Frugal Film Project 2024 - August - 120 medium format

 For my August roll of Ilford HP5+ 400 shot with Baldy the Baldax, I went for an informal approach. I loaded the film and took the camera out with me on two separate days, I was shooting some colour film and hoping to catch the farmer harvesting this years wheat crop. Sadly I missed it again as on the first day I was too early and the second I was too late, the crop had been harvested. I picked the wrong day to go for a photo walk before Storm Lillian hit the UK. Wigan got it's share of wind and rain for a few days as the back end of Hurricane Ernesto also swept to the north of the UK and soaked us.

It's not often we get named storms in August, but as we live near the northern extent of the Gulf Stream/North Atlantic current, we can get them at any time of the year. North Atlantic storms often batter the British Isles and Scandinavia, having named ones is still relatively new here and it's the first time we have had one so far up the alphabet.

Enough moaning and groaning and waffling about the weather, I'm British and we are masters at it. My two walks in the local countryside did try to elevate my spirits and I got my roll finished on my second walk when I visited the Horses in their pasture. I enjoy having a chat with them, but I'm not so sure they enjoy my company as much as I enjoy theirs. You can tell a lot about an animal by seeing which way their ears are pointing. One wasn't feeling too happy so I left them in peace and headed home.

I would have developed my film a day or two later, but I got hit by a hefty dose of poor mental health that put all my plans on the beck burner until it passed. It's one of the banes of my mental health troubles over the years and I can often get through it, but sometimes you just have to take the hit. I still managed to shoot my August roll of Ilford HP5, despite taking two attempts, and that's all that matters.

When I did eventually develop my August roll of Ilford HP5+ 400, I dunked it in Kodak HC110 dilution B for 5 minutes at 20 celcius and soon had it hanging to dry in my bathroom. Once dry I digitised it with my Nikon D700, Tamron Adaptall 2 90mm f/2.5 macro lens, Valoi film holder, Pixl-Latr and led light pad. I processed the RAW files with Affinity Photo 2.

Here's a few favourites from my August roll of Ilford HP4+400 shot with dear old Baldy the Baldax. I'm still getting light leaks, but there are one or two that turnd out rather nicely. As always I have placed them and more in my Frugal Film Project 2024 120 medium format album on Flickr that you can visit using the link below. I hope you enjoy them.

Frugal Film Project 2024 - 120