In about 40 years of taking pictures, both as a hobby and for a couple of years as a pro, I must have taken well over 150.000 shots.
Someone kindly suggested that I should share some of them with you, to which my reply was that I have little patience with scanners and that I would rather spend time with a camera in my hand, or with the smell of developer and hypo in my nostrils.
Coincidentally, I was rebuilding an old PC for the lad when I came across a few shots that I had scanned several years ago. I present them to you as a sort of random selection, be gentle with your comments!
Arch
(Nikon F3, 50mm f1.2, f22, 1/30sec (handheld) FP4, ID11, printed on Ilford grade 3 paper to 10x8)
It was the string of shells and their shadow which caught my eye!
Buying the bread
Taken on holiday some years ago - I don't keep notes about my colour print work, the camera and lens would have been the same and I would have had Fujicolour 160 professional film loaded.
The next couple are the same shot - first, as taken:
Logs in the snow
(Nikon F4, 28mm f2.8, f16, handheld at 1/15 sec with very cold hands! PanF, Perceptol, Grade 5 paper.) I wanted to get rid of the mid tones to achieve a really abstract effect and so after a lot of faffing around under the red light, I came up with this:
Abstract logs
The scanning process hasn't done my carefully crafted images any favours, but I hope some of you ennjoy them!
Someone kindly suggested that I should share some of them with you, to which my reply was that I have little patience with scanners and that I would rather spend time with a camera in my hand, or with the smell of developer and hypo in my nostrils.
Coincidentally, I was rebuilding an old PC for the lad when I came across a few shots that I had scanned several years ago. I present them to you as a sort of random selection, be gentle with your comments!
Arch
(Nikon F3, 50mm f1.2, f22, 1/30sec (handheld) FP4, ID11, printed on Ilford grade 3 paper to 10x8)
It was the string of shells and their shadow which caught my eye!
Buying the bread
Taken on holiday some years ago - I don't keep notes about my colour print work, the camera and lens would have been the same and I would have had Fujicolour 160 professional film loaded.
The next couple are the same shot - first, as taken:
Logs in the snow
(Nikon F4, 28mm f2.8, f16, handheld at 1/15 sec with very cold hands! PanF, Perceptol, Grade 5 paper.) I wanted to get rid of the mid tones to achieve a really abstract effect and so after a lot of faffing around under the red light, I came up with this:
Abstract logs
The scanning process hasn't done my carefully crafted images any favours, but I hope some of you ennjoy them!
You don't fancy shrinking them a tad and sticking image tags around them do you? Its just people are lazy(myself included) and don't like clicking on links. 
