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Simon Williams
Apr 26, 20201 min read
My Favourite Images
Here are my favourite images from past few weeks – some digital – some paper negatives, x-ray film etc.. It’s good to take time and look...
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Simon Williams
Apr 25, 20201 min read
Glass dry plate – poured emulsion
Self portrait- These are my first attempts at pouring liquid silver gelatine emulsion (Foma from Silverprint) onto a glass plate to make...
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Simon Williams
Apr 25, 20201 min read
My new book – Old Parson’s Fruit ‘n’ Veg
Old Parson’s Fruit ‘n’ Veg is the title, Fruit-‘n’-Veg through old glass – is the content of my new Blurb book. created at the suggestion...
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Simon Williams
Apr 24, 20201 min read
Looking to the stars with an old eye
I love making star-trail images with my DSLR, but wanted to see what I could achieve with my 100 year old camera (Thornton Pickard...
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Simon Williams
Apr 23, 20201 min read
A perfect marriage?
Pleased to have successfully “married” my Dallmeyer 8″ (f2.9-11) to a, recently acquired, Thornton Pickard Imperial (Full Plate). I have...
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Simon Williams
Apr 23, 20202 min read
So busy trying new things ……
I was surprised to see my last post was over 3 months ago. But I haven’t been idle – far from it, especially now we are “locked down” at...
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Simon Williams
Dec 13, 20191 min read
Lovely images from aged Kodabrome
Tempted by the low price I have some 10-year-old Kodabrome photographic paper to try as paper negative in my large format 10×8 1900s...
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Simon Williams
Dec 1, 20191 min read
10×8 Paper negative success in Bristol
With the arrival of a sturdy period tripod (Gandolfi) I had much more success photographing in Bristol around the Cumberland Basin today....
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Simon Williams
Nov 25, 20191 min read
Light leaks overcome
From my previous post it will be clear there was a serious light leak problem with my 10×8 1909 bellows field camera. Investigations in a...
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