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Ashley
@grumpyfck.bsky.social
Owner of Plymouth Darkroom. Film Photography and printing. Vintage camera lover.
You is my bluesky opening with the notification page? What have pressed? Bit irritating.
July 15, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Doing a little light fencing at home a few days ago, lent through and popped a rib. Jeez, I forgot how damned painful they get.
May 2, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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I’ve got a few copies of my half-frame zine 18x24 that need to find new homes: www.erikgouldprojects.com/bookstore/18...
18x24 — ERIK GOULD
18x24 is a zine that collects many of the multi-frame pictures I have made from the 1990s to now, employing half-frame cameras. A half-frame camera makes an 18x24mm image on 35mm film, a size that fi...
www.erikgouldprojects.com
May 2, 2025 at 2:04 AM
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@givemeabiscuit.bsky.social and I recorded a trailer and the 1st episode of Photowalk Talk last night. The trailer is available now at the link below and on Spotify, iTunes etc. We are both new to this so we will get better. The 1st full episode will be out next week.

shows.acast.com/photowalk-talk
Photowalk Talk
The Photowalk and Photography Podcast
shows.acast.com
April 2, 2025 at 8:34 AM
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#believeinfilm
#filmphotography
#monochrome
I posted this image (the 5x7 test print) a week or two ago.
I have now enlarged it using 12x16 @ilfordphoto.com MG RC V pearl paper. A couple of subtle tweaks, plus a gentle selenium wash to lift and separate the tones.
Maybe for hanging ....
Phone snap.
March 31, 2025 at 12:49 PM
@dbloomsday.bsky.social good day sir, good to see you here.
March 31, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Chilled evening catching up on contact sheets. Had a play at the end with a negative from several years back, I fondly refer to him as the barbican cowboy.
#plymouthdarkroom
#printyourwork
#believeinfilm
March 27, 2025 at 10:45 PM
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BTS.

Its happening folks. The Photowalk Talk Podcast from @photowalkme.bsky.social created and hosted by @westen30.bsky.social

My mid-life crisis level 7 unlocked as co-host.
March 27, 2025 at 8:50 AM
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Trees in a sea of dreams

📷 Nikon F & Hasselblad 600c

#filmcollective #theartofprinting #darkroomart #doubleexp #darkroomwork #surrealart
March 26, 2025 at 5:38 PM
If you see this post, post a bridge from your gallery.

My Bridge. (s)
March 24, 2025 at 5:34 PM
This has been asked elsewhere, and there is no right for wrong answer.
I the darkroom, what is your chosen colour tray for each chemical?
I use red for developer, grey for the fixes and white for everything else.
March 15, 2025 at 2:11 PM
It was fun watching you folks interact last week.
I think we confirmed - Doris Mary Rhodes Armitage. b1901 d1979 a spinster in Ireland. I figured the on ship time next, attempt at a timeline but could be going or coming back.
#DMRArmitage
March 13, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Notes from the weekend.
I got honked more times in London in 4 days, than the last 10 years in Plymouth.
My mistakes were -

1. Not setting off within a split second of red/amber.

2. stopping on amber.

3. Allowing someone out of a junction.
March 11, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Wifely has been confused and irritated for weeks, by a round wet patch appearing on the oak worktop by the sink. Checked for everything, even leaks in the ceiling.
She caught me putting the kettle lid there while filling it. 😶
March 11, 2025 at 9:30 AM
The Jack Russell was robbed! 🤨
March 9, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Today wifely and I will mostly be exploring the Wembley area, know as killing time while the youngsters go off and have youngster fun.
March 8, 2025 at 10:39 AM
A few days in and around Greater London, the commonality of parakeets in and around everywhere is a strange sight.
March 7, 2025 at 11:07 AM
Never been a football follower. however, if I was to pick a team to get behind...
March 6, 2025 at 4:29 PM
When I was over on the other place, I tried to start a little personal thing, it quickly ended mostly because I didn't want to deal with the shit hole. I figured I might try over here, where it is friendlier.
It will be adhock and tagged #DMRArmitage
March 5, 2025 at 4:31 PM
🤢🤢🤮
March 2, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Damn it, 3 days of man flu has evolved into double manmoanier... Sniff.
February 27, 2025 at 10:21 PM
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I am closing down my darkroom to make some space for other ventures so I have a few bits listed on my eBay page. Let me know if there is anything of interest. I will list my Durst enlarger in the coming weeks. UK only.

www.ebay.co.uk/usr/jeca-5650

#believeinfilm #filmphotography #photography
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February 25, 2025 at 7:41 AM
It's a bit noisy out in the back yard.
February 9, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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Winter time on Boulder Mountain in Utah. Tmax 100. Orange filter. #believeinfilm. #panorama.
January 31, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Darkroom account at the other place now deactivated Such a shame, I made may connections there.
Still, onwards and all that.
January 26, 2025 at 9:49 AM