April 2018 – Photographs with Words

Digital Monochrome

I have been enjoying using a Nikon 1 V1 lately, a 7 year old digital camera, for the purpose of a retrospective review for an online magazine. I have noted […]

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Three Chillin’ Pigeons

I watched Spring come to the north. It burst open upon it like blossom on flowers. In his poem ‘The Waste Land T. S. Eliot said, ‘April is the cruellest […]

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Smile, You’re On Camera

The saying used to go, ‘You are never more than 6 feet from a rat’. It may well apply to CCTV these days.

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That Feeling

That feeling you get when you load a fresh roll film into your camera (in this case Pan F Plus 50 into a Yashica Mat 124G). That feeling you get […]

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The Results Are In – Yashica Mat 124G and Ilford SFX 200 Film

I received the scans today from my first attempt at […]

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Runners

South Pier is a quiet place to run, and to do hair arranging on the hoof too!

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I am ‘serious’ about photography, but the photographs that give me the greatest personal joy are snapshots of family. It was the Kieran Maxwell Memorial Open athletics meet on Sunday in Darlington. My daughter […]

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It May Well Be

It may have been clumsiness on my part, but some of the negatives on the last of roll of film I developed didn’t dry so well. I also messed up […]

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North Gare Breakwater Blues

North Gare forms the northern shore of the mouth of the River Tees as it enters the North Sea. Like much of coastal Teesside it is a jarring mix of […]

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South Pier Stroll

I have always liked these steps at Hartlepool’s South Pier. The pier has style. I think it is under appreciated and not as frequented as it could be. If someone […]

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Best of Both Worlds

Film or digital? The argument is moot. I love both. This evening the sun was out in Hartlepool (finally!), so I took a stroll down by one of the piers, […]

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Every Film Stock You can Buy Today – Part 1

I am sharing this from emulsive.org, as it is such […]

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Pimp My Bike

I have been scanning some more negatives for my Edge of Town project. This one caught my eye.

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Improvisation

I don’t believe for one minute I am the only person who dries their negatives in the shower. More on the quirks and improvisations necessary for film development when space […]

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Edge of Town Project

I have been photographing the coast around Hartlepool for as long as I have lived here, both using a traditional landscape photographer’s approach with a camera on a tripod during […]

Photographs with Words

Photography and writing by Christopher Pattison

Month: April 2018

Digital Monochrome

Three Chillin’ Pigeons

Smile, You’re On Camera

That Feeling

The Results Are In – Yashica Mat 124G and Ilford SFX 200 Film

Runners

Happy Snaps

It May Well Be

North Gare Breakwater Blues

South Pier Stroll

Best of Both Worlds

Every Film Stock You can Buy Today – Part 1

Pimp My Bike

Improvisation

Edge of Town Project