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My Favourite Images
Here are my favourite images from past few weeks – some digital – some paper negatives, x-ray film etc.. It’s good to take time and look...
Simon Williams
Apr 26, 20201 min read


Glass dry plate – poured emulsion
Self portrait- These are my first attempts at pouring liquid silver gelatine emulsion (Foma from Silverprint) onto a glass plate to make...
Simon Williams
Apr 25, 20201 min read


My new book – Old Parson’s Fruit ‘n’ Veg
Old Parson’s Fruit ‘n’ Veg is the title, Fruit-‘n’-Veg through old glass – is the content of my new Blurb book. created at the suggestion...
Simon Williams
Apr 25, 20201 min read


Looking to the stars with an old eye
I love making star-trail images with my DSLR, but wanted to see what I could achieve with my 100 year old camera (Thornton Pickard...
Simon Williams
Apr 24, 20201 min read


A perfect marriage?
Pleased to have successfully “married” my Dallmeyer 8″ (f2.9-11) to a, recently acquired, Thornton Pickard Imperial (Full Plate). I have...
Simon Williams
Apr 23, 20201 min read


So busy trying new things ……
I was surprised to see my last post was over 3 months ago. But I haven’t been idle – far from it, especially now we are “locked down” at...
Simon Williams
Apr 23, 20202 min read


Lovely images from aged Kodabrome
Tempted by the low price I have some 10-year-old Kodabrome photographic paper to try as paper negative in my large format 10×8 1900s...
Simon Williams
Dec 13, 20191 min read


10×8 Paper negative success in Bristol
With the arrival of a sturdy period tripod (Gandolfi) I had much more success photographing in Bristol around the Cumberland Basin today....
Simon Williams
Dec 1, 20191 min read


Light leaks overcome
From my previous post it will be clear there was a serious light leak problem with my 10×8 1909 bellows field camera. Investigations in a...
Simon Williams
Nov 25, 20191 min read
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