Logging on Staple Plain

Some from the past

A day at the Sedges

 Another day at the Sedges

 West Somerset Railway

 My Lady

 Before the storm at the allotment

 After the storm

 A quiet cuppa

 Produce

 more produce

 and even more produce

 Whiteacres

 West Somerset

 Where I live in the snow

 Trinity

 West Somerset

 The polytunnel

 Viaduct

Pheasant taking peanuts from my hand

Rags

I expect you can guess why we called him Rags. He looked like a bundle of rags when we first got him some weeks previous. Taken c1985.


© John London 2012

Clouds over Minehead, West Somerset

What can one say about the skies that appear over this part of the Bristol Channel


© John London 2012

Blue Flyover

Ok, so I have the Blues and am going back in time to post images from the past. Some from way back  in the past. Many are poor scans from film but humour me for the sake of these records.


© John London 2012

Flowers

Lady

This lovely little lass had a poor start to life which did not really improve over the years
but, along with the rough, I hope she appreciated a some of the smooth. Taken c1985.

Lady was her name


© John London 2012

The ' Cheesemongers '

Typical Holiday Reading

© John London 2007

I'm watching You

© John London 2007

Four Having Fun

© John London 2007

Alicante Bears

© John London 2006

Dont Even Think About It!

A little humour to end the year

© John London  2006

Cleeve Abbey

In a quiet corner of Cleeve Abbey a jug rests quietly in the bright afternoon sunlight.

© John London 2006

Windows on the World

© John London 2006

Another Take

© John London 2006

Trees

Yep, just trees!

Bookends

My cupboards are full - well some are, of treasured, old, magnificent, beautifully crafted works of art.

Manual film cameras have always been wonders of mechanical precision, to be revered, used, cosseted and coaxed into producing images to savour . Those of us brought up on the delights of BxW and the even greater delights of learning how different films and developer combinations produced a mildly different look and feel can look back at that time with deep nostalgia and the successful ones with a certain sense of pride.

The old competitors of Canon and Nikon versus the Pentax and the quaint OM users all had the common goal of mixing and matching the film - dev combinations to achieve the result. Ah, what fun. The Tri X gang versus the HP3 lads - or HP5 if you are of a more modern genre. How about some Verichrome Pan for the weekend sir? Plus X - that will do fine!

Then there was ID11 or D76 and I dare not go into all the other acutance and - no, dont go down that route John!

Cameras? Thats for another time but my cupboard of AI, AIs, FDs and Zuikos all now live (un)happily together in boxes in cupboards. Unused, still looked at from time to time but still loved for ever!