Snarl at Southwold

We picked a rotten day to go and play on the beach: a very high tide was in and there was no beach. None. Snarl spent about half an hour making videos of the waves crashing over the groynes.

When I developed this roll, the reel came apart inside the tank and the whole thing scrolled up tight, stuck to itself and got scratched to hell, so only a couple of frames got sorted. Gah. But I like this one.

(taken with an Ensign Ful-Vue, a dead cute 1940s box camera and HP5 )

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Comments

Rodrigo Perez says:

i like it too
very holga-ish!
Posted 51 months ago. ( permalink )

Andreas W... says:

some unexpected desaster is always good :) btw I used the Spartus Full-Vue yesterday, a blind box from the fifties ...
Posted 51 months ago. ( permalink )

nicolai_g says:

May all photographic accidents be this happy...
Posted 51 months ago. ( permalink )

jadziajadzia says:

congratulations. it's something i was hoping to find here and here it is. it's a great shot really.
Posted 51 months ago. ( permalink )

efo says:

They're right - this is a wonderful accident. It's like the crappy weather lives in the image.
Posted 51 months ago. ( permalink )

menlo says:

I'm wild about this photo. How about I send you my film to 'enhance'.
Posted 51 months ago. ( permalink )

prodigaldog says:

Damn crunchy and such great mood.
Posted 51 months ago. ( permalink )

the tomahawk kid says:

this is lovely...so aged...i'd say you maybe picked the right day to go to southwold...actually, is there a wrong day to go there?...i'd say not...and you can get the best adnams you can get anywhere there...
Posted 51 months ago. ( permalink )

heyoka says:

thanks for all the kind words.

menlo: ha! sure thing, as long as you are particularly fond of fingerprints, blotches, random sprinklings of cat hair, and split film where I can't get the damn sticky-end off the reel...

ian: you're right. Any day is a good Southwold day, but I like the seaside best in the winter. Is that really perverse?
Posted 51 months ago. ( permalink )

Adam Tinworth says:

Be nice to see this in the Suffolk group.
Posted 51 months ago. ( permalink )

beatnikside says:

Gorgeous.
Posted 51 months ago. ( permalink )

Nico.... says:

How often does Suffolk make it to the flickr blog? yay!
Posted 51 months ago. ( permalink )

fishlamp [deleted] says:

It made for a great effect!
Posted 51 months ago. ( permalink )

Wellsie says:

OK, the Lemony Snicket tag totally makes this. ;)
Posted 51 months ago. ( permalink )

alibash says:

very cool really ^^
it seems like it might be better without the scratch actually...maybe something can be photoshopped about it?
Posted 51 months ago. ( permalink )

pianoandphotos says:

Cool shot. It totally looks like an accidental vintage abstraction. I found this cool site with some really awesome vintage photos. It's www.AmericanPhotowork.com. The vintage buffs will like it.
Posted 51 months ago. ( permalink )

ametz says:

thats so cool!...it looks so old fashioned - in a good way...it seems like it could tell a story
Posted 51 months ago. ( permalink )

klebermatos says:

pretty image, perfect capture of a marcante moment and bello! One I hug!
Posted 50 months ago. ( permalink )

Roo Reynolds says:

Well hello there! I just chanced upon this lovely photo of Snarl linked from the Flickr blog. This is such a lovely damaged photo, Heyoka! It reminds me of your heavily distressed polariod photos. I hope you are both doing well.
Posted 50 months ago. ( permalink )

thermidor says:

hi, i'm just starting out in photography/pinholery and i am blown away by your photos!! i hope you don't mind that i added you as a contact.
Posted 46 months ago. ( permalink )

Mackeson says:

… would you consider adding this image to Palabra?
Posted 23 months ago. ( permalink )

Riff Design says:

Thats a lovely accident!
Posted 18 months ago. ( permalink )

patrickjoust says:

Hi, I'm an admin for a group called picky imperfection, and we'd love to have this added to the group!
Posted 10 months ago. ( permalink )

decembre says:

Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Portrait★Faces★Open Minded, and we'd love to have this added to the group!

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Seen in the group"¡Palabra!" (?)
Posted 6 months ago. ( permalink )

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