Eat your pets – save money

Rabbit

I found a great recipe for Rabbit Pie via The Fabulous Baker Brothers. This sounds really mouth watering and I can’t wait to try it.

Ingredients

  • 500g rabbit, diced
  • 2 tbsp oil
  • 2 onions, diced
  • 100g bacon lardons
  • 2 cloves garlic, chopped
  • Good pinch of fresh thyme
  • Knob of butter
  • 100g wild mushrooms, sliced
  • 1 carrot, finely diced
  • 1 potato, finely diced
  • 1 tbsp plain flour
  • 400ml chicken stock
  • Splash of sherry vinegar
  • Small handful tarragon, finely chopped
  • Sprigs of rosemary (optional)
  • 1 egg, beaten

For the shortcrust pastry

  • 600g strong white flour
  • 150g cold beef dripping, broken into pieces
  • 150g cold butter, diced
  • 2 tbsp ice cold water

I couldn’t really eat a pet rabbit(?)

The image above was taken using a Pentax P30 35mm camera using ‘old stock’ (March 2000) Agfacolor HDC 200. July 2012. The image was processed in black and white.

I spent the majority of the day yesterday chasing rabbits. The inevitable thing happened – somebody left the cage door open. They had tremendous fun – I swear they were laughing at me. I was at the end of my … Continue reading ?

The Pentax P30 is an SLR and uses manual focus lenses with the K-mount bayonet fitting. I shot a roll of film on an old Pentax P30. The results were not as satisfying as those taken with the Pentax SP500. …Continue reading

Metal Garden Furniture

The decking is rotting and the barbecue is rusty – the garden furniture is…

Metal Garden Furniture

…and the view is:

The horseshoe of sand that is Woolacombe Bay, constantly changes. The summer and the sun bring the tourists, the winter brings drama to the seascape. The surfers and hang gliders, brave the seasons’ changes. The one end of the beach is the town of Woolacombe, to the other is Putsborough leading on to  Baggy Point.

What is the point?

The photograph above ‘Metal Garden Furniture’ was  taken using a Pentax SP500 35mm camera using ‘old stock’ (March 2000) Agfacolor HDC 200. July 2012.

Pentax Spotmatic – SP500

Jun 12, 2012 … I have just bought and received via eBay a Pentax SP500 camera. I put a new battery into it and the internal light meter worked straight away.

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Using old film stock in a Pentax P30

The beauty of using 35mm film cameras and film is not  knowing what you have taken a picture of straight away – the final image is a process of design, skill and chance. The chance element is the big buzz for me and by throwing using out of date film (13 years) into the mix makes photography suddenly more interesting.

Fly Spider Nasturtium by 35mm_photographs

Taken using a Pentax P30 35mm camera using ‘old stock’ (March 2000) Agfacolor HDC 200. July 2012.

The Pentax P30 is an SLR and uses manual focus lenses with the K-mount bayonet fitting. I shot a roll of film on an old Pentax P30. The results were not as satisfying as those taken with the Pentax SP500. … Continue reading

Agfacolor was the name of a series of color film products made by Agfa of Germany. The first Agfacolor, introduced in 1932, was a film-based version of their Agfa-Farbenplatte (Agfa color plate) a “screen plate” product similar to the French Autochrome.

After World War II, the Agfacolor brand was applied to several varieties of color negative film for still photography.

HDC plus 200 was a fine general-purpose film, with decent colour saturation, fine grain and sharp.

Agfacolor. (2012, May 13). In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved 20:32, July 21, 2012, from http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Agfacolor&oldid=492411945

This is not art and never will be

Photography is not Art!

Fine art photography is suppose to be created with the vision of an artist. Fine art photography is the opposite of photojournalism or holiday snapping – which provides a visual account for either news or family events. Commercial photography is used to advertise products or services.

The series of images above were taken with a Pentax SP1000, Pentax SP500 and a Pentax K1000. The coloured ones were taken in July 2012 using Fujicolor C200, a budget-priced film (expire date April 2014) processed by Jessops in Barnstaple. The negatives were scanned using an Ion Pics 2 SD.

Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd. was established in 1934 with the aim of being the first Japanese producer of photographic films…

The black-and-white images were taken using  HP5 plus (HP5+ for short).

Another gallery that contains 4 photos of a nearby location.

These images taken of Woolacombe were done using  a Pentax SP1000 35mm camera. This camera was my father’s, who bought it from new in the 1970s. All Pentax Spotmatics (SP) use the M42 screw-thread lens mount. The lenses are focused … Continue reading ?

Wet leaves – Pentax SP1000

Wet Leaves

The image above was taken with a Pentax SP1000 (June 2012) using 35mm black and white Ilford HP5 Plus film.

HP film is a cubic-grain black-and-white film from Ilford Photo. It originated as Hypersensitive Panchromatic plates in 1931. Since then it has developed (pun?) with a number of versions appearing over the years, with HP5 plus (HP5+ for short) being the latest. The main competitor of Ilford HP5 Plus was Kodak Tri-X 400.

The beauty of this film is its grainy quality and because of this it is my film of choice. HP5 was slighty more coarse in comparision to the defuncted Kodak film.

In 1960 the 200 ASA emulsion was relabelled to 400 ASA with no change to the product. The 200 ASA speed included an exposure safety margin, but with improvements in light meters this was deemed unnecessary. The speed was revised up to 400 ASA.

Breakfast on the Orient Express – ruined in the darkroom

Breakfast on the Orient ExpressThis gallery contains 2 photos.

As I have previously mentioned, I haven’t used a 35mm camera for years. I took my old, trusty Pentax K1000 with me to Venice on the Orient Express and took some black and white shots of the train…. The images … Continue reading ?