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Mixed Results

Sky Edwards

2024

Testing a badly damaged camera and lens. Another kit rescued from e-waste. After repairs, cleaning, and focus calibration, it works... just... fine...

Olympus OM-40 Program

Olympus Zuiko 28mm f/3.5

Ilford Delta 3200

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I love monitors. This baby is the first black-headed monitor I've seen. I guess the name doesn't really fit until they get older.

Black-headed monitor, Varanus tristis

Sky Edwards

2023

Canon R7

Canon EF 100-400 L IS USM

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Normalsea

Sky Edwards

2024

Lomochrome Purple XR Petillant

Ricoh XR10

Rikenon 50mm f/2.0

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Well This Is Orchid

Sun Orchid, possibly Shy Sun Orchid, Thelymitra graminea.

Two weevils, soon to be more I suppose. I won't try to classify them, they need privacy right now.

Castle Rock, Porongorup.

2022

Canon 60D

Canon EF-s 35mm f/2.8 IS STM macro

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Ricoh Singlex

Meyer Optik Gorlitz Orestor 135mm 1:2.8

Kodak Pro Image 100

2024

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YEHT MEHT

Sky Edwards

2024

Ensign Selfix 320 10.5cm

120 Ilford HP5+ 400

My gender and hair colour are important to me. This image is unhelpful.

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After Dryandra

Sky Edwards

2023

Ballpoint pen on distressed paper

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Open tomorrow!

I'm exhibiting a sculpture and a photograph! Sculpture is for sale, and you can vote for the photo to win a prize. Both in Perth.

Sculpture:

Compact sculpture exhibition, Kent st Gallery Vic Park, 6-15th April 2024.

Macro photography:

Eye To Eye photography competition.

Monday to Friday, 13 March to 3 April 2024, 8.00am to 5.00pm. Room G24, Harry Perkins Institute, 6 Verdun St Nedlands. If you like mine, please vote for it!

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love photographing on grey days. Sunlight is overrated; I'm a winter creature.

Blue billed duck, Oxyura australis, photographed in Albany, 2023.

Canon R7

Canon EF 100-400 L IS USM

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Butch, Goth, and Overly Dramatic II

Sky Edwards

2022

Double exposed 35mm film photograph 

655 x 460 mm fine art print

From my solo exhibition Not Economical to Repair, Belmont, 2023.

It's about messing around with film, the economic accessibility of repairing junk cameras, silly fridge magnet poetry, and the significance of steel cap boots.

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Temognatha lessoni, a Jewel Beetle.

Sky Edwards

2024

32 image stack

Canon R7

Canon EF 100mm Macro USM

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Tilt

Sky Edwards

2024

Ensign Selfix 320 10.5cm

120 Ilford HP5+ 400

Salvaging and repairing old film equipment produces some fascinating errors. The lens of this old folding camera is tilted, so it isn't parallel with the film. This tilts the plane of focus; take a look at what is in focus and what is not.

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Climbing

Sky Edwards

2024

Ricoh XR-10

MC Hanimex 135mm 1:2.8

Kentmere Pan 400, pushed one stop.

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Climbing

Sky Edwards

2024

Ricoh XR-10

MC Hanimex 135mm 1:2.8

Kentmere Pan 400, pushed one stop.

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Fox Tooth

Sky Edwards

2022

Kodak Gold 200

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Sometimes photographing wildlife requires a long lens. Sometimes a 35mm macro is fine.

Brushtail possum, Trichosurus vulpecula.

Sky Edwards

2023

Canon R7

Canon EF 35mm macro IS STM

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Wherever there was a stream, the red weed clung and grew with frightening voraciousness. Its claw-like fronds choking the movement of the water. And then it began to creep like a slimy red animal, across the land covering field and ditch, and tree and hedgerow with living scarlet feelers, crawling, crawling.

I really like Jeff Wayne's rock opera of War of the Worlds.

Red Weed

Sky Edwards

2024

Ricoh XR-10

MC Hanimex 135mm 1:2.8

Lomochrome Purple XR Petillant