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Paula Smith
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London based freelance photographer working to capture life’s moments. Still crazy for #filmphotography and vintage cameras.

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A little print session taking my mind off the broken washing machine that's currently in bits downstairs. Thinking of making this one for sale... whatcha reckon?

#believeinfilm #printyourwork #treeweek
An inkjet print of a black and white image of a heart spray painted on a fallen dead tree.
November 28, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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Light through the trees. Hollow Pond, Leytonstone.

Bronica SQAi, Fuji Acros 100
Developed 510 Pyro 1+200 semi stand 24mins.

#believeinfilm #treeweek #eppingforest
black and white image of trees an d their long shadows backlit by bright sunlight.
November 28, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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Wishing all my American friends and family a lovely Thanksgiving Day. Couldn't find a pic of a turkey so here's a throwback to summer days at Knobels, PA. And just in time for #halfframefriday

#believeinfilm #hff
Half frame pictures of cable car ride and a fair ground ride. Blue sky and green leaf trees surround them.
November 27, 2025 at 9:33 AM
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Yes, has the silver button so from the 70s. 77 I think. 😍
November 27, 2025 at 8:51 AM
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'Cash4Cars' & Two Parking Tickets.

📷 OM Trip 35
🎞️ Kodak Vision 3 250d
⚗️ Bellini C41

#believeinfilm
Close up of the front bonnet and windscreen of a car with worn and damaged paintwork. It has two parking tickets under the left wiper and a 'cash 4 cars' flier under the right wiper.
November 27, 2025 at 8:41 AM
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Elvis is alive and well and performing in Walthamstow Friday night... (apparently) 🕺😆

YashicaMat 124g, Kodak Max 400 EI 200 (expired 2005) home developed in Bellini Euro HC 1+31.

#Believeinfilm
Black and white image of a chalkboard on an exterior wall promoting Elvis performing Friday night at a pub in Walthamstow.
November 26, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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All is not well with the Yashica Mat 124g winding. 😞 Back to that sticky shutter button again. Two rolls messed up. 😢

#filmphotography
November 25, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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Tower 42 (The Natwest Tower). From a few years ago. I so enjoy that winter light.

Canon EOS 3, Kodak Max 100 developed in Ilfotec HC 1+31.

#believeinfilm
Black and white image of close up of two city of London office buildings. All glass and steel. The sunlight is bouncing off the furthest one. Black and white image looking up from underneath Tower 42 building in the city of London. There are festive lights strung from surrounding buildings and the strong winter light is coming in from the left highlighting them.
November 25, 2025 at 10:14 AM
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Pinhole notes from the forest. Plagued with dust on this strip... gave up trying to clean it.

📷 Ondu Pinhole Multi Format in 6x6
🎞️ @ilfordphoto.com PanF+
⚗️ developed in Ilfotec HC 1+47

#believeinfilm #pinhole #eppingforest
Black and white image of a fort construction in the forest. Logs and branches piled along a fallen tree. Probably the scouts hard at work. black and white image of two young trees leaning into each other with ivy tying itself around the trunk.
November 24, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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Built in 1543. Queen Elizabeth's Hunting Lodge.

📷 Ondu Pinhole Multi Format in 6x6
🎞️ @ilfordphoto.com PanF+
⚗️ developed in Ilfotec HC 1+47.

#believeinfilm #pinhole #eppingforest
Black and white pinhole image of Queen Elizabeth's Hunting Lodge. In foreground there are two wooden life-sized deer sculptures.
November 24, 2025 at 11:40 AM
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From the Ondu Pinhole Multi Format in 6x6. With @ilfordphoto.com PanF+ developed in Ilfotec HC 1+47.

#believeinfilm #pinhole #eppingforest
A black and white image taken with a pinhole camera of a Beware Cattle sign on the edge of Epping Forest.
November 22, 2025 at 10:48 AM
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Kinda wishing my car was a DeLorean and would hit 88mph…
A car clock showing 09.03.2006
November 22, 2025 at 9:19 AM
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🙌🙌🙌🚗 It’s a pass. 🎉 And looks like my Ondu pinhole pics came out well too.
Word pass from an MOT inspection Strip of 120 black and white negative hang to dry.
November 20, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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Car is in for its MOT (annual inspection) it will be 20 years old next birthday. 😬🫣 Taking my mind of it with a bit of #pinhole in the freezing cold.

#believeinfilm
Ondu pinhole camera pointed at a metal table tennis net with basketball courts in the background.
November 20, 2025 at 11:46 AM
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I did a spot of pinhole today… I feel all the better for it. No cattle were spotted.

#believeinfilm #pinhole
An Ondu Pinhole camera pointed at a beware cattle sign.
November 18, 2025 at 10:52 PM
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I just clicked on my email link… £15 😲 Double NOPE…
November 17, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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Autumn light. From the lunchtime walk with the Yashica Mat 124G. I hope the graffiti marking doesn't indicate it's for the chop.

@ilfordphoto.com Kentmere 400 developed in Ilfotec HC 1+31 for 8mins.

#believeinfilm #kentmere400 #mediumformat
A black and white image of a tree in a forest. On its trunk it has graffiti marking of a circle with a diagonal line through it. The sun streams through the canopy in the background.
November 16, 2025 at 1:12 PM
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My next zine is in the design phase... Well the front cover is done at least. 😆 Who's interested?

#photozine #printyourwork #believeinfilm
A mock up of the cover of my next photo zine.
November 14, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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From the lunchtime walk with the Yashica Mat 124G and No. 1 closeup lens.

@ilfordphoto.com Kentmere 400 developed in Ilfotec HC 1+31 for 8mins.

#believeinfilm #kentmere400 #mediumformat
Black and white image of two bramble leaves, clinging on to its spiky branch. Black and white image of bramble leaves, clinging on to its spiky branch. The point of focus is the thorny branch.
November 14, 2025 at 10:08 AM
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#photochat

A2 - Which one??? 😂 This bag is the usual carry around. Its currently got a Yashica Mat 124G and my Sekonic light meter.
A Yashica Mat 124G in a camera bag.
November 13, 2025 at 8:48 PM
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A spot of lunchtime leaf appreciation with the Yashica Mat 124g and close up lens.

#believeinfilm #mediumformat
A 120 roll of Kentmere 400 black and white negative film hangs to dry. It shows a close up of one frame featuring autumn leaves just about hanging on.
November 13, 2025 at 12:28 PM
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🤷🏻 I’m not very good at reading the negs esp colour. I’m not sure what’s suppose to be ‘correct’. May also be my scanning I suppose. Here they are on light panel. Whatcha reckon?
November 12, 2025 at 12:17 PM
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Here's another showing 'chunks'. I can see the particles in the emulsion. I'm now racking my brains on whether this could have happened after it was hung in the bathroom. Oh well... thankfully I can sort in Lightroom. Do you rinse with water before the stab? I've been going fix then stab x 3.
November 12, 2025 at 11:06 AM
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Here's what I got from the last roll I just did. At first I'm thinking no problem I'll just wipe it off. Closer look its embedded in the emulsion side... My guess, its the pre bath that has messed with C41 (Even though I always rinse well) Or somewhere else along the way... 🤷

#believeinfilm
A scan of a 35mm frame showing marks and blotches. Most likely contamination of remjet. A scan of a 35mm frame showing marks and blotches. Most likely contamination of remjet.
November 12, 2025 at 10:42 AM
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From the steps. There be so many stories here...

📷 Holga 120n
🎞️ Kodak Gold 200
⚗️ Home developed with Bellini C41.

#believeinfilm #holga #mediumformat
Steps down to the River Thames. The tide is low and access is possible. From the banks of the River Thames at low tide. These wooden embankment panels are wearing away. Several of them are detached and will soon be floating off into the river.
November 8, 2025 at 5:50 PM