Always Liked That Classic Ilford Look

I only shot eight photographs a year ago today. After picking up my mail, I walked around the post office and wandered along the tracks behind the downtown buildings.

To the right in this photo is the somewhat-reduced collection of buildings which once was the Mulliken grain elevator. The distant light on the tracks is likely not a train, since it has vanished in a similarly-framed shot I took a few minutes later.

I've mentioned Bibble Pro's Andrea plugin before, which has ability to mimic films and papers. In this case it's Ilford's FP4 Plus 125 film printed on their Multigrade IV FB paper. I picked up my affection for this look half my life ago, from my brother.

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In this 1909 photograph of Mulliken's Main Street, on the left toward the far end of the street, is a boxy building that appears to be just beyond the last telephone pole. I believe that edifice to be the same building as the old wreck of a structure I photographed for 366 Snaps, though the building's front has significantly changed.

I've no idea what other functions the place has served over the years, but for a time the village stored its truck in there. Nowadays it seems to be serving as a salt shed. That corrosive fill can't be doing the ancient brickwork any favors.

This one's not an Ilford look. It mimics Fomapan 100 on Kentmore Art De Luxe (so Andrea claims; I don't actually know either), a combination I'd use again to bring out the details, and generally sharpen things up.

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This photograph is an outtake from my 2012 photo-a-day project, 366 Snaps.

Number of project photos taken: 8
Title of "roll:" Along the Tracks
Other photos taken on 4/28/2012: none.