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Debra Wilson
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Film photography. Darkroom prints. Hiking.
#BelieveInFilm
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Niche, Tenerife. Darkroom print.

📸Pentax *ist
🎞️ Ilford Delta 100
⚗️Ilfosol 3
📄Ilford Multigrade RC deluxe
#FridayFavourites #BelieveInFilm #FilmPhotographers #35mm
Black and white photo of a niche in a whitewashed wall.
December 4, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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Thank you @analoguelass.bsky.social for the beautiful photo and typewriter note. Love it! 😻 My last gift from #postcardsfromafar. Thanks to everyone who took the time to send me a card and for @craftymoni.bsky.social for organising.
Black and white close up photo of a sheep peering through a gate. The diagonal angle emphasises the geometric shapes of the wooden gate
December 3, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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Thanks for all the advice on this. Rewetting with a higher concentration of wetting agent and a gentle squeegee with a gloved-finger has massively improved them#BelieveInFilm
Black and white photo of a contact sheet showing photos from a summer holiday
December 3, 2025 at 11:17 AM
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Finally found the energy to rewash my film. Gave a gentle wipe with silicone-gloved fingers. Not sure if wetting agent goes off? It’s more than a year old. 🤞 #BelieveInFilm
Photo of black and white film negatives cut into strips and hanging up to dry in a film drier.
November 29, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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To the memory...
📸Hasselblad 500C/M
🎞️Ilford FP4

#BelieveInFilm #ShootFilmBeNice
Black and white photo of a graveyard. There are graves dotted across the field - in the foreground a stone has fallen and lays titled so the inscription is hard to make out.
November 6, 2025 at 11:10 AM
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Whitby beach, mid-winter.
📸Hasselblad 500C/M
🎞️Ilford HP5
home developed
#BelieveInFilm #Photography #Darkroom
Black and white image of a beach with waves in the background and a cloudy sky. A large dark rock sits in the right hand corner, in a puddle of water that reflects the sky.
October 16, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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A quiet pint.
📸Ondu 6x9
🎞️Ilford FP4+
#BelieveInFilm #Photography #PinHole
Black and white photo of a couple sat at a pub table. The long exposure has made the figures blurred.
October 15, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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Thinking of developing myself but not got a reliable way to maintain temperature. Do I need therapy or encouragement? #BelieveInFilm
Photo of a slide film canister on a table.
October 15, 2025 at 9:28 AM
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Brown roll-rim? Found on yesterday’s Peak District ramble
Photo of a brown mushroom in grassy woodland. Shot from a low angle, the gills are visible. Photo of a brown mushroom in grassy woodland. Shot from above the cracked surface, laced with fine white lines, is visible
October 13, 2025 at 8:48 AM
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Herring girl sculpture, Whitby.
📸Hasselblad 500C/M
🎞️Ilford HP5+

#BelieveInFilm #Photography
Black and white photo of a sculpture depicting the herring girls who followed the fishing boats to prepare the fish when the catch landed.
October 9, 2025 at 10:12 AM
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Set myself a target of 15 shots per day to shoot all my film on this trip. Trying to get my photo mojo back. 5 down, but it’s only lunchtime. #CamerasAndDrinks #BelieveInFilm
Photo of Pentax 35mm film camera and glass of white wine wine at a beachfront bar.
September 27, 2025 at 11:35 AM
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Just went through security at Manchester airport. Relieved to report my film was hand checked by the nice staff. Photo fun in Tenerife is go!

#believeinfilm
September 26, 2025 at 11:21 AM
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Trig point - The Roaches, Peak District.
📸 Hasselblad 500C/M
🎞️ Ilford FP4+

#BelieveInFilm
Black and white photo of a triangulation (trig) point on a rocky sutmmint against a backdrop of a cloudy sky.
September 23, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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Flooded track, White Peak

📸Hasselblad 500C/M
🎞️IlfordFP4+

#FootpathFriday #BlackAndWhitePhotography #BelieveInFilm #FilmPhotography #Photography #PeakDistrict
Black and white photo of a rural scene. A rutted, flooded track runs from the foreground, with fields and a cloudy sky in the background.
September 19, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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The Magpie Cafe, Whitby.
📸 Hasselblad 500C/M
🎞️Ilford HP5+
#BelieveInFilm #ShootFilmBeNice #Blackandwhitephotography
Black and white photo of the outside of a cafe in early evening, with lights glowing against the whitewashed walls.
September 17, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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I found this today while sorting out a box of darkroom prints. Three Shires Head in Derbyshire - now a wild swimming haunt but deliciously quiet on the day I visited.
📸Hasselblad 500 C/M

#darkroom #photography #printing #FilmPhotography ##AnalogPhotography #BelieveInFilm #Hasselblad
Black and white photo of a waterfall and pool under an arched bridge. Stormy skies give the scene a moody feel.
September 3, 2025 at 12:13 PM
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I received these two beauties in the post this week from the monthly #postcardsfromafar photo swap. You can sign up for next month’s swap here and get art through your letterbox postcardsfromafar.org
#photography.
Two photos one above another- a black and white orchard in the snow above a Christmas scene from New Mexico.
August 30, 2025 at 8:43 AM
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Found this colloidian photography portrait studio in Clermont Ferrand. Sadly it was closed, otherwise I’d have been in there. The portraits in the window looked amazing. #believeinfilm
Photo of a portrait photo studio in clermont-ferrand.
July 26, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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East meets West pier, Whitby
📸Hasselblad 500C/M
🎞️Ilford FP4

#BelieveInFilm #FilmPhotography #BlackandWhitePhoto
A black and white photo of East and West Piers in Whitby. The piers extend from left and right towards the centre, curved walls towards the ends extend in a pincer shape. Waves ripple inside the piers and outside, white foam on breakers adds to the scene. The sky has a line of clouds low on the horizon, lit up by the sun on the left side.
June 26, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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Rainy weekend. Heading to the darkroom #believeinfilm #filmphotography #darkroom #PrintParteh
June 7, 2025 at 12:47 PM
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Whitby Abbey midwinter 2024.
📸Hasselblad 500C/M
🎞️Ilford FP4+
#BelieveInFilm #AnaloguePhotography #BlackAndWhite #Photography
Black and white photo of the ruins of Whitby Abbey. In the foreground there are rushes and grasses, at the edge of a pond that sits in from of the abbey. Photographed en on, the windows are visible, with two conical towers either side. In the distance is the coast and the sea, with some clouds lit up by sunlight.
June 4, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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Laptop has been out of action so long I can't quite remember how to to do this but here goes. A shot from last December. As Martin Parr says, it's important to celebrate the ordinary.
📸Hasselblad 500 C/M
🎞️Ilford FP4+
#BelieveInFilm #AnaloguePhotography #Photography
Black and white photo of the shop front of a fishmonger. The sign above the door reads The Whitby Catch. Windows either side of the door advertise seafood, as does the tiling beneath the windows. Above the shop is a set of first floor windows.
June 1, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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How beautiful is this Polaroid lift from @moragperkinsphoto.com ? Sent to me from the #postcardsfromafar monthly exchange. It’s great fun. You can sign up here postcardsfromafar.org

#believeinfilm
Postcard featuring a sepia coloured print of a vase with seedheads.
May 31, 2025 at 10:32 AM
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One of the results from my darkroom session this week. Shot on Dartmoor last summer.
#believeinfilm #darkroomprint #printparteh
Black and white photo of a fern nestled in a crack in a granite rock
March 30, 2025 at 9:12 AM
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Apparently it’s always beer o’clock somewhere in the world.
March 29, 2025 at 3:08 PM