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Where we refuse to accept that anything since 1993 has happened! British nerd, into arts and crafts. Love books, music, writing and old things - typewriters, telephones, cameras and musical instruments, stuff like that. Unapologetic woke lefty 🇺🇦 🌈
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I took the OM1 out again yesterday to finish up its first film, but when I got to the end and rewound it, I think I never loaded it right in the first place. I’m expecting to develop a roll of blank film ☹️ Anyway it was a nice long walk on the #canal and I took a few #snapshots with #hipstamatic app

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Just been out at sunset to burn through a whole roll of film in this little beauty. I think you’re going to be seeing a lot of the #Olympus OM1 on my feed going forward! What a fantastic #camera it is.

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Another photo from a long-ago trip to #Ottawa. I love Canada 🇨🇦 and hope the long term effect of all the current bullshit is stronger and closer connections between the nations of the commonwealth, Europe, and all the other wonderful non-batshit-crazy parts of the world! #photography #canada #bridge

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These ladies popped over to say hi 👋 #blackandwhitephotography #photography #classicmono

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A couple of sights of cool stuff from a walk around my village. #hipstamatic #lomo #snapshots

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This solid-looking building is St John the Baptist in Penistone. It has a 24m tower. The town was described as “waste” in the Domesday book after having been razed by William the Conqueror in 1069 during the harrying of the north. #church #blackandwhitephotography #snapshots #photography

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Time for another transformer 🤣 #blackandwhitephotography #hipstamatic #snapshots

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Another couple of shots from Tadcaster (more in comments) #photography #lomo #hipstamatic #snapshots

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It’s been a while since I posted a painting. This is my attempt at a master copy/study of Northeaster by Winslow Homer. #acrylic on paper #painting

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Another trip up to York to see my daughter, and we stopped by in Tadcaster for lunch, site of the John Smiths brewery. #photography #lomo #snapshots #hipstamatic (More in reply)

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It’s either just a post, or it’s a cool weathered stone post with different coloured lichens on it, rounded over on one edge, with a square hole through the middle and ivy growing up the side. #canon EOS 1N #ilfordphoto Delta 400 #filmisnotdead #classicmono #lomo #blackandwhitephotography

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Here’s Malvern, in this photo it reminds me of Italy or the south of France or something. Not that it needs to be somewhere else. Being Malvern is good enough 😁 #blackandwhitephotography #photography #landscape (Another in reply…)

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Another old photo, because I have a roll in the yashica that stubbornly refuses to get to 36. This is the first photo I took where I used a tripod and took time to get everything set up right. It’s a house somewhere in Worcestershire I think. Taken in about 2005 with the #canon 350D #photography

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Here’s a photo I took on a visit to Ottawa a number of years ago #blackandwhite #photography #classicmono #ottawa

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A British railway on a summer’s day! #railway #trains #photography This is an old one, show on the humble Canon 350D (Another in reply…)

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Breakfast on Heslington Road, York #hipstamatic #lomo #photography #snapshots

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Pictures from a bus trip in York #photography #classicmono #lomo #hipstamatic #snapshots

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They say if you want to be successful, you’ve got to have a plan. Here’s my plan for the summer. #BookSky

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My happy place now has a #Hermes Ambassador in it! (Bonus points for spotting all the gorgeous old items, one or two placed in the shot just for added retro ambience 🤩) #typewriters #hipstamatic #snapshots #writing

submitted 27 days ago • 1 comment

Village view, complete with cool electricity pylon! #blackandwhitephotography #snapshots #lomo #classicmono

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We stumbled across this while I was out for a walk in the sunshine with my lovely daughter the other day. Anyone who knows me would say it’s right up my street 😜 #hipstamatic #snapshots #lomo style

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Sometimes I have to go into town, and it has its own charms, I suppose, though I am always glad when my route home takes me up into the hills! #hipstamatic #urbanphotography #snapshots

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A cute alley I walk down on my way to “sledging hill” (which is only good for sledging a few days a year, but gets to keep the name) #canon EOS 1N #ilfordphoto Delta 400 Developed in #hydrofen Scanned with the LUMIX G9 #filmisnotdead #classicmono #believeinfilm #blackandwhitephotography #snapshots

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St John Baptist in Cirencester was originally part of an Augustine monastery founded in 1117 on the site of an earlier Saxon church. In Roman times, Cirencester (then known as Corinium Dobunnorum) was the second largest town in Britain. (More in reply) #snapshots #hipstamatic #church

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A new addition to my growing collection of #Olympia #typewriters, I bought this electric Monica non-functional from eBay and I was able to get it going again with a lot of dismantling, cleaning, and shaking out broken bits of something that didn’t seem to be part of it! #snapshots #hipstamatic

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I was quite happy with how this nostalgic misty valley shot came out. #canon EOS 1N #ilfordphoto Delta 400 Developed in #hydrofen Scanned with the LUMIX G9 #filmisnotdead #classicmono #believeinfilm #blackandwhitephotography #snapshots

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