being able you see a scene, visualize the photo, then make it a reality is a good feeling, and when i scanned this negative, i was quite excited to see it came out as i had envisaged.
on the weekend, after sitting around for a few hours, bored and whinging about being cold, i decided to go for a drive. since im currently not working, im not sure why i only ever seem to go out on weekends.
anyways, a few months ago i went to Licola for a drive, and really enjoyed the landscapes, nice vibrant green grass, rolling hills.. i had been wanting to return, but new adventures always take precedence to old haunts.
as i was driving along the windy, mountain roads, i caught a glimpse of the rocks protruding from the face of the mountain, with a clear blue sky as a background and to top it all off, a half moon was sitting just above.
my thoughts soon shifted to ‘where can i park!’, the road was quite narrow, with no shoulder, so i kept driving, with my attention divided between watching where i was going and staring at the mountain.
soon enough i found a spot to pull over, and i parked the car, grabbed my cameras and was on a mission to find a spot to set up.
about a hundred or so meters up the road i found a good view, but i had to head about 10 meters down an embankment, and this is where i got the following photo.
this photo was taken with my Crown Graphic 4×5, Schneider 150mm lens and Shanghai GP3 100 film, with a red filter.
i quite like the combination of the Shanghai film and R09 developer. both are quite cheap, so i should stock up!

Monthly Archives: August 2012
Melbourne Silver Mine’s “Unsensored” 2012
UNSENSORED12
an exhibition of analogue photography
The Melbourne Silver Mine’s annual exhibition of analogue photography UNSENSORED is set to return to Collingwood Gallery for 2012.
UNSENSORED12
Collingwood Gallery
292 Smith Street
Collingwood
Opening Night:
Friday 14th September 2012 from 6pm
Exhibition dates:
Saturday 15th September 2012 – Wednesday 26th September 2012
Gallery open daily:
10am – 6pm Saturday & Sunday
Midday – 6:30pm Monday – Friday
This year’s show features photography by 47 of our members:
Aryan Aqajani, Anthony Begovic, Roberts Birze, Sandy Birze, Jock Blakley, Natalie Blom, Steven Caddy, Michael Carew, Dave Carswell, Bill Chant, Andrew Cosgriff, Nicole Davis, Mel Dixon, Anna Gallacher, Robert Go, Louise Grundy, Penny Gutteridge, Ross Holmberg, Hing Hshen, Timothy D. Johnson, Matthew Robert Joseph, Daniel Klaas Noppert, Suzannah Marshall Macbeth, Iain Maclachlan, Sarah Maddox, Amanda Mason, Marc Morel, Toan Nguyen, Jodie Noonan, Ambre Pitt, Richard Plumridge, Karen Riley, Matthew Ross, James Ruff, Ahmad Sabra, Gary Sauer-Thompson, Deanne Smith, Emma Starr, Paul Stoney, Jacqueline van Zetten, Michael Verhoef, Marcus Visic, Katherine White, Liam White, Lea Williams, Damian Young & Chris Zissiadis
http://silvermine.org.au/unsensored12/
All are welcome on opening night.
Free entry, no RSVP necessary.
The Melbourne Silver Mine is a non-profit analogue photography collective.
http://silvermine.org.au
rainy days
last week i went for a drive up in to the hills, it was damn cold, about 2.C and nearly snowing..
i had the Hasselblad with me thought id have a go at pushing film.
i used Kodak TriX 400 and Kodak TMax 400 both pushed one stop to 800iso.
didnt have much luck finding dev times for those films at 800 iso with Rodinal, other than stand dev, so i just used TMax 1-4, which turned out to be the same times as they would be normally when dev’d at 400…
the first shot is Tmax and the second TriX.


Disposable Fun.
months and months ago i bought a disposable KODAK camera, i think it was $4..
thought it would be cool to keep it in the Rambler Studio and the studio days.
well after the studio finished up, the camera was left with a dozen or so shots left to go, it didnt get much use in its time, and it got chucked in my car, where it stayed for another month or 2.
yesterday was a nice sunny day and i though id go for a ride around town, and as i was looking for my ipod, i saw the camera, and decided that id take it with me to finish the film off, heres a few goodies.
Kodak Disposable, Kodak GT800 film.


