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A dull afternoon between Christmas and New Year. The high tide recedes and the boardwalk becomes accessible again, but there is nobody around to cross it.
Digital, 35mm Summilux, Mersea Island, December 2018.
© John Banting 2018.

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Some more of the 51 soldier silhouettes installed at The Strood to commemorate those who lost their lives during WW1.
M6, 35mm Summicron, Ilford HP5 at 400 in DD-X. Mersea Island, December 2018.
© John Banting 2018.

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Some of the 51 soldier silhouettes installed at The Strood to commemorate those from the Island who lost their lives during WW1.
M6, 35mm Summicron, Ilford HP5 at 400 in DD-X. Mersea Island, December 2018.
© John Banting 2018.

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The film base says Ilford HP3. This is very much a rescued image from about 1971. It looks like I over exposed and under developed this film. Not to achieve any effect, just bad practice.
Canon FP with standard lens.
© John Banting.

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Another frame from the roll of film I put through the borrowed Rolleiflex Original (about 1930/31) from Jim's camera collection.
Rolleiflex f3.8 Tessar wide open at 1/100th. Ilford HP5 in DD-X. November 2018.
© John Banting 2018.

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I borrowed a Rolleiflex Original (about 1930/31) from Jim's camera collection.
It hasn't been used for decades probably, but I put a film through it this afternoon, unfortunately just as the light was fading. I don't have a 6x6 scanner so this image is not doing the lens any favours. Neither is my PS processing.
Rolleiflex f3.8 Tessar wide open at 1/25th. Ilford HP5 in DD-X. November 2018.
© John Banting 2018.

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The sculpture All Together Now designed by Andy Edwards, commemorating the Christmas truce in 1914 now displayed at St. Lukes, the bombed out church in Liverpool.
Digital. Q/28mm Summilux, October 2018.
© John Banting 2018.

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The morning clean up on Matthew Street, Liverpool.
Digital. Q/28mm Summilux, October 2018.
© John Banting 2018.

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The Fishermen's Hut during an October high tide.
Ilford HP5 at 400 in DD-X. 50mm Summilux, West Mersea, October 2018.
© John Banting 2018.

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Ilford FP4 at 200 in DD-X. 50mm Summicron R, October 2018.

© John Banting 2018.

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A late afternoon view of the Royal Liver Building.
Digital, Q/28mm Summilux. Liverpool, October 2018.
© John Banting 2018.

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The remains of fencing installed in the late 1980's to help to protect the cliffs at East Mersea from erosion.
Digital, 28mm Summilux. East Mersea, September 2018.
© John Banting 2018.


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Late afternoon light. A low tide brings the accessible slope of shingle bank closer to smack CK159.
Digital, 50mm Summilux. Mersea Island, October 2018.
© John Banting 2018.

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The setting sun makes a star burst pattern through a hole in the cabin of an abandoned boat.
Digital, 35mm Summicron. Mersea Island, September 2018.
© John Banting 2018.

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Watching the firework display marking the end of Regatta week. I thought I was taking a half second exposure, but the camera decided 3 seconds was better. I didn't argue.
Digital, 35mm Summicron. Mersea Island, September 2018.
© John Banting 2018.

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Bunny ears headgear being worn to watch the firework display marking the end of Regatta week.
Digital, 35mm Summicron. Mersea Island, September 2018.
© John Banting 2018.

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... and continuing from my previous post, well done to the curator at the Baltic for this image by Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen at the gallery entrance which I think captures the spirit of "North" perfectly. But then so many of her Byker images do.
Digital, 28mm Summilux. September 2018.
© John Banting 2018. (not the image within this photograph, which is by Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen).

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Phew! I made it up to Newcastle upon Tyne in time to see the excellent "About The North" exhibition at the lovely Side Gallery, and also the fabulous selection of images by 5 women photographers as part of the "Idea of North" at the Baltic.
Digital, 28mm Summilux. September 2018.
© John Banting 2018.

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Task lighting is required for an early evening knitting session.
Ilford HP5 at 400 in DD-X, 50mm Summicron. Late August 2018.
© John Banting 2018.

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Learning how to crochet. Early evening, probably f2.8 1/30th.
Ilford Delta 100 (at 200) in DD-X, 35mm Summicron. September 2018.
What a lovely film Delta 100 is, even when pushed to 200 asa.
© John Banting 2018.

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Mid morning on the beach at Southwold. I wondered whether this sandcastle had just been made or had survived since the previous day.
Ilford HP5 in DD-X, 50mm Summicron. Southwold, Suffolk. August 2018.
© John Banting 2018.

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Fisherman's hut at Dunwich, Suffolk. This hut used to display a nice metal FISH sign which I think someone stole a few years ago.
Ilford HP5 in DD-X, 50mm Summicron. August 2018.
I was using a camera with no light meter. Looking at the negative, my own internal meter has gone out of adjustment. Lack of use probably!
© John Banting 2018.

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Kneeling before the Buddha. Maybe not. This person was reading the information tag for the plant behind.
Digital,35mm Summicron. Essex, August 2018.
© John Banting 2018.

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Rain falling in the distance behind a petrol station in Lee Vining, near Mono Lake, California.
Digital, 28mm Summilux. June 2018.
© John Banting 2018.

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Trying to keep the jazz cool at the RHS Hyde Hall Garden event.
On a very hot day these musicians stayed in the shade.
Digital, 35mm Summicron. Essex, August 2018.
© John Banting 2018.

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I went to the Four Corners Gallery in Bethnal Green to listen to the talk "Half Moon Photography Workshop: the inside story."
The speakers included Mike Goldwater, Ron McCormick, Jennie Matthews and Paul Trevor.
And nice to see Ed Barber remembered on the poster outside. A very interesting story. I never did visit the original Half Moon Gallery but did buy Camerawork magazine for a while.
Digital, 28mm Summilux. Bethnal Green, July 2018.
© John Banting 2018.

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A reminder of cloudy days. A high tide on the River Colne at Wivenhoe floods part of the riverfront although the river barrier was closed. 
Digital, 35mm Summicron. Wivenhoe, Essex, January 2018.
© John Banting 2018.

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A balloon seller wisely uses the balloons as an umbrella in the scorching hot sun. 
Digital, 35mm Summicron. Kingston upon Thames, July 2018.
© John Banting 2018.

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The chairs at the fishermen's hut at The Hard, West Mersea. 
M6, FP4 at 200, DD-X. 50mm lens. June 2018.
© John Banting 2018.

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A shiny red Ford Cortina GT parked behind a beach hut. 
A scene from the mid 1960's captured today, but not on film.
Digital, 28mm. June 2018.
© John Banting 2018.

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The Maid of Honour gives a speech as darkness falls. 
Red Barn near Hopland, California.
Digital, 28mm. May 2018.
© John Banting 2018.

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A girl runs onto the beach talking excitedly into her phone and waving a ukulele.
Just after sunset, Santa Barbara, California.
Digital, 28mm. June 2018.
© John Banting 2018.

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A magician entertaining wedding guests with a few card tricks..
Digital, 28mm. May 2018.
© John Banting 2018.

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After some modification and repair work over winter Pearl is collected from Donald's yard and taken back onto the water.
Digital, 55mm Sonnar. May 2018.
© John Banting 2018.

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From February 1977. A former workshop becomes a playground before re-development work starts.
Ilford HP4 at 650 in  Aculux. Minolta SRT303, 28mm Tamron. Potton, Bedfordshire 1977.
© John Banting 1977/2018.

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A photographer setting up a tripod ready to photograph the abandoned boat on the shingle bank.
Ilford HP5 at 400. DD-X 1+4. M6, 35mm Summicron, Mersea Island, April 2018.
© John Banting 2018.

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July 1976, we were invited to a wedding in Rotherham. The signage is for Rawmarsh Shopping Centre.
Ilford FP4 rated at 200, processed in Acutol. Minolta SRT303 and Rokkor 50mm.
© John Banting 1976/2018.

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At the local Horticultural Society spring show.
Digital. 35mm Summicron. Mersea Island, March 2018.
© John Banting 2018.


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Maintenance to mast  head equipment in a boat yard in West Mersea.
Digital. DC Vario Summilux at 70mm. Mersea Island, March 2018.
© John Banting 2018.

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From December 1975. The bodyshell of a Morris Marina car against the black corrugated iron fence of a vehicle scrap yard.
Minolta SRT303, probably a Rokkor 50mm lens. Ilford FP4 at 400, but under developed in D-76.
© John Banting.

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On film, and on a slightly warmer day a family watch the high tide near Monkey Beach steps.
M6, 35mm Summicron. Delta 400 at 800 in DD-X. Mersea Island, March 2018.
© John Banting 2018.

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The dog walker keeps the cold easterly wind on his back at high tide today..
The BBC Question Time programme should have been broadcast from Mersea Island today,
but has been switched back to London because of the weather and public transport problems.
Digital. Nikkor zoom at about 35mm.

© John Banting 2018.

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The ship in the background is called Oregis, and had run aground at Tynemouth following an engine failure. This is from March or April 1974.
The tug is the Northsider to assist with recovery.
Canon FP, 50mm. Ilford FP4 at 125 in D76.

© John Banting.

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A feeding opportunity for some seagulls while a fishing boat waits for the tide.

Digital. DC Vario Summilux at 70mm. The Blackwater Estuary, Late afternoon, February 2018.
 

© John Banting 2018.

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A band of cloud carried along the estuary on a strong westerly wind.
I didn't have to wait very long to get this image.
Digital. 35mm Summilux. Mersea Island, January 2018.

© John Banting 2018.

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The Haymarket, Newcastle upon Tyne, March 1974. Not previously scanned or printed.
The negative is quite damaged but with image processing and at this size it looks OK on screen.
Canon FP, 50mm Canon lens, FP4. Probably D76.

© John Banting 1974/2018.

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Photographed almost directly into the setting sun giving some flare on the filter.
Mersea Island, Essex.
Digital, 35mm Summicron. Early December 2017.

© John Banting 2018.

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It seems like ages since we saw the sun, but at lunchtime today the clouds broke.
Looking across the Blackwater Estuary towards the decomissioned Bradwell power station.
Digital, DC Vario-Summilux at about 70mm. January 2018.

© John Banting 2018.

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An oyster washing shed along Coast Road, Mersea Island. December 2017.
M6, 35mm Summilux.  Ilford HP5 at 400 processed in DD-X

© John Banting 2017.

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