Comments | hirez: In co-operation with the Lundy Island Tourist Board

hirez

In co-operation with the Lundy Island Tourist Board

Jan 20, 2007 19:12

Holiday snaps.

(Will shag your browser and hoover all your bandwidth. Worth it if you like islands, mind. Splendid place to visit, too.)

tartan thermos, complete waste of time, lomo

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eljaydaly January 20 2007, 19:45:00 UTC

Those are very cool.

hirez January 20 2007, 19:51:21 UTC

Ta.

(It was really very hot that day.)

sarah_mum January 20 2007, 22:25:22 UTC

It's quite 'Craggy' in places isn't it?

hirez January 20 2007, 23:21:14 UTC

That would be an ecumenical matter.

sciamachy January 21 2007, 02:22:25 UTC

Never actually made it to Lundy but I used to go on holiday pretty much every year for 6 years or so to a place near there on the mainland, and often visited Hartland Point, which looks out across to Lundy. Do they have the same colourful snails on Lundy as they have on that part of the mainland? They were all over the rocks - land snails, not sea snails, mind, but they had fantastic shells.

hirez January 21 2007, 17:18:46 UTC

I fear I didn't see any snails. I'm not sure what I was looking for, I just spent most of the time wandering about going 'Bloody hell.'

jarkman January 21 2007, 11:40:17 UTC

Very sun-bleached (and in a good way). Are those all via the XA2 ?

hirez January 21 2007, 17:17:27 UTC

It was particularly warm with a goods breeze - ideal sunburn weather, had one been careless.

I've been looking at the things and trying to work that out. There's certainly a mixture of film-speeds, so I'm not sure if the fact that some shots are vignetted in the LC-A style and some aren't is down to that or that I had combat pockets full of cameras and film.

There's at least one reel missing - the LGP Landie and the outside pub-bog. Hopefully it's one of the three I couldn't cram into the Jiffybag.

jarkman January 21 2007, 21:59:34 UTC

Where did you stay ? I'm wondering if we should take a trip there.

Um - I guess vignetting is unlikely to be down to anything but the lens. Don't think my old Olympus did that.

hirez January 21 2007, 23:26:39 UTC

This was a day-trip. I want to go back for a week or so. If nice, explore and drink beer. If horrible, drink beer and/or write.

I think it must have been the Lomo. Such was the quality of the light that it defeated even random Russian optics. Or the things are washed out in the centre.

jendama January 21 2007, 20:11:18 UTC

hirez January 21 2007, 23:31:22 UTC

I suspect they were empty kegs.

The walls look like they've cheated and cemented the top two courses. Mind, that's probably simpler than finding volunteer dry-stone wallers.