Category: Black & White.

Wadi rocks.

Wadi rocks.Wadi rocks.
Nikon F2sb with Tokina 35-70 AIs AT-x f2.8 lens. Made on Ilford FP2 plus @ Iso 100.

This is a difficult negative: I used the F2sb with its average meter  (No spot meter with me – needed it !) The contrast differences between left & right is quite extreme & requires a lot of dodging & burning for balance.

Muttrah – late 1980’s.

muttrah-late-1980sMuttrah late 1980s.
Nikon 401 with 35-70 mm f/3.3-4.5 lens. Kodak T-max 400.
Details as below with the earlier image.

Not the best of negatives, but interesting seeing what has changed in the intervening 30 years or so.
Old style TV antennas, the cars & virtually no one had a mobile phone: if you wanted to appear important, it was the ‘pager’ everyone seemed to carry one  🙂

Garden corner & a little trivia.

garden-cornerAn unkempt section of my garden, waiting the end of summer for a little attention  (that’s my excuse anyway)   🙂

Writing this I thought hummm…  which is it, I was sure unkempt was right in this instance but; so I gave in and looked it up in a well known on-line dictionary.

Unkept–Unkempt distinction:
Unkempt is often used to describe untrimmed lawns and hedges, but unkept is equally correct. Unkept is only rarely used to describe people.
Actually the doubt came because Firefox spell check (set for proper English 🙂 ) flags unkept but not unkempt. Never trust a computer !! as I was told by an instructor many years ago “computers are stupid for two reasons: A. they only have two states, either ‘on’ or ‘off’ so anything else confuses them & B. if the computer says ‘no’ blame the programmer or user never the computer”.