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Looking eastwards waiting for 2021 to arrive? Hmmm, probably not, since this was taken in November, but a nice thought.
35mm Summicron. Ilford HP5 at 1600. DD-X 1:4. From November 2020.
Image © John Banting 2020
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Some film, perhaps some inspiration and somewhere to store the results. I hope you had a happy holiday.
iPhone6. December 2020.
Image © John Banting 2020
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Approaching midday on the winter solstice - very dull and wet weather, like most of December seems to have been.
Digital. Q/28mm Summilux. December 2020.
Image © John Banting 2020
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The grown-ups throw stones at a mooring bouy while the rest of the group watch.
Ilford HP5 at 1600 in DD-X. 35mm Summicron. Mersea Island, November 2020.
Image © John Banting 2020
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Looking across to Cobmarsh Island from the shingle bank.
Ilford HP5 at 1600 in DD-X. 35mm Summicron. Mersea Island, November 2020.
Image © John Banting 2020
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The Company Shed, West Mersea, closed during Lockdown 2 and on a very dull day.
Ilford HP5 at 1600 in DD-X. 35mm Summicron. November 2020.
Image © John Banting 2020
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Exploring a shingle spit as the tide goes out.
Digital, Q/28mm Summilux. The Blackwater Estuary, October 2020.
Image © John Banting 2020
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Looking across the Blackwater Estuary towards Bradwell.
Digital, and heavily cropped from a landscape format original. 35mm Summicron. November 2020.
Image © John Banting 2020
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Watching a late October high tide.
Ilford FP4+ at 200 in Ilford DD-X. 35mm Summicron. October 2020.
Image © John Banting 2020
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Power and telephone lines and posts to the houseboats.
Digital. 35mm Summicron. November 2019.
Image © John Banting 2019
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The former Dunkirk Little Ship now known as RIIS 1 is winched onto the slipway for the winter.
Digital. 35mm Summicron. October 2020.
Image © John Banting 2020
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Trying out a different film, Kodak 5222 Double X. It feels like it has a heavier acetate base, as film used to be.
Kodak Double X at 250, processed in Bellini BW D96. 35mm Summicron. October 2020.
Image © John Banting 2020
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The Rule of Six, yesterday. Nice clouds though.
Digital. 28mm Summicron. October 2020.
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It is very dull, wet and windy today as Storm Alex passes through, so some more knitting gets done.
(I have just received 3 rolls of Kodak 5222 Double XX film from Nik and Trick, so I will give this a try later this month, hopefully).
Digital. 28mm Elmarit-M. October 2020.
Image © John Banting 2020
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Following on from my previous post showing the remains of WW2 High Speed Launch, HSL145 fully exposed at low tide, this is the scene at the next daytime high tide.
Digital. 50mm Summilux. September 2020.
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The remains of a WW2 High Speed Launch, HSL145 fully exposed at low tide.
Digital. 35mm Summicron. September 2020.
Image © John Banting 2020
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 All shapes and sizes. This boat is being lowered down the slipway, presumably to be floated on the afternoon high tide.
Digital. 35mm Summicron. September 2020.
Image © John Banting 2020
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Disused oyster beds in Strood Channel at low tide.
Digital. 35mm Summilux, September 2020.
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Fishing boat P989 in for maintenance.
35mm Summicron, FP4 at 200 in Bellini Duo Step. September 2020.
Image © John Banting 2020
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Now looking unseaworthy and uninhabitable but still anchored amongst the other houseboats.
35mm Summicron, FP4 at 200 in Bellini Duo Step 2020. Image © John Banting 2020
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Looking into the window of the Violin Shop. Woodbridge, Suffolk. Digital. 28mm, July 2020. Image © John Banting 2020
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Water proofing a boat built with over-lapping timbers. 

The gentleman told me that the boat had been built for his parents in the 1950's.  

Ilford FP4 at 200. Bellini Duo Step (3 1/2 mins in A and B), July 2020.

Image © John Banting 2020.

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Two girls and a puppy documenting their day out with a selfie in front of the houseboats. 
Ilford FP4 at 200. Bellini Duo Step (3 1/2 mins in A and B), July 2020.
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Another image of the caulking of the hull of the vessel Saxonia. 
Ilford FP4 at 200. Bellini Duo Step, June 2020.
Image © John Banting 2020
(I am still here doing photo-ey things, and keeping an eye on you regularly, but just haven't snapped very much recently).
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Caulking the hull of the vessel Saxonia. (They haven't actually bolted a Land Rover Defender to the boat). 
Ilford FP4 at 200. Bellini Duo Step, (nice!), June 2020.
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Donald watches as his trawler "Pearl" is manoeuvered out of his boatyard (garden) after an extended winter maintenance.
Digital. 50mm lens. June 2020.
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A person in a pointy hat looking at a pointy chainsaw wood carving.
M6, 35mm Summicron. Westonbirt Arboretum, August 2005.
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Although I haven't been taking many photograhs just lately, I have been busy going through old negatives for scanning.
Carlton, Nottingham, June 1981.
Image © John Banting
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I'm not sure why, but I haven't wanted to take many snaps recently, so I am still working my way through old negatives, selecting a few to scan.
This one is an underpass for farm traffic under the A3 in Surrey.
M6, 35mm Summicron, HP5 at 400 in XTOL 1+1. Surrey, May 2015.
Image © John Banting 2015
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The Gift. A bottle of Henderson's Relish, (Special Edition label to mark the 2014 Tour De France visit to Yorkshire) left by Bill for Alice who had to leave early.
M6, 35mm Summicron, FP4 at 200 in XTOL 1+1. North Wales, September 2014.
Image © John Banting
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Oooh, too close! However, it was in Paris, in 2012, so that's alright then.
M6, 35mm Summicron, Tri-X at 320 in D76 1+1. Paris, October 2012.
Image © John Banting
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It is quite spring-like today, so here is the first outing for an image from December 2010.
M6, 35mm Summicron, Tri-X at 320 in D76 1+1. Near Esher, Surrey. December 2010.
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A sign of the times at The Art Cafe.
Digital. 28mm. March 2020
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A bit of a splash as someone drives through the high water along Coast Road a couple of weeks ago.
Digital. 28mm. March 2020
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From a walk around the Hoxton and Shoreditch area of East London one Saturday.
Ilford HP5, Aculux 2, probably a CV21mm. September 2005.
Image © John Banting
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Because you played some Eberhard Weber. Thank you.
Power and telegraph poles, Dungeness. 
Ilford Delta 400, Ilfosol S, probably a CV21mm. August 2005.
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A message from Speakers' Corner in April 2006. Hopefully no longer valid.
Ilford Delta 400, FX-39, 35mm Summicron. April 2006.
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From a photowalk in the Hoxton area of London in September 2005.
Ilford HP5 at 400, Aculux 2. 21mm CV. September 2005.
Image © John Banting
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Before storms Ciara and Dennis, from a short walk in Devon earlier this month. The footpath was fairly muddy then, so I expect it is much worse at the moment.
Digital. 35mm Summicron. February 2020.
Image © John Banting
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An incoming high tide together with a storm surge displace some old telegraph poles used to mark out a car parking area for some of the houseboats, and completely block Coast Road for a while.
(I did help to remove this one from the road later).
Digital. 35mm Summilux. Mersea Island, February 2020.
Image © John Banting
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A binscape in Dungeness. Binscape concept courtesy of
Boxes and Bellows
No, I am not suggesting that this is nuclear waste.
21mm Cosina-Voigtlander, Ilford Delta 400, Ilfosol S, December 2004.
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A final image (for now anyway), from "Leaving the Flower Show. Hampton Court, July 2004".
35mm Summicron, Ilford Delta 400 at 320, Perceptol 1+1. July 2004.
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Another image from "Leaving the Flower Show. Hampton Court, July 2004".
35mm Summicron, Ilford Delta 400 at 320, Perceptol 1+1. July 2004.
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Leaving the Flower Show. Hampton Court, July 2004.
I seem to be stuck in 2004. 
35mm Summicron, Ilford Delta 400 at 320, Perceptol 1+1. July 2004.
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Photographer Eugene Richards signing copies of "the fat baby" at The National Portrait Gallery.
35mm Summicron, Ilford Delta 400 at 320, Perceptol 1+1. July 2004.
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A low tide, shingle bank on a dull and wet January evening.
Digital, 35mm Summilux. January 2020.
Image © John Banting
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