Snow Day

fp4 - 125 iso - 15sec - f45

A few days ago it was snowing here in the west midlands and I'd been waiting to do a location shoot for sometime for a fashion project I'm working on at a house in a local forest (I won't disclose the details yet)

But anyway i grabbed my gear and traveled head first into this forest to find this house. After 2 hours of walking it hit me that this forest was pretty big and i had no map. As it was only a test shoot to get some good angels on the house i only packed one roll of 125 fp4 film for my Hasselblad camera and a 180m telephoto lens, which is not a landscape lens by any means which was ashame because the views at the top of some of the cliffs i was on were amazing.

fp4 - 125 iso - 1/8 - f11
(i know the borders suck a little :])

So i keep walking to find this house, atleast 3 and a half hours have passed now and i've found nothing at all so to break the monotmy i took some frames. Nothing fancy had i of known i was almost embrassingly bad at finding things i'd of packed more landscape gear but i'll know for next time.

fp4 - 125 iso - 1/2 - f16
(yup they still suck)

When your lost, cold and its getting dark you start feeling pretty scared. If your a photographer and your lost, cold and its stating to get dark and you have no lighting what so ever you start to relise you cant even take good pictures any more meaning the whole missions been a failure.

4 hours had gone now and my original plan to drop my 120 film off to dev at some shop have been totally dashed and its fookin freezing.

All i could do was walk and i eventaully came out onto some street in stupid town found out i was 2 hours away from where i wanted to be and had to walk though some gorilla industrial estate just as the local "blokes" got out of work. gutted.

Never found that house either :[