The whole roll #31

Luna Park, Sydney on Ilford Vintage Tone was a perfect match. It was a bit crazy bananas finishing the roll in the Australian bush, but I'm not mad about it. What do you think?

The whole roll #1 can be found here (where you can read about the origins of this project). Other “Whole Rolls” are here. I’ve put the details of the film stock, camera dev and scanning under the images so those who don’t care don’t have to read about it.

When I was buying film for a trip away in March, my wonderful lab guy (Les Porter) in Newcastle gave me a roll of this strange but intriguing colour film: Ilford Vintage Tone 400. Luna Park seemed like the perfect match for this, and I was right.

Then I had half a roll left and finished it off in the bush. Still fun, but a bit weird.

We had been promising the kids a trip to Luna Park since we got to Australia. With Felix’s mum visiting us back in April, we decided that the last few days before she flew home from Sydney were probably a good time to do it. Though she doesn’t necessarily love fun parks, she also does not hate them as much as I do.

Yes, hate. Hate deeply and strongly. But I put on a brave face and did it anyway. She very kindly paid for us to stay in a hotel right nearby and you get to enjoy a few photos of our buffet breakfast, our bed and our views at the View Hotel.

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Elsie gets stuck into a post-breakfast apple. Harbour bridge can be seen through the window.

Absolutely chaotic bowl here of rejected breakfast buffet items.

I really really like this photo of Lady Luna herself.

And of these wonderful and affectionate chickens outside Funny Land or whatever their Cony Island place is.

I think I accidentally had my shutter speed on faster than 125th of a second and it cut off the flash.

The crazy mirrors were a hit, if briefly.

This wild ride was the epitome of kind of fucked up travelling carny vibes. It took about 15 minutes for the ride to begin, it lasted around 35 seconds, and then they passed around a couple of keys which people had to use to unlock their own seatbelts and then toss to the people in the next carriage.

Bridge, crappy toys, slight film burn.

Felix protects his injured knee from the horrors of the dodge’ems.

And again.

Elsie, Otto, Hélene and some strangers waiting in line for a ride which ended up getting stuck with them at the top.

Elsie thoroughly enjoyed her fairy floss.

And Otto his popcorn. Despite the astronomical prices. Or perhaps because of them. He did not pay, you see, being a small boy of even smaller means.

Arty shot for you, dear viewer.

Aaaand because I can’t help but provide you with a signature rumpled bedsheets shot. View Hotel, Sydney.

And the view from our window at the View Hotel.

Otto began a letter to his Uncle Oliver. It began with “Dear” in varying font sizes, and ended there.

And now for something completely different. Butterfly on a leaf at Water Gums Retreat.

Otto with his Asahi Pentax sp1000 with a broken light meter. Would you like to see the photo he’d just taken?

Fire pit.

Leaves of the Japanese maple.

Ferns.

The light was unbeatable.

The canoe under the house.

Can you see the moon?

In Blackbutt Reserve now, Otto throws his hat in glee.

And the kids hug their farfar who came to visit from Sweden right after their farmor left.

This was a roll of Ilford Ilfocolor Vintage Tone 400. 24 frames stretched to 27. I shot this on my dad’s old Nikon FM with a 50mm Nikkor f1.8 lens.

The roll was developed by ProAm in Newcastle and scanned by Ben using his SLR scanning set up.