For a long time, I was content to just shoot with my golden combo. The Mamiya RZ67 and Portra 400. To this day, that is still ‘it’ for me, although I do tend to use Kodak Gold because let’s be honest, Portra is a bit ridiculously expensive.
I wasn’t always so uniform in the way I shoot… I went through a phase of buying cameras, trying new things constantly, using different film stocks, putting 35mm film through medium format cameras, and honestly, I’ve started to miss all that experimenting. I remember being given a panoramic 35mm camera as a wedding present. I took it on our honeymoon to Holland and shot most of the roll of film in Rotterdam and it was so interesting seeing the photos from it. I’ll have to hunt those out from my hard drive and share them again. I do still have all my negatives from these experiments, but they’re boxed up in a garage hundreds of miles away.
So, for someone who has pretty much primarily shot colour for over a decade, these grainy black and white photos from my point & shoot were a joy to view once the scans dropped into my emails (scanning is another thing I kinda miss, but I simply don’t have the room for the extra equipment in the caravan). There’s something about those Skye mountains and lochs in these photos…. they’re so barren and almost intimidating (to me, anyways) and the lack of colour and sharpness adds an extra layer of other-worldly to them.
Other things you’ll find in this roll…
Fox, on various walks, being kept hydrated and looking handsome.
Some work stuff… woven pieces hung on a croft gate to dry.
My spinning wheel on the ‘deck’, which is actually just a pallet.
Boats, long drop sheds, boat sheds and highland cows.
