rolex at an AD can be a traumatic experience for some, but the ownership experience is without parallel. The Sub is a true one and done, assuming you don't regularly "dress for dinner". Mine's getting a lot of wear and starting to pick up a few scratches which is fine as I'm never selling.

My friend restored this watch for us, but we can't sell it as it's now not serviceable by Rolex. Now we melt it, I guess. Looks lovely though. He's thinking of buying it back off us for his wife.

"Eat no fin".

I'm at Venture Studios in Central Hong Kong waiting for a portrait session. Actually, waiting for my wife to show up.

I've seen a lot of PC and A/V cable standards come and go. When HDMI is no longer supported, it won't come a moment too soon. My wife bought a device that's somehow incompatible with the bundled cable.

To everyone who has a birthday at this time of year, Happy Birthday!

#asundaycarpic #wienliebe #wienanalog #BelieveInFilm #FilmIsNotDead 📷 Leica IIIc 🎞 AGFA APX100 🧪 Amaloco AM 74

Chroma Camera CubePan – A Review, and my Journey into Panoramic Photography

645! www.digitalcameraworld.com/cameras/film...

Starting sequencing for my next handmade book. Working on the centre spreads first. Let me know which ones you like best. #photography #photo #photographer #art #landscapephotography #landscape #thephotohour #beautiful #eastcoastkin #ThePhotoHour #classicmono #capecornwall #cornwall #scape

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Testing the Black Bay's seal. I'm not testing the engineering behind the maximum rated pressure. I'm testing that the watch is sealed; the case back O-ring, crown O-rings and crystal gasket are seated and greased. A 200m watch can fail in the shower if it's not closed properly. See Alt text.

This Tudor Black Bay 41 ref. 7941A140 METAS certified Master Chronometer clashes with my shirt. Awkward. I'm playing the will-the-wife-notice game like I did with the cameras. She noticed the new colour (probably because it clashed), but the Submariner slipped by like a Shinobi in the shadows.

We have a "problem watch" at work: a tired, old gold Lady Datejust. It's over polished and has aftermarket diamonds and crystal. Ordinarily we'd just auction it off as-is but for the first time I'm going to ask my goldsmith buddy to do a full restoration, with original parts and laser-welded gold.

Here's my monthly dump of weird and wonderful luxury watches (short thread). We don't see the Rolex ref. 126720VTNR very often. I'm tempted to keep it, but being right handed, I can't quite get it to work for me. Now I know how lefties feel.

Tandorio did an FXD homage, a 42mm automatic titanium 200m diver with milled lugs for about a hundred bucks. The bezel is monodirectional and turns in the conventional way, but is smoother than the Tactical Frog. Details in the Alt text.

Even though I own a no-date Submariner, this $100 Watchdives WD1680Q V2 has been getting half my wrist time over the last few weeks. It's hard to start with an icon and make enhancements that don't take away from the look. Details in the Alt text.

I'm impressed with this Phorcydes PH-2. At $300 it was more than most Chinese watches, but this skin diver is unusually refined in delivery. The finish is Tudor-esque and the lume blocks put my Submariner to shame. The only weak point is the too easily turned bezel.