Pig Sty Avenue

Untitled-25 , originally uploaded by Pig Sty Avenue . I wish I could remember what film this was - some cheap stuff, probably. I like the way the sitting room's green walls have given it a kind of underwater look. I DON'T like the way I've gotten an echo of the lamp there. Next time I'll surely remember to take the filter off when I'm taking a photo with a bright light source in it. I should have learned from the Elvis at Kelvingrove fiasco .  Also, I think I lost the bottom of it in the scanning by bloody Tesco. In other news, this is likely one of the last Saltcoats pics I'll be taking for the foreseeable future, the move to Glasgow is now only two weeks hence. [Should those weeks have had a possessive apostrophe there?]. Though I do have a roll of EFKE 127 that was in the Kodak Brownie Reflex which I might dev this evening. And, anyway, I'm expecting a pre-AI 28mm Nikkor in the post perhaps tomorrow (for photos of people in rooms, so you can se...

Meanwhile, I've started again with Little Gwion . I'm only putting photos I really, really, really like there, and excluding all the family ones, unless they're objectively exceptional. And yes, we will be there by Chrismas, it seems.  December 22nd is being bounced around now.  No, really.  Or maybe earlier.  By Christmas, anyway.

I put all the cameras away last week, the shitty ones in a box, the good ones in the bag...  The manfrotto's sitting there, forlorn.  I got a roll of cheap Kodak done in Tesco the other week, which I'd taken with the Kodak Pony during a fraught, flash-wouldn't-work episode, (that's the best of the roll, below).  And I've got a roll of EFKE 127 sitting on the coffee table, to dev, and then that's it for photography in Saltcoats.   And when we get to Glasgow, I'm still on for roll four from the Old Film Project , which I'm going to use at the Necropolis,  with the F.  Just tonight I've managed to get a bargain on a 28mm f3.4 Nikkor-H, which I've got some ideas for.  The move should be early December, but I might be wanted in Shanghai around that time. Which rather rambling and futile blog post is indicative of the way things are when you've been expecting to move house for months, and then it becomes imminent, but yet still with no exact d...

Loathe as I am, of course, to recommend any commercial site, I'm giving this lot a go for digital prints online. They had more options regarding size/proportions than another site I looked at.  Not bad prices, a 12x8" and 10x8" for six quid something, with postage.  I wanted to be doing wet prints, and all that, but for now I just want to get stuff off the Cloud and onto a real life wall. Online and irl interact of course, as they are here .

There was something by Buxtehude on Late Junction just now, (with Max Rheinhardt, Tues night, about 11.30).  This is a note-to-self to find out what it was, in the morning, when I'm less "tired" etc.

This blog is of course named after Jarrow's allotments, and I've been itching to get back to earth, work and location permitting.  The last allotment I had, the third one, in West Kilbride, was fun whilst it lasted .  In fact, I remember thinking, if nothing else, I've taught myself to dig an irrigation ditch. But it was always a bit too far away, and it needed a lot of work which I couldn't give it, working away from home so much at that time.  I hope someone with a good back took it over and got all the stones out, and I like to think that whatever else happened, it's properly drained now. But with the (imminent) move to Glasgow, there are four sites within a couple of miles cycling, and I'm getting my name onto waiting lists.  I'm told that cycling and hard gardening is the best exercise at my age, and I certainly need it stuck at this feckin laptop and thinking all day. I spoke to the Old Man on the phone and he's been faithfully keeping my too...

Untitled-10 , originally uploaded by Pig Sty Avenue . This is from a roll of expired (2009) Fujicolor Pro 800z I got from Tim Connolly . Never used it before, but I'll use it again. Funny how lovely professional grade film looks after you've been using the quid-a-roll stuff from Poundland. I really like this one because that's the photo I took. I mean, I framed it with the kids at the edge of the frame, and the adult's hand, with the balloons and the table taking your eye in first, so you have to work out what's going on.  You can do this shit with an F's viewfinder. In other photographic news: I had a go with a Kodak Pony I'd bought on eBay, all the way from New Jersey, yesterday. I bought it because it would fit a Kodak flashgun I'd got, also from the States, Illinois or one of those places. One bulb went off when I was putting the batteries in. Another when I tried to take the lead off the camera. Another bulb went off in my hand when...

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