A few years ago I was in London with my son. We went for a walk with my Hasselblad. My son was 5 at the time. I didn’t know (or had forgotten) what film I had in my camera. I don’t always label the back and rely on memory. So that day I assumed that I had colour film loaded. Well I think I wanted it to be because my son had a red balloon and I wanted to take a photo with him holding it in the street. Because I was unsure I overexposed by 2 stops just in case. Film has a lot of latitude. And it will work whether the film is rated at 400 or 100. So I think I exposed it at 100 ISO in case I had Ektar 100 loaded.

This was one of those times when I thought “Gosh I wish I had colour film loaded in the camera!”

I was looking through some old scans from London and found this. I can’t remember the exact location. A small café in Crouch End perhaps? I do remember it took me forever to take the picture. Captured on my Hasselblad with Kodak Tri X. I just love the square format.

There are parts of Beijing that remind me so much of the Philippines.

Captured on my Hasselblad 501CM with Kodak Portra 800 and Kodak Tri X.