Bellini C41 Colour Development Kit
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I've just developed my first two 120 colour films with the Bellini C41 kit.
Knoydart
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Today's image. From the pier, toward the village.
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Inverie, Knoydart
Data: 0.2 secs pre-exposure flash ASA 10 f/379 16 mins
LHL Update
Well we had a bit of a road trip yesterday. Out on the first boat, a visit to the Bakery for coffee and gave a lift to a like-minded fellow to Corpach.
As it was dry and pretty clear we decided to head through the Great Glen to Inverness, bits of Scotland my mum had not seen before and better to go looking at the view than spend endless hours in Fort William.
The Plot
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Down in the Dell I have started to coppice the old Ash bole. I’ve taken out the thinner (< 3”) poles so far, a new saw blade required to cut the larger poles. I am going to use the straighter sections as fence posts eventually. I’ll strip the bark, let them dry out then scorch the part that will be in the ground with a blow-torch (Shou-Sugi-Ban). The brash I have cut to kindling size and it’s stored in the wood shed to dry out.
LHL Update
Read more...Moonrise and Alpenglow, Knoydart
Camera / Lens: Pentax K5 / Sigma 10-20mm f/3.5 PP: GIMP 2.8 Exposure: 6 sec’s @ f/4.5
Aldo Leopold Bench
“There are some who can live without wild things, and some who cannot. These essays are the delights and dilemmas of one who cannot.” – Aldo Leopold
Using up some more of the re-cycled fence boards this afternoon. It’s all Larch and still in reasonable nick after 14 years…
So I made this 36” wide ‘Aldo Leopold’ bench. It’ll head out onto the hillock under the ‘BIG’ Sycamore and provide a great look-out over the loch to the mountains. And, will provide a reason for my mum to go sit, read, drink tea etc when the sun shines or the weather is suitable.
Painted with some OSMO paint that we also use on the window frames of the house.
More about Aldo Leopold here.
Tree Seeds Stratification
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Oaks sown directly into pots and in to the cold frame until Spring.
Hazel, Maple, Birch and Scots Pine are in a 50:50 mix in the bottom of the fridge for the next month; from when they will be sown into pots and into the cold frame.
The Woodshed
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The woodshed is now completely full – approx 1⁄2 to 2⁄3 full in these images.
Apart from a random piece of Sycamore all the wood is Larch. Sourced from three 20 – 30m trees that were felled, end of August, on the plot
I also have another woodstore along the north side of the house wall, around 1m x.75m x 5m completely full.
Down in the copse there is still approx 4m3+/– more sawn rounds to yet split. With some Ash and Sycamore that I will fell this winter the Long House should have enough split firewood to last a minimum of 4 – 6 winters.
LHL Update
Endless rain these last few days…
The wind has died for now, but according to the forecast will pick up again after tomorrow and be ever present through the weekend to come.
Looking out of the window at the trees slowly turning yellow and russet, the leaves clinging on barely in the storms…
Ground is absolutely saturated, the bare-root apples arriving at some point in the next couple of weeks – so hopefully we might have a bit of an Indian Summer to enable getting them in their positions without drowning.
I have 5 shots remaining on a roll of Kodak Ektar in the Mamiya C220. Hoping to get out and use these on some of the leaf colour. I’m behind with scanning though, still have the scanned France images to process and yet to start those from the five rolls of already developed Canada images (6 more rolls from Canada yet to develop in colour and three in B&W.)
Managed to get in around ten 100l sack loads of seaweed for the veg and fruit bush beds. The veg beds mulched to about 30cm deep and then covered with a weed suppresent material weighed down with rocks for the winter – worms should be having a field day under there..! Also mulched directly the Blueberries and Blackcurrants. The Blackcurrants will be mulched again in the spring, but need to be careful in not raising the pH too much for the Blueberries – they like it acidic.