Two aspects of Holy Island

[Shaun Haselden]

Way back in 2005 I was very much into film and chlorobromide papers. I visited here at that time and took these images with the intention of doing something with them. I have tried to maintain my passion for very warm toned papers like Kodak Royal Bromesko in D163 whilst using digital scanning techniques. I love this kind of imagery even now and feel for a time long ago when photography was new to me. I loved those old Velox papers in D163 developer and contact printing from huge negatives. Oh well...!

 

[Shaun Haselden]

Oh yes, these were taken on a 1975 Hasselblad 500C that was actually 500CM spec using the old style Carl Zeiss 80mm silver lens with no filters.

 

[Rob MacKillop]

Lovely, Shaun. I like them both, but the first is stunning, quite mesmerising in a way. Beautiful.

 

[Rense Haveman]

Yeah, that first one! Stunning, as Rob says. Should hang on a wall!!!

 

[Dave Farnes]

Agreed, both have a feeling of age and desolation, the first is amazing.

 

[Shaun Haselden]

Thank you again guys. Love your comments. Regarding desolation and loneliness and without wanting to jump on any bandwagon, I think that having a certain mental health condition helps my photography immensely by giving me a certain connection with these places. All I have ever wanted to do is to photograph loneliness and solitude in a way that is empathic with the surroundings I find myself in. Now that I use mainly digital I find it so much easier to produce images of a very 'old' style like the ones I used to produce in a darkroom as, now that true quality papers no longer contain cadmium, I don't think I could achieve my goal.

 

[Pete Askew]

You've certainly caught the feeling. Nice work, Shaun.

 

[Ivar Dahl-Larsen]

I agree with all above here and really can relate to what Rense says, hang it on a wall.