A Return to Film --- at least for a while

I have always said that I thoroughly enjoy working with digital cameras and I will continue to do so. However, film development is what I spent over forty years at in both color and black and white and I guess it just gets in your blood. The black and white image has always been my medium of choice because it is what the old masters of photography perfected, plus it is archival if it is processed properly. It is also difficult to create the look of a silver print with an inkjet printer and there is a certain romance pertaining to film that would be awkward to explain to a digital enthusiast. Film will never disappear and for old-timers like me it is fun to return, once in a while, to the glory days.

The prints that I am putting on my blog this month are all from film and were taken in the United Kingdom between 1985 and 1992. I have shot a great deal of film and develop it immediately but often file the negatives away for long periods of time.The images were all shot with medium format cameras using Kodak and Agfa film and were developed in Kodak D76 and Agfa Rodinal.

I hope there will always be enough film aficionados and purists left to keep the excitement of the  darkroom alive. I invite you to leave a comment at the bottom of my post and I also will answer any questions that you might have. Thanks for looking in.

 Bill was an elderly man that I met in the Sailor's Home Pub  on the North Sea coast. I was told that he was mean
and had no friends but I found him to be a real gentleman and a knowledgeable historian.

Bill would wait each day in his favorite spot by the beach for the pub to open.

I met this young man one evening on the pier in front of my Pier House in Broadford, Scotland 

This is a view looking to the left of my front door at Broadford on the Isle of Skye 

This is a Crofter's or Shepherd's cottage on the Isle of Skye

Dunvegan Castle at low tide on the Isle of Skye

A trail in the rugged Highlands of northern Scotland 

I stayed two nights at this hotel in  Edinburgh and was fascinated with the skylight on the stairway.

Each time I returned to the Isle of Skye I would venture to this small piece of Utopia. 

The Palace Pier at Brighton, England
I have a picture of my grandfather's sister standing on the pier fifty years before me. 

I don't remember exactly where I shot this picture but it is in central England and I was taken
by the liquor advertising that is beneath the surgery sign. 

I enjoyed watching the seniors walking briskly around the Palace Pier for exercise.