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Stump

Sea bleached tree stump at the mouth of the Wainuiomata river near the Bearing Head lighthouse.

Was out this way yesterday and finally walked to the lighthouse which was about a 3 hour return walk. We had the added bonus of 80-100 km/h wind and had to hold the hand of my smallest so she wouldn’t blow away. Quite an adventure 🙂

You can also see the lens aberration from the lens damage on the taking lens quite clearly in the top right of  the frame

Stump

Rolleiflex 2.8 E, Ilford HP5+ 400 ISO, CanoScan 9000F Scanner.

Posted by  |  18/04/2015 | Categories: Rolleiflex | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

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Fantail Falls

West Coast of the South Island, New Zealand

Fantail Falls

Rolleiflex 2.8 E, Ilford HP5+ 400 ISO Film, CanoScan 9000F Scanner.

Posted by  |  16/04/2015 | Categories: Rolleiflex | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | 2 Comments

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Enlarger Mask Building

After looking round for a 6 x 6 enlarger mask to be able to print shots from my Rolleiflex I have finally just decided to make one out of matte board.

With less parts being available all the time (especially in little old New Zealand) it seems more and more I have to make this kind of stuff myself. I have even gone as far as buying a couple of enlargers (super cheap) but they were all missing a part or two. At least I will have lots of spare parts or things to build random stuff out of 🙂

I think I may have made a small mistake by using a section of foam core in the middle to make the whole thing thicker and may have to tape up the sides since it seems to let light out…

Its all glued up and will take it into the darkroom for a test on Monday next week…

Fingers crossed…

Its for a LPL 7700 Enlarger if anyone has a spare mask 🙂

Enlarger Mask

Posted by  |  15/04/2015 | Categories: Experimental, Rolleiflex | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , | 1 Comment

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Kite Surfing

Kite surfing is one of those things that I have always meant to try but so far haven’t got around to it…

One day 🙂

2-Kites

1-Kite

Rolleiflex 2.8 E, Ilford HP5+ 400 ISO Film, CanoScan 9000F Scanner.

Posted by  |  14/04/2015 | Categories: Rolleiflex | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

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Gold Mine Exploration

Bannockburn Slucing tunnel exploration…

Bannockburn-1

Bannockburn-2

Bannockburn-3

Bannockburn-4

Bannockburn-5

Bannockburn-6

Bannockburn-7

Bannockburn-8

Bannockburn-9

Nikon D90, Sigma 12-24mm Lens, ISO 200, 10W Torch, Tripod.

 

 

Posted by  |  13/04/2015 | Categories: Blog, D90, Urbex | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

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Chillin

Petone Beach

BookandBeach

Rolleiflex 2.8 E, Ilford HP5+ 400 ISO Film, CanoScan 9000F Scanner.

Posted by  |  12/04/2015 | Categories: Rolleiflex | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Self

Self

 

Nikon D90, Sigma 12-25mm Lens, Tripod, 10W Torch

Posted by  |  11/04/2015 | Categories: Blog, D90 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

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Bend In The Road

West Coast landscape goodness

Apparently this is also my 1000th post… Craziness

Road

Horizon 202 Camera, Ilford Delta 10  Film (expired), CanoScan 9000F Scanner.

Posted by  |  10/04/2015 | Categories: Blog | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , | 2 Comments

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Research

New book came in the post today and had to be saved from the letter box due to heavy rain.

This is my first step into researching Wet Plate Collodion photography 🙂

Book

Posted by  |  08/04/2015 | Categories: Experimental | Tags: , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

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Cliff

Head of the Franz Joseph glacier valley…

Franz

Rolleiflex 2.8 E, Ilford HP5+ 400 ISO Film, CanoScan 9000F Scanner.

Posted by  |  07/04/2015 | Categories: Rolleiflex | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Pinnacles 2

Some more shots from the Pinnacles trip earlier in the year…

Pinnacles-5 Pinnacles-2 Pinnacles-3 Pinnacles-4 Pinnacles-4

 

Horizon 202 Camera, Ilford Delta 100 ISO Film (Expired), CanoScan 9000F Scanner

Posted by  |  06/04/2015 | Categories: Blog | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

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Christchurch Cathedral

Some shots of the earthquake affected Christchurch Cathedral. This is almost 5 years since the quake hit and it is still considered too dangerous to go in…

Cathedral-1

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Cathedral-4

 

Rolleiflex 2.8 E, Ilford HP5+ 400 ISO Film, CanoScan 9000F Scanner

Posted by  |  30/03/2015 | Categories: Rolleiflex | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment