Gastrophoto

Ann is working on a cookbook for MS patients as a final thesis in her Nutrition study. And I'm getting to do the pictures (ably assisted by Witold). All taken with the Olympus 420.

848

Finally, the Imacon 848 scanner has arrived. I bought it 6 months ago, from a service lab in Nantes, France. But it took me until last weekend to free up the 2 days necessary to go down to France and pick it up. It's quite a drive. However, the 848 is now safely standing on my desk, looking like one of these stately, slightly menacing monoliths on Easter Island. And it works. Did a few test scans of 24x36 and 6x6 negatives and the results are encouraging. Above is a section from a negative shown on the blog just a few postings ago. Left is a scan with the V700, right is the Imacon scan. The difference is quite obvious. It gives me reason to believe that this has been a good investment in supporting film-based photographic work.

Perfect day

How often do you have one of these perfect days, when the temperature is just right, the sky stretches benignly and luminously above our heads and a faint breeze caresses life on earth? These memorable days are rare, very rare. A couple of weeks ago we had one of those. I couldn't fully savour it as I was confined to a sealed, aircoed meeting room somewhere in London. However, the way back to the station and the train ride was enough to lift my spirits. These pictures I took with the little Olympus E-420 from a Eurostar in motion.

Judgment Day

Here is another one from the Paris roll, shot in front of the Notre Dame with the SWC on Fuji 400CN.

Eiffel

I found a undeveloped roll of Fuji CN400 somewhere lying around in my office. Turned out to be a series of shots from a 1-day trip to Paris, late August last year. The other roll was ruined last year in the lab. This family shot was taken with the Hassie SWC on, obviously, a high terrace of the Eiffel Tower. Great lens, this Biogon!

Flex

A shot from Sunday with the Hasselblad Flexbody and a Tessar 160mm on Fuji 400CN (a chromogenic Fuji emulsion only available on the UK market). It's taken in the park adjacent to Arenberg Castle, just a 10 minute walk from our house.

I haven't worked a lot with the Flexbody up to now but nevertheless I am quite attached to it. It's a great tool when judiciously applied.

Pola

Shot these out of my office window in just the space of a few minutes, earlier this week.
From a small stock of completely outdated and overcooked pola I found in a cupboard.