i decided on monday i would go and take My photo in the project in hemel hempstead today as the weather was going to be dry. well it was dry and beautifully sunny, such a good day for kodachrome. i got stuck in traffic on the m25 so what was supposed to be a 2hr40min trip turned into a 4hr one.
the old kodak site was huge, there seems to be loads of businesses there now, a great big park of them, i felt quite small scale wise. anyways i found the bit of the site that had the address on and took some photos. the bonus was it was quite colourful, big blue doors, red metal crates and autumn trees. it was a bit of a long job finding it as the postcode on the packet no longer exsist so it took lots of phone calls to various places.
a follow on from the last blog… the french photographer is going to re-do the images and has a friend with a spare roll of kodachrome so thats good news as i have 2rolls spare but only 1envelope. the slides from japan came yesterday and i have uploaded them too so it is all coming together at the mo.
i am scanning
had film arrive from france, netherlands, austria & norway. im having trouble deciding which images to choose. i was choosing 2from each location tho the netherlands has 5 images that are almost identical so do i just pick1? i think i’ll pick2. the french ones look to have been taken in twilight so the images are quite dark, which i can’t decide if it is a problem or not, as all of the others are in daylight or have been taken inside. the netherlands are ok but no2 are jumping out and the film from norway was blank-we think the camera is broken so ive had to send another film out to him quick and he’s having to borrow a working camera.
i went on a snapping trip to town this week my plan was to go do a series of images but i chickened out, what i was gonna do felt uncomfortable and i didnt feel i could justify it. so instead i took shots of london that had some colour going on with a bit of something else in there too. i ended up at charing cross buying a poppy of a chelsea pensioner and taking his photo, we chatted for a while and i promised to take him a print when developed. he then serenaded me with “when will i see you again….” and i left for the train blushing. a colourful afternoon all round.
