graysummers

About graysummers

I am a Staff Nurse with a penchant for pointing a camera at my surroundings using a Pentax LX. I call it "The Warhorse". Sounds like I am going into battle to fight with the enemy doesn't it ? Living in my surroundings, the West Wales Coastline and Countryside, is a joyful experience for someone that carries an LX and 645 in a classic/cult Billingham camera bag alongside a hot flask of espresso and some intrinsic hoped fors. I'm not into photography as a hobby in a big way at all. Just take a walk now and again with the LX alone (sometimes use a flimsy old tripod bought from a boot fair for £2 that folds down to coat pocket size too. Nice and light.) and capture a few pics of the local spots. Nursing is a busy job so it's nice to just relax, take a stroll, point the camera at something interesting and snap. Bought myself a 1972 VW Danbury Early Bay Campervan which is my excuse to park up and take photos a little further afield. Bored of my takes....???? Will become a bit more so I suppose as time rolls by. My eyes and memory are what I value most.

About the pictures on the site? A few years back I picked up some secondhand darkroom equipment from a boot fair. Very basic stuff and the local recycling shop had a batch of old dusty Kodak/Ilford papers from the 80's. So I had a go and the results you can see. I'd like to give it another go but the small cleaned up log room out the back back I used at the time has to be de-spidered [gently and with careful thought] and cleaned up. Can I be bothered?? I always was a bit bad on the technical front and need to relearn how to develop film all over again.

Black and White is pure and total atmospheric bliss and I like to see my work in this format. Don't take anything with a colour film at all.

As I mentioned earlier I use the Pentax LX with a couple of lens and the Pentax 645 with just the standard lens. They are wonderful pieces of equipment and definately, in my eyes, classic cameras. Also, I wouldn't even begin to think about changing to digital. Forget it! The mystery of the latent image is just about perfect. The Silver stuff every time.


Music, photography, art...... whatever our interests, we're lucky people to be able share our interests on this world wide level aren't we? And I for one am overawed by the talent that exists out there. Culturally it is a stunning adventure.