John F

@johnfar.com

A "Photographer" who dabbles with silver & light, regularly seen stoating about with a camera. Avid user of pinhole and panoramic cameras. I have a drone, I am not very good at it. Find me on the Lensless & lo-fi podcast.

These larger sized, 3 image frames from ikea make great homes for roughly 80cm panoramas. So glad they are now making larger ones The fit the widelux near perfectly The face on gets too many reflections from fishtank and window 😂 Side on you can see the image better #widelux #filmphotography

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Shame on the uk gov for conflating 2 things to guilt layer you into thinking it’s illegal to do street photography. This was shared on fb, I have checked the veracity and it is a legit uk gov pamphlet Street photography is not a crime. Don’t go down the whole every photographer is a pervert route

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My postings are still a bit thin on the ground, I am spending far too much time with my reef tanks and not enough time out photographing. Here we have: The rather wonderfully modern forward looking Brutalism that is the BOAC building Glasgow Gillespie, Kidd & Coia designed

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A flattened image from a 360 degree taken by my drone of the uncovered Egyptian Halls Glasgow, it's been covered by scaffolding for about 15 plus years. The flattened looks like a widelux attached to the drone. hopefully the 360 which is also here will show.

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I was out with my drone this morning. It has been a while. Soon as I put the battery in it stated it was over the class weight. This was every battery. All DJI all marked 249g Anyone else seen this with a firmware update ? DJI mini 4 pro And a gull shat on it in the air 😂 #drone #dji

Glasgow looks really empty in many of my images. It’s a combination of day time, exposure & traffic lights. Day = weekends Time = early Exposure = 30 sec + Traffic lights = I wait & see what the timing is on them and use this time to get the camera in & the shot taken @realitysosubtle.bsky.social

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Seems like I was off here for near a month. Not sure how that happened. Not been out making images, not doing much really. I have a week off next week, will see if I can get some traction going. I have 2 loaves fermenting in the fridge after I made a batch last night. So I must be moving again 😊

Is it just me or is Facebook down ? Same with messenger. I initially thought they had shadow banned me for upset maga supporting Epstein deniers but I reckon it’s not just me 😂

Been too busy setting up my nano reef that I am forgetting my photography. Ikea have recently increased the range of pano frames and are now offering a larger one. I have 3 frames currently on the wall with the smaller version with 3 b&W Thinking of these as a set #filmphotography

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Little & large in the family I need to replace the bellows in the No4 (leather already in the bag) The No1 has had a fall at some point so needs a little bit of bending into shape again behind the door. I may strip them back to wood / recover or varnish #filmphotography #panos #kodakpanoram

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After a long long break my good lady finally agreed for me to have a fish tank in the house again,last time I ended up building a purpose built shed in the garden for them. This time it’s reef tanks so not gonna start breeding them again… One of my corals through my large format loupe viewer

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My take on tonight’s election results in Scotland. Another five years dominated by constitutional obsession, grievance politics and division, with the SNP and Reform now feeding off each other in a never ending outrage machine.

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Says it all really… Weeks she was hounded for. Garbage is celebrated for getting “gifts” It would take your average worker earning £50k a year 100 years to earn that and this gets given it as a gift with no “strings” attached

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Been after one of these at a low price for a wee while now. £93 inc postage. (Buy it now) Bit of a doer upper for sure but I am cool with that. Kodak panoram no1 (orig variant) Serial no 666 😱😱😱 There is another on eBay just now sitting at £99 with 28 watching it’s likely to go north of £200

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Trying the wild farmed flour today along with my usuals. 500g WF 200g malted rye 300g eight grain To this I will add 600ml of water and about 250 ml or starter. Making it reasonably high water content but not too high. Will see how it is in a few days #sourdough #homebaking #breadmaking

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I keep three sourdough starters A San Francisco Black Death And a local one. This is the Black Death after nearly 2 months in the fridge un fed I took a tablespoon spoon from it and tossed the rest. It’s now ready to bake from. Such a great starter with a lovely flavour.

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The wideluxx has arrived. Pre orders being taken for individually hand build new film cameras. The price I suppose is where most assumed it would be. If I had the spare cash I would consider getting one. But £4.5k landed in uk is not doable just now 😂 Still some left if you want to grab one

After a couple of decades not keeping fish. I finally got the wife to agree to me having a tank. I used to have a purpose built fish house with about 80 tanks. So you can understand her reluctance 😂 I also now have a reverse osmosis filter Do any of you use RO water for developing #filmphotography

A rarity for me I didn’t have a pinhole or other camera with me when I came across this tonight. Debating with myself whether it is worth the 50 mile trip or not

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I always have found loading dough into the Dutch oven a bit of a booger… I don’t have one of those silicon things to make it easier. So stopped using it for bread for a while. Brainwave Turn it upside down load onto the top It’s a lodge one so has a flat top anyway for using on the stove top Bingo

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