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Steven J Parkes
@stevenjparkes.bsky.social
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Amateur Photography, Amateur DIY, Amateur Railway Crank, Amateur Dad. Just like the Fat Controller.

Likes film 🎞️ and digital photography. Devoted dad, husband and son.

Lancastrian exiled in North Yorks

Here for photography (and big railway) stuff only!
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After getting digitally up to date with photos, I thought I’d review just what film I have in the fridge, and their expiry date then I can plan use of it. I thought maybe 30-40 films….cant believe I’ve so much out of date? Really must plan and use it. Tips for OOD film welcome! #believeinfilm
A complete list of 35mm and 120 format film I have in the fridge ready for use! Detailing film manufacturer, emulsion, ISO and expiry date.
December 31, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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The Year End lists are IN - were you surprised by any of their choices?

duran.io/YearEnd25
December 25, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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You could argue, not a right lot has changed….
marcdavenant.bsky.social Davenant 📸 @marcdavenant.bsky.social · Dec 19
Edith Tudor-Hart was a communist and Russian spy dedicated to the revolutionary overthrow of the British state. This photo was used in communist party leaflets, juxtaposed with photos of chimpanzees in a zoo contrasting how the country treats children as opposed to animals.
December 19, 2025 at 10:05 PM
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Personal Websites. I wonder if there is a future for them? I’ve finally re-set up from scratch my Mac, downloaded all digital images from memory cards, and installed LR. I’m digitally up to date for the first time in 6 1/2 years. I loaded my bookmarks in to chrome and started visiting them.
December 18, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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alfie.photography
Are you in or visiting the greater Tokyo area? Do you want to learn more about photography? Would you like me to help you see better & get more from your camera?

Find our more, below, about my photography lessons & courses.

Looking forward to helping you!

www.alfiegoodrich.com/photography-...
Screenshot of the header of an article on my website, about my photography lessons. Shows a fashion model posing in a street in Kuramae, Tokyo. With two ladies in furisode (traditional Coming of Age Day kimono) either side. They were just passing by. Screenshot of the header of an article on my website, about my photography lessons. Shows some of the results of the music CD design project I've done with students. And the cover of an online magazine that was done with participants of one of my workshops. Screenshot of the header of an article on my website, about my photography lessons. Shows the covers of two online magazines, from workshops done in conjunction with Hasselblad and ProFoto. All the photos were taken by attendees of the workshop. I made the magazine.
December 17, 2025 at 12:58 AM
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📷 Are you a street photographer looking to meet others?

North East Street Photography Festival are hosting a free Christmas Market photowalk in Newcastle on Sun 7 Dec, 3 to 5pm. Meet outside Socíété café. Free to all. 🎄
November 29, 2025 at 9:43 AM
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I am 4 1/2 weeks in to a 12 week recovery, before physio, of a ruptured (read sliced) Achilles on my right leg. I have finally sat down at my computer which I have not turned on for three years, programs, Operating Systems are out of date and I have a raft of SD cards which needs adding.
November 14, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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I really must invest in a 35mm film retriever to save butchering the film canister. That and one day I’m blatantly going to chop a finger off doing so.
Developing Tank, and remains of a 35mm film canister after being butchered in a changing bag in order to load the developing spool
November 13, 2025 at 10:55 AM
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So #believeinfilm peeps. I have 4 colour films needing development, and the Bellini C41 Kit which was made up about 6 months ago. How do I test if chemicals are ok to be used? I often see people cutting bits of film off and testing chemicals on that. How do I know if they are ok? #filmphotography
November 9, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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Interested in railways, photography ans japan? A fantastic look into the recent past … www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/10...
Inside Tokyo's 'phantom' stations — and the stories they tell
A sealed 1930s subway platform beneath Shimbashi Station still holds traces of what the capital looked like before the war.
www.japantimes.co.jp
October 28, 2025 at 9:40 AM
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40 years ago this week…
August 25, 2025 at 10:15 AM
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A brief walk through Edinburgh earlier. I did have my Contax G2 with me but took similar photos on my iPhone. When I get round to developing, I can see how they compare.
#edinburgh #iphoneography
A view of Victoria Street, Edinburgh. Taken from an elevated position, showing the colourful buildings and bunting in place for the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Bike outside a white painted shop, with orange window frames. The colourful buildings of Victoria Street, Edinburgh. A Moris Minor classic car sits outside the typical townhouse in Dundas Street, Edinburgh.
August 10, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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Hey there #believeinfilm snappers. Who/which lab do you use for C41 processing in the UK? I’m never getting round to doing home development and about time I called time in expired chems and just paid a lab….
August 6, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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Two weeks away from social media while on holiday in Cornwall with the family. Between building sandcastles and learning to 🏄‍♂️ surf, only film used was instax. I did get a few minutes to exercise the iPhone though and converted to ‘longexposure’ this is looking across to St Ives from Hayle #cornwall
A photo taken from Hayley beach in Cornwall looking southwest towards St Ives in the distance. The photo is converted to black and white using Adobe Lightroom and then cooled so has a blue cast to it. In the photo on the right hand side is the lifeguard’s red/yellow flag. The photo has been taken with a iPhone and set to long exposure therefore making the sea and waves milky, and the red/yellow flag blowing in the wind is also slightly blurred.
August 2, 2025 at 11:16 PM
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A photo for the new to me #BlueskyArtShow with the theme of #Sideways #Photography

Using the long exposure function of the iphone14 a blue train passes in front of the camera while a Grand Central sits in Platform 4 at York, UK.
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Using the long exposure function of the iphone14 a blue train passes in front of the camera while a Grand Central sits in Platform 4 at York, UK.
July 6, 2025 at 7:33 AM
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Interlude for lunch at the seaside. Sky drama added completely by Apple iPhone 14 camera, no tweaking whatsoever.
Contax G2 camera on a table next to a paper tray for fish and chips, containing only a battered cod. Fish and Chips by the seaside, Saltburn-by-the-Sea, Cleveland.
June 25, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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O is for Orgreave

A poem recalling the Battle of Orgreave, where blood was spilled and lives were broken, wildflowers now bloom – forgetting will turn healing into quiet erasure

By Colin Speakman

@yorkshirebylines.co.uk
O is for Orgreave
A poem recalling the Battle of Orgreave, where blood was spilled and lives were broken, wildflowers now bloom – forgetting will turn healing into quiet erasure
yorkshirebylines.co.uk
June 14, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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It’s mine! Been sat on the fence about this for a while. Listened to the Sunny16Podcast and decided to make the effort! Looking forward to receiving it 🙂
photozinecoll.bsky.social The Photozine collective @photozinecoll.bsky.social · Jun 13
There is one lonely opaque Zine sitting in our Ko-fi, who would like to make this lonely zine happy and re-home it.

It doesn't need a lot of looking after, it just needs a bit of love and occasionally looked it.

ko-fi.com/s/f2b8a862c9

#photozine
#photozines
#believeinfilm
#azineisforlife
June 14, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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The latest @photowalkme.bsky.social Photo Walk Talk episode is out. @westen30.bsky.social and I get to chat with the ever so talented @paulasmith.co.uk

shows.acast.com/photowalk-ta...
June 6, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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After listening to episode 355 of the sunny16podcast and the discussion of the luggage scanners at @manchesterairport.bsky.social being the new CT scanners. This accounts for these results 12 months ago following a trip to Verona. I had/have no idea what the new scanners looked like. #believeinfilm
Developed film with which has likely been damaged by going through a CT scanner at Manchester Airport. No images can be seen on the developed film. There are three full length film strips pictured diagonally.
April 25, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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… relaxing start to Thursday morning. Catching up with Black & White issue 283 from late 2023! Still have all the intervening ones from then until now in their wrapper. The only issue with reading them so slowly is missing exhibitions advertised in the ‘In The Frame’ section.
Sat at a table for two, A pair of glasses sit atop a magazine aligned so the title strip of a magazine (Black and White Photography) can be seen through the left hand lens. A picture of the head of a bird is the main subject on the cover page. The glasses are black rimmed with red arms. At the head of the magazine is a coffee cup, behind which is a chair at the opposite side of the table. On the wall behind hand graphic images out of focus.
April 10, 2025 at 8:03 AM
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I’m assuming they’ll be at

www.thecharlatans.net/shop

?
March 12, 2025 at 10:26 AM
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Tuesday morning after the school run, just downloaded the 65 x 24 camera app. A refreshingly simple camera app from @heliographe.bsky.social

Morning coffee, on my own, again.
A view across a square cafe table with a coffee cup on a saucer to the left and a pair of glasses on the right. Behind the glasses a salt and pepper mill sit with a small jar of sugars in paper tubes. Across the table is an empty chair. The wall is painted a cool turquoise blue, but behind the chair is a square archway in to another room painted an orange colour.
March 11, 2025 at 9:48 AM
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Just #blueskymonday , that is all.
A photograph showing the gutter line of a roof on terraced houses, two chimneys with TV aerials pointing in the same direction.
March 10, 2025 at 7:45 AM
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Time to retire this already secondhand developing tank. It’s already leaked on inversion and I’m tired of the films coming loose out of the reel. The real opens out in the film sticks together thankfully it’s awhile since that’s happened but time to get rid after a very near miss #believeinfilm
Heritage Patterson Universal developing tank Photographed on my kitchen table with its box and lid. Heritage Patterson Universal developing tank pictured on the sink in its dismantled state ready for film development.
February 2, 2025 at 4:08 PM