I picked up some new daylight black and white film development kit and chemicals last Saturday, so decided to head out Sunday and get some 4×5 sheets shot to try some taco development in the new tank.

I didn’t venture far – just down the road to the Walter Taylor Bridge that links Indooroopilly and Chelmer.

This was taken at the Chelmer end, below the bridge where some maintenance is underway on the small residence in the pylon.

This is from the Northern end, featuring the cable supporting the pylons.  The cable was originally support cable linking the two halves of the Sydney  Harbour bridge together when it was being built.  After the Sydney Harbour Bridge was completed in 1932, the cable was brought up for use in the Walter Taylor bridge, which was completed in 1936.

I hadn’t been to a Brisbane Flickr meetup in a while so I went along to one last weekend, shooting Brisbane CBD at dusk / early evening. Was good to catch up with John, Dave and the crew. I really need to procure a light meter.

Linhof Technika III
Schneidar Xenar 150mm f/4.5 @ f/4.5
Kodak Portra 160VC
~6 seconds (hand shuttered)

St. Mary Lake in Glacier National Park (U.S.)

Stuff I thought was interesting from March 31st through April 8th:

• 2 more glaciers gone from Glacier National Park – Yahoo! News – Glacier National Park has lost two more of its namesake moving icefields to climate change, which is shrinking the rivers of ice until they grind to a halt, the U.S. Geological Survey said Wednesday.
• France24 – N.Korea leader sets world fashion trend: Pyongyang – The trademark suit sported by North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il is now in fashion worldwide thanks to his greatness, Pyongyang’s official website said Wednesday.
• SETI@50: the Wow! signal | COSMOS magazine – The most famous signal in SETI history was detected on the night of 15 August 1977 at the Ohio State University Big Ear Observatory. Has anything happened since?
• Scientists discover first multicellular life that doesn’t need oxygen – The discovery of the new species, which live buried in sediment under the Mediterranean seafloor, is significant in that it marks the first observation of multicellular organisms, or metazoans, that spend their entire lifecycle under permanently anoxic conditions.
• Avatar Dances in Fern Gully’s Dune – An image depicting plot similarities between a series of “hero saves persecuted peoples” films.
• Crisis in Kyrgyzstan – The Big Picture – Boston.com – Widespread anti-government protests in Kyrgyzstan recently turned violent, with groups of opposition protesters attempting to storm some government buildings, and clashing with riot police.
• Stuart Redler
• Landscape Photography by Yorkshire Landscape Photographer Tim parkin
• Using coloured filters with black & white film

Today I picked up an Epson v500 scanner from umart, as I’m keen to get back into a bit of film photography and the Microtek sadly is just not up to par.

This is my first slide scanned through it – shot back at a Brisbane Meetup get-together at Fingal Head, back in 2008.

Shot using my Mamiya M645 1000S (procured from Cash Converters!) with a 45mm Mamiya Sekor lens, on Fujichrome Velvia 100. I believe it was shot at f/22 but I have no recollection of the exposure time.