Hi, everybody! I’m not dead! Fun facts!
I bailed from Xitter on April 1st 2021. Because the moment it became obvious Elon was buying Xitter, I saw what was coming and bailed out. Eventually, during the Reddit Scandal I bailed out of there too; and I haven’t been on social media since. I’ve also been pretty unwell, and I’ve barely touched a camera (despite still never being further than 2m from my M4-P).
And you know what? I miss it. I miss having something to drive me to shoot, develop and scan. I have dozens of unprocessed old rolls, and dozens more developed but never sliced and scanned. Plus, my country moved slightly (emphasis on slight, it’s still a hellhole) further away from the whole fascist dictatorship thing and I feel a little safer. So I’m getting back on the SNS bandwagon, I’m getting my camera out, and I’m doing my thing again.
Behold the #PinStreetProject – born from a prototype I did many years ago (the example shot from below is from that roll c.2016) where I went around with a roll of HP5+ in my Leica, with an Avenon 28mm f110 M-mount lens; and then developed it at 3200 from a 1/15 shutter speed.
The photos were a pretty mixed bag and many were painfully underexposed – but the concept worked, and then I never did anything more on it – which is a shame, because that Avenon Pinhole cost me about €200. So I’m going to try and do more of that, and share some of my results. Some of it may end up on here but if you want to follow along, the place to go is https://bsky.app/profile/streetem.id.
P.S. the person who nicked “streetemi” on Xitter after I left has nothing to do with me; obviously.
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