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Ashley

@grumpyfck.bsky.social
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Owner of Plymouth Darkroom. Film Photography and printing. Vintage camera lover.

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Craig P - Film Photographer 🎞️📷 @craigpindell.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Want to let everyone know that I have updated the web site to included this year's Never Forget images. Please have a look and let me know what you think. www.craigpindell.com/Craig%20Pind...
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Craig Pindell Never Forget
Photographs created each year on September 11 to commemorate the attack on the United States
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Sandeep @givemeabiscuit.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
Third Man Records. London. Kodak Gold 200. Olympus OM4Ti. #BelieveInFilm #Photography
Shop front of Third Man Records. All Yellow front, with yellow table and chairs
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Ashley @grumpyfck.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
You is my bluesky opening with the notification page? What have pressed? Bit irritating.
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Ashley @grumpyfck.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Doing a little light fencing at home a few days ago, lent through and popped a rib. Jeez, I forgot how damned painful they get.
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Erik @riphotosurvey.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
I’ve got a few copies of my half-frame zine 18x24 that need to find new homes: www.erikgouldprojects.com/bookstore/18...
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18x24 — ERIK GOULD
18x24 is a zine that collects many of the multi-frame pictures I have made from the 1990s to now, employing half-frame cameras. A half-frame camera makes an 18x24mm image on 35mm film, a size that fi...
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Martin Smith @westen30.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
@givemeabiscuit.bsky.social and I recorded a trailer and the 1st episode of Photowalk Talk last night. The trailer is available now at the link below and on Spotify, iTunes etc. We are both new to this so we will get better. The 1st full episode will be out next week. shows.acast.com/photowalk-talk
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Photowalk Talk
The Photowalk and Photography Podcast
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Phil Walker @philwalker.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
#believeinfilm #filmphotography #monochrome I posted this image (the 5x7 test print) a week or two ago. I have now enlarged it using 12x16 @ilfordphoto.com MG RC V pearl paper. A couple of subtle tweaks, plus a gentle selenium wash to lift and separate the tones. Maybe for hanging .... Phone snap.
Two times the same image. Both darkroom prints, one 5x7, the other 12x16.
It is of outside, white painted chairs and tables at a café, with a back-lit shrub behind. There is a church in shadow as further background.
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Ashley @grumpyfck.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
@dbloomsday.bsky.social good day sir, good to see you here.
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Ashley @grumpyfck.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Chilled evening catching up on contact sheets. Had a play at the end with a negative from several years back, I fondly refer to him as the barbican cowboy. #plymouthdarkroom #printyourwork #believeinfilm
Darkroom prints drip drying. Drying fibre prints, back to back.
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Sandeep @givemeabiscuit.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
BTS. Its happening folks. The Photowalk Talk Podcast from @photowalkme.bsky.social created and hosted by @westen30.bsky.social My mid-life crisis level 7 unlocked as co-host.
An office desk with a microphone on a stand, a set of headphones and a laptopTeaser poster for the photowalk talk Podcast
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Anna Lundgren @luannisextended.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Trees in a sea of dreams 📷 Nikon F & Hasselblad 600c #filmcollective #theartofprinting #darkroomart #doubleexp #darkroomwork #surrealart
Trees in a sea of clouds.
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Ashley @grumpyfck.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
If you see this post, post a bridge from your gallery. My Bridge. (s)
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Ashley @grumpyfck.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
This has been asked elsewhere, and there is no right for wrong answer. I the darkroom, what is your chosen colour tray for each chemical? I use red for developer, grey for the fixes and white for everything else.
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Ashley @grumpyfck.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
It was fun watching you folks interact last week. I think we confirmed - Doris Mary Rhodes Armitage. b1901 d1979 a spinster in Ireland. I figured the on ship time next, attempt at a timeline but could be going or coming back. #DMRArmitage
1928 negative of a ship coming or going into port. 1928 negative of ships at port.
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Ashley @grumpyfck.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Notes from the weekend. I got honked more times in London in 4 days, than the last 10 years in Plymouth. My mistakes were - 1. Not setting off within a split second of red/amber. 2. stopping on amber. 3. Allowing someone out of a junction.
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Ashley @grumpyfck.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Wifely has been confused and irritated for weeks, by a round wet patch appearing on the oak worktop by the sink. Checked for everything, even leaks in the ceiling. She caught me putting the kettle lid there while filling it. 😶
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Ashley @grumpyfck.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
The Jack Russell was robbed! 🤨
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Ashley @grumpyfck.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
Today wifely and I will mostly be exploring the Wembley area, know as killing time while the youngsters go off and have youngster fun.
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Ashley @grumpyfck.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
A few days in and around Greater London, the commonality of parakeets in and around everywhere is a strange sight.
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Ashley @grumpyfck.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Never been a football follower. however, if I was to pick a team to get behind...
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Ashley @grumpyfck.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
When I was over on the other place, I tried to start a little personal thing, it quickly ended mostly because I didn't want to deal with the shit hole. I figured I might try over here, where it is friendlier. It will be adhock and tagged #DMRArmitage
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Ashley @grumpyfck.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
🤢🤢🤮
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Ashley @grumpyfck.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Damn it, 3 days of man flu has evolved into double manmoanier... Sniff.
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Jevon Carey @jevoncarey.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
I am closing down my darkroom to make some space for other ventures so I have a few bits listed on my eBay page. Let me know if there is anything of interest. I will list my Durst enlarger in the coming weeks. UK only. www.ebay.co.uk/usr/jeca-5650 #believeinfilm #filmphotography #photography
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Follow jeca-5650 on eBay. Buying, Selling, Collecting on eBay has never been more exciting!
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Ashley @grumpyfck.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
It's a bit noisy out in the back yard.
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Craig P - Film Photographer 🎞️📷 @craigpindell.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Winter time on Boulder Mountain in Utah. Tmax 100. Orange filter. #believeinfilm. #panorama.
Utahs Henry Mountains from Boulder Mountain.  After snow
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Ashley @grumpyfck.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
Darkroom account at the other place now deactivated Such a shame, I made may connections there. Still, onwards and all that.
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Craig P - Film Photographer 🎞️📷 @craigpindell.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
A start
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Craig P - Film Photographer 🎞️📷 @craigpindell.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
Chuckwagon Race, Cheyenne Wyoming 1986. Nikon FE, 20mm lens, sacrificial uv filter. Radio Remote control for shutter release, built from remote control car parts. Tri X Film, D76 #believeinfilm
Chuckwagon Race at Cheyenne Frontier Days
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Monika ☕️ @afternoontea.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
Proof print for a tiny #cyanotype I’ll try making it lighter in the next version. Cinestill XX + Hasselblad #BelieveInFilm
Cyanotype (blue print) of a swing set and trees in fog.
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Sam Johnson @analoguelass.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Scenic echos = artistic beauty
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Ashley @grumpyfck.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
You need to look at the Never Forget project.
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Erik @riphotosurvey.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
I've seen some prodigious film stashes for this #FilmFridgeCleanOutParty. My own isn't so vast but I do have a bunch of odd sheets I’d like to use up. To that end I have this little setup going in the studio.
A 4x5 camera mounted vertically on a copy stand.
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Ashley @grumpyfck.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
Yesterday I was gritting my very frosty paths, just been up to prep the darkroom and it is now significantly warmer outside than in.
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dizzycow @dizzycow.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
#believeinfilm #FP4 #FP4Party #FilmFridgeCleanoutParty
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Bill Thoo @billthoo.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
#FilmFridgeCleanOutParty Spray, now pray…
Loaded and exposed 4x5 and dry plate holders for the #FilmFridgeCleanOutParty
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Monika ☕️ @afternoontea.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
I’ve been slacking! #FilmFridgeCleanoutParty is almost here! #BelieveInFilm
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a man is dancing on a disco floor in front of a crowd .
Alt: a man is dancing on a disco floor in front of a crowd .
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Craig P - Film Photographer 🎞️📷 @craigpindell.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
Is 7 1/2 hours long? Two Fourths 617 camera. Tri X film. Tensleep Canyon Wyoming. #believeinfilm
Panorama exposure of the night sky
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Ashley @grumpyfck.bsky.social · 27/12/2024
Approx, 4-5yrs ago, I saw what I thought might make photo. Unfortunately there is a parking bay directly in front. Every single visit there was a car. Finally, 2 weeks ago it was there! Got it! Now I am underwhelmed 🤦 #printyourwork #believeinfilm #plymouthdarkroom
Hanging wet print of a wall, 2 windows and phone box.
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Ashley @grumpyfck.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
And so it begins, poor fecker.
Jack Russell cross, dressed as an elf, against her will.
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Daniel George @danielgeorgephoto.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
Any interest in a box kept FT2? I can’t verify the accuracy of the light meter, but it does respond to light. $60 shipped domestically in the US.
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Ashley @grumpyfck.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
An oldie, regurgitated from the other place. Back when I had the yashica 124g, with an orange filter. On FP4+ processed in DD-X. #believeinfilm #printyourwork #plymouthdarkroom
Silver gelatine print of Plymouth life centre with a big storm cloud rising overhead.
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Craig P - Film Photographer 🎞️📷 @craigpindell.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
Abandoned Cabin and gnarled tree at Rock Acres, Wyoming.
Black and White photo of an old miners cabin and a crooked gnarled pine tree
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Chad Hill @chadhill.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
B+B, North Jersey, 2024 Seneca Improved View 8x10, Astragon 210 4.5, ~1s at 32. Paper negative. My “Swedish Parents” on the stoop of the house where I grew up and played with them when I was a toddler. I have learned so much cool stuff from these friends. #BelieveInFilm #LargeFormat 🎞️📸
A black and white photo of a couple sitting on some steps outside a house. The woman is leaning her head on the man’s shoulder.
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dizzycow @dizzycow.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
#believeinfilm #FP4 #BOMMcamera #largeformat #6x17 #gowideorgohome
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Ashley @grumpyfck.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
An early version of a Print from a long exposure exercise I did for an FP4 party. 6hrs 30min at f300, little did I realise it would register ever damned bit of dust my eyes had missed. 😬
Long exposure test
A Zeh Zeca Duplo using a 1mm aperture insert (f300)
6hr 30min exposure time.
On FP4+ (for a washed out FP4+party) 
Early print of many on 8x10 mgrc gloss.
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Ashley @grumpyfck.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Thought I should post a photograph or two. I was gifted an Ihagee Duplex folder a few years ago by a twatter friend, packs a big punch for something so small.
Shaugh prior ancient oak woods
Scan of a Print.
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Auntie Chandler @cebullion.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Don't steer me wrong, Bluesky: I've got 3 rolls of 120 film and 3 rolls of 35mm to develop. Dwayne's Photo has been doing me wrong lately, so I need to know your favorite and best internet photo labs in the US. #filmphotography
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Ashley @grumpyfck.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Kinda sums up turning 60.
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