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Regatta day, back in August. The crowd watching the boats, but I was watching the clouds.
Digital. 28mm. Mersea Island, August 2019.

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Another image from the high tides of last week. Coast Road is in the foreground under water.

Digital. 35mm. Mersea Island, October 2019.

Image © John Banting 2019.

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A dog walker has a glass of Guinness in the sunshine in the Coast Inn car park a short while after the afternoon high tide has turned.

Digital. 35mm. Mersea Island, October 2019.

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Dogs and photographers watch the high tide today along Coast Road.

Digital. 35mm Summicron. Mersea Island, September 2019.

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Another view through a longer lens and in support of wires (and posts) in photographs. 

Ilford FP4 at 200, DD-X 1:4. Mersea Island, September 2019.

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The view through a longer lens than I am used to - an older 105mm Nikkor complete with some fungus. Fortunately that's not visible at this image size.
Ilford FP4 at 200, DD-X 1:4. Mersea Island, September 2019.

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A black painted shelter photographed at dusk on a dull and drizzly evening. Nobody around.
Digital. 35mm Summilux. Mersea Island, September 2019.

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The sign does say that everything is going to be alright. So that's good..
Digital. Q 28mm Summilux. Tate Modern, August 2019.

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Tree and sea wall, Mersea Island. 
Digital. Q 28mm Summilux. August 2019.

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Clouds over the Regatta, but no rain. 
Digital. Q 28mm Summilux. Mersea Island, August 2019.

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A smack on moorings at low tide. Besom Fleet, Blackwater Estuary.
Digital. 35mm Summilux. August 2019.

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Low tide on a cloudy day, Besom Fleet, Blackwater Estuary.
Digital. 35mm Summilux. August 2019.

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The card trick.
Digital. Q 28mm Summilux. July 2019.

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The blue houseboat behind some reeds.
Ilford HP5 at 400 in DD-X. 35mm Summicron. March 2019.

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Sea defences on the Blackwater estuary at Jaywick.
Ilford HP5 at 400 in DD-X. 35mm Summicron. January 2019.

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The camera used by Stanley Kubrick with a Zeiss f0.7 lens.
Digital, Q/Summilux 28mm. The Design Museum, London. June 2019.

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I went on a journey recently.
Yes, I can recommend the Stanley Kubrick exhibition at the Design Museum, London where I snapped this scene from 2001. Sorry, if you now have The Blue Danube Waltz playing in your head.
Digital, Q/Summilux 28mm. London. June 2019.

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A gallery attendant and the artwork being attended.
Digital, DC Vario Summilux at about 50mm. South Bank, London. March 2019.
© John Banting

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A last image from a visit to the Giant's Causeway, demonstrating that we are all photographers now.
I think this is three members of the same family group all photographing the same scene on their own mobile phone cameras.
Digital, 35mm Summicron. Nr Bushmills, Co. Antrim. May 2019.
© John Banting

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Another image from a visit to the Giant's Causeway, along with several hundred other visitors.
Digital, 35mm Summicron. Nr Bushmills, Co. Antrim. May 2019.
© John Banting

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A visit to the Giant's Causeway, (a UNESCO Heritage Site), along with several hundred other visitors.
Digital, 35mm Summicron. Nr Bushmills, Co. Antrim. May 2019.
© John Banting

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Pipe tuning being checked at a Royal Scottish Pipe Band Association competition in Enniskillen.
Digital, 35mm Summicron. Enniskillen, Co. Fermanagh. May 2019.
© John Banting

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Pimlico tube station.
35mm Summicron. Ilford HP5 at 400 in DD-X. April 2019.
© John Banting

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Some visitors at The Asset Strippers exhibit at Tate Britain.
35mm Summicron. Ilford HP5 at 400 in DD-X. April 2019.
© John Banting

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Working boat CK15 in for some maintenance work.
35mm Summicron. Ilford HP5 at 400 in DD-X. April 2019.
© John Banting

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The fishermen's hut at The Hard, West Mersea.
35mm Summicron. Ilford HP5 at 400 in DD-X. April 2019.
© John Banting

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On the right is my old school friend adding a few more items to his LP collection, many of which he has bought from Grandpas Basement in Shipley.
© John Banting

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Pink Floyd tribute band RE|FLOYD played at the MICA yesterday. Splendid.
Digital image. DC Vario-Summilux at 70mm. Mersea Island, March 2019.
© John Banting

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A digital snap of a darkroom 10x8 print on Ilford MG4. Original image on Ilford HP5 which I must have scratched when bulk loading some cassettes back in 2014. Brighton, October 2014.
© John Banting

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This building on the land adjacent to a boatyard has now gone and a new structure is underway. I took this snap in early February. I wish I had been there to see it pulled down.

Ilford HP5 at 400 processed in Ilford DD-X. 35mm Summicron. Coast Road, West Mersea, February 2019.

© John Banting

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Looking towards Coast Road.

Ilford HP5 at 400. DD-X. 35mm Summicron. Mersea Island, March 2019.
© John Banting

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The sunset through a perspex silhouette on a bench along Coast Road looking out over the estuary.

Digital. 50mm Summilux. Mersea Island, February 2019.
© John Banting

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Dear You at Boxes and Bellows
I recently went into a darkroom and made a couple of 10x8 prints - the first time for me this century!
Loved it and can't wait to go back and play some more.

iPhone5 of print. HP5 at 400, 35mm Summicron for image taken in April 2018.
© John Banting

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It was actually a pleasant afternoon with just a few dark clouds, but exposing for the sunlight really creates a very different scene.

Digital, Q,28mm Summilux. February 2019.
© John Banting 2019.

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An image from a New Year's Day walk along the sea wall footpath.

Digital, 35mm Summilux. Jaywick. January 2019.
© John Banting 2019.

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Quite suddenly this morning a heavy mist descended.
A few minutes later it had cleared.

Digital, 50mm Summilux. Mersea Island. January 2019.
© John Banting 2019.

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This is the photograph I had just taken before dropping the lens cap, accidentally creating the previous post's image.
It was cold. 

Digital, 50mm Summilux. Mersea Island. January 2019.
© John Banting 2019.

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Oops. According to the EXIF a 4 second exposure. Quite nice in colour as well.
I didn't know I had made this image until I got home. I think it was when I was picking up the lens cap I had dropped.
Digital, 50mm Summilux. January 2019.
© John Banting 2019.

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Three figures form a diagonal leading up to St. Paul's, with shadows and structures forming a diagonal in the opposite direction.
Hard lines and harsh light contrast St. Paul's.
Crikey John, don't get carried away. It's only a snap!
Digital, Q, 28mm Summilux. January 2019.
© John Banting 2019.

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New Years Day. Wishing you a Happy and Healthy 2019. 
Digital, 35mm Summilux, Jaywick. January 2019.
© John Banting 2019.

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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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