Oh! How confusing life can be.

Over the weekend in Norwich there were various events connected with The Lord Mayors Celebrations.

One of these events was street entertainers...

The girl in the photograph had walked out from a side street to be confronted with a pixie walking with her dragon complete with a dragon's egg in a hand cart.
This scene totally confused her.

What the ???!!

Help where am I ??

What's going on ??

Oh I see!

She wants me to sit on her dragons egg

I'm off.. everyone is laughing at me.

A pixie walking her dragon in Norwich.

Nothing to out of the ordinary here.

Nikon FE Nikon 105mm/f2.5 Nikkor

AGFA APX100 Developed in Rodinal Special 1-30 8.5 Mins

Only in Norwich 23-06-07

I got the train to Norwich on Saturday, I have not been there for a while, I have photographed this chap before but I couldn't resist another shot. Boston would be a whole lot more interesting with people like this on the streets.

I was using a film that I have not used before, it is call ERA Pan, it is made in China it is very inexpensive and from my fist roll I will say its a very good film. good tones fine grain good sharpness and no nasty curl on the film which is a real pain if you are scanning.

I was also using my New canon A1 I had to get another one as my other one has electrical problems, it did suffer from shutter squeal which is common for A series Canons. The problem is caused by the reflex mirror brake bearings running dry and squealing when the mirror moves. Fortunately I was in a camera shop in Norwich and the proprietor fixed it for me free of charge, with a tiny drop of oil in the right place administered with a bent hypodermic needle. The A1 now sounds much better.

Canon A1 Canon 28-55 Zoom + YK2 filter. ERA 100 Pan Dev Kodak X-Tol Stock

Norwich 02/12/06 Leica IIC & PLUS-X PAN

I have not been using my Leica's much lately so I took my Leica IIC with me when I visited Norwich. It came with a 1948 vintage 5cm coated Elmar lens and a 1938 vintage un-coated 9cm Elmar lens, Both are in good order.

The two shots above are shot on Kodak Plus-X Pan (old emulsion) @125 asa and developed in Agfa Rodinal 1-50 The exposure was 1/30 @ f5.6

It was rather a gloomy day on Saturday but I think the camera has peformed well.. it is over 60 years old!

Makes a nice change from using a modern Nikon SLR.

Norwich 07-10-06

Norwich Castle

Puppet Man

"Puppet Man" Has been peforming on the streets of Norwich for as long as I can remember (1995)

His puppets dance to the music.

More about Puppet Man From The Norwich evening News

http://new.en24.co.uk/search/story.aspx?brand=ENOnline&category=News&itemid=NOED14%20Jul%202006%2010:05:26:670&tBrand=ENOnline&tCategory=search

Puppet Man

Seek Ye The Lord

This guy will stop you on the street and Bible bash you so look out!

Camera: Nikon FM and Nikon Fm3A-Nikor 35mm-f2.8 and Nikor 10.5cm-f2.5 (for close up of puppet man)

Film: Fuji Neopan 400 / Dev Ilford ID11 Stock 7.5 mins.