It’s week 34 of my Project 52 and the theme is ‘dirty’. With the highest winter rainfall for years I figured  I would shoot some muddy feet. But when dirty grey skies gave way to a beautiful rainbow I could not resist.

Next up visit the wonderful Jessica Nelson, Dayton Maryland Photographer. This week she is joining us from the beach so don’t miss her post!

It’s week 33 of my Project 52 and the theme is ‘desire’. One of my big desires for my children is that they grow up with a love of the environment. Winter weather here means sometimes we are indoors for too many hours, but luckily this weekend the we managed to get out & about & explore the local coast.

Next up visit the wonderful Jessica Nelson, Dayton Maryland Photographer.

It’s week 32 of my Project 52 and the theme is ‘little’. My 1st thoughts for this weeks theme were macro,but keen to shoot and attempt to process more film I decided to follow a different track. So I’ve gone with my ‘little’ man. I realise ‘little’ is subjective when it comes to our children, but being my youngest Cal at 5 years old is still little to me.

Kodak TMax 400, processed in Ilfosol 3

Next up visit the wonderful Jessica Nelson, Dayton Maryland Photographer.

I’t's week 31 of my Project 52 with the wonderful ladies from the Bloom forum.This weeks theme is ‘numbers’. At first I ran a blank on what to shoot, but then it came to me. Photography and numbers have been something I have combined this week in making my 1st efforts to develop black & white film. The process involves measuring specific chemicals, timing the use of these chemicals, and counting out the right number of inversions at the right time.

For my 1st efforts I used Ilford chemicals and attempted to process 2 films, both involving different measures of chemicals and different times for processing. Below is one of my efforts, check out more on my Film on Friday post here.

Kodak TMax 400, processed in Ilfosol 3

Next up visit the wonderful Jessica Nelson, Dayton Maryland Photographer.

This week I have some rushed rolls, I shot in a hurry as I finally bought chemicals and was ready to try and develop my own film. The 1st roll was a disaster, I did not load it properly. I was using a Jobo reel, which I now know the best way to load (NOT how I was doing it the the 1st try- should have followed and instructions and tried a practise load). The 2nd roll was more successful. Next try I will pay a bit more attention to what Im shooting lol.

Film 1: Disaster lol

Ilford HP5 400

Film 2, I did a slightly better job getting it on the reel:

Kodak T Max 400

Next up head to see the beautiful work of  Melinda Meredith.

I’t's week 30 of my Project 52 with the wonderful ladies from the Bloom forum.This weeks theme is ‘bumpy’ so I have included a look at some images from a recent walk where we came across some very ‘bumpy’ plants.

Nb: the spike Rory is holding he found on the ground, it is from a Grasstree, a striking slow growing native sppp.

Next up visit the wonderful Jessica Nelson, Dayton Maryland Photographer.

I’t's week 29 of my Project 52 with the wonderful ladies from the Bloom forum.This weeks theme is ‘lines’ so I have included a look at some of the different ‘lines’ we observed on our trip to the zoo this week.

Next up visit the very talented  Alison Crane, Bay Area Photographer.

I’t's week 28 of my Project 52 with the wonderful ladies from the Bloom forum.This weeks theme is ‘pure’ and on a day trip to Wilsons Promontory National Park this week I felt I had hit an ideal subject for the word ‘Pure’ when I saw this……

Next up visit the very talented  Alison Crane, Bay Area Photographer.

I’t's week 27 of my Project 52 with the wonderful ladies from the Bloom forum.This weeks theme is ‘brave’ and I decided to share a brave new mum I spotted at work this week. I also had to be brave in the process as she ran at me hissing .

Next up visit the very talented  Jennifer Bruss, South Caroline Photographer.

Its time again for ‘Film Friday’ a project that I am participating in with a wonderful group of ladies sharing their love of film. On the last Friday of every month we post the results of some film shot during the month.

Experimenting with light at home:

Now follow the blog circle around to see more, starting with the very talented Celeste Jones,  Delaware Portrait Photographer.