I developed some film today one from my Oktomat (never had a successful film from that camera) and another from my new Yashica that doesn't have a light meter. They both came out as well as I could have expected. I'm really pleased to be honest, especially with the Yashica. I managed to get the exposure right on the vast majority of them. Here are some of my favourites-

The final ideas for my project are coming together. It has taken a while because I was quite experimental. Whether my work looks ambitious and original or not, it has been a journey and a big step for me because I pushed myself into the realms of what I would call street photography. I was made to take photos of people during the diagnostic stage and I think my ideas lead on from there. It's important to me because I've developed in this area which I neglected for so long though fear.
So either way, Saul Leiter has been a big influence on my work during the past few months but after seeing Friedrich Seidenstücker in Berlin, I appreciated the aesthetics of black and white a lot more, shot a black and white roll of film and have started to make prints (which I hadn't done in over a year). I'm just getting the hang of getting the right exposure so my final resolved images will be black and white film prints, I think. The subject matter got a bit woolly because I was focusing on the architectural and also people in the city while trying to abstract it and it all got very messy but recently I've tried to focus on very important bits of information and telling as much of a story as I can through one frame- primarily being a voyeur into someone's life (picking out individuals in a busy city) while also showing the environment they are in. I find the best way to do this is through reflections, condensation on windows etc, and this gives the abstraction that I was always looking for after seeing Saul Leiter's work. I need to put everything I have learned into one more roll of film and make fantastic prints.

the following photos are some of my scans of my black and white prints.

Some of my self developed 35mm black and white film for my current project.

self developed 35mm film, olympus pen ee

retroCamera

I made another blog (separate from any of my others to keep it neat) just to post photos I've taken on my phone using various android apps. I find it really interesting how easy and quick it is to take a photo on a phone, especially from my point of view because I spend endless time and money on film and instant photography as well as lenses for my dSLR.

The results could be interesting. I'll update regularly.
http://android-lens.tumblr.com/

It's days like this when I realise how much I love photography. I went to visit my grandma in Bradford today and it was so foggy, I just went for a walk round the streets and up to the woods nearby to take some photos. Quite spectacular. We don't really get fog that lasts this long round here.

(all photos are unedited because i'm lazy and they are taken on ISO 800 or 1600 because it was so dark but i like the grain)

John Stezaker
‘Stezaker’s work re-examines the various relationships to the photographic image: as documentation of truth, purveyor of memory, and symbol of modern culture. In his collages, Stezaker appropriates images found in books, magazines, and postcards and uses them as ‘readymades’. Through his elegant juxtapositions, Stezaker adopts the content and contexts of the original images to convey his own witty and poignant meanings. 
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