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Well, I guess I should do something with these negatives and scans

Published 2026 September 25 21:01

Hello, welcome back to the website/blog I started a while ago and then promptly forgot about. The bio on home (as of pixel time) is comically out of date, I don't work there, or live there, anymore.

Anyway, back in Jan '25 I bought myself a film camera off eBay, an Olympus OM-1n, along with a bunch of lenses. I've now shot a bit more film and feel reasonably comfortable posting it somewhere, even here where they will never be seen. The photos are shot either back home or around Cardiff Bay, with the colour stuff on Kodak Gold 200, and the B+W is Fomapan 400. The photos are also pretty grimy because I scan using my phone as a backlight and a DSLR with a huge amount of free air between the film and lens, and the colour casts are all over the place because I'm bad at editing.

Silly Dog Friend

Here's Daisy, my parent's younger Sprocker Spaniel. She is photogenic, stupid and very cute. A picture of a chocolate Sprocker Spaniel, Daisy, surrounded by flowers and with an out-of-focus green field behind

Thistlish

Some thistles. A picture of some thistles against a blue background

Windswept Grass

Just some nice, windswept grass. A picture of some yellow, windswept grass, with a path and a fence on the left

Down into the Bay

Mmm, rocks and gras. A picture of a bay and some big rocks, caught between a bank of grass

Birbs

A gang of birds, just kinda chilling at the Cardiff Bay wetlands. God, what an easy life it must be. A black and white picture of some birds on a concrete plinth by some wetland

Stick in the Mud

A big metal stick thing, in drying mud, at the entrance of Cardiff Harbour. I'm not sure either what the stick is, or quite why there's a floaty white... aura around it. A black and white picture of some kind of big, metal pole with a thing on the front. It's sticking out of mud in the Bristol Channel, with an ethereal white aura around it

Enjoy.

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