-{The Broken Camera}-

When Everything Dies

2010-12-01T22:18:00.001Z

When Everything Dies
Originally uploaded by -{The Broken Camera}-

Tuition fees protest

2010-11-24T15:12:00.007Z

"I really struggled with the decision" Nick Clegg

A message for George Osbourne

2010-10-20T12:18:00.000Z

Lights

2010-10-18T09:54:00.003Z

Early Sunday morning I had made my way to the beach to listen to the sea for words of wisdom. The sea answered with these.

use of words

2010-08-15T08:23:00.002Z

Used 3 times: Tons
Used 2 times: Dead
Used 2 times: Holes
Used 2 times: Years
Used 2 times: Morning
Used 2 times: June
Used 2 times: Sandwich
Used 2 times: Simply
Used 2 times: Western
Used 2 times: Life
Used 2 times: Music
Used 2 times: Use
Used 1 times: Interested
Used 1 times: Easy
Used 1 times: Starcraft
Used 1 times: Brilliant

the old masters

2010-07-06T13:55:00.003Z

Saw this and thought yes that would make a good picture...

Grow your own

2010-06-29T17:13:00.002Z

A timely reminder

2010-06-29T16:15:00.002Z

The Longest Day

2010-06-21T13:21:00.000Z

No not the film or book of the same name but the Summer solstice. The day with the longest amount of sun light. It's all going to get darker from now on.

footpath in the mist

2010-06-10T22:08:00.003Z

and also

2010-06-06T12:16:00.000Z

looking like this

One looks like this

2010-06-06T12:14:00.003Z

in close detail it looks like this

Processing

2010-06-06T11:47:00.003Z

Processing more soundscapes this morning.
Like buses they all seem to come at once.
You will get a chance to hear them I can assure you!

I hadn't thought of this one

2010-06-01T15:07:00.004Z

As I am planning to walk from Hopton to Norwich in the near future I thought I had thought of everything. From the right shoes to what clothes to wear, what to bring with me, to what route to take. According to this article in the Eastern Evening News there has been a big cat spotted. Ok this is on the other side of the river Yare for my intended route. Another question you have to ask yourself is this was spotted from a car. So what do I do spot one whilst being on foot if it happens...decisions... decisions decisions...

If it or others do exist...

before we get too carried away

2010-06-01T14:55:00.004Z

Before we get too carried away with it all looking from the other direction of the previous picture. We see that what has been cleared doesn't follow exactly the path of the footpath. Which it misses by several yards. So do we follow this one that is cleared or do we use the follow footpath that crosses the crops?

Clearing a path

2010-06-01T14:18:00.004Z

Yesterday was pleased to find that the farmer has mown the footpath which goes across the crops in his fields. First time I have seen him do that. I've only started to this footpath regularly in the last year. Wish other farmers were like that. According to the first Ordinance survey map of this area in the early 1890 s it follows the edge of an earlier hedge that separated this larger field in two. Which is why the tree is still there.

Self imposed satisfaction

2010-05-26T19:13:00.006Z

Although I find taking self portraits personally quite a hard task to accomplish satisfactory. Forced myself to do this one as a study of light and shade.

Found a way

2010-05-26T14:24:00.009Z

Was pleased yesterday that I found that the footpaths across Haddiscoe marshes were useable. Apart from the gate that I had to climb over but everything was easily marked to tell where you were going. Therefore not having to walk along the busy and treacherous A143 road which has no safe means walking along side. Witnessing herds of cows idly grazing, a trio of Tornado jets flying overhead and a passing Hercules transport aircraft. The busy traffic tucked away on the road far away as it sneaks across like me the flat surface of what was once water. Even before reaching the marshes the other inter connecting foot paths where more visible in use Starting from Hopton on sea, Lound, Ashby, Fritton, St Olaves and beyond till I got to Thurlton. To clarify these in broad daylight is an understatement. Well have you ever tried to find something in the dark and I mean literally in the dark of night that is new. Even with a map in hand you still have to read the landscape to correlate what is on symbolised on paper and it's place on earth. The image is of the view from Thorpe looking back to Lothingland in the distance. Next stop is eventually Norwich itself!

....on the streets of Lowestoft

2010-05-23T21:57:00.004Z

All can be revealed...

Echoes of earlier days in may

2010-05-23T21:43:00.005Z

Seen here forming a meaningful coalition between a tree and poster. Found this photo opportunity as I was about walking.

46 keys on my wagon!

2010-05-18T11:48:00.004Z

Another job for me do! 3 keys broken on my keyboard so still leaves me with 46 I can use. Just have to find some to cannibalise from Freecycle or such . Like Irving Berlin I do like using the black keys. A keyboard more responsive and instantaneous at transposing samples of sound then manipulating them through a software menu with a computer mouse.

Walking on air

2010-05-11T12:35:00.001Z

it is a sign from above

WORDS : Alphabet Allotment (A Play all about words)

2010-05-06T22:59:00.003Z

WORDS : Alphabet Allotment (A Play all about words)

Created by :- ~ Myself ~ Fizzywig ~ Smazogz ~ it is a 15 minute film of our interpretation of words and what they they mean to us.... it is a 705 megabyte download from the following link

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=3B9SINR8

We will get this on some alternative sites in the next few days.

Down memory lane

2010-05-06T21:55:00.005Z

Is this the beaten track?

This machine is out of order

2010-05-06T21:41:00.003Z

The emphasis I am finding here is on the word "temporarily". It gives some relief that it is only a relatively short moment in time where everything is broken and that when fixed life can move forward again...

Irony

2010-05-06T19:48:00.004Z

Found Advert

Beltaine

2010-05-04T09:51:00.005Z

On the saturday morning met up with the others on the beach. There to catch a fleeting image of the Sun through the clouds. Marking the mid point between the Sun's progress between the spring Equinox and the summer solstice

It's always greener on the other side

2010-04-16T10:49:00.005Z

Though I wish it was that simple as this quiz from http://www.whoshouldyouvotefor.com/ shows. I've only manged to be able to vote green in a general election once when I was living in London. Democracy is not transparent or fair which is how it reflects life.

All ears over to Myspace...

2010-04-15T17:09:00.007Z

It was only matter of time...but I have some audio pieces situated at http://www.myspace.com/eyeresearch under the moniker of Eyeresearch.

No there's not much drums or any words in this genre but so far four tracks of an ambient industrial nature I have posted on there. Using just the computer and some software that is my instrument of choice and as low tech as I can get in this time of life.

Been caught walking!

2010-04-03T11:05:00.002Z

Whilst having a look on Google maps I find myself caught on the streetview section of where I live. Not once but twice as I am pictured further along the road. Yes that's me in the center with the light blue t shirt. They did make a good job of blurring my face. I recall the car with the strange looking dome shaped camera sticking out of its roof

Obtaining footage from CCTV camera would never be so easy...but fame atlast

Another view

2010-02-05T11:34:00.001Z

The same view but shown as a spectrum

A sound picture indeed?

2010-02-05T11:09:00.003Z

This morning I had just loaded a soundscape I had made from yesterday into the computer. This is where I found out what it looked like. A landscape reflected onto the surface of a lake perhaps?

since you last heard from me

2010-02-04T12:14:00.007Z

Sounding it out. Sequences of sounds to run alongside sequences of images.

The Metropolitan Police attempting to re write history?

2010-01-07T22:05:00.004Z

The Metropolitan Police are requesting that all imagery of its officers hiding or obscuring their badges be removed from photo libraries or image databases.

http://www.simoncollister.com/simonsays/2009/11/exclusive-met-police-blogger-engagement-and-my-part-in-it.html

Yule like this...

2009-12-25T18:09:00.002Z

Another year and another Xmas...

Winter Solstice

2009-12-21T19:56:00.004Z

We are at the furthest distance from the sun

return is now inevitable

Warren Lane

2009-09-02T09:48:00.004Z

There's a change in the air

I've got to get this done before the tide comes in...

2009-08-31T19:41:00.002Z

Were the literal words of the man pictured doing this repair work to sea defences on Gorleston beach last week. Last week on a late afternoon repairing storm damage from earlier in the year. It's all a question of time isn't?

Oh what a performance....

2009-07-08T15:43:00.001Z

Flegg High School Martham last week

Engaging with the landscape

2009-06-16T21:00:00.003Z

On sunday I walked from Hopton on Sea to Southwold and back. This round journey took fourteen hours to complete. A distance that I would roughly equate to walking to Norwich from the village I live in. The time and the distance themselves alone being secondary to what I wanted to achieve. Which was to actively engage myself with the landscape through experience for narratives. By that I mean rather than blandly just stand there and indiscriminateatly take images try to activly intereact with the landscape itself. A photograph could just be something you take just from the inside of a car or from a building.
This shoreline is very interesting in the way it negotiates its existance with the all pervasive sea. Pictured above is a dead tree still standng at South Cove on the way to Southwold. In the distance you could make out the spire of St Edmunds and Southwold pier. Even Sizewell nuclear power station was visible from here.

Must start to use a tent to achieve greater distances. But travel light and life becomes easier. I was using just a two megapixel Kodak camera and my Pentax P30T film SLR. On this day there was very little cloud until walking back on this sunny summers day. This journey needs to be repeated for the reasons of what was missed, to be continued, a change of weather and the time of day.

In passing (part 2)

2009-06-14T11:00:00.002Z

Democracy is a joke...

Atleast I had the chance to vote Green in the european elections...as for the local elections what a sham...just a choice of three non entities who don't represent anything that I stand for...I had hoped that the sploit ballot papers might have got through...but alas...

Sorry for the late news...

In passing (part 1)

2009-06-14T10:52:00.003Z

Week before last I showed three films at the Club Uniquity at Someleyton. Sitting at the back watching the people I am reminded why I like making films. Good to meet Jason Parr who I will also be making a film with in the near future. Also a sculptor he was playing some music and performing one of his poems. He also like me plays more than one talent for creativity. I met more poeple I hadn't seen for ages. It's good to get out there and press the flesh.

In Reflection...

2009-06-05T12:57:00.002Z

Self Portrait in a discarded television Lowestoft

The path forward

2009-05-14T11:37:00.004Z

Clear evidence of the ever tangible erosion of the East Anglian coastline. Only recently my footsteps contributed to this groove in the grass on the cliffs. The newer footpath being used is seen on the right of the picture. Till that falls into the sea as well in due course. As will the village of Corton which can be seen in the distance. Consulting the cpies I have of the first ordinance survey map of 1883 there was more houses which have fallen into the sea. Infact from that map you can clearly see how much even in that short space of time what has been given to the sea.

Beltaine 2009

2009-05-01T08:18:00.003Z

Watching the sunrise on Beltaine

Good time was had by all around the fire

as we watched it

rise from the darkness...

#blognor09 All for a quid

2009-04-23T22:35:00.003Z

All for a pound

#blognor09 Project our thoughts onto it

2009-04-23T21:39:00.005Z

Beneath

In shade

Underneath

Out of sight

#blognor09 Capricorn

2009-04-23T21:10:00.004Z

cool façade

internal processes

complex

mathematics

#blognor09 One of a thousand Bus stops

2009-04-23T20:53:00.005Z

Three separate narratives converge at a point of time and space.
Is this a start, a continuation or an ending?

#blognor09 Warren Lane

2009-04-23T07:21:00.006Z

Whilst walking down Warren lane
it appears to be snowing
or so it seems...
A blizzard of white
drifts towards me overhead..

Every New Dawn Fades

2009-04-22T15:52:00.002Z

Today is Earth Day a day designed to inspire awareness and appreciation for the Earth's environment.

Still waters run deep.

2009-04-21T16:20:00.002Z

New growth in the garden. But this New Zealand Flax in my front garden appears to be a silent witness to what is happing all around. Silent save only for the gentle breeze that moves through its leaves.

It's all words

2009-04-20T18:17:00.002Z

Caught this image whilst working on a new spoken word film. Which is a collaboration between myself and Andrew Smazogz and Fiona Hall. We've worked before but this time it is just the three of us together. Can't say when it's finished but when it is it will be something special.
Everything is words... whether as images, sound or thought or should that be the other way around... ? The benefits of working with other people can't stressed enough. It's like having multiplying yourself to get something better

Beccles the slight return....

2009-04-06T21:47:00.002Z

Did a walk and return from mine to Beccles along the Angles way again. Starting from midday the weather was good and I really had broke my boots in before hand. Perfect to try this if I could walk back as well. Also trying some shots with my film camera that I had noticed from the previous attempt. More oportunities made themselves availiable as I became aware of what I had missed previously. Arriving at Becles at around 5.30 I was successful in that I could return home. Only making a short stay for what is possibly one of the few chip shps to open in East Anglia. Eating my chips in the seated area just outside the Caxton Arms I am thinking if I should return in the direction I have come from. Yes I do and in the enveloping darkness as the sun setts it is quite well lit by the moon light. After several stops to eat and water I made my way home. So twelve hours later since I had started reaching it at Midnight via a slightly differring route along the cliff tops over looking the North Sea.

With this distance I have covered Norwich is attainable and realistic.

So anything is possible...

Aprils Fool

2009-04-01T12:48:00.002Z

These boots will get me somewhere.

...from Norwich

...and even perhaps from London

....if I am that inclined

...from somewhere

...to something thing

...Everything I do

...is about footsteps along the way.

About Type face

2009-03-29T17:03:00.001Z

I'm three today

2009-03-23T00:00:00.002Z

My blog is three years old today. This has been one of those projects that I've really enjoyed doing. It's an ongoing work to document myself and what I find interesting and how I interpret it through work. It is about doing rather than copying what has been done before and that is the point of this. I can't stress that highly enough. There are other places and times for that on the internet. Here I try to endevor to have "made the effort" in creating or expending energy. Both physical or temporal endevours. So many thanks to all of those who have visited, made comments, been inspired by, those who have inspired myself or have made comments and shared ideas. Many thanks from this part of the global village.

So that leads us to the question....

2009-03-18T19:19:00.006Z

Answers?

Who likes school anyway?

2009-03-18T18:57:00.004Z

Found this plaque in Norwich today.
It brought a smile to my face.

Comparing maps

2009-03-16T23:31:00.002Z

I've been using a combination of the first Ordinace survey map of 1883 and Google Earth to see what is recognisable from the past into todays landscape. Some parts seem to register quite well using a combination of key points such as the field system which in places is recognisible. There fore keying in the map as a whole to what you can decipher from it. This makes landscape images interesting. Something in which I want to explore more in my photgraphy to give it more meaning and less cliche. Rather than just the shapes or tones but what the actual landscape is. Therefore how we interact with it and shape ourselves through this.

The Ley Hunters Manual

2009-03-16T23:20:00.002Z

From the blurb on the back cover:

The sacred places and settlements throughout the British Isles are founded on an esoteric pattern of 'leys' - a system of accurately aligned monuments, stretching far across the landscape and laid down by the astronomer priests of prehistoric times.

Alfred Watkins, a Herefordshire business man, magistrate and photographer, discovered the ley system (and coined the word 'ley') in 1921. This manual, first published in 1927, is still indispensable for anyone interested in the sacred sites of Britain. As John Mitchell writes in his introduction: 'Behind the chaotic spread of modern buildings and development the ley hunter discerns faint traces of a far older pattern in the landscape, a linear pattern which integrates the traditional landmarks and spots of sanctity with the natural features of the countryside... For those who are inclined to accept Watkin's invitation to test the leyline thesis for themselves, this manual provides the perfect guide and companion.'

Blockage

2009-03-15T11:21:00.003Z

A small blockage of a public footpath. It may not seem alot but it's the thought that has gone into this. Impassable from the otherside and I seriously ripped my trousers whilst trying to get over this on the barbed wire fence. Joking aside the spoke person from Suffolk County Council said do not directly speak to the farmer and would send someone to have a look at this.

The Angles Way

2009-03-10T13:03:00.000Z

Walked to Beccles along the banks of the Waveney on the Angles Way. From mine I timed it as being around four and half hours to do this. In the grand scheme of walking this is no great distance.
But allows greater distances to be built up. Let me encourage the thoughts of how the area of Lothingland was connected to the rest of the landscape. It left me thinking of people through the ages who had traveled along this way and of their stories.

Found

2009-03-10T12:35:00.001Z

In stark contrast to the previous post

Lost

2009-03-08T10:35:00.005Z

The failure of the James Paget Hospital management to spend seven and a half million pounds. So they have to re apply for this money if they are to be successful to spend it. Is this covering up something else or is it just a self taxing prophecy made real? Either way that's alot of executive sandwiches/carpets/chairs etc if you look on the bright side. Patients I hear you ask I'm sure they count. Last year I had my retinal scan and was pleased with it and the reading material...a good selection of Natinal Geographics that somebody donated to the reading room.
Politics and art do meet how ever intangible. What seems separate does infact link. So what would you spend on seven and half million pounds in the context of health care?

First Light Movies

2009-03-06T11:55:00.002Z

Attended a presentation about funding about film making projects for young people at the Arts Picturehouse in Cambridge on Wednesday. This was given by www.firstlightmovies.com

Have a banana

2009-03-04T02:23:00.004Z

Break a record by joining people all over the world eating a Fairtrade banana between noon on Friday 6th March and noon Saturday 7th March. Register online at www.fairtrade.org.uk

Footpaths of Lothingland

2009-02-27T17:07:00.003Z

To keep them alive you have to use them. There was someone elses footprints in the soil. So I could tell someone had used this before the field was last ploughed. Use it or lose it as the saying goes.

Discovering Suffolk

2009-02-26T12:09:00.005Z

This book is dated from 1961 before the boundary changes that happened in 1974. Which explains why there is a picture of Burgh Castle on the cover. Which is now in present day Norfolk.

When a Male goes wrong....

2009-02-23T16:03:00.003Z

My boots! My boots! My kingdom for some new boots!!

When the mail goes wrong part 2

2009-02-23T15:47:00.003Z

r

Too late for a Valentines I have received this today

I did a degree once

University

Seems such a long long long time away

When the mail goes wrong part 1

2009-02-23T15:38:00.004Z

This arrived in the post today.
I think it's a trick question.
I haven't opened it.
Does raise some questions.

Attacked by water from both sides.

2009-02-22T11:52:00.006Z

The amount of water running off these cliffs causes the slippage that runs onto the beach.
Yes attack by water from both sides.

Now you see it... now you don't...

2009-02-22T10:54:00.005Z

The disappearing nudist beach at Corton. Owing to the erosion of the beach this will be changed to ordinary beach. In the previous image there was a far greater amount of sand over twenty years ago.

Sea defences from long ago.

2009-02-22T10:44:00.003Z

On the right a procession of yesteryears sea defences at Corton.

Hopton sea

2009-02-16T16:14:00.002Z

The sand has gone somewhere

Hopton in the sea?

2009-02-16T15:51:00.002Z

Erosion worries caused by the outer harbour at Great Yarmouth in the village I live in. The ever changing coastline is just that ever changing. In a hundred years from now where I am typing this will be on the edge of a cliff or will have fallen into the see. So prehaps time and effort would be better spent using the sea rather than fighting it? So lets see those houses on stilts and people living on boats. You never know it may just catch on.

The 1974 boundary of thought.

2009-02-09T14:18:00.003Z

The Norfolk - Suffolk border crossing at Herringfleet

Footsteps

2009-02-09T13:27:00.004Z

Yesterday I was walking
from Hopton,
to Blundeston,
to Somerleyton,
to Herringfleet,
to St Olaves,
to Fritton,
to Belton,
to Bradwell,
to Gorleston
then back to Hopton.

More useless tat that nobody wants

2009-02-07T10:54:00.003Z

Doesn't represent anything about me

Handy Cam...

2009-02-03T11:51:00.004Z

Halina 150

2009-02-02T00:55:00.001Z

Halina 150
Originally uploaded by -{The Broken Camera}-

Picked this Halina 150 compact up from Freecycle.

The Compact Disc is dead. Long live music.

2009-01-31T13:32:00.005Z

All for one pound sixty pence. A free newspaper with an album for £1.60
Sigur Ros compilation album with The Independent.

My Kingdom for a 32 bit horse....

2009-01-29T22:28:00.004Z

In the long term I'm going to need to start using Linux again. I've just been reading about the new worm infecting computers running Windows called variously Conficker, Kido or Downadup. Read the article it's very easy to spread and from using other peoples machines via copying files on pen drives. So apart from practising "Safe Hex" the only thing is I need a Linux compatible modem most are windows surprise surprise and a new scanner for exactly the same reason. The Apple option is no longer available to me and a new computer is laughably out of the question. I've run a version of Linux called Suse and was impressed with it. It was very familiar if you've used windows before. Application wise OpenOffice and GIMP handle the writing and photediting applications. I'm using Firefox which is a Mozilla browser which also comes in a Linux flavour. So if I don't want to use the net or scan anything I'm alright. Oh and video there are some applications some of which you have to pay for. So Windows isn't straight in the bin just yet.

Much like banks, software and computer hardware companies have you by the short and curlies.....

BBC Complaints [T2009012800CWS060]‏

2009-01-28T15:20:00.005Z

From complaintresponse@bbc.co.uk

Thank you for your e-mail.

We note your disappointment at our decision not to broadcast
an appeal by the Disasters Emergency Committee to raise funds for Gaza.

We decided not to broadcast the DEC's public appeal
because we wished to avoid any risk of compromising public confidence
in the BBC's impartiality in the context of covering a continuing news story
where issues of responsibility for civilian suffering and distress are intrinsic
to the story and remain highly contentious. We also could not be confident that
the aid resulting from audience donations could reach those it was intended for
at a time of a fragile ceasefire and sporadic border access.
We will of course continue to report the humanitarian story in Gaza.

The BBC's director-general Mark Thompson has therefore explained
the decision in more detail in a number of television and radio broadcasts
and online at our Editors' blog.
Please follow the link to read his explanation in full:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/theeditors/2009/01/bbc_and_the_gaza_appeal.html

Please be assured that we have registered your comments on our audience log.
This is the internal report of audience feedback which we compile daily
for all programme makers and commissioning executives within the BBC,
and also their senior management.  It ensures that your points, and
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BBC Complaints

Funding approved for regeneration

2009-01-24T20:57:00.003Z

in this weeks Gt Yarmouth Mecury news paper is the news of the successful funding of an area of the town As part of this scheme that is most interesting is the renovation of St Georges Theatre in the scheme. It will be transformed into a flexiable arts centre and communty hub. This will be completed by April of 2011.

Closer look at the town

2009-01-24T19:49:00.003Z

St Georges theatre in the top left hand corner of this section of the mural.

Two sides of the town

2009-01-24T19:43:00.004Z

The mural depicts two sides of the town. The town itself (which is on the right) and the countryside and broads that surround the town (which is on the left). A community project led by Mike Skipper. There's some pictures of this mural earlier in my blog I posted a couple of years before.

A mural revisted.

2009-01-24T19:30:00.005Z

I paid a visit on the way back to the Color4all mural in Great Yarmouth to see the state it's in. This is situated in a subway in the town. The mural is in two halves of the corridor. there is another corridor that has been painted over but there has been no attempt at another mural. The work that color4all have done is slowly becoming covered in graffiti, dirt and cobwebs. I took some more pictures with the Pentax for some better quality images.

Walking back from Caister

2009-01-24T19:24:00.002Z

Walking back from Caister. I live a few miles outside Lowestoft. Interestingly Beccles is only a 12 miles from Gorleston.

Halfway to Acle

2009-01-24T19:12:00.003Z

Last night I walked to Caister and back. Norwich from here is 20 miles away.

Further darkroom steps I've taken

2009-01-19T16:48:00.004Z

Paragon Universal Enlarger was one of the items I picked up today from Freecycle. Another developing tank, trays, darkroom light, tongs, framing board amongst other things. For the cost of picking it up well worth recycling for the cost of a bus ticket.

Looking for a source of leaks

2009-01-19T11:33:00.004Z

Looking for the source of light leaks in the Zenit B. I think it's possibly coming from the area where the red arrow is in the image. There's a hole which was probably in the sibling machine the Zenit E light meter was attached. To the left there is also some signs of corrosion. So possibly linked. I can see a speck of light coming from this side in the view finder. I'll put some material in there and add some foam to the front of the mirror plate which is just a sliver of hardened material. It's that strip of material to the left of the red arrow. I suppose that was once rubber?
I could just through this away and get another Zenit body. But then that's a waste of material and money. I could also use this body to explore inside what is wrong with it further. The repair manual which I obtained from the Zenit users group has a list of options that are the common cause of leaks for this camera. The timer is jammed solid but I don't use that function mainly. Though that corrosion could've spread if that is what caused it.

...it's a fight against the idea that everything has to die when it doesn't create turnover

2009-01-18T22:08:00.009Z

As quoted by Florian Kaps in the Independant On Sunday on his planned rescue of the abandoned Polaroid instant film format. He and in partnership with Ilford have bought a lease for the factory and equipment to make a new film for this camera format for next year. Polaroid had announced they would not make any more film in February 2008. They intend to release the new films the same date that the old Polaroid stock runs out. More information can be found at the impossible project.

A great quote even if you no interest in photography.

Enveloping moisture of thought

2009-01-18T19:09:00.001Z

Enveloping moisture of thought
Originally uploaded by -{The Broken Camera}-

The breathing world

Pentax P30t + Cosinon f1.7/50mm + Kodak Full Color

I'm going to enjoy printing these colour negs into b+w when the darkroom comes to fruition.

The conception of an idea

2009-01-17T05:40:00.003Z

Amateur Film Making by Peter Broderick
First edition
ARCO Publications 1964

Irony is somewhere between bronzy and silvery

2009-01-16T11:56:00.004Z

The last two rolls of film I had developed contained faults. Both developed as ASDA. The roll developed at Lowestoft ASDA had three pictures which were defective. I got a free film as compensation. The second in Great Yarmouth ASDA. This last roll was seriously defective. Stains on prints and negatives, colour casts, light leaks, badly cut negatives, five images not even printed off the roll.

Leading me to think that my main film camera (Pentax P30t) was developing a fault.

So yesterday after I had found the developing tank pictured in the previous post I made my way to Tesco in North Lowestoft. With apprehension I picked up my prints. But I was pleasantly surprised that the quality was on the whole back to a normal standard. These places are supermarkets first and foremost. They are not specialised film development labs. If you call the manager let alone ask the operator on the whole they are not going to be well versed in the technical aspects of photography. If this was for a job I would use a professional developing service or as I am intending to do in the near future develop them myself. This post is not meant to be a rant. That is bad blogging.

My camera is not going wrong and I am very happy.

One small footstep towards a darkroom

2009-01-16T11:46:00.002Z

Paterson Super System 4 Film Developing Tank

Television dreams

2009-01-14T13:03:00.002Z