pfm Picture A Week (PAW) 2019 part I

[Gromit]

@Gromit - you lucky get: that's a proper camera. Does merely fondling it for a few days count as 'use'..?

(off to dig my Yashicamat out of hibernation, inspired by your sax pic earlier)

- I'll check with the Missus, although the lens and back are technically 'mine' as of now.

Using the Yashica really got me onto 6x6 - thought at first that the square format would be slightly at-odds, but love it now.

 

[eternumviti]

Frustrating - I've wanted one of these since I was a spotty teenager (more years ago than I care to dwell upon). Some of it is a Christmas present from Mrs Gromit, and I'm under the strictest instructions NOT to use it until Christmas Day. A fridge loaded with Tri-X and Portra awaits...

Hasselblad by Boxertrixter, on Flickr

Victor by Boxertrixter, on Flickr

You lucky basket you. I'm just thinking of finding a mf, but it won't be one of those, mores the pity.

 

[martin clark]

Using the Yashica really got me onto 6x6 - thought at first that the square format would be slightly at-odds, but love it now.

I love square format, and the image quality of 6x6; and in the decade or so I've had the Yashi, not posted enough of the fun I've had with it. Not only is the ancient lens remarkably good, I find the slow deliberate action of choosing to use it, and the discipline of composition inverted lovely; and a TLR / any waist-level finder is a wonderful thing to try portraits with (and I only try, on that front) - simply because the camera isn't between your eye and the subject's. And I was wholly inspired to try this approach, simply by watching @mentalp 's use of ( I think) a Bronica ETRSi here - and the endless resulting object lesson in what portraits can be


Girl on Film

Jess, a day out (c.2011) playing together with a couple of OM2s, and the Yashicamat ( this pic) down by Porlock Weir. Metering guess by Gossen Sixtomat, bought new by my grandpa c 1954 (and still in use by me - Sixtomat +Yashicamat = no batteries to fail!)

 

[Gromit]

Bit more film...

Just looking! by Boxertrixter, on Flickr

Nikon FE/AI-Nikkor 50-1.8/Kodak Portra 160 (I just love this film!)

 

[mentalp]

Callum Easter, outside the Union Chapel yesterday

Callum Easter by Pete, on Flickr

He was playing as part of the Daylight Music / Lost Map Records - Yuletide in a Scotch Sitting Room ( there was an Ivor Cutler theme)

Also on today as part of the Lost Map showcase at the Lexington - starts at 4pm

https://callumeaster.bandcamp.com/music

 

[Gromit]

Been several months since I took a wander in our local woods - we're so fortunate to live so close to this place. All Fuji jpegs:

Warm light by Boxertrixter, on Flickr

Winter woods by Boxertrixter, on Flickr

Cranwell Woods by Boxertrixter, on Flickr

Fuji X-H1
Fuji XF16-1.4 (top 2)
Mitakon 35-0.95 (bottom)

 

[eguth]

 

[Gromit]

1998:

Pompidou by Boxertrixter, on Flickr

Nikon F3/AI-NIkkor 35-f2/Velvia 50

 

[eternumviti]

Been several months since I took a wander in our local woods - we're so fortunate to live so close to this place. All Fuji jpegs:

Warm light by Boxertrixter, on Flickr

Winter woods by Boxertrixter, on Flickr

Cranwell Woods by Boxertrixter, on Flickr

Fuji X-H1
Fuji XF16-1.4 (top 2)
Mitakon 35-0.95 (bottom)

Absolutely lovely. I find woods so bloody difficult.

 

[ff1d1l]

Blue-Bottle-with-Green-Marble

 

[Paulicus]

Holiday Inn Express by Paul Wood, on Flickr Barrow's latest hotel. There's a lot of closed pubs being converted into contractors apartments, too! Mustn't forget the influx of Turkish barbers, nail bars and food takeaway joints of which there are literally dozens of them!

 

[mentalp]

An alternate from Saturday - Callum

Callum Easter by Pete, on Flickr

 

[mentalp]

And in performance on Sunday at the Lexington

Callum Easter by Pete, on Flickr

 

[mentalp]

Callum Easter by Pete, on Flickr

 

[Pete MB&D]

Scrunchy by Pete Maddex, on Flickr


Pete

 

[user510]

-Steve

 

[ian123running]

We cycled under a few years ago - today we drove over.

Millau Viaduct 1 by Ian123_running, on Flickr

 

[ian123running]

Millau Viaduct 2 by Ian123_running, on Flickr

 

[ian123running]

1998:

Pompidou by Boxertrixter, on Flickr

Nikon F3/AI-NIkkor 35-f2/Velvia 50

That is really lovely.

 

[Paulicus]

Looking Towards Coniston Old Man by Paul Wood, on Flickr