Steven J Parkes
@stevenjparkes.bsky.social
Amateur Photography, Amateur DIY, Amateur Railway Crank, Amateur Dad. Just like the Fat Controller.
Likes film 🎞️ and digital photography. Devoted dad, husband and son.
Lancastrian exiled in North Yorks
Here for photography (and big railway) stuff only!
Likes film 🎞️ and digital photography. Devoted dad, husband and son.
Lancastrian exiled in North Yorks
Here for photography (and big railway) stuff only!
So #believeinfilm peeps. I have 4 colour films needing development, and the Bellini C41 Kit which was made up about 6 months ago. How do I test if chemicals are ok to be used? I often see people cutting bits of film off and testing chemicals on that. How do I know if they are ok? #filmphotography
November 9, 2025 at 6:20 PM
So #believeinfilm peeps. I have 4 colour films needing development, and the Bellini C41 Kit which was made up about 6 months ago. How do I test if chemicals are ok to be used? I often see people cutting bits of film off and testing chemicals on that. How do I know if they are ok? #filmphotography
Interested in railways, photography ans japan? A fantastic look into the recent past … www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/10...
Inside Tokyo's 'phantom' stations — and the stories they tell
A sealed 1930s subway platform beneath Shimbashi Station still holds traces of what the capital looked like before the war.
www.japantimes.co.jp
October 28, 2025 at 9:40 AM
Interested in railways, photography ans japan? A fantastic look into the recent past … www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/10...
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40 years ago this week…
August 25, 2025 at 10:15 AM
40 years ago this week…
A brief walk through Edinburgh earlier. I did have my Contax G2 with me but took similar photos on my iPhone. When I get round to developing, I can see how they compare.
#edinburgh #iphoneography
#edinburgh #iphoneography
August 10, 2025 at 4:24 PM
A brief walk through Edinburgh earlier. I did have my Contax G2 with me but took similar photos on my iPhone. When I get round to developing, I can see how they compare.
#edinburgh #iphoneography
#edinburgh #iphoneography
Hey there #believeinfilm snappers. Who/which lab do you use for C41 processing in the UK? I’m never getting round to doing home development and about time I called time in expired chems and just paid a lab….
August 6, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Hey there #believeinfilm snappers. Who/which lab do you use for C41 processing in the UK? I’m never getting round to doing home development and about time I called time in expired chems and just paid a lab….
Two weeks away from social media while on holiday in Cornwall with the family. Between building sandcastles and learning to 🏄♂️ surf, only film used was instax. I did get a few minutes to exercise the iPhone though and converted to ‘longexposure’ this is looking across to St Ives from Hayle #cornwall
August 2, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Two weeks away from social media while on holiday in Cornwall with the family. Between building sandcastles and learning to 🏄♂️ surf, only film used was instax. I did get a few minutes to exercise the iPhone though and converted to ‘longexposure’ this is looking across to St Ives from Hayle #cornwall
A photo for the new to me #BlueskyArtShow with the theme of #Sideways #Photography
Using the long exposure function of the iphone14 a blue train passes in front of the camera while a Grand Central sits in Platform 4 at York, UK.
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Using the long exposure function of the iphone14 a blue train passes in front of the camera while a Grand Central sits in Platform 4 at York, UK.
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July 6, 2025 at 7:33 AM
A photo for the new to me #BlueskyArtShow with the theme of #Sideways #Photography
Using the long exposure function of the iphone14 a blue train passes in front of the camera while a Grand Central sits in Platform 4 at York, UK.
No
Using the long exposure function of the iphone14 a blue train passes in front of the camera while a Grand Central sits in Platform 4 at York, UK.
No
Interlude for lunch at the seaside. Sky drama added completely by Apple iPhone 14 camera, no tweaking whatsoever.
June 25, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Interlude for lunch at the seaside. Sky drama added completely by Apple iPhone 14 camera, no tweaking whatsoever.
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O is for Orgreave
A poem recalling the Battle of Orgreave, where blood was spilled and lives were broken, wildflowers now bloom – forgetting will turn healing into quiet erasure
By Colin Speakman
@yorkshirebylines.co.uk
A poem recalling the Battle of Orgreave, where blood was spilled and lives were broken, wildflowers now bloom – forgetting will turn healing into quiet erasure
By Colin Speakman
@yorkshirebylines.co.uk
O is for Orgreave
A poem recalling the Battle of Orgreave, where blood was spilled and lives were broken, wildflowers now bloom – forgetting will turn healing into quiet erasure
yorkshirebylines.co.uk
June 14, 2025 at 5:10 PM
O is for Orgreave
A poem recalling the Battle of Orgreave, where blood was spilled and lives were broken, wildflowers now bloom – forgetting will turn healing into quiet erasure
By Colin Speakman
@yorkshirebylines.co.uk
A poem recalling the Battle of Orgreave, where blood was spilled and lives were broken, wildflowers now bloom – forgetting will turn healing into quiet erasure
By Colin Speakman
@yorkshirebylines.co.uk
It’s mine! Been sat on the fence about this for a while. Listened to the Sunny16Podcast and decided to make the effort! Looking forward to receiving it 🙂
There is one lonely opaque Zine sitting in our Ko-fi, who would like to make this lonely zine happy and re-home it.
It doesn't need a lot of looking after, it just needs a bit of love and occasionally looked it.
ko-fi.com/s/f2b8a862c9
#photozine
#photozines
#believeinfilm
#azineisforlife
It doesn't need a lot of looking after, it just needs a bit of love and occasionally looked it.
ko-fi.com/s/f2b8a862c9
#photozine
#photozines
#believeinfilm
#azineisforlife
June 14, 2025 at 8:14 PM
It’s mine! Been sat on the fence about this for a while. Listened to the Sunny16Podcast and decided to make the effort! Looking forward to receiving it 🙂
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The latest @photowalkme.bsky.social Photo Walk Talk episode is out. @westen30.bsky.social and I get to chat with the ever so talented @paulasmith.co.uk
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June 6, 2025 at 11:00 AM
The latest @photowalkme.bsky.social Photo Walk Talk episode is out. @westen30.bsky.social and I get to chat with the ever so talented @paulasmith.co.uk
shows.acast.com/photowalk-ta...
shows.acast.com/photowalk-ta...
After listening to episode 355 of the sunny16podcast and the discussion of the luggage scanners at @manchesterairport.bsky.social being the new CT scanners. This accounts for these results 12 months ago following a trip to Verona. I had/have no idea what the new scanners looked like. #believeinfilm
April 25, 2025 at 7:43 PM
After listening to episode 355 of the sunny16podcast and the discussion of the luggage scanners at @manchesterairport.bsky.social being the new CT scanners. This accounts for these results 12 months ago following a trip to Verona. I had/have no idea what the new scanners looked like. #believeinfilm
… relaxing start to Thursday morning. Catching up with Black & White issue 283 from late 2023! Still have all the intervening ones from then until now in their wrapper. The only issue with reading them so slowly is missing exhibitions advertised in the ‘In The Frame’ section.
April 10, 2025 at 8:03 AM
… relaxing start to Thursday morning. Catching up with Black & White issue 283 from late 2023! Still have all the intervening ones from then until now in their wrapper. The only issue with reading them so slowly is missing exhibitions advertised in the ‘In The Frame’ section.
March 12, 2025 at 10:26 AM
Tuesday morning after the school run, just downloaded the 65 x 24 camera app. A refreshingly simple camera app from @heliographe.bsky.social
Morning coffee, on my own, again.
Morning coffee, on my own, again.
March 11, 2025 at 9:48 AM
Tuesday morning after the school run, just downloaded the 65 x 24 camera app. A refreshingly simple camera app from @heliographe.bsky.social
Morning coffee, on my own, again.
Morning coffee, on my own, again.
Time to retire this already secondhand developing tank. It’s already leaked on inversion and I’m tired of the films coming loose out of the reel. The real opens out in the film sticks together thankfully it’s awhile since that’s happened but time to get rid after a very near miss #believeinfilm
February 2, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Time to retire this already secondhand developing tank. It’s already leaked on inversion and I’m tired of the films coming loose out of the reel. The real opens out in the film sticks together thankfully it’s awhile since that’s happened but time to get rid after a very near miss #believeinfilm
#believeinfilm What could cause this? Developed using the Bellini C41 kit the film still has that milky look to its it looks like one film has developed better than the others but it’s still not right. I believe I’ve followed the instructions well.
January 28, 2025 at 12:21 PM
#believeinfilm What could cause this? Developed using the Bellini C41 kit the film still has that milky look to its it looks like one film has developed better than the others but it’s still not right. I believe I’ve followed the instructions well.
Going through all the accounts I followed on Twitter and deleting them was tough. wWhat was surprising was viewing when most had last posted? A good 50% had not posted for 2-3 years. The account will remain only for contacting customer services of the second rate service providers that use it.
January 27, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Going through all the accounts I followed on Twitter and deleting them was tough. wWhat was surprising was viewing when most had last posted? A good 50% had not posted for 2-3 years. The account will remain only for contacting customer services of the second rate service providers that use it.
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BREAKING: Thieves say they can't make a living unless all doors are left unlocked and they can take whatever they want.
futurism.com/the-byte/ope...
futurism.com/the-byte/ope...
OpenAI Pleads That It Can’t Make Money Without Using Copyrighted Materials for Free
OpenAI is begging Parliament to allow it to use copyrighted works because it's "impossible" for the company to make money without them.
futurism.com
January 8, 2025 at 9:10 AM
BREAKING: Thieves say they can't make a living unless all doors are left unlocked and they can take whatever they want.
futurism.com/the-byte/ope...
futurism.com/the-byte/ope...
Last week I was in Glasgow briefly. I couldn’t resist a quick trip on the new subway trains which now serve the ‘clockwork orange’. The trains look futuristic to me, and are no longer orange! The trains are much smaller than the underground in London, historically Scottish people were much shorter!
January 7, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Last week I was in Glasgow briefly. I couldn’t resist a quick trip on the new subway trains which now serve the ‘clockwork orange’. The trains look futuristic to me, and are no longer orange! The trains are much smaller than the underground in London, historically Scottish people were much shorter!
I remember when EASTERN BLOC was simply a record shop called EASTERN BLOC RECORDS, near the other famous Manchester Record store, ‘Vinyl Exchange’. I spent hours in these shops in my younger days looking for any illusive dance records on CD Single or 12” #Manchester
November 24, 2024 at 10:07 PM
I remember when EASTERN BLOC was simply a record shop called EASTERN BLOC RECORDS, near the other famous Manchester Record store, ‘Vinyl Exchange’. I spent hours in these shops in my younger days looking for any illusive dance records on CD Single or 12” #Manchester