2024

A Happy Christmas and New Year – regards David.

Hi. have had a stroke.

Happy New Year – 2024.

Hello.

Not posted any photographs for some months – no inspiration.

But wishing everyone a Happy Xmas and peaceful New year.

Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II.

Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. Continue reading “Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II.” →

Sun over jebel.

From my files.

JJC ES-2 Film Digitizing Adapter (clone of Nikon ES-2).

This is a digitised Ilford HP5 Plus negative.

I have been doing tests with a newly acquired JJC ES-2 clone of the Nikon ES-2 film digitiser.

. Click above image for Amazon link.

It works very well and comes with a LED light attachment which the Nikon version does not have.

The setup I used was:

Nikon D800, PK11(a), PK13, Nikkor 55mm F2.8 AIs micro and the slide/film copier.
It is a lot cheaper than the Nikon equivalent (seems made of engineering plastic like the Nikon one) and includes the LED light attachment along with 5 lens adapters.

Daffodils in B&W.

B&W conversion of a previously posted image.

Finding the Mother Tree.

Click book image for Amazon link.

From Wiki:
Simard asserts that healthy forests centre on a matriarch tree that acts as a nexus of nutrient distribution that shares these nutrients among other trees of the same or different ages and species that are chemically and physically linked together by an expansive mycorrhizal network. Simard faced ridicule during her younger years; however her research became “critical to addressing problems in the timber industry” that led to reforms in sustainable forestry.

Hidden pond.

A cold morning.

Castle Howard lake view.

From my files – A view over the Great Lake (Castle Howard North Yorkshire) the lake being built by the 5th Earl in the 1790s

Spent some time here over Xmas & New Year, ignoring all the dire prognostications that seem to emanate from everywhere.

Abandoned carpet.

Abandoned carpet – from my negative files.

Summer remembered.

Old tree trunks No2.

Old tree trunks.

Bridge shadows.

Trees & Rock.

Trees and rock – Padley Woods.

Burbage Brook – Negatives from the 1980s No4.

Burbage brook was used as the feeder stream for Padley Mill.

Found a sheet of negatives from the 1980s.

Water Mill drive converter wheel.

Going through old negatives, I found a sheet from the early 1980s of Padley Mill and Padley woods in the Peak District National Park: Derbyshire.
Kodacolor VR200 film which was made between 1982 to 86, this helped me date them at more than 35 years old.

I have been scanning and converting some into B&W.

A leaf.

A foggy day.

Yashica mat 124G with Tmax 400 at asa 320.

Peak District – Derbyshire.

Rocks: Ilford FP4 plus.

York Minster.

I am almost sure this negative (T-max TMY not TMY-2) was made in the early 1980’s.

The first recorded church on this site was a wooden structure built in 627, the present building was begun in about 1230 and completed in 1472. Looking at its history: the site seems to have been beset by fires ! see this Wiki link.