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Phil Walker
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Hobby BnW analogue photographer. Home film dev and #darkroom printing. #believeinfilm #filmphotography #monochrome
No digitalising setup, so mostly images posted are hand-held phone snaps of silver halide prints; often small, straight test ones.
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Autumn light, trees and shadows.
Expired 2004 bulk T Max 100 135 film.
50 mm lens.
BnW. A small gang of straight trunked trees casting straight line shadows over the lawn where they live. In the background are hedges, then trees in the distance.
November 11, 2025 at 7:51 AM
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This is another from a recent wander around a local park. Low sun, 1 hr before sunset.
Expired in 2004 T Max 100 bulk 135 film.
50 mm lens.
A BnW image of oak trees on the left with wide and spreading branches stretching to the right of frame - hanging over a well made wooden fence running away from right to centre in the frame.
November 10, 2025 at 8:02 AM
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Another view at local parkland and gardens.
From a Kentmere 100 645 neg.
A BnW autumnal view of parkland gardens. The trunk of an oak tree dominates the right of frame. Beyond is a lake with further shrubs and trees in the distance. Branches and leaves of the oak are at the top of frame.
November 9, 2025 at 9:17 AM
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I only managed 4 frames on 6 Sept with my "half frame" 645 camera for #wwhfpd25. The film then sat in camera until late Oct. I finally finished it, dev and printed 2 days ago.
Here is a 10x8.
Kentmere 100.
Very early morning at the Loopy Shrew.
A BnW image of The Loopy Shrew. A bar / cafe/ venue / hotel. There are seats and tables outside on the pavement, dark glass windows on the ground floor with doors left and right. The first floor is of brick with 5 white painted, portrait format windows.
November 8, 2025 at 8:51 AM
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One from yesterday's print session.
(I posted this 20 mins ago ... photo from my phone. When I looked on my tablet, it was awful - soft from "phone shake"! Deleted. Hopefully this is better).
Exp 2004 T Max 100.
50mm lens. Y filter.
BnW. A track for farm vehicles runs away from the camera, with a wooden fence on the left of it. There are oak trees in the field to the left, and a wooded hillside in the distance. Strong, late afternoon October sun illuminates from the left - so there are shadows from the fence and trees.
November 7, 2025 at 9:51 AM
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I think I will muddle around in my darkroom today - I have a couple of newly developed films to contact and consider.
In the meantime .... here is an oldie from my stash.
A BnW image .... from a viewpoint looking at an angle through a passageway (backlit by evening sun) onto a courtyard that is mostly in shade. Cobbled surface and brick walls dominate. In the background is another passage, with a human silhouetted.
November 6, 2025 at 10:45 AM
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I am often drawn to glass, reflections and geometry.
A BnW image of a glass clad corner of a building. There are reflections of clouds and other buildings .... as well as tables and chairs etc visible through the glass.
November 3, 2025 at 8:42 AM
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"Cafe Beste" - Germany.
A BnW image of a café interior. There a 3 circular tables with white tablecloths. A bench seat behind them, framed pictures on the wall .... and 1 lamp over each table.
November 2, 2025 at 10:11 AM
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I was recently out for a walk in a local deer park. I was not seeing any photographs .... then happened upon this tree. I think it is a horse chestnut (I was paying more attention to framing and exposure than species type).
HP5+. 50mm lens.
A BnW image of a horse chestnut (?) tree in autumn. It is old with a low crown and vast, spreading low branches, which have settled onto the ground.
October 31, 2025 at 8:10 AM
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For my photography peeps out there.
Excellent video if you have about 9 minutes

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October 29, 2025 at 9:52 PM
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Just after recent rain - wet paving works for BnW methinks.
HP5+. 35mm lens.
A BnW street scene - a courtyard type shopping area featuring wet paving, a couple of people strolling, shopfronts, and pitched roofs protecting windows.
October 30, 2025 at 7:40 AM
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More alleyways and passages. This one in Kendal.
HP5+. 35mm lens.
A BnW image of a view down a passageway to a courtyard. Wet paving, white painted small outlets / shops.
October 29, 2025 at 7:27 AM
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😱 Furchtbar

#Klimakrise
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#Melissa zerstört jetzt die westlichen Teile von #Jamaika

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Landfall bei New Hope mit einem Kerndruck von 892 hPa und Böen bis zu 295 km/h.

Eine Sonde hat etwas oberhalb der Meeresoberfläche eine Windgeschwindigkeit von 405 km/h gemessen.
Satellit Super HD, Meso1-Bild vom 28.10.2025, 18:05 Uhr - 77.8 W, 18.3 N
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October 28, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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Another image found from meandering around assorted back alleys. This is a fire escape exit from the back of a small, old theatre. Harsh, midday, mid-summer light ...... but that is what I had.
FP4+. 35 mm lens. Yellow Filter.
A BnW image of a set of metal steps, climbing up from the hillside walkway. It is against a brick built wall, set on a natural stone foundation. There are weeds and creepers under the steps and vegetation (ivy?) on the wall at the top of the frame.
October 28, 2025 at 8:23 AM
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An image from some local parkland.
FP4. 50mm lens.
BnW. A sidelit trunk of a tree on the left of frame growing out of lawned grass. The view beyond is looking downhill toward a lake between shrubbs, trees and bushes
October 27, 2025 at 7:24 AM
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I do enjoy meandering around places and finding things that catch my eye .... this passageway for instance.
HP5. 35mm lens. Yellow filter.
A view down an old, narrow passageway .... that leads to a white painted café.
October 26, 2025 at 7:59 AM
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Finishing a print session, I experimented on how to recover prints from underdeveloped negs. Here are 3 guessed 5x7's and:
The Grade 2 contact.
Top G3, f11
Mid G4, f11
Bottom G4, f16 .... all the same exposure times.
Interesting .... if I ever need this.
4 Bnw prints. There is one contact sheet at G2, then 3 prints at differing grades and apertures .... all done so I can learn.
October 25, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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I was looking / searching through some boxes of prints and came upon this 10x8 that I had forgotten about. From about 2 or 3 years ago ....
A BnW print featuring 3 different styles of relatively new concrete and glass buildings. At the base is part of the bus station showing parking bays. Top left are vertical slots on the outside of a multi storey carpark. Both of these buildings are probably 70's vintage (?). Top right, and bolted on to the other two is a more modern hotel. Premier brutalist "style".
October 23, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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Chilling in the extreme - under a new national security memorandum, ordinary American individuals can be designated as domestic terrorists - accused of being “anti-American” for normal acts of protest, or opposition to govt policies. WAKE UP, AMERICA. www.treason.io/p/must-read-...
October 22, 2025 at 11:56 AM
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I have not printed any new work for a short while .... so here is one from my stash of older prints.
A BnW of a bridge spanning a river. The bottom half features the river, flowing slowly and darkly. There are reflections of the bridge, both the lit and dark, unlit elements. There are also reflections of white, out of sight buildings, to the left of frame. At the top is the bridge; a single span curve made of steel.
October 20, 2025 at 11:09 AM
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The Bell loft at the Cathedral and Abbey Church of St Alban. Quite a long way up !
#photography #blackandwhitephotography
October 20, 2025 at 7:16 AM
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Finished. My hot take ... crikey. This is a raw, cut and thrust memoir describing a life that has mostly been a long and hard uphill drag. Why would it not be given racism, poverty, undiagnosed ADHD etc etc?
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Read in 2 x 3 hour sessions.
Recommended.
A photo of a memoir by Kristie De Garis sitting on a table next to a cup of coffee and table decorations.
October 12, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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It was a grey, dull day .... so I am in the warm and reading Drystone by @kristiedegaris.bsky.social .
I read half yesterday evening, so now I must crack on.
Fresh coffee .... let's go!
October 12, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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October 12, 2025 at 12:27 PM
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Decisions, architects of life 🖤 #shotoniphone #mobilephotography #blackandwhite
October 12, 2025 at 9:19 AM