A personal notebook about black and white film and travelling slowly around Finland and the Baltic Sea.
I develop the film at home in Helsinki and start some of the notes on trains. The newest are below.
Housekeeping. Old posts may show up in feed readers again.
A roll of HP5 at 1600 on the 7.30 boat to Tallinn, on a grey Saturday.
A little under thirty rolls developed at home, and what the notebook says about them.
Three hours at a rented enlarger across town. Most of the paper went on test strips.
A day trip to Stockholm on the overnight boat, and the roll of HP5 that came out of it.
Back at the same mökki for Juhannus, I opened the Canonet without rewinding first. Nine frames did not survive.
Out to the King's Gate on the early ferry, mostly in fog.
A year to the day since the first post, and late in the evening again.
The overnight train from Helsinki to Rovaniemi, and one roll of Delta 3200 that I mostly used out of the window.
A Canonet sold as broken on Tori mostly needed a battery and two evenings with a toothpick.
Hard frost in Helsinki. The Bessa's meter gave up on the way to Hakaniemi, and the camera now comes home in a freezer bag.
Lunch-break photographs with HP5 at 1600, in the darkest weeks of the year.
First evening out with the new tripod, at Kaivopuisto on Sunday.
The lab no longer scans my film. My old Olympus does it now, propped on a stack of books.
My first roll developed at home, loaded at the kitchen table in a changing bag. It came out usable.
An inventory of the film in my fridge drawer, why it lives there, and why I now buy only a few rolls at a time.
A week by bicycle around the islands south-west of Turku, mostly waiting for ferries, with a bag of Fomapan for the lab.
Midsummer at a friend's family mökki in Päijät-Häme, and trying to meter a sky that never quite got dark.
A Friday evening walk from Kaivopuisto to Hietaniemi with a roll of Fomapan 100.
A roll of HP5 started in January finally came back from the lab. Mostly grey frames, four I like, and the evenings are light again.
Why there is a website now, after years of half-full paper notebooks.