Our Dog's Basket

 I bought this Panasonic Lumix G7 back at the end of 2015, and in all the intervening years it hasn't been a regular on my days out. But recently I picked up a Brightin Star 10mm f5.6 lens for about sixty dollars just to have a weird lens that won't make people vomit (like my 25mm CCTV lens with epic swirly bokeh). On the 18th June I decided to take this out and do some test shooting to see how it goes. This was a bad idea. For a start, when I arrived at East Croydon station I found that due to trespassers on the line all trains were delayed by over 20 minutes. But then a second incident meant the entire south-east railway network ground to a halt again, so the train I'd gone to catch arrived an hour late. But then they announced it wasn't doing the full route and so I had to wait an extra 20 minutes for a connection. So I arrived an hour and a half later at my destination. I'd gone to Pevensey (sadly the train tickets no longer say "Pevensey and W'ham...

  Dinosaurs! Meet the Dinosaurs, They're the wrongest ones in history... At the, Crystal Palace, They're all preserved for you and me. Ahem. On the 25th of April I took the mighty Bronica ETRS and a roll of Ilford Pan F+ over to Crystal Palace  as I'd not used that camera since The Before Times and wanted to give it a run out before using it for anything more serious. The ETRS gets 15 shots to a roll of 120 film with negatives being 6 x 4.5 cm in size. Here are a few of them. The sporting area at Crystal Palace, which is apparently due a major renovation to make it more usable. Not a game of Whack-A-Dino, but this head greets you on the way. There's a lot of work going on with renovating the park, and so these are wrapped up. Welcoming you with gently smiling jaws. A few on an island. Some areas were inaccessible due to work going on as you can see. Just one boat at the lake In reality these sphinxes are pinxses Showing some of the detail. So it was a nice day for a str...

So on April 1st I decided that my old Voigtlander Bessa-L camera which I'd not used for years needed a run out so I went down to the Amberley Museum, camera fitted with Voigtlander 15mm Aspherical Super-Wide Heliar, which is the widest angle lens I have, and loaded with a roll of Ilford Pan F+. Here are a few shots from the day. Bus Stop And here's a bus.  But I didn't get the bus, I got the narrow-gauge train that runs round part of the disused lime quarry the museum is located in. Getting off the train by a bunch of old electrical stuff, and the electrical equipment gallery in the background. This claims to be a bomb shelter, though I suspect it wasn't very good! Some unused bits of narrow gauge rail which might be used sometimes? Looking down to the old lime kilns. One of the stations for the narrow gauge railway behind the telecomms gallery. A variety of old buses. Some frames were affected by a scratch and this was one of them. Not sure how the film got scratched f...