Highland hills

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  • Highland hills

    Highland hills

    Wow, it’s been a while. Did you miss me? I sure missed you.

    Before I start  I would like to thank you for hanging out. I’m struggling at the moment to post every week due to the high volume of work and some travelling during the bank holidays here in England. I should be on track in a few weeks. Thank you.

    For those that are new to my channel. Hi. I’m Alex Tara and I post videos on how to work in different editing software, digital and sweet old fashion film photography. So please consider subscribing to my channel if you want to follow my journey into awesomeness.

    The most viewed image is… Bliss By Charles O’Rear He took the photo in January 1996 in California and Microsoft bought the rights in 2000.

    Well – during my trip to Scotland, I’ve come across a similar view. The light, the shapes – all juggled my childhood memories – booting for the first time the windows XP.  See the link for the spot where I took the photo. 

    Highlands hills
  • My first… film camera

    My first… film camera

    Well guys, I guess film photography is here to stay, at least for a little while. A few years ago I started following some film photographers on Instagram and silently judge them when using old cameras. I didn’t understand them. Why should you use an old camera, when the new ones are so cool? But things were about to change. 

    Fast forward to the present time and I’ve developed my first 35mm Kodak film. Yes, you read correctly. I’ve shot some films and the results are surprisingly good. (at least by my standards) But let me tell you what gear I’ve used:

    Film gear

    Camera: Nikon F-301
    Lens: Micro-NIKKOR 55mm f2.8 
    Film: 35mm Kodak Color Plus (Expired in 2008)

    Developing kit: 
    Chemicals: Tetenal Colortec C-41 Colour Negative Film
    Feeling: Amazing 🙂 

    As the title clearly states, this is my FIRST TIME shooting on film, developing and scanning it. I know that there is a learning curve, and you will get better with time but to be honest it’s not bad for a newbie. 

    I really love the colours, the grain, the vintage look, the imperfections and for an old camera that I didn’t service the camera and it’s amazing that I’ve got any pictures at all.

    See below some of the photos from the roll of film taken in Derby and Nottingham.

    What’s next? Well, I still have 3 rolls of Kodak Color that I will play around with. Altou is hard to find 24 frames to fill in a short amount of time. So that blog post will come later.

    Meantime, I want to try more types of film and a few film cameras. I have my eye on a PENTAX P30N film camera with a few lenses available on eBay at a very nice price. Maybe I’ll be able to bid on time (still a few hours to go).

  • A matter of Death and Life

    A matter of Death and Life

    Love, Loss and What Matters in the End.

    I highly recommend this book. It is heartbreaking as is eye-opening. A story of love with all the good the bad and the ugly. I don’t think that doing a sloppy review of this book will make it justice, so if you want to reflect on what is important in life, in the end… you will give this book a try.

    Use the link below if you want to read a few pages and if you like the book and you buy it I will receive a small commission with no extra fee for you.

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    … anxiety about nothing tries to become anxiety about something. In other words, anxiety about nothingness quickly attaches itself to a tangible, concrete object.

    Irvin D. Yalom
  • Picture of the week 26 – Waiting for you

    Picture of the week 26 – Waiting for you

    Waiting for you
    Waiting for you

    Behind the picture

    After a long walk in the city centre and Abbey, we took a coffee and sat down looking at the clouds gathering in the harbour.

    Whitby is a very nice place, with lot’s of History and sparked the imagination of Bram Stoker who came up with, hmmm you may know him by his stage name as DRACULA. 

    If you have one day to visit Whitby e highly recommend. A bright and early start will give you nice views over the harbour.

  • Piscina di Venere Sicily

    Piscina di Venere Sicily

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    A beautiful gem found just a few minutes away from the lighthouse at Capo Milazzo – Sicily. I snapped this photo in Oct. 2020 before the second wave of covid hit Sicily and close it again. I think that this is my favourite photo for 2020 (so far). It represents the struggle of 2020. The beauty that is out there, shadowed by the incoming storm but on the other hand creating a dismal mood. With all this misery surrounding us at the moment, is very hard to see the light of hope.

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