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Phil
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Hobby film photographer in Scotland.
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Two photos from Saturday afternoon. There was a fibre at the edge of the Werra's film gate, ach well, something else to check before loading film 😀

Camera: Carl Zeiss Jena Werra (Olive)
Film: Ilford HP5+
Dev: Ilfosol 3, 1+9 6min30sec @ 20C
Scan: Plustek 8300i

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Black and white photo of two bare trees in the centre with pine trees at the sides, hills in the background. Black and white photo of a shoreline and small clumps of seaweed with pinetree covered hills in the background.
November 19, 2025 at 9:54 PM
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Just developed a roll of HP5+ that I ran through my olive Werra on Saturday
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November 18, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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Snowing quite heavily just now ❄️❄️❄️❄️☃️☃️
November 18, 2025 at 8:30 AM
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Light up

Camera: Pentax K2 + SMC 50mm f2 lens
Film: Kentmere 200

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Close up black and white photograph of Harley Davidson motorcycle headlamps.
November 17, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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.... big-man around town with the roll of Delta 3200 Professional ....

🤣

This will likely end in tears, however it's loaded and I'm doing it anyway.

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Carl Zeiss Jena Werra 1 camera with black and silver striped plastic front insert. There is a KEKS EM-01 mounted on the cold-shoe set into the later curved top plate. Also on the top plate is the simple flush fit round shutter release button. In front of the camera is a roll of 35mm Ilford Delta 3200 Professional and the threaded plastic lens cap. The lens cap has a series of thin silver stripes that nicely compliment the aforementioned front plastic insert.
November 16, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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Lol

My wallet is safe for another day

😂
November 15, 2025 at 9:07 PM
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A photo I took a few weeks ago on the bike path between Dundee and Broughty Ferry. Looking out across the River Tay.

Camera: Pentax 17
Film: Kodak Portra 400

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A photo looking through metal railings, the bottom rail has a bend, of a dinghy with an orange sail close to the shoreline. In the background, looking through the railings is Broughty Ferry Castle.
November 14, 2025 at 10:17 PM
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I started scanning my Mum and Dad's slides tonight. I wanted to share this slide my Dad had made of my Grandad around thirty years ago. He's seen standing in front of his hives, my Dad used to help him. The little dots in the image are bees flying around.

Camera: Olympus XA3

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A slide / positive photograph my Dad had made of my Grandad in his white overalls standing in front of his beehives.
November 14, 2025 at 10:11 PM
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After some tense judging by the four organisers and a tie breaker round we have winners of the inaugural World Wide Half Frame Photography Day Competition! half-frameday.com/2025/11/14/w...
WWHFPD 2025 Competition WINNERS!
After some tense judging by the four organisers and a tie breaker round we have winners of the inaugural World Wide Half Frame Photography Day Competition! People Vadim Belousov Camera Kyocera Samu…
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November 14, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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OK, conscious that it's not a great idea to post loads of photos, but I'm excited that I've managed to develop and scan photos myself, so this is enough for tonight, all taken in Blairgowrie.

Camera: Pentax P30
Film: Ilford HP5+
Chemistry: Ilfosol 3, 6min30sec @ 20C

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Newsagents shopfront with racks holding bags of kindling gardeners potting soil and pot plants Bonnet and grill of a Mercedes car.
November 13, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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Photos that I made a couple of months ago and developed myself the other day, scanned this evening. Apples were being pressed and the juice bottled in Blairgowrie.

Camera: Pentax P30
Film: Ilford HP5+
Chemistry: Ilfosol 3, 6min 30sec @ 20C

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Bottles being filled with apple juice at a desk in the Wellmeadow Blairgowrie Sliced apples being shovelled into a juice press Apples being pressed for juice A young woman collecting apple juice from a press set up in the Wellmeadow Blairgowrie
November 13, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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It's photos 🤣😁👍
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These could be all over the place yet. Used a squeejy thing to wipe them so they're probably all scratched up.

Next, figure out how to get scanner working, need to install it on laptop, if it actually goes on, then all the set up hahaha

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Close up photo of 35mm negative strip hanging up to dry Strip of 35mm negatives hanging up to dry
November 11, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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Some more autumnal photos made in Perth during the past couple of weeks.

Camera: Zeiss Ikon Ikonta 521-16
Film: Kodak Gold 200

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Photo looking up the River Tay in Perth with views of Queens Bridge and Smeatons Bridge and a church spire reflecting on the surface of the water. A photo of the heather plants, some with purple or white blooms beside a small water feature. In the background, trees are beginning to change colour. A maple tree with red leaves in the foreground, a path with wiooden balustrades and a lamp. In the background trees with leaves changing to yellow and brown. A photo taken from the walkway alongside the rail bridge over the River Tay in Perth, Queens Bridge and Smeatons Bridge can be seen, with tree leaves beginning to change colour in autumn.
November 9, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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Rebranding is a very "business" thing but we've refreshed our club logo or brand. We've produced a clean logo that is neatly transferable to an embroidered badge. Examples of the logo and what it would look like as a badge. More in comments.
November 9, 2025 at 11:04 AM
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Autumn scene from last weekend in Perth.

Camera: Mamiya C3 + 80mm f2.8 lens
Film: Kodak Gold 200

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Trees just beginning to turn to their autumn yellows and browns, in the centre a maple with orange-red leaves. In the background a little bit of blue sky and a church.
November 8, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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Finished off two films in dull flat light and NOW the sun decides to make an appearance 😂☀️ Also, three cameras I've not been using and lenses I no longer have a camera for donated to a charity shop. I have half a plan, which is dangerous.....
November 8, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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Remember remember the 8th of November, the half-frame photos you shot.

Remember remember the deadline to enter the half-frame photos you shot.

Don't be the guy on the 9th of November, crying because you forgot.

FOLKS, TODAY'S THE LAST DAY TO ENTER!!!

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a man in a mask stands next to a woman and says " tell me do you know what day it is every "
Alt: Gif from V for Vendetta. A man in a mask stands next to a woman and says "tell me, do you know what day it is Evey"
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November 8, 2025 at 6:29 AM
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Two more photos for Half Frame Friday - taken last Friday.

Camera: Pentax 17
Film: Kodak Portra 400

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Displays of flowers and small pumpkins outside a florist's shop at Haloween. A young woman with white trousers, a red jacket and a green hat opening the door into a florist shop. The florist has displays of flowers outside the shop.
November 7, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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Two photos for Half Frame Friday. One is of a cross in the town centre in Coupar Angus and the other is of a carved wheatsheaf detail at the base of the stone cross.

Camera: Pentax 17
Film: Kodak Portra 400

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A modern carved stone cross in Coupar Angus town centre. A small carved wheatsheaf at the base of a modern stone cross.
November 7, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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Received the scans from the roll I shot through my Mamiya with the repaired 80mm f2.8 lens (old 'chrome' type). Will share more later. This is one of my favourites with the train passing over the rail bridge at Moncrieffe Island, Perth. 🙂

Camera: Mamiya C3
Film: Kodak Gold 200

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Colour photo of a train passing over the rail bridge at Moncrieffe Island at the River Tay in Perth. In the foreground are out of focus fallen autumn leaves. At the top of the photo are small leaves still hanging on a branch.
November 7, 2025 at 10:32 AM
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Photos from last week, 29 October, there was a little bit of snow in Glenshee. I took the chairlift up the Cairnwell, them walked to the summit. Saw two mountain hares, their hair turning white on legs and body, they will be all white soon for the winter.

Camera: Pentax K-7
Small patch of snow on grass and rocks on the side of the Cairnwell, Glenshee, October 29 2025 Two mountain hares, one sitting watching me, the other hopping down the mountain side. Their hair colour is just changing from grey-brown to white for the winter. October 29 2025 Rocks and grass with a few stone stacks made by visitors and walkers at the top of the Cairnwell in Glenshee Scotland Another small patch of snow at the summit of the Cairnwell Glenshee Scotland. There is a light skiffing of snow on the mountaintop in the distance, October 29 2025
November 5, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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I have had no idea why I took this photo, but I did, so here it is.
Scaffold at the side of Perth Concert Hall.

Camera: Pentax K7
Scaffold leading upto the curved edge of Perth Concert Hall's roof.
November 2, 2025 at 9:08 PM
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It's Half Frame Saturday!!! 😂

Kayakers on the River Tay in Perth.

Camera: Pentax 17
Film: Kodak Gold 200

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Two kayakers next to a small island on the River Tay looking at some small rapids on the water. A kayaker tackling a small rapid on the River Tay as the other watches. Both kayakers leaving the rapids.
November 1, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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The last of my photos for Folder Week 😀

Camera: Ensign Selfix 16-20
Film: Ilford HP5+

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Black and white photo of a well weathered trunk of a tree that has fallen horizontally in between other tree trunks. A gnarly tree trunk and branch with grasses below it at the edge of a small loch. A thick gnarly tree trunk among other tree trunks and shadows on the ground.
November 1, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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I've been out of the loop for quite some time, is reading the menu aloud in restaurants/cafés now the done thing?
I'm pretty much deaf in one ear but the guy at the next table is ####ing loud. Tempted to spoil the plot and read out the selection of desserts....
November 1, 2025 at 3:38 PM