A Croydon back alley is probably not somewhere that you want to find yourself at 2am but during the day, when I tend to make my forays there, it’s absolutely fine. This image brings back memories for me and in many ways represents where I’ve been photographically over the past 2 or 3 years. This is one of 12 images taken on my first ever roll of film shooting medium format. It was taken on an ancient Yashica C tlr camera, a camera I didn’t even mean to buy. It was part of a job lot that I bought on fleaBay and it sat idle for many months until I screwed up the courage to take it out and shoot it. I’ve since gone on to shoot countless rolls of medium format 120 film but this was the roll that got me hooked. Sadly that old Yashica has been sold on to someone else but I can only hope that the new owner has a similar experience to mine.
Medium format film photography
Yashica C tlr
Yashinon 80mm f3.5 lens
Film unknown
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