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@kanesnaps and me in 1997. I knew how to use the self-timer. Unfortunately I didn’t know how aperture and depth-of-field corresponded in those days. This was influenced - without the technical ability to pull it off - by the famous Mick Rock photoshoot of Syd Barrett (I was obsessed with Syd Barrett) with his purple and orange striped floorboards. I should be very clear that the weed smoking Bob Marley poster belonged to my flatmate thank-you-very-much. I, of course, had a Bill Brandt print up in my room #pretentious . ...

#tbt A house that subsequently burned to the ground and was rebuilt. 2004 or so. @kanecroudace could you please tag the others?

#tbt @withoutaleaf all the way back in 2006. What an extraordinary person.

#tbt It couldn’t have been more obvious that ‘bar mooda’ was a front for organised crime. Expensive décor. No one in it. The police did nothing for reasons that are easy to guess. It took the staff being tied up and the place being firebombed to finally drive this particular blight from Observatory. This was taken on the morning of the firebombing.

@federicoandraderivas sounded a bit nostalgic about his time writing his master’s thesis in @hello_sailor_bistro from his vantage point of writing his PHD in Vancouver. Surprise, surprise. I found a pic of him writing in there. Must have been a good few years back.

#tbt 4th July 2004 according to the EXIF data. This was some kind of national competition. I think this was the épée final judging from the audience watching in the background. The fencer in the foreground is Clementine Williams who I used to fence with even back in school, and her opponent is called Jacobs and I think was from Wits.

#tbt When the Hagia Sophia (Holy Wisdom) cathedral was built it was the largest church in the Christian world and had the largest dome of any building. After Constantinople was conquered by the Turks (the final end of the Roman Empire) it was converted into a mosque (as Christians did to mosques in Southern Spain too) and the minarets were added. But the original 1st church of the Roman Empire still stands today. And this is what it looked like on a nice day in Istanbul in 2000.

#tbt bonus. Flamingos in the mist.

#tbt From fake Tri-X to the real thing. The beautiful young Gareth by candlelight in 1997.

#tbt to the last time I tried to shoot wildlife on a medium format film camera. And by luck we encountered this scarred old veteran close enough for the Pentax 400mm lens with a 1.4x extender.