A few shots at Ropley Saturday 26th April at The Watercress Spring Steam Gala.
These events are always busy, so rather than avoid people in the photos, I decided embrace them rather than trying the almost impossible task of trying to exclude them, which to be honest if successful, would simply make the photos look like everyone else's, that being what 99% of trainspotting snappers want to achieve.
Looking back at my photography from 40 or so years ago, at the time I generally used to try to avoid people in photos, but with hindsight, the ones with people to me are now the most interesting. Sadly Brits have an obsession with gaudy fake coloured synthetic fibres, spandex and sports attire, but shooting black and white film at least goes some way to hiding such vulgarities.
This set was taken with a 1960s vintage Mamiya C33 twin lens reflex camera and an early 1970s Pentax Spotmatic 2 using Kentmere 400 for the 6x6cm medium format photos, and Ilford FP4 for the 35mm ones, all processed at home in 510 Pyro from Zone Imaging.
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