More Xpan

At the now tender age of 31, here I upload some images that do not represent existentialist angst in any shape or form. Or maybe perhaps. Read behind the lines what you will.

Broken Scanners.

I'm tearing my imaginary hair out right now, like a phantom limb, you always feel it's there.
My Nikon 8000 that broke down a year ago is still in repairs as they cannot find a wiring diagram for that model (if any one knows where I can get a wiring diagram for a Nikon Coolscan 8000 please drop me a line). Then the less than average Epson v350 that I was using as a replacement started scanning purple lines through the images, I then borrow a Nikon 5000 from a friend, which rejects my negs. My luck with such matters is not good this past while.

Hence forth most of the images I made on my recent trip through Eastern europe are stuck in a drawer and not seeing the light of day.
I did manage to scan a few before things went pear shaped. The one above is from Brno, in the Czech Republic.

Xpan scans

Just got back from my three week holiday in Eastern Europe.

I thought I'd upload some old XPAN scans before I start developing and scanning my rolls from the trip.
It was only after seeing the neg come back from the lab did I realise the boy on top of the pillar is holding a Dove.

Killorgan County Kerry.

Please note these scans were done using a €170 scanner, hence the quality is lacking, but I've finally bit the bullet and have put my Nikon coolscan into repair.

I have many more images to sort through going back some month's, but I might as well get cracking on the negs from my travels. Will have my first images by the end of the week.

A hold Up.

Killorgan County Kerry, Ireland.
XPan in single frame mode.

Yay for Colour.

People always say to me it's great that you shoot so much black and white film, keeping it real and traditional.
But to be honest it's more of a matter of financial necessity rather than artistic preference. It costs three times as much to shoot colour film which has to be handled in a c-41 or e-6 lab as opposed to developing your own black and white which is cheap as chips.
Believe me if I had my way I would shoot more colour .


I suppose I've shot B&W for some long colour opens up a whole new world and a way of seeing, although after a time of just using colour I'll get bored and go back to the compositionally pure world of monotone.

Besides doing experiments with colour, I'll soon just work exclusivly in the panoramic or square format of the Hasselblad. I'm so over standard rectangles.

Panoramic London

Hi here are some recent photos from my trip to London in January, all images captured with a Hasselblad xpan.

I had very little time to go around to make images, I was too busy at the SWPP convention.



After about two minutes before this picture was made, at Canary Wharf in London, I was aproached by two police officers who started to demand why I'm taking pictures and where I'm from. When I said Ireland. They asked that I show them some ID, I told them I don't have any, and said I'm tourist and I didn't think there were any laws about taking photos in public. They just said you can't take photos here. Strange how the 20 people I saw with camera phones could snap away and I can't.
I continued on shooting whatever the fuck I felt like after they left.
I should mention that I had only a few hours sleep, and still half pissed from the night before.

It was my last day in London, and marred what was an otherwise nice little trip.

I have some images made with the Leica I'll see if I can dust off the negs, upload them some time.