Fruit

In the very rainy autumn of 2009 I tried my hand at some still-life photography in a makeshift studio set up in my garage. The monochrome shot above of a bowl of fruit is one of the better results of those efforts. I took the picture using Adox CHS 25 film in a Mamiya C330S TLR camera, and developed the film at home using Tanol. I like how this combination gave the apples and pears the appearance of a metallic sheen. Sadly, the hand-made stoneware bowl I used in this picture broke soon afterwards.

One other fruity black-and-white film photo follows below: on finding a freakish ‘conjoined’ pair of plums in a punnet from the local supermarket in late 2013, I thought I’d make a pictorial record of its existence. I used a Nikon F80 loaded with Kentmere 100 film, which I developed using XTOL.