My first errand when I walked in my charity shop today was to pick up a bunch of cameras that had been donated and get them valued at the local camera shop. They were mostly old Box Brownies that use unobtainable 620 film, and so apart from a Voigtlander, were just put on sale for £5.

But I snapped up this Brownie 127 for myself, as it was identical to the one my parents bought for me when I was seven years old. They had bought it at a church jumble sale and it let the light in through a crack, spoiling all my pictures. They thought that I took good snaps and so later got me a better one. But I rejected that camera, maybe because I had fallen in love with the 127. Or maybe my hormones were kicking in early…

Photoshop:
Cropped and Resized
Converted to Grayscale
Duotoned using Pantone Warm Gray 5C



This time last year I uploaded a photo I took back in April 2004, called ’The Final Pull’
It came second in a DPChallenge competition.