Thursday 20 September 2012

An old view of Quidi Vidi




 About four or five months ago I spent some time in St John's where I was given an old Kodak pocket camera from 1921. Its a difficult little thing to use - the shutter sticks 5 times out of ten, you have to approximate the focus distance, and of course there's no light meter (for most of the exposures I used what I call the 'gut-feeling mode' on the camera). You have to compose the images through what some used to call a viewfinder, but really its just a 1cm by 1cm light prism. Aim and shoot.


After tromping around certain picturesque locales of the rock they call Newfoundland I was stuck with three rolls of 120 black and white film. I had recently been liberated from the pains of university and I had also been liberated of my almost perpetual access to darkroom chemicals. Sitting on them for a couple of months I eventually decided to scrape up the $80 for chemicals and mixed them into Mr. Clean bottles - bad idea. As you can see my laundry room + ignorant chemical set up is no match for a real tech-run lab. So they were developed and hung on my cork board to dry, for two more months.
 We come to today, where I stumbled home after working on the railroad for nine days to find my parents' brand new photo scanner, which luckily for me, came with negative carriers. Finally, these pictures get to come out of the wood work. After all this time they're ready to be shared.
 Thanks Sue and Jimmy.

Wednesday 14 December 2011

Friday 11 November 2011

Broiling toiling Emulsion-ing

I'm planning on Cropping the high resolution images even further to isolate the crazy patterns. 




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