Not Film This Time! There are still plenty of us residents here, and then there are all the security and maintenance staff with whom we form a tight community at this time of the year. Nevertheless the site has a stillness about it which is tranquil and captivating. E-400 plus 50mm Zuiko D
Bonsai! This tree is a natural Bonsai. It must be very determined to have set root here! I just knew this image would look good when I made the photograph. In fact I visualised it as a monochrome image. If I really work on it I can make it as I imagined it. At the [...]
Because it was taken on a film, nice innit! Olympus OM1. Kodak Gold 400, processed and scanned in a Fuji Mini-Lab. Pretty good stuff really! No really it is. Far more depth even at an 8 bit bitmap than a 16 bit digital capture. If an OM-1 can achieve this I wonder how a half-plate [...]
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Stephen Jeremy Maxwell Bray lives with his wife Irem, and daughter Amazon at Amos, Turunc near Marmaris, Turkey... . he is currently writing a series of three books about photography for publication on Amazon Kindle. The first of these 'Photography and Psychoanalysis' was published on May 10th, 2013.
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