London through a Kodak 620 Junior

On our recent trip to London I dragged 3 cameras around with me. The one that got the most attention was my dad's old folding Kodak 620 Junior, which I am now able to use after learning how to re-spool new 120 film onto old 620 spools.

Here are the shots that I delevoped in the darkroom yesterday. I love the vintage look to these, dust specks and all (no photoshopping needed here!) and how the overexposed edges (due to light leaks??) merge the image into its background.

Covent Garden
View over Thames to Big Ben and Westminster Bridge


London eye Marble Arch, Oxford St
British Museum, covered courtyard
My house!

A seed of an idea....

Mmmmm. I have the idea for a little project involving vintage fabrics. We'll see how that develops.

I still have to get my camera fixed. It's actually the flash unit that's bust, and as I rarely shoot with flash, the camera is still usuable - although I'm ashamed to be seen in public as it's cracked with wires sticking out in all directions! So I have been getting on with editing some on the many hundreds of pictures I have already taken.

Here's one which was taken on a frosty misty morning in January in Stoke, my hometown while on a visit over Christmas. It's a homage to Stoke's industrial past, showing the top of one of Stoke's hundreds of disused bottle ovens (where pottery was fired). I had set off with my trusty camera and was wrapped up to the nines in woolly items, telling my mother I would be gone an hour. Arrived back after about three hours, with my mother on the verge of ringing the police ("this is not Sweden you know Dawn!"). Sorry Mum. I tend to lose track of time and space when I'm out snapping.