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No AI. Alternative photography. IR and alchemy. Prone to the bee in my bonnet.

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There's money in fascism ...

08.10.2025 06:32 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Electric kettles too... we have the volts ⚑️

08.10.2025 06:30 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Thankfully they normally fail safe....

08.10.2025 06:28 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I remember a flat in Glasgow which still had lead gas pipes to supply the gas lights.
I imagine that town gas was installed for that purpose and for the gas cooker. Some also had gas pokers to light the coal fire so gas was fed to the hearth. But it would probably be for better off houses only.

07.10.2025 14:09 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

When senior politicians lie people stop believing.

07.10.2025 09:25 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

You are right. They are nice folk who really don't have just one solution to any problem. It's not all about, ' if only... ' and building a nice career with added Kudos.

I'm old enough to remember the homes and cottages being burned in Wales.

Nuf said.

06.10.2025 16:56 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

There is nothing socialist about exceptionalism.
It's raw opportunism, populism. Call it what you will, but it's not about working together.
It offers the easy answer to all kinds of problems. A snake oil for any malaise.
No reference is ever made to consequences.
Look at Brexit for an example.

06.10.2025 14:42 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

But he got Brexit. The Welsh and the Scottish Nationalists have virtually the same arguments and much of the same grievances as Mr Fag-End.
It's about getting power for the ' elite '. It's got nothing to do with improving conditions or guaranteeing the future of the working people. Its opportunism.

06.10.2025 13:57 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Good luck. Get it over with.

I'm still waiting for over a year now for that phone call or a letter behind the door. Half hoping, half dreading.

06.10.2025 09:55 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

No dates... They don't like the idea of their masterpieces being demolished in 50 years with the date over the door.

06.10.2025 09:28 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

People with easy answers have their own agenda that usually involves self promotion.

Just like Farage. Different words but just more division.

06.10.2025 09:24 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I find it hard not to agree. We seem to be on the wrong side in this. One wonders why?

05.10.2025 21:58 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I have my name on a Linotype slug from a visit to a printers in the early seventies.

05.10.2025 15:52 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
Pardon our interruption...

This is it on Ebay. It's for leaf shutters but there is a focal plane shutter version available I believe.

Item No 156540471399

ebay.us/m/woyQkU

05.10.2025 15:45 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I bought it direct from Japan a few years ago ... I'll look out the details.

It was not dear. About Β£50.

05.10.2025 13:48 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

There surely is some suppression of inflammatory news going on.

BBC journalists are constantly looking over their backs.

05.10.2025 10:50 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Post image Post image

New camera. Fujica half frame from about 1965. f1.9 lens.
The 1/500 speed is a bit slow but it's no problem.

Looks like it's half frame Sunday...

#Halfframe

05.10.2025 10:43 β€” πŸ‘ 24    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

No xrays. No searching.
A window you can take photos out of and characters coming and going. Far more human.

05.10.2025 10:23 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Labour Party ? Just who do you represent?

05.10.2025 10:13 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Well. Aren't you lucky.

04.10.2025 21:05 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

So, who are the terrorists ?

A few head cases with some weapons or a huge, wealthy state with near infinite supplies of conventional and nuclear arms?

When this shit really kicks off its going to look like the US is the bad guy.

04.10.2025 21:01 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I remember being in it when it was the Outside Inn. c 1980

04.10.2025 20:56 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Anything you like.
Maybe check how much more you are paying at peak times?
OK Terry ?

04.10.2025 20:52 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I started taking a picture a day when I turned 30 in 2015. 3654 pictures later I loaded them all up and made a time lapse video. Nearly 2 and a half minutes of me getting fat bald and depressed. Never deleted something quicker. What a waste of time and effort.

04.10.2025 15:20 β€” πŸ‘ 575    πŸ” 21    πŸ’¬ 18    πŸ“Œ 2
Preview
The huge sums energy firms get to not provide power Could the government's radical plan to change the way the UK distributes electricity really bring down bills - or just lead to a postcode lottery?

They will be paying the wind generators thousands, maybe millions of pounds not to generate today.
Free electricity from Octopus is cheaper than paying compensation.
We paid Β£ 1 billion to the generators not to generate last year.

www.bbc.com/news/article...

04.10.2025 17:32 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Language. ' I will not tolerate ... '

The world is watching, waiting and thinking. Bullying invites future reluctance.

04.10.2025 16:13 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Two sh1ts in a bucket..

04.10.2025 05:33 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

πŸ€” You could buy Interesting cameras by mail order in Japan and get them delivered to the in-laws for collection..
The Japanese used to love their half frames..
Mind you I just picked up a beauty. Fujica half 1.9 , working. Twenty quid.

04.10.2025 05:30 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Don't forget to just enjoy it. Too much photography can distract from the appreciation. Immerse, don't just observe.

Hell of a jealous ..

03.10.2025 23:18 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I wouldn't buy a fridge off her if she worked in Curry's...

03.10.2025 14:38 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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