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  • here comes the sun

    here comes the sun

    Very happy about this one, the photo too 🙂 This is a chemically reversed paper negative, on 18×24 cm @ilfordphoto MGRC paper. Paper negatives don’t have a lot of exposure latitude at the best of times, and the reversal makes that even worse, so this might have very well ended up all black or all…

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  • relatively quick vines

    relatively quick vines

    this in a focus in a relative way – in the sense that the actual focus is in front of the tree but since there’s nothing there it all works out. hand-wavey quick large format photography is really under-explored as a process 🙂 i say quick but it takes like 10 minutes to put up…

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  • relaxing ride out

    relaxing ride out

    cropped because i couldn’t get close enough. the black streak to the right is because i have added a camera-internal curtain around the lens that is only being held on by hopes and dreams and a little bit of tape, and that came loose. no part of this camera is very light tight, especially not…

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  • 18×24 tree

    18×24 tree

    it’s even in focus, surprisingly! i can’t see anything on my ground glass (which is home-made, and also actually plexiglass) in anything less than super bright sunlight. i think i’ll have to try and put a bit more work into that. but this worked out regardless. 18×24 cm paper negative (Ilford MGRC + the Ilford…

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  • is it street photography

    is it street photography

    through rome with a 1930s Welta Perfekta. nice city but they really need to rebuild their stadium, it’s falling apart.

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  • when in rome

    when in rome

    with a 1930s Welta Perfekta, and someone Perfekta

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  • marble

    marble

    the statues there were all sort of caricatures but this one was the best one. i don’t know who that is. he liked tight pants i guess.

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  • postcards from 79

    postcards from 79

    Pompeii is in surprisingly good condition overall. Okay the roofs are missing maybe, but the streets are slightly better than the ones in Naples. Would have been better to take a color film – the best parts are actually the surviving frescos everywhere. The ones out in the open are apparently rapidly deteriorating now, or…

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  • vesuvius and fiat panda 4×4

    vesuvius and fiat panda 4×4

    this sounds weird but the crater of mount vesuvius is much larger than i thought, somehow. just massive. also we visited on the same day the etna broke out, so it was appreciated that vesuvius had a much quieter week than that. With a 6×9 Zeiss Ikon Nettar, cropped in post, on Foma 200

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  • tis a silly place

    tis a silly place

    Positano on the italian Amalfi Coast. Kinda cute though. Good place to park at with your mega yacht apparently. Also somehow the place where Jagger/Richards wrote Midnight Rambler.

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