Tag: Polaroid

• Wind and Rain

  It’s been a harsh winter so far with days and days of high winds and rain battering the North of Engalnd and Scotland. Rivers have been bursting their banks and destroying bridges roads and worst of all people’s homes. Like usual I have fallen behind with my blog posts but back in November before the…

  grahamvasey

  December 30, 2015

  New Places, Polaroid

  5×4, alternative proccess, black and white, County Durham, Durham Wildlife Trust, Flood, landscape, large format, Low Barns, Low Barns Nature Reserve, North Pennines, Pennines, Polaroid, polaroid negative, Polaroid Type 665, River Wear, schneider 90mm angulon, schneider lens, Shen-Hao, Spate, winter

• The Long Haul

  If you have ever driven across the A66 motorway as it crosses over the wide expanse of fell and moorland between Bowes and Brough called Stainmore you may have noticed a black metal sign standing a short distance below the road. The sign is a replica of one which stood beside a train line that once past by…

  grahamvasey

  November 1, 2015

  New Places, Polaroid

  120, 5×4, bleak, County Durham, Foma chamois, fomapan 100, large format, monochrome, Pennines, PMK Pyro, Polaroid, polaroid negative, Polaroid Pos/Neg, Polaroid Type 665, schneider 90mm angulon, schneider lens, Shen-Hao, stainmore, Teesdale, Yorkshire Dales

• Into the Woods

  In my last post I was reminiscing about the loss of Polaroid pos/neg film, especially my favourite the Type 665 pack. Well the devil makes use for idle hands and it wasn’t long before I couldn’t just sit and dream about past triumphs and I was searching through a popular online shopping site in search of a pack of…

  grahamvasey

  October 19, 2015

  Alternative Process, New Places, Polaroid

  County Durham, Foma chamois, Hamsterley, landscape, large format, monochrome, North Pennines, Pennines, Photography, Polaroid, polaroid negative, Polaroid Type 665, schneider lens, Shen-Hao, Teesdale, Weardale

• Gone But Not Forgotten

  I took this photograph of Middle End Farm in Teesdale many years ago just after leaving college. At the time I couldn’t afford my own large format camera so I borrowed a good friends MPP, neither did I have the money to buy sheet film but luckily for me I had a small stash of…

  grahamvasey

  August 27, 2015

  Alternative Process, Places Revisited, Polaroid

  5×4, alternative proccess, Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, Arts, black and white, bleak, monochrome, Polaroid, polaroid negative, Polaroid Type 665, Polaroidneg, Teesdale, Type665