Nettar Portfolio

Ploughing match, Wilbraham, Cambridgeshire

They say it's okay providing one element of the picture is sharp. That would be the harness between the horses, I guess!

Stepped in, took photo, stepped out again. Horses apparently unperturbed. They sure weren't gonna stop for me!

King's College Chapel, Cambridge ~ the Adoration of the Magi

(a 2 second exposure with the camera placed on the end of the choir stall)

Protective lighting gave the original Ektachrome this red hue.

Now, 30 years later, I have Photoshop and do something about it!

Close ups are possible with a 1/2 dioptre lens ~ commonly available when these cameras were new:

Outdoor Pursuits:

Easter 1968 ~ BMC guide Colin Firth and party on Great Gable. Wasdale below.

actual full-frame 35mm Ektachrome ~ I used 35mm film in the camera using a home-made conversion kit

Paddling the river between Thetford and Brandon, Norfolk.

Hard work through the lillies, but they held the boat still for me to take pictures.

They're trying to hold their position in the water while they wait for the photographer.

This crop is 1/3rd neg width. Viewed on a 17" monitor this is equivalent to a 35" wide print of the whole negative.

A bad start to a day's sailing ~ no wind!

I just wish that Robin, the instructor, had made his crew goose-wing the jib as he ought to have done.

Enlarged big enough to see the grain (a 70" print!) ......

...... I now see the unmistakable profile of my friend Peter Land on the right.

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