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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.

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Looking towards Coast Road.

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