Memory Lane
I’ve been reminiscing this week after I took a trip to visit my friend Dave last Friday. We had plans to have a photography day and as a bonus I was reunited with a couple of boxes of old photography related stuff of mine he had been looking after for me for probably at least 10 years.
Amongst the treasures, I was excited to find my manual remote shutter release as I had been quite close to purchasing another one recently. So to start the day off I loaded up some HP5+ into my Rolleicord and Dave got to witness ‘my process’ of randomly jumping about/lying on the ground whilst holding the shutter release, in his back garden.
I developed the negatives afterwards and then we (predominantly Dave) went about turning his bathroom into a darkroom. I was all excited after finding negatives from years ago I couldn’t decide what to print first. The bathroom darkroom was a success though and hopefully it won’t be too long before we give it another go!
I think this should also go down in the record books as one of the few ‘Old Farts Photographic Society’ (est. 2004) get togethers where I actually remembered to take some photographs, so all in all a very fun day.
I still haven’t gotten around to sorting everything from the boxes out properly, but I scanned in a few old negatives, along with the shots from Dave’s garden, at Street Level this week.
Here is a mix of old and new all shot on good old Ilford HP5+
Danny shaving 2005
Self portrait Arlington St 2006
Arlington Street 2006
