Hesslewood Car Show

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Today I reaped the benefits of my film testing yesterday. Mostly. I took my instant camera to the Hesslewood Car Show and grabbed some shots. I’m pleased with the results, although I need to learn how to make adjustments for light and dark subjects. The car show was great. It was right next to the Humber Bridge Park and they had loads, and loads, and loads of interesting cars. Along with coffee, pizza, bits and bobs and birds of prey. We had a great time eating pizza and watching the birds go through their paces. I think it is an annual event, so if you are at a loose end in August 2026 and want to support a good cause (Humber Rescue) then you should head along.

More Naval Battles at Scarborough

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Coming under heavy bombardment..

A while back I wrote about the Naval Battles that they stage at Peasholm Park in Scarborough. We went back there today and I took some more pictures. Fun fact, the camera I used this time was actually older than the one I used in 2009…

The bad guys get their cumuppance

Aircraft carrier

Sending in air support

The boats have people in them steering.

If you get the chance you should go along. The battles take place every Monday, Thursday and Saturday at 3:00pm and are preceded by a musical performance. It’s great fun and you can buy ice creams. And wine. Find out more here.

More Photowalk pictures

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Analogue Wonderland must have been very busy over the last few days, processing the films from the 40 photowalks that took place last Saturday. We got the rest of our pictures back today, which is much more quickly than I expected. Pretty much all of them have come out, which is very pleasing

I’d not used Kodak Pro Image 100 before, but I’m a convert now. Very nice grain and lovely colours. And on offer at the moment..

Analogue Wonderland Big Film Photowalk

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Victoria Dock in Hull

Went on a photowalk today. Never done one before. Tremendous fun. The idea is simple enough. A bunch of folks get together and walk around taking photographs and talking photography (and life in general). To make matters more interesting (and organised) this one was set up by Analogue Wonderland who appointed walk leaders for the various walks around the country and then did a special deal for film and processing. We were walking in Hull with Rob Wharton who gave out maps, film and chat as we wandered around.

Down near the deep. If you are wondering where the water has gone, the tide is out…

The weather was kind, the sky was interesting and the photo opportunities abundant. Including, in The Land of Green Ginger, the “Smallest Window in the World”. Probably. We each had two rolls of Kodak Pro Image 100, giving 72 shots in all. My first film went back to Analogue Wonderland for developing. The second stayed in the camera for finishing off later. If you are wondering how I’ve managed to include some of the walk pictures in this post, I’m using a piece of magic called “posting from the future”.

Hull Marina looking good

Humber Street Street Art

Anyhoo, It was great. We finished off at the Minerva Pub at the water’s edge for a well deserved (we thought) drink. You can see more of my photographs here.

Fun with the Fujifilm Instax Wide Evo

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The Fuji Instax Wide Evo is an instant camera which works by printing images from an image sensor, not by working as a conventional analogue camera. To make up for this digital workflow (rather than the exciting variability of film) it provides lots of funky image processing effects that you can add to shots. There are ten lens effects, ten film effects and six processing effects you can combine in any combination. You can even adjust the intensity of some of the effects.

The pictures below were taken in Beverley Minster today using monochrome blur, warm lighting and collodium film processing. They are not the best quality (although they are OK on my desktop monitor) but I really like the way that they look.

I’m looking forward to trying some more combinations….