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Panchro_Kym
@panchromatic.bsky.social
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Keeping the analogue dream alive 🎞 📷
Boorloo/Perth
Whadjuk Noongar booja 🖤💛❤️
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https://www.flickr.com/people/kym_panchromatic/
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Meine Aussprache ist besser als meine Grammatik 🇩🇪
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The shoes that you bought in Perth 🎶🛸
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panchromatic.bsky.social
I know that spooling 120 in this warm weather is a mistake, but I still persist... and need to take a break halfway through. 😄

#believeinfilm #filmphotography #filmisnotdead
A dark bag and film tank with an unrolled 120 spool and backing paper.
November 30, 2025 at 5:09 AM
panchromatic.bsky.social
Pretty lazy kinda Sunday morning here 😴🌞
A black cat hanging over the arm of a sofa. A black cat splooted out and snoozing on a green sofa.
November 30, 2025 at 12:01 AM
panchromatic.bsky.social
Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean that Black Sabbath isn't watching you. 👀🤘

Visited the Ozzy exhibition at the Birmingham Museum, too.

📷 Ricoh 500g
🎞 XP2
⚗️ AG Photo Lab

#believeinfilm #filmphotography #filmisnotdead
A mural on a wall along a street with the words Black Sabbath. In the background are tall office buildings.
November 29, 2025 at 11:45 AM
panchromatic.bsky.social
When you see this, skeet a pic from your gallery to describe your mental health
A small fry with an inflated sense of justice wanting to kill those who do wrong by humanity.
November 29, 2025 at 4:42 AM
panchromatic.bsky.social
Birmingham Christmas Market 🎄

📷 Ricoh 500g
🎞 XP2
⚗️ AG Photo Lab

#believeinfilm #filmphotography #filmisnotdead
A brightly lit Helter Skelter with a pub underneath. Stair entrance to the helter skelter behind a street lamp and a bare winter tree. A mid-century concrete and glass building lit up in the dark by a Xmas structure covered in lots of small, white lights.
November 28, 2025 at 11:53 AM
panchromatic.bsky.social
This was definitely the starting point for my inspo, but I want to show a more environmental context for them, so most of my photos are taken from across the canals and fields.
OK, here is a sneak peek of proofs.

I'll be drawing on Hilliard, Baldessari, and Parr for the treatment of the shots. 😁
Two images of a power station in the background of a peaceful looking canal. Two images of a power station on the background of nature.
November 28, 2025 at 1:18 AM
panchromatic.bsky.social
I made 2 trips to photograph Ratcliffe power station from a number of vantage points. ⚡️

99% of the photos are digital for my assignment, which I'm still working on.

These are the only two film shots from East Midlands Parkway. 🚉

📷 Ricoh 500g
🎞 XP2

#believeinfilm #filmphotography #filmisnotdead
An angular stairway intersects the image from lower right up towards the top left. In the background are glances of cooling towers of the power station behind the walkway. Concrete cooling towers loom under a sky of fluffy clouds. A street lamp peeks out between the towers
November 27, 2025 at 3:00 PM
panchromatic.bsky.social
This photo made me laugh...

Also
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A person, looking away, holding a vintage camera with a flash and pointing it back towards themselves like a selfie.
November 27, 2025 at 10:23 AM
panchromatic.bsky.social
I loved getting my very first #PostcardsFromAfar with a little note included! 📨📮
It arrived while I was away and was waiting in the kitchen when I got home. I don't believe the sender is on bsky, but thank you, DavidNovakPhoto.com. 🤗
A print of a tree and lake next to a cyanotype print sitting on either side of an envelope with a sticker of a folding bellows camera.
November 26, 2025 at 10:37 PM
panchromatic.bsky.social
Mid Century style of Birmingham 🏭

📷 Ricoh 500g
🎞 XP2
⚗️ AG Photo Lab

#believeinfilm #filmphotography #filmisnotdead
A silhouette of a square building with an external spiral staircase next to a large tree under a sky of fluffy clouds. A block of flats in a simple utilitarian style in concrete and glass. In front is a canal and long boat. A mid-century glass office building towering over three bare trees growing on the forecourt. Two tall apartment blocks called The Sentinels stand over all other buildings nearby. In between is a light pole in the foreground.
November 26, 2025 at 1:45 PM
panchromatic.bsky.social
Interesting buildings of Birmingham 🏭🌆

📷 Ricoh 500g
🎞 Ilford XP2
⚗️ AG Photo Lab

#believeinfilm #filmphotography #filmisnotdead
The brutalism of the New Street Signal Box building with an uber eats cyclist riding past in front of it. The curvy, shiny exterior of the Bullring building under a bright sky with fluffy clouds. Historic, brick building in a Victorian, industrial style with a sign "Rolling Mill" painted onto the facade. In front on the pavement is 2 overstuffed dumpster bins. The classical style facade of the Council House in Birmingham underneath a grey, cloudy sky. A Union Jack flag flutters from a tall flagpole overhead.
November 25, 2025 at 12:50 PM
panchromatic.bsky.social
Definitely not in the UK anymore, Toto. 🪃🇦🇺🏝
A cute quokka curled up for a nap. A tiny quokka joey inspecting a stick. A man wearing a blue shirt holding two boomerangs used for music. A very blue sky and blue water with coral and rock outcrops.
November 25, 2025 at 10:51 AM
panchromatic.bsky.social
Canals and locks of Birmingham 🚣‍♂️💧

📷 Ricoh 500g
🎞 Ilford XP2
⚗️ AG Photo Lab

#believeinfilm #filmphotography #filmisnotdead
Underneath a large, cavernous bridge space over a canal. An historic brick factory building on a canal with a brick chimney stack. In the foreground there are a couple of long boats on the water. A 3 level brick building sits on a bridge over the canal. A path alongside the water walks past some historic buildings. A brick bridge over a canal with a tall apartment building in the background.
November 24, 2025 at 11:14 AM
panchromatic.bsky.social
Totally harrowing but necessary for Australians to view and understand, IMO.
www.imdb.com/title/tt0252...

Then, if you're a bit depressed by the subject, you can watch a modern musical road movie! m.imdb.com/title/tt1148...
I frequently get a certain song from this film in my head. 😄
Movie poster "Rabbit Proof Fence" (2002) Movie poster "Bran Nue Dae" (2009)
November 23, 2025 at 11:04 PM
panchromatic.bsky.social
A nice day out on the Great Central Railway in Loughborough 🚂🛤

📷 Ricoh 500g
🎞 XP2
⚗️ AG Photo Lab

#believeinfilm #filmphotography #filmisnotdead
A rear train carriage is shrouded in steam. Looking down an historic train platform. On the tracks is a long set of carriages. On the platform is a man in an early 20th Century outfit. Further down the platform if a large sign declaring it to be "Platform No 1" and a man carries a small child. Looking into a train carriage and 2 small white lamps sit on tables in the window. One lampshade is slightly askew A train platform with a brick building sits in the background behind a set of 2 wooden benches and an old pram full of pots and pans. The pram has rough writing on the side that says, "Up yours Adolf!".
November 23, 2025 at 2:37 PM
panchromatic.bsky.social
When I first arrived in the UK, in 2002, the Loughborough fair was on, and I visited. 🎡🎠

Here are some photos of the fair taken 23 years later.

Loughborough Fair is in its 804th year in 2025. 🫨

📷 Ricoh 500g
🎞 Ilford XP2
⚗️ AG Photo Lab

#believeinfilm #filmphotography #filmisnotdead
A fair ride lit up in the dark swings up to nearly vertical, holding the riders upside down. Silhouetted fair attendees watch a lit up fair ride. A fair attendant stands amongst the lights and fog of a fair ride, helping folks to get on and off the ride. Silhouetted fair attendees watch on as a brightly lit carousel spins around.
November 22, 2025 at 10:21 AM
panchromatic.bsky.social
Flight delayed out of BHX... still sitting here. 😄
At least the plane has landed... good sign.
An Emirates A380 aircraft taxies along the tarmac at an airport.
November 20, 2025 at 1:27 PM
panchromatic.bsky.social
Birmingham phone snaps

#Birmingham #mobilephonephotographu
A view from inside a train car towards a bridge and trees outside whizzing past. Looking through a window to the reflection of a historic building on a mirrored building facade. A very square armchair made of plastic and fake cash bills sits abandoned next to a bright red dumpster in front of a graffitied wall. Utilitarian buildings and a green narrow boat are reflected in the still waters of the canal.
November 20, 2025 at 12:09 PM
panchromatic.bsky.social
Last night in the UK. Spent the last 36 hours in Birmingham before I fly out of BHX tomorrow.
Sent my 4 rolls of XP2 off to AG Photo Lab, and 🤞 my partner gets them back before he comes back to Aus.
#Brum
A cartoon mural image of a cat in spacesuit saying "so long humans", in a street in Birmingham.
November 19, 2025 at 8:09 PM
panchromatic.bsky.social
A very British series of images 🇬🇧🌧🌂
A wet road with cars' headlights and brakelights shining under a very grey sky. A buffet spread of yellow and beige foods such as scones, pork pies, hot chips, cakes, sandwiches, wraps, honeyed sausages and mini quiches. Folks walking along an English country lane next to a green field. A public footpath sign next to a field and a stile over a wooden fence.
November 14, 2025 at 4:35 PM
panchromatic.bsky.social
I saw more...
Another squirrel sitting on a fence post.
November 13, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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A saw a squirrel with a bushy tail. 🐿
A grey squirrel sitting in a tangled mess of a hedge.
November 13, 2025 at 10:02 AM
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Just popping down to the offie 🍻🍾

#EnglishVillage #NikonD750
A small village shop with two bulldogs tied up on the street in front.
November 12, 2025 at 5:35 PM
panchromatic.bsky.social
I found some topiary because my photography teacher said he hates it. 🏡🌳

#EnglishVillage #NikonD750
A driveway with 2 green, round trees on skinny trunks next to it leads to a red brick 3- level house. A white 2- level house sits behind an imperfectly round topiary bush with orange flowers. 2 funny shaped and small topiaries sit awkwardly in front of a barber shop in a house.
November 10, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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Village scenes 🏡🌳

#EastMidlands #EnglishVillage
A timbered house sits on a narrow road, and a more modern red brick house sits further up the street as the road winds to the left. A row of cars are parked in front of red bricked terrace houses. In the foreground is a light pole with a large red paper poppy hangs on it. Colourful bunting of prayer flags hangs on iron railings in front of a timbered house with a thatched roof. A thick green hedge grows atop a stone wall. Behind the hedge, a red brick double storey house is partially visible. On the street in front of the wall is a garden bench, a green salt bin, and a low street sign that says "Church Street".
November 9, 2025 at 1:14 PM