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Phil
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Hobby film photographer in Scotland.
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... London calling at the top of the dial ...

July 2022

Camera: Olympus XA3
Film: Ilford XP2 Super

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Black and white photo looking up towards Westminster Bridge with the Elizabeth Tower and Big Ben in the background.
November 26, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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Had a small win on a lottery scratchcard 😉 £10.

First time I've bought one in years.

Going to put it towards a new-old camera 😁
November 24, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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Two photos at the top of the Cairnwell. One looking past the foot of an antenna mast. In the other, a young couple admiring the view. I didn't have the heart to walk past them so waited a while and sat admired the view to the side.

Camera: Pentax K2 + 50mm SMC f2
Film: Kentmere 200

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A black and white photo, the bottom of a thin steel structure's leg in the foreground. In the background layers of hills occupy the horizon, each layer becoming lighter the further towards the horizon they lie. In the top left, a small hexagon of light, the result of looking towards the sun with light passing through the lens's aperture blades. A black and white photo. In the foreground, gravel and small stones on the ground. Further back are larger stones, towards the right, a stack of stones, at the far right a young couple are sitting on the ground, admiring the view. In the background a small river winds its way along its path between the feet of the hills.
November 23, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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Checking the phone.

Camera: Pentax K2 + SMC 50mm f2
Film: Kentmere 200

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Black and white photograph of a man walking along checking his mobile phone. He is illuminated in a triangle of light made between shadows.
November 22, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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Cairnwell chairlift at Glenshee a couple of weeks back.

Camera: Pentax K2 + SMC 50mm f2 lens
Film: Kentmere 200

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Black and white photograph at the top of a three-abreast chairlift, the top pulley and mast are shown. Black and white photo of the top station of a chairlift with the operator's hut and the top pulley and mast shown.
November 22, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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Two photographs of Dundee mod band Strawberry Bank performing in the city centre last Sunday evening.

Camera: Carl Zeiss Jena Werra 1
Film: Ilford Delta 3200

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Black and white photo of two saxophonists, a trumpeter and two singers at microphones. A black and white photo of two saxophonists, a trumpeter, a drummer, two guitar players and two singers at microphones.
November 21, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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Curved railing in Dundee.

Camera: Pentax 17
Film: Kodak Gold 200

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A 3D curved railing in Dundee city centre.
November 21, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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Me aged about 9 or 10, half-frame slide by my Dad. Almost certainly at Aviemore.
For what it's worth, I still look like this when I drive.... scared-to-death, crash-helmet and dungarees 😬😂
November 21, 2025 at 12:09 PM
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Will post up a half frame photograph later on today. Last night I was scanning some of my parents old half frame slides, cardboard mounts, looks to have been Kodachrome. I remember my Dad talking about an Olympus Pen but I don't know which model they had.

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Photo of a half frame slide in a cardboard mount
November 21, 2025 at 9:54 AM
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Two photos from Saturday afternoon. There was a fibre at the edge of the Werra's film gate, ach well, something else to check before loading film 😀

Camera: Carl Zeiss Jena Werra (Olive)
Film: Ilford HP5+
Dev: Ilfosol 3, 1+9 6min30sec @ 20C
Scan: Plustek 8300i

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Black and white photo of two bare trees in the centre with pine trees at the sides, hills in the background. Black and white photo of a shoreline and small clumps of seaweed with pinetree covered hills in the background.
November 19, 2025 at 9:54 PM
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Just developed a roll of HP5+ that I ran through my olive Werra on Saturday
🎞️🎞️🎞️😬😬😬
November 18, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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Snowing quite heavily just now ❄️❄️❄️❄️☃️☃️
November 18, 2025 at 8:30 AM
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Light up

Camera: Pentax K2 + SMC 50mm f2 lens
Film: Kentmere 200

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Close up black and white photograph of Harley Davidson motorcycle headlamps.
November 17, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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.... big-man around town with the roll of Delta 3200 Professional ....

🤣

This will likely end in tears, however it's loaded and I'm doing it anyway.

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Carl Zeiss Jena Werra 1 camera with black and silver striped plastic front insert. There is a KEKS EM-01 mounted on the cold-shoe set into the later curved top plate. Also on the top plate is the simple flush fit round shutter release button. In front of the camera is a roll of 35mm Ilford Delta 3200 Professional and the threaded plastic lens cap. The lens cap has a series of thin silver stripes that nicely compliment the aforementioned front plastic insert.
November 16, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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Lol

My wallet is safe for another day

😂
November 15, 2025 at 9:07 PM
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A photo I took a few weeks ago on the bike path between Dundee and Broughty Ferry. Looking out across the River Tay.

Camera: Pentax 17
Film: Kodak Portra 400

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A photo looking through metal railings, the bottom rail has a bend, of a dinghy with an orange sail close to the shoreline. In the background, looking through the railings is Broughty Ferry Castle.
November 14, 2025 at 10:17 PM
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I started scanning my Mum and Dad's slides tonight. I wanted to share this slide my Dad had made of my Grandad around thirty years ago. He's seen standing in front of his hives, my Dad used to help him. The little dots in the image are bees flying around.

Camera: Olympus XA3

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A slide / positive photograph my Dad had made of my Grandad in his white overalls standing in front of his beehives.
November 14, 2025 at 10:11 PM
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After some tense judging by the four organisers and a tie breaker round we have winners of the inaugural World Wide Half Frame Photography Day Competition! half-frameday.com/2025/11/14/w...
WWHFPD 2025 Competition WINNERS!
After some tense judging by the four organisers and a tie breaker round we have winners of the inaugural World Wide Half Frame Photography Day Competition! People Vadim Belousov Camera Kyocera Samu…
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November 14, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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OK, conscious that it's not a great idea to post loads of photos, but I'm excited that I've managed to develop and scan photos myself, so this is enough for tonight, all taken in Blairgowrie.

Camera: Pentax P30
Film: Ilford HP5+
Chemistry: Ilfosol 3, 6min30sec @ 20C

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Newsagents shopfront with racks holding bags of kindling gardeners potting soil and pot plants Bonnet and grill of a Mercedes car.
November 13, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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Photos that I made a couple of months ago and developed myself the other day, scanned this evening. Apples were being pressed and the juice bottled in Blairgowrie.

Camera: Pentax P30
Film: Ilford HP5+
Chemistry: Ilfosol 3, 6min 30sec @ 20C

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Bottles being filled with apple juice at a desk in the Wellmeadow Blairgowrie Sliced apples being shovelled into a juice press Apples being pressed for juice A young woman collecting apple juice from a press set up in the Wellmeadow Blairgowrie
November 13, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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It's photos 🤣😁👍
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These could be all over the place yet. Used a squeejy thing to wipe them so they're probably all scratched up.

Next, figure out how to get scanner working, need to install it on laptop, if it actually goes on, then all the set up hahaha

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Close up photo of 35mm negative strip hanging up to dry Strip of 35mm negatives hanging up to dry
November 11, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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Some more autumnal photos made in Perth during the past couple of weeks.

Camera: Zeiss Ikon Ikonta 521-16
Film: Kodak Gold 200

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Photo looking up the River Tay in Perth with views of Queens Bridge and Smeatons Bridge and a church spire reflecting on the surface of the water. A photo of the heather plants, some with purple or white blooms beside a small water feature. In the background, trees are beginning to change colour. A maple tree with red leaves in the foreground, a path with wiooden balustrades and a lamp. In the background trees with leaves changing to yellow and brown. A photo taken from the walkway alongside the rail bridge over the River Tay in Perth, Queens Bridge and Smeatons Bridge can be seen, with tree leaves beginning to change colour in autumn.
November 9, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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Rebranding is a very "business" thing but we've refreshed our club logo or brand. We've produced a clean logo that is neatly transferable to an embroidered badge. Examples of the logo and what it would look like as a badge. More in comments.
November 9, 2025 at 11:04 AM
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Autumn scene from last weekend in Perth.

Camera: Mamiya C3 + 80mm f2.8 lens
Film: Kodak Gold 200

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Trees just beginning to turn to their autumn yellows and browns, in the centre a maple with orange-red leaves. In the background a little bit of blue sky and a church.
November 8, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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Finished off two films in dull flat light and NOW the sun decides to make an appearance 😂☀️ Also, three cameras I've not been using and lenses I no longer have a camera for donated to a charity shop. I have half a plan, which is dangerous.....
November 8, 2025 at 2:31 PM