Photoset from Cotswolds by car.

“Gone 4 T”

Not from today, but a very damp Bank Holiday meant staying in, and a
chance to spend some time editing photos from my April visit to
Cornwall & Scilly, trying out a number of the Aperture Presets that I
have discovered and made in recent weeks. Here is one from Scilly,
where time seems to stand still, and the style could be from the
1960’s- just need a suitable car parked in shot!

The full Cornwall slideshow is below:

Crick Boat Show 2011

Added some more shots from Birmingham yesterday, this time from
digital camera and in colour.

A chance to continue my non-digital photography adventure in Birmingham with a roll of Ilford XP2 400, which Jessops said they could process in an hour. Results not too bad- I have a little more faith in the automatic metering of the ME Super now.

This shot in Brindley Place, near Symphony Hall and the Sea Life centre.

A couple of weeks ago, I paid a visit to the Heritage Motor Museum and to Chesterton Windmill to test a new digital camera, the Canon S95. However I decided also to take along my old film SLR, a Pentax ME Super, which has been languishing in a drawer for goodness knows how many years! I got some film, a roll of Fuji Velvia 50, and was simply curious to see if the camera still worked. I did feel that the auto exposure wasn’t quite right, at least compared to the digital readings, so I rather erred on the side of underexposing slightly. I collected the CD with the images this afternoon. Rather disappointed to see they were scanned at only 2.1 megapixels, but the Velvia colours seem to have come through, particularly at Chesteton. Some of the vintage vehicles on display at Gaydon seemed to have rather strange colours- an interesting effect, all of them, but not exactly always realistic!

Another shot from Broadway, Worcestershire, on Tuesday. Somewhere in a box, I have some of my grandfather’s transparencies from the 1950s and 1960s, mainly on Kodak slides, and I do remember a lot of shots taken in the Cotswolds. The treatment here is intended to give a very slightly bygone feel to the place.

Broadway, Worcestershire- I didn’t intend to venture quite so far on my half day, but it proved to be a lovely afternoon for a drive in the countryside, and what better than the Cotswolds…

Napton Lock Flight, South Oxford Canal