25 August, 2020

857


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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18 August, 2020

856

 

Looking into the window of the Violin Shop. Woodbridge, Suffolk. Digital. 28mm, July 2020. Image © John Banting 2020
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31 July, 2020

855


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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29 July, 2020

854

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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28 July, 2020

853

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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06 July, 2020

852

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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18 June, 2020

851

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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08 June, 2020

850

A person in a pointy hat looking at a pointy chainsaw wood carving.
M6, 35mm Summicron. Westonbirt Arboretum, August 2005.
Image © John Banting
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31 May, 2020

849

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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30 April, 2020

848

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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20 April, 2020

847

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.
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13 April, 2020

846

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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04 April, 2020

845

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.
Image © John Banting
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31 March, 2020

844

A sign of the times at The Art Cafe.
Digital. 28mm. March 2020
Image © John Banting 2020
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30 March, 2020

843

A bit of a splash as someone drives through the high water along Coast Road a couple of weeks ago.
Digital. 28mm. March 2020
Image © John Banting 2020
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21 March, 2020

842

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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08 March, 2020

841

Because you played some Eberhard Weber. Thank you.
Power and telegraph poles, Dungeness. 
Ilford Delta 400, Ilfosol S, probably a CV21mm. August 2005.
Image © John Banting
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28 February, 2020

840

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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25 February, 2020

839

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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21 February, 2020

838

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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10 February, 2020

837

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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30 January, 2020

836

A binscape in Dungeness. Binscape concept courtesy of
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No, I am not suggesting that this is nuclear waste.
21mm Cosina-Voigtlander, Ilford Delta 400, Ilfosol S, December 2004.
Image © John Banting
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28 January, 2020

835

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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27 January, 2020

834

Another image from "Leaving the Flower Show. Hampton Court, July 2004".
35mm Summicron, Ilford Delta 400 at 320, Perceptol 1+1. July 2004.
Image © John Banting
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17 January, 2020

833

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.
Image © John Banting
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10 January, 2020

832

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.
Image © John Banting
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07 January, 2020

831

A low tide, shingle bank on a dull and wet January evening.
Digital, 35mm Summilux. January 2020.
Image © John Banting
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29 December, 2019

830

It's all you need. The same man also said nothing is real - which applies to this image.
It has been flipped, cropped, saturated, desaturated.....
Happy 2020 in case I don't get another post done before the end of the decade.
Digital, Q/28mm Summilux. October 2019.
Image © John Banting
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18 December, 2019

829

A lady asleep sitting on the floor of Great Court, British Museum.
35mm Summicron, Ilford HP5 in ID-11. July 2002
Image © John Banting
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12 December, 2019

828

Another image from my recently found negatives from a 2001 workshop at Duckspool.
Scratched and dust covered C-41 B&W film processed at a local lab, now tidied up in P/shop.
35mm Summicron, Ilford XP2. Taunton, May 2001
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08 December, 2019

827

Recently found negatives from a 2001 workshop at Duckspool.
We used C-41 B&W film processed at a local lab.
Unfortunately the films were returned very scratched and dust covered.
Now, thanks to P/shop something is recoverable.   
35mm Summicron, Ilford XP2. Taunton, May 2001
Image © John Banting
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27 November, 2019

826

The black water of the Blackwater Estuary.
Digital, 28mm f1.7 Summilux. November 2019.
Image © John Banting 2019
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23 November, 2019

825

The Soldier Silhouettes are being removed from the Strood very soon to raise money for charities.
Digital, Nikkor (APS zoom at about 40mm equivalent). November 2019.
Image © John Banting 2019
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15 November, 2019

824

Another colour image. Looking south east across the estuary as the sun sets.
Digital, 35mm Zeiss Sonnar. November 2019.
Image © John Banting 2019
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06 November, 2019

823

A colour image. The sun starts to break through the mist late yesterday morning.
The view across the Blackwater Estuary towards Bradwell.
Digital, DC Vario Summilux. November 2019.
Image © John Banting 2019
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04 November, 2019

822

High tide at The Hard.
M6, 35mm Summicron, Ilford FP4 at 200. DD-X 1:4. Mersea Island, October 2019.
Image © John Banting 2019
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28 October, 2019

821

From a short walk late this afternoon.
Digital. DC Vario-Summilux at 24mm equivalent. Mersea Island, October 2019.
Image © John Banting 2019
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26 October, 2019

820

Paddling along Coast Road and lost in conversation during a high tide earlier this month.
M6, 90mm. Ilford FP4 at 200. Mersea Island, October 2019.
Image © John Banting 2019
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24 October, 2019

819

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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06 October, 2019

818

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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01 October, 2019

817

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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30 September, 2019

816

Dogs and photographers watch the high tide today along Coast Road.
Digital. 35mm Summicron. Mersea Island, September 2019.


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18 September, 2019

815

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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13 September, 2019

814

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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10 September, 2019

813

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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05 September, 2019

812

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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03 September, 2019

811

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

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22 August, 2019

810


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

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13 August, 2019

809

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

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05 August, 2019

808

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

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