Another old one. Not the gentleman, but the photo. Taken on my Ricoh when I first got it. Yes, within the first three films I ran through that camera. My mum and I hit the road and went to the end of the Wirral. These coastal defenses are for abatement of longshore drift, not suppression of invading forces. The River Dee was canalized, and as a result, Parkgate silted up, and became 3 miles inland, and New Brighton lost its beach.
Yes, a wordy start for my photo blog, but what can I say? Well, I can just say thank you to all my visitors, and my followers. I am surprised how quickly the page counter is going. I am surprised to have so many followers, and beyond that, how many are people who found me rather then people I went and canvassed. I take it as a compliment, even a silent follower I take it as a compliment of my abilities.
I promise I will maintain this site. I can't promise I'll find more shooting time, but I will try to scan old slides and negatives to add here.
Again thanks
Alex
4 comments:
Kewl.
It has sort of an oldey timey look.
What Ricoh was that? The standard compact with rangefinder? A friend had it, not a bad camera.
It was my first SLR, the XR-P. Nice simple controls, manual focus, no autowinder, apart from manual, aperture and shutter priorities it had 3 "program" modes, one for fastest, one for greatest depth of field, and the other for general.
I was in the habit of shooting Fuji or Boots own 200ASA c41 film back in those days, both had a bluer cast, and the "standard" kodak film of the day was browner.
Complete noob at SLRs and only had a skylight filter in those days.
Ah, I remember that one now. I'd forgotten that Ricoh made an SLR. With P modes it must have been... late eighties?
I used their little Minox-inspired pocket cam in my early days, with a drawbridge for the lens, it was very good.
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