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Little boat cropped

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I’m going to continue to post pictures from my Scarborough trip, but I’m moving onto some black and white photographs now.

These are shots from the two rolls of Ilford Type 517 film I shot on the day which suffered severe light leaks (which I originally posted about here). Not being one to waste anything, especially two rolls of film(!), I’ve managed to rescue quite a lot of the frames through the use of cropping (although there were also several full frames that somehow escaped the light leaks altogether). So, while not the compositions I originally intended and framed in the viewfinder, I think I’ve still managed to get pictures that work pretty well.

The shot below didn’t have any light leaks, but there was some sort of uneven development or film problem going on that made the sky somewhat blotchy, so this is a quite significant crop from the original portrait orientation 35mm frame (although, even when cropped, it’s still over 4,000 pixels on the long edge). It’s smaller than a half-frame negative and the grain is quite prominent as a result, but it think it still works.

Out on the water

Nikon F80 and Nikkor 70-200mm f/4 ED VR on Ilford Type-517. Ilfotec DD-X 1+4 14.5mins @ 20°.

Taken on 14 March 2026

35mm · Film photography · Photography

1937

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A whole bunch of pictures to come over the next week or two from my recent trip to Lido di Jesolo in Italy with my wife. It was only a short, three-day break, but I managed to get through two-and-a-half rolls of film with my Olympus Trip 35.

As it’s late and I (shock! Horror!) almost forgot to write a blog post today, I’ll keep this one quite short.

This small building was set just back from the beach and, like so many other hotels and houses, was painted a vivid shade. It has “1937” written on the wall in Roman numerals. I guess it’s possible that the building dates back to then, but I suspect it may have some different significance. Whatever the case, I felt it made for a nice colourful subject, and I like the leading lines formed by the strips of matting in the foreground..

1937

Olympus Trip 35 & Kodak Gold. Lab developed. Home scanned and converted with Negative Lab Pro.

Taken 5 May 2023.

35mm · Film photography · Photography

Yellow telescope

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The clunky coin-operated telescope – a staple of the seaside resort in the UK (and probably all over the world – there were loads of them dotted around when I visited New York for instance, although were fancy binocular variants). They always seem awkward to use. Big heavy lumps of metal and glass on stiff supports with a limited range of movement. The optics are often full of debris, giving a nostalgic, cataract-ridden view of whatever you manage to point them towards. They probably promise more than they tend to deliver, but I’m happy they’re there, especially when they look beautiful against the blue summer sky as this one does.

Say what can you see?
Out on the beach and the seas
And up in the skies

Yellowscope

Canon Sure Shot Supreme & Fujichrome Sensia 100 (expired 2003).

Taken on 27 May 2021