Last weekend the weather was dire here but I was determined to shoot something so it was either still life in the house or brave the wind/rain and trek up the mountain.
For a change my better half was up for a walk (she later regretted it, soaked to the skin) for out it was.
I loaded up my Nikon F100 and my Yashicamat 124G with my favorite B&W film ilford HP5 which as it was pretty dark even at mid-day I rated at iso 800 with the hope I would get some nice contrasty landscape shots.
To be fair the wind and rain was horrendous but I did manage to finish the roll in my F100 but didn’t even take the Yashicamat out of the bag.
After a bit when we had dried out I developed the roll in ID11 stock solution for 10.30 mins and scanned with my Epson v500.
As expected the negs were lovely and punchy but still held detail in the shadows which is why I really love pushing HP5 maybe not to everyone’s taste as there is plenty of grain but it’s what I like.
So here is a selection from the roll, for a change I didn’t post the whole roll as I did shoot multiple shots of certain frames so it seemed pointless .
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