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Chris Barne 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿
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Welsh living in Yorkshire

Too many cameras, not enough photos

Ask me about aerochrome

Ask @natalyasmith.bsky.social about pickled goods
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Chris Barne 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @christotheb.bsky.social · Dec 30
I took the infrared camera out into the fog and got some of my favourite #aerochrome shots I've taken so far

The combination of the otherworldly colours, the ominous fog and the beautiful Welsh forest was a match made in heaven

📍Lasgarn Forest, Abersychan

#infrared #photography #cymru #wales
A river with a small weir for trout and a lawn off the river bank. The photo is taken using colour infrared which renders the foliage in shades of pink and the water off the river a deep inky blue/black. Moss on the rocks sticking out of the river is also pink A photo of branches of a conifer tree in front of a path leading into the distance. Water drops are on the ends of the branch due to the thick fog condensing on them. There is a bank on either side of the path that is overgrown with vegetation and tree trunks at the top of the bank. The photo is taken in colour infrared in an aerochrome emulation so the vegetation is all pink
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FUN FACT if you shoot snow using flash on an Olympus Pen EE the out of focus snowflakes turn square because of the aperture shape

Yes, they did remove herobrine

#believeinfilm #halfframe #photography
@ilfordphoto.com
A diptych taken in black and white film of a snowy path on the left and a tree branch laden with snow on the right. Because of the camera used, the snowflakes that have been turned into point lights by the flash have become floating squares
November 10, 2025 at 10:36 PM
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It's pretty much a year to the day since I was in the northernmost parts of mainland Scotland.

That holiday triggered some strange migratory response in me and I've been obsessed with going further north to Shetland ever since

Probably won't lug the large format along though!
November 5, 2025 at 10:52 PM
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The British weather is certainly ready with what appears to be infinite clouds
vincentledvina.bsky.social Vincent Ledvina @vincentledvina.bsky.social · 15d
BOOM! Yet another blast from AR 4246 as it remains active on the Sun's farside. We see another big CME in coronagraph imagery, heading away from Earth. This active region will be peering over the limb in a few days and facing the Earth in about a week. Who's ready?

#heliophysics
October 30, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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I tried my best, but the light pollution over the horizon was too much

Comet Lemmon with about 8 minutes worth of exposure

#photography #space
A photo of a comet against a starry background
October 28, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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Paris, Texas meets Bradford, Yorkshire

If you shoot phoenix film without a fluorescent correction filter old tube lights will turn bright green. It's all a bit surreal.

Shot on @harmanphoto.co.uk Phoenix I

#photography #believeinfilm #harmanphoto
A large metal cabinet behind a desk in a laboratory. The fluorescent lights have washed the scene with a sickly green glow A laboratory sink and some shelving The fluorescent lights have washed the scene with a sickly green glow A dark hallway with a little office visible through windows and an open door. The fluorescent lights have washed the scene with a sickly green glow Daylight is visible above in the top left of the image and is applying some normal colour balance to the scene A collection of old office furniture and a corporate poster left in an old workshop The fluorescent lights have washed the scene with a sickly green glow
October 13, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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People would literally rather burn down the ten trees and waste a swimming pool's worth of water for an answer rather than read a fucking web page and actually learn something.

The AI companies will have a lot to answer for
October 11, 2025 at 8:14 AM
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Feels strange to have an infrared photo without a pitch black sky

📍North Lees Hall, Peak District

#infrared #photography
An old stone hall behind an old stone wall. Photo taken in infrared, so the leaves on the trees are bright white.
September 30, 2025 at 9:39 PM
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We climbed up into the clouds. These rocks are usually only around 10m above the slope below, but in this weather the drop looked like it could have been endless.

#infrared #photography #fog

📍Robin Hood Cave, Stanage Edge, Peak District
a black and white infrared photo of a couple stood at a rock edge looking out and down into the fog a black and white infrared photo of a cliff face enveloped in fog
September 29, 2025 at 7:51 PM
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Anyway, have a photography timeline cleanse.

Mostar (2025)
Hopfen am See (2025)
Skye (2023)
Cornwall (2023)

#Photography #Travel #LandscapePhotography
a small boat swirling round in the river in Mostar taken from a height. Some of the town can be seen on the right and a mosque in the background A small white, red-roofed chapel on very green grass. There's a stormy sky above and lightning is lighting up a patch of the sky over the mountains An old stone bridge with three arches crossing a shallow river. In the background there are mountains and it's very cloudy, with the last of the light being seen just above them through the clouds An inlet with cliffs that make the water look like a zigzag shape. There are two people on the left, nearest cliff watching the water, giving the scene perspective
September 24, 2025 at 12:04 PM
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Checked one off the photography bucket list: Abandoned car in a remote location ✅

📍Hathersage, Hope Valley

#photography
A photo of a green abandoned car next to a prefab shed The car is overgrown with brambles
September 20, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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Starting to accept that autumn may in fact be on the way, lads.

#Nature #Woodland #DigitalPhotography #NaturePhotography #Yorkshire
Photo of a green leaf, starting to turn brown, with sunlight shining through it. Photo of a rosehip shining in the setting sunlight. Photo of some wispy willowherb lit by the setting sun. Photo of a tree mostly in darkness, partially lit by the setting sun.
September 19, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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Phone camera + R72 filter is certainly a Look™

#infrared #photography
A black and white image of Kenilworth Castle taken through an R72 infrared pass filter on a mobile phone
September 16, 2025 at 7:59 AM
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A couple more from my roll of Kentmere 100 that I shot for #wwhfd25 #halfframe

It was fun to take the Pen EE out for the first time in a while.
I've also got a mystery roll of Kentmere 400 that I found in it to develop and I have no idea what's on that one.
Sunlight reflecting off a window onto a pavement A series of scaffolding stairs as seen from the top deck of a bus
September 9, 2025 at 6:41 AM
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Young viewers ask: how is it that I don't hold a MIC but still sound SO GOOD. I'll now reveal the SECRET: I actually DO have a mic, but I HIDE it (either on my person or just off screen, depending on the situation). Now you KNOW the COOL SECRET. But DON'T do it! DON'T COPY me, it's MY thing.
September 8, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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Pretty happy with this out of the half frame!

I usually only post as diptyches, but here I like this on its own!

#wwhfpd25 #believeinfilm #halfframe
A block of flats viewed over an overgrown building lot in a city
September 7, 2025 at 9:44 PM
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A bit late for #wwhfd but I had to figure out some special brew developer for my film since my last batch of homemade rodinal was a bit flat. AKA, borderline completely useless as in the second photo

Behold Qodinal, my 1+100 Ilford PQ and 1+50 weak rodinal mixture.

#believeinfilm #kentmere400
A developed roll of black and white film from my Olympus Pen EE with some very nice dense negatives. An extremely thin set of negatives on Rollei RPX 25
September 7, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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As a general rule, if you are walking anywhere near a building and small pieces of stone start falling off for no apparent reason (nobody is pressure washing it), then get the entire fuck away from said building. Run across the whole street idk. A hard hat would not have saved you there
September 7, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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@oldenoughtosay.com
I'm sorry to bother you like this, but sadly you are the Local Internet Building Knower and I must ask: do you have any clue or mild guesses for what could have happened here?

Apparently the front just fell off about half an hour ago. Thankfully nobody was nearby or hurt.
A former church now wedding venue made out of yellow stone in a town called Cleckheaton in West Yorkshire. The same building but with the front fell off
September 6, 2025 at 9:45 AM
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It's been a while since I've done a #DailyDoseOfDJ because I've been too busy posting film photos from my Slovenian mini-road-trip.

But being home with Deej is just as magical, and it's important that everyone sees this lovely little face.

#Cat #Cats #BlackCat #BlackCats #CatsOfBluesky #Animals
DJ the black cat, lying on his back on a bed and looking up lovingly.
September 4, 2025 at 11:14 AM
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Went out to capture the observation tower in the background, but saw an opportunity with the fisher caught in afternoon sun.

#infrared #photography #bnw #lightrays #MinimalMonday
A high contrast black and white infrared photo (475/550/850 nm filter stack) of a fisher standing along a sandy river dune lit with a narrow sunbeam from behind. The reflection off their light colored clothing vs the inky black waters below gives the impression of a two-toned image.
September 1, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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The absolute nonsense imagery that people uncritically gulp up like that one deepsea fish from Finding Nemo beggars belief

Any use of an AI image is guaranteed to get me annoyed and will also end with me blocking the user
September 2, 2025 at 10:09 PM
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RB67, Velvia RVP50
September 2, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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Your #DailyDoseOfDJ

Sometimes when he's having a sleepy cuddle on my lap, he'll stretch his paw out as if to hold me in place.

This obviously works because I then feel far too guilty to even think of getting up.

#Cat #Cats #BlackCat #BlackCats #CatsOfBluesky #Animals
DJ the black cat, lying on a red blanket on my lap and facing the camera, stretching his paw out.
July 17, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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Hmmmmmmmm mystery film from times unknown found in the Olympus Pen EE, finished off the last few shots to put a new roll in for half frame photo day.

#halfframephotoday
A finished and rewound (with the leader left OUT because I'm not a weirdo) roll of Kentmere Pan 400 retrieved from my Olympus Pen EE that only goes up to ISO 200.
September 1, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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Happy Half Frame Friday! #HFF

Some Kodak Gold shot from the Sugarloaf car park near Abergavenny in South Wales.

📷 Olympus Pen EE

#believeinfilm
A self portrait in a car wing mirror with a mountain view in the distance
August 29, 2025 at 10:10 AM