"Follow my heart to England" photobook project

Thanks for getting these negatives scanned to show us.

I’ve used Tri-X for decades and like the film. Bought a bunch of 35 36 exposure from freestyle when they discontinued their private brand Arista Premium a few years ago as it was made by Kodak.

Camera(s)?

Good looking stuff on your flickr site.

Thanks!
 
Rayt said:
I am fascinated with Britain at the moment and have been binging on crime dramas for the scenery. Hinterland has some very good shots of Wales. Midsomer Murders features lovely views of English villages. I am just concerned over the high body count! This fall I am escorting my son to Oxford. He will stay there for a year for his masters and I will roam the British Isles looking for photo ops.
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Be sure to check out the series "Vera," detective series set in Newcastle and environs (the Northeast). You may want to use the closed captioning; can come in handy.... :)
 
Bill Clark said:
Thanks for getting these negatives scanned to show us.

I’ve used Tri-X for decades and like the film. Bought a bunch of 35 36 exposure from freestyle when they discontinued their private brand Arista Premium a few years ago as it was made by Kodak.

Camera(s)?

Good looking stuff on your flickr site.

Thanks!
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Thanks Bill. I bought a lot of Arista Premium before too and ran out of them in 2014. Since then for 35mm, i have used a variety of ISO 100 BW film like Agfa 100, Kentmere 100. For 120, i luckily purchased a stack of TriX for low price in Canada.

In term of cameras for the photos, majority were made with an M6 + 35 summicron (35mm) and a Rolleiflex 3.5b/3.5f (120). Both have been in used for 8 years now.
 
Nice.

I don’t do very much PJ photography. Well, maybe a little with family.

I like it that you’re using black and white film. I find sometimes color can get in the way of telling the story.
 
nice idea. i myself sometimes come up with idea to organize my photos about hanoi in the last decade (says 2010-2019) as a collection (or a book) but so far nothing has been realized. just bunch of photos and negatives in my hdd and bookshelf.
 
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these men look traditional / typical English men, as I imagined from movie/ literature.
 
Rayt said:
About 15 years ago. He was for sure an odd duck, the worst sort of person I ever worked for. During team gatherings he would first make a toast to salute the British Empire. We don't know why and couldn't relate because he was the global head and we his team came from all corners of the world. His secretary told me is his thing to be extremely proud to be British. He did take us to Harry Ramsden. Not sure if that was his idea of love or if he hated all of us. Mushy peas indeed.

I loved Blackpool. I am from the New Jersey Shore so Blackpool was like the Riviera.
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They modelled Blackpool Pleasure Beach on Coney Island .
Never heard it likened to the Riviera though ,certainly doesn`t feel like it today :)
Bruce Davidson ,Cartier Bresson have all shot Blackpool .
Davidson called it " a honky tonk town"
 
kiemchacsu said:
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these men look traditional / typical English men, as I imagined from movie/ literature.
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By the looks of them college servants, who are about the only people remaining who wear Coke hats (aka the bowler).

In the fifties virtually everyone wore headgear, the type chosen giving a very firm stamp to your class identity. When I started work in the City of London in the late 80s I came across precisely one man who wore a bowler, and the only other ones were the top hats of the Discount brokers and the Bank of England servants, in their pink tails.

The reality of British dress is it largely resembles that of most other countries, jeans, trainers, t shirts, baseball caps etc. Little stands out as distinctively British, and those that do are best avoided.
 
I`m reminded of the old saying ….. hardly applicable these days .

"It should take you ten minutes to decide whether an Englishman is properly dressed , anything less and he`s a cad ".

I forget who said that …. probably Wilde
 
Michael Markey said:
Number 18 looks rather like Noel (Xmas) .
If that was shot in Brick lane it probably was him .
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Excellent eyes. Yes that's Noel. I met him in a RFF gathering at Chinatown for Chinese New Year parade. Still impressed with his swift movement when he took pics in the crowd with his 28mm + Nikon F2 combo.
 
kiemchacsu said:
nice idea. i myself sometimes come up with idea to organize my photos about hanoi in the last decade (says 2010-2019) as a collection (or a book) but so far nothing has been realized. just bunch of photos and negatives in my hdd and bookshelf.
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Good time now to do a bit of sorting, sequencing fun :) i have always keep a list of unsequenced photos i like to sort out one day (curated from thousands of negatives). then this set is somewhat of a more sequenced set.
 
I miss UK with all of my heart. Would switch Canada for UK in no time. My wife feels the same.
 
I spent nearly all my working life in the City after the Army and we used to say that all a broker needed was a good pair of shoes and a top hat.

Of course, the messengers who ran the tea clubs probably made more than the brokers, but that may just be jealousy...

Love the pictures by the way.

Regards, David
 
CharlesDAMorgan said:
By the looks of them college servants, who are about the only people remaining who wear Coke hats (aka the bowler).

In the fifties virtually everyone wore headgear, the type chosen giving a very firm stamp to your class identity. When I started work in the City of London in the late 80s I came across precisely one man who wore a bowler, and the only other ones were the top hats of the Discount brokers and the Bank of England servants, in their pink tails.

The reality of British dress is it largely resembles that of most other countries, jeans, trainers, t shirts, baseball caps etc. Little stands out as distinctively British, and those that do are best avoided.
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The first thought that sprung to mind was the Ministry of Silly Walks.
 
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