I'm discounting the two next films (EDIT: taken after film 11, above), taken with the Bessa R3A and the 50mm lens I borrowed from
@RaglanSurf at the Stratford film meet. However, I did decide to carry on using the Bessa rather than the CL, so in one sense I've abandoned the OCOLOF approach. But, it's still a rangefinder, it's still the M-Rokkor 40mm lens (since I gave Nick his lens back), and it's still TriX, so I think the spirit is still there. The Bessa is just a bit bigger, has a grip and has metering that is MUCH easier to use. Actually the "bit bigger" part is a PITA as it's much harder to put in my coat pocket; the little Leitz Minolta CL was brilliant for that!
(EDIT: this film was the second that I developed myself with the Agfa Rondinax, using Ilfosol 3 and Ilford Rapid Fixer. Not too many water marks on this one... TriX shot at 200 I think, processed normally, bit of a contrast boost in Aperture.)
12-1) This film, number 12, was started as I walked back from Stratford to the fisherman's car park. I've walked the riverside path dozens of times, as we always park there and walk in beside the river. I've not often done it on my own, with a camera, in a picture-taking mood. I took several of this little boat house on the other side, and liked this one best.
12-2) A bend in the path, looking back, sun through young horse chestnut leaves. In real life, the curve in the path seems stronger, and the light through the leaves is more seductive. I'm having difficulty visualising the black and white effects, just have to keep trying.
12-3) A few days later, entrance to Kenilworth Castle. The 40mm lens works really well here. BTW, I've taken to cropping at 5*4 ratio, in quite a lot of cases; I'm finding I do like that ratio. Not sure if it's entirely consistent with the OCOLOF idea, as it lets me have another go at framing after the fact, but anyway, that's what's happening.
12-4) Not only is this a 4*5 crop, it's a portrait crop from a landscape shot! It's actually quite difficult to make this fountain in the absurdly expensive reimagined Elizabethan garden work. I didn't see the portrait shot at the time, but later thought it would work well.
12-5) Yellow-flowered tree (I should know its name), blowing in the wind, try to get the background out of focus...
12-6) Door that I see often. Bright red door, blue-flowered tree, green fern above right of the door. Very appealing visually, but again not working out at all how I'd imagined it. (Yellow filter, BTW)
12-7) And finally, as they say, a pond a bit out in the country that I like a lot. I think this one has worked for me, anyway! But I'm still really struggling with young green leaves!