Mikeinlagardette's photos with the keyword: trees

Taken near our home, some years ago, using a Mamiya 4B rangefinder camera. This was taken on 200ASA colour negative film, and developed as a black and white negative in Diafine. The deep brown dye layer of colour films makes them difficult to scan, but the results are often interesting. Mamiya 4B, f2.8/45mm Kominar lens. Fujicolor 200 in Diafine 5+5mins @21C. Scanned @2400dpi on Epson V500

My last post of this year, taken yesterday on a quiet little road near our home. Frankly, not the best year I can remember by a long way - the continiuing insanity in Syria and Iraq, not to mention the horrors in Nice and Berlin, the Brexit nonsense and then Trump, and finally the news that Ipernity will likely fold, so I will not be sad to see this year end !! If Ipernity does go, I have more or less decided that I will not return to Flickr, I've paid a few visits there since the news about Ipernity broke, and I'm not impressed, so I think I will restart a dormant blog I have about the Kodak Tourist, and also try to use that camera a lot more in 2017. I'm not very familiar with blogging, and I don't do any of the social media stuff, but maybe I will be able to make something of it, and perhaps spend more time taking photographs !! What I will miss is all the many friends I have made on Ipernity, and the inspiration of your beautiful photos, and so I still hope Ipernity will survive somehow. Ever the optimist ! Happy New Year !! 1948 Kodak Tourist, f4.5/105mm Anaston lens, x2 yellow filter. Foma 400 in divided D23 5+5mins @21C, scanned @1200dpi on Epson V500

Almost the last days of November, and the air temperature was 19C when I took this near our house, and we still have a Castor Oil plant in flower in the garden! So much for the climate change deniers! From the first roll since I fitted a replacement bellows to the Ventura, my temporary repairs to the original had finally failed after five years. I used a bellows intended for a Kodak 66, which has a 75mm lens, so it is a little more extended on an 85mm lens, but they are otherwise identical and made from far better materials than the original Agfa, so make an ideal repair, which is quick and easy to do. 1953 Agfa Ventura 66 Deluxe. f4.5/85mm Solinar Lens, x2 Pictorial green filter. Foma Ultra100 in PC-Glycol, 8mins@21C Scanned on Epson V500 @1200dpi

A mild autumn has left many trees in leaf far later than usual, and these oaks are an example. The terrain in this part of Creuse is not suitable for large scale cereal growing - it is mainly beef farming country, so most of the fields are quite small, and many are still separated by hedgerows that are often hundreds of years old. My first efforts with PC-Glycol and medium format, - I was careless about the exposures, and the film was also over developed, but worth going on with! 1942 Voigtlander Bessa 66, f3.5/75mm Heliar lens, X2 yellow filter. Foma Ultra 100 in PC-Glycol, 10 mins@21C Scanned@1200dpi on Epson500.