Walls

For a while I lived in Scunthorpe. To say the landscape in North Lincolnshire is a bit dull is an understatement. It be flat. So I would often venture North into Yorkshire. Much as I like Scunthorpe (yes, I really said that, and I really mean that) it was wonderful to be back in the land of dry stone walls.

The two images above were taken at Thruscross Reservoir in North Yorkshire. The image below was taken at Bolton Abbey a year later. All of the scans came out quite flat and needed a bit of digital tlc. The image below needed a little extra tlc.

Tree stump in wall — Ilford HP5, inverted softglow filter

Now I live in the land of dry stone walls, and it feels good to be home.

Why is Kodak Screwed?

While Kodak moves ever further toward becoming a supplier of cheap Ink-jet printers (was that too harsh?) It’s sad to think how one of THE photographic innovators of the past has fallen so mightily. Then I went shopping for some T-Max 3200 for a Christmas project. With 3 photographic retailers near where I work, I thought I’d see what I could find. One of them doesn’t sell film at all. The second had film but only two rolls of Kodak film, neither of which where what I wanted. The last stocked only Fuji and mostly Ilford.

So why is it so hard to find Kodak film? Why isn’t Kodak taking the initiative, like Fuji, sponsoring websites and competitions, keeping people interested in film – their film? Surely a good place to start would be making sure you got your film where people could buy it?

Thank goodness for ebay!