Andrew Bartram 🎞️ ✝️📷

Tick Fen - a place of solitude and calm. A place of memories and reflection. #believeinfilm #filmphotography @polaroidweek.bsky.social day 3

My lunch time view - morning shift as day chaplain at Ely Cathedral

This one was nearly two years ago at a Mersey Meet Up organised by @stigofthedump.bsky.social The Pentax 17 threw a little full flash to brighten up these portraits - funny the things you come across. A darkroom print for #HalfFrameStories Probably CatLabs 320 but need to check. #believeinfilm

There’s always something going on at Anglesey Abbey - one of my favourite places to wander with the Pentax 17 to make more #HalfFrameStories prints in the darkroom. Ilford FP4 type 517 movie film #Believeinfilm #Filmphotography

Found this Aperture “Masters of Photography” ex library book on a shelf today (forgotten I had it) - Bernice Abbott. This photo with the stopped clock, the cart and the light sums up everything I love about photography.

Another Fenland project begun

It took the Pentax 17 to open my eyes to the world in a completely different way. I’m very much “in the moment” when I wander these days, “mindful” of the changing light and time. Here in Liverpool different sights and sounds. Darkroom Print, ORWO UN54 Rodinal #Believeinfilm #filmphotography

Chatting to my friend “Patch” at church this morning and turns out his Father was a bit of a legend at the Manchester Evening News - he passed away this week. www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater...

Now I tested it out on a sacrificial Polaroid I’m doing the lift and transfer onto watercolour paper with the better image ….

Up to no good

In Liverpool with the Pentax 17 fitted with an orange filter and ORWO UN54 film. These are called #HalfFrameStories and are a series of darkroom prints. #Believeinfilm #Filmphotography

Been a fun afternoon in the darkroom playing with some brushed on liquid emulsion for the first time in a while . #believeinfilm #filmphotography

Playing with liquid emulsion for the first time in ages. This @realitysosubtle.bsky.social HP5 negative I’ve printed onto Fotospeed liquid emulsion coated rough watercolour paper. I have some smooth Bockingford paper to try soon.

For @philwalker.bsky.social andrewbartram.wordpress.com/2026/10/23/h...

Now that Polaroidweek is over (well today is the last day) I can get back to the serious business of focusing on the Pentax 17 and darkroom print uploads. This with UN54 and an orange filter whilst in Liverpool a couple of weeks ago. #believeinfilm #filmphotography

and this one, which might well be my favourite from the roll, is by @paulasmith.co.uk. slight light leak at far left is my bad, but really makes the format work viscawide-16/double-x/hydrofen #filmphotography #b&w

this one is by @emdashman.bsky.social. i think shooting through this long gap was a cool idea viscawide-16/double-x/hydrofen #filmphotography #b&w

@polaroidweek.bsky.social Day 5 and the last day so finish as I began with an iType Photograph from Tick Fen. #Believeinfilm #Filmphotography

Just been looking at old Polaroids from 2012 onwards - loads of expired peel apart that Ive never scanned - wondering if I can share at future @polaroidweek.bsky.social events ?

Half frame delight

How many more dramas to I have to watch where folks get told to hold their heads back when they have a nose bleed….

@stigofthedump.bsky.social @olu-gh.bsky.social thankyou for the podcast repost - much appreciated

I’m cutting down this watercolour paper to my standard working print size of 5x7 then you have to go and melt the “liquid” emulsion and coat the paper under a red safelight .

Time to get creative - well I shall have lunch first - can’t get creative on an empty stomach …

@polaroidweek.bsky.social thankyou for the repost kind folks- always appreciated (since 2012 when I first shared impossible images on Twitter….. when it was like Bluesky is now)

We have been at this since 2018 when it was “The Lensless Podcast” you can listen to all 143 archived episodes with a quick search. And now for the last 2 years the new offering celebrating the world of creative analogue photography. Something for the weekend ? #believeinfilm #filmohotography

It’s still #Polaroidweek and I’m still in Tick Fen……. #Filmphotography #believeinfilm

Cornelius Vermuyden finally got the Fenlands drained (well mostly) in the 17th Century ending generations of a unique way of life living with the seasons. Anger erupted into violence and fen folk were suppressed and finally dragged into submission and the land left the many to belong to the few.

@polaroidweek.bsky.social day 2 and another Tick Fen photo from the Polaroid Now Gen 3 camera. #believeinfilm #filmphotography

Here's a £5 Referral Voucher for your first order at Analogue Wonderland. To accept, use my referral link: i.refs.cc/M74LdTDk

It’s @polaroidweek.bsky.social so something different from Half Frame … Fuji Instax in my Toyo 45a and Lomo Graflock back. #Believeinfilm #Filmphotography

Another print scan from a day in Liverpool last week. Pentax 17 and ORWO UN54 with an orange filter as I was chasing sunlight, skies and shadows…. #believeinfilm #Filmphotography

@bizarrojimmyolsen.bsky.social @ashroplad.bsky.social thankyou for the repost - always appreciated

@polaroidweek.bsky.social I still think of it as a Flickr thing but what’s the official position / direction of travel re platforms ?

Love seeing how creative folks are with the LCwide - slowly getting to grips with mine

Cancelled Netflix and Disney Plus - I player and other catch up channels are packed with brilliant content and we pay for them so may as well use them.

Adverts on Facebook - pretty much all I see now unless I go straight to my groups (which I really should) - they are all the same have you noticed ? Doesn’t matter what they are trying to sell me - I’m sure Ai is the reason … Anyway thought I’d come here as it’s nicer and more creative .

For the first time in a few years I think I have enough Polaroid scans to upload for @polaroidweek.bsky.social that begins tomorrow - a mixture of Fenland and Liverpool photos …..

Scanning some of yesterday’s prints to Flickr - last weekend’s Liverpool trip with the Pentax 17, ORWO UN54 and and orange filter. I’d rated the film at 80 and developed in Rodinal 1:50 for 9mins #believeinfilm #filmpjotography

This short part on “Light” was a reminder….

Watching the BBC lunchtime news reminded me why I stay away from these programmes and apps - they seem to almost be gleeful in their constant reporting of all the evil in the world. I know there are good news stories but you don’t hear them on the news Thats for sure.

In Liverpool last weekend we had a fun day wandering - the #Pentax17 did it’s thing - this time with ORWO UN54 and an orange filter - next time I’ll rate it at 50 not 80 but very happy with the print. #Believeinfilm #HalfFrameStories #FilmPhotography

£3 delivered from cash converters!

Today I start as a Day Chaplain in this awesome space - I’m early so have my LCA and Eastman 5222 with me

From my days on the road - down for breakfast with my pinhole camera . Was probably my @realitysosubtle.bsky.social 6x6F. #Believeinfilm #Filmphotography

Been burning through film this last week - well by my standards !! Roll of ORWO 54 (Pentax 17) , HP5 (LC Wide) and Eastman 5222 (LCA) - Rodinal 1:50 for the ORWO and XX and ID11 1:1 for the HP5 (it’s worked for 45 years so why change ?) #believeinfilm #filmphotography

Mixing it up today

Putting the LC Wide into half frame mode

I took my Polaroid Gen 3 with me to Liverpool and exposed a couple of packs of new ish colour film - it was a lot of fun.

@johnfar.com and I welcome back Corey Cannon to the podcast in a hopefully permanent basis as our third host. Catch up on things we do and @wavesounds.bsky.social we give you a shout out along with @donkeyislandpress.co.uk and his upcoming photowalk. open.spotify.com/episode/1DsW...