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Selected 2011

Adrian — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 07:46:00 +0000

Selected B&W images for 2011

Oak

Continue reading after the break for a small selection of my favourites. Most are from 2011. There are a few from earlier years that may not have been brought out for display yet.

Spring Fiddle

Apart from family photos, a few of which we have shared with relatives and friends elsewhere, most of my B&W photography tries to examine texture and tone. It’s definitely not “abstract” – you can understand the subject, it is perhaps reductionist – my aim is to better help the viewer see what I wanted them to see, through the partial abstraction of a monochrome image.

For those of you still interested in film photography a little of the technical details: all the photographs are taken on Ilford film (Pan F, FP4, HP5, and Delta Pro 100 and 400). The Delta Pro series of films are my new favourites. I’ve found the older emulsions seem to give too much contrast, at least in the development system that’s been used. They were developed and scanned by a great little firm down near San Diego called North Coast Photographic recommended by Ken Rockwell.

Equipment consists of all second-hand camera bodies (Contax 645 120 medium format, and some Nikon 35mm SLRs – F4, F5) and a mixture of old and new glass, nearly all from Adorama.

More of my photographs can be found at wadley.us/oneaday – though I can promise you won’t find one new image a day! There’s also a selection at Flickr.

Enjoy!
Adrian

Japanese Tea Garden

Gunnera, Strybing Arboretum

Japanese Tea Garden, Spring

Curly Willow in Winter

Oak

By the lake, Spring

Oak II

Spring Fiddle

Emergent

Muscovy Ducklings

Friday

Adrian — Tue, 26 Apr 2011 14:13:29 +0000

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I’ve put this in Family History. It’s just not my family history! Will you be watching? I’ll be up with tea and toast early in the morning firing up my YouTube stream and getting out the bunting!

SF to Paris in two minutes

Adrian — Sat, 09 Apr 2011 05:07:56 +0000

From YouTube – author ‘nbolt’, see this and other videos here.

Best viewed full screen, and in HD (up to 720p).

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Most enjoyable. This is a combined series of pictures taken with a Canon 5D Mark II and 16-35mm zoom.

Japanese Tea Garden, Golden Gate Park

amwadley_flickr — Tue, 05 Apr 2011 03:16:06 +0000

Japanese Tea Garden, Golden Gate Park,
a photo by amwadley on Flickr.

I have been trying out Ilford Delta Pro 100 as a candidate for my default everyday B&W film. I already like Ilford Delta Pro 400 for something slightly faster.

And so far I’m liking it. The contrast seems just about right on well exposed negatives and the mid-tones seem to carry a lot of detail.

So I will probably use this from now one and retire my use of the old standards FP4 Plus and perhaps also Pan F.

Via Flickr:
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(Ilford Delta Pro 100, 1/30s f/5.6 Contax 645 with 80mm f/2.0

Discovery’s last flight

Adrian — Fri, 25 Feb 2011 05:52:11 +0000

Impressive

MacRobertson Shield Final Test Matches – Day 3

Adrian — Sat, 21 Aug 2010 22:02:32 +0000

Recent B&W

Adrian — Sat, 22 May 2010 04:57:18 +0000

A selection from my Flickr gallery of recent black and white photographs.

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These are all on Ilford film, mix of Pan F, FP4, HP5 and Delta Pro. All developed and scanned by NCPS.

Recent photos

Adrian — Sat, 22 May 2010 03:59:02 +0000

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One day…

Adrian — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 14:40:18 +0000

One day I’m sure Charlie will like this clever YouTube video entitled “A Wolf Loves Pork”. In the meantime I enjoyed it. You may too:

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Our Garden in March

Adrian — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 04:11:42 +0000