John Sheldon's photos

Mixed colour and monochrome - processed in Adobe Lightroom and Photoshop Elements. Digital noise left untouched as it seemed to suit the picture.

... as the 'Sold' board goes up. All being well, we will be Cheshire Cats before the summer months are over. I hope to be more active as a picture maker soon.

Yashica-mat twin lens reflex camera. Ilford FP4 film developed in Ilford IDXI. Negative scanned in CanoScan 8800F. Final processing in Adobe Lightroom and Photoshop Elements.

Eight exposures on one negative. Mamiya C220 medium format twin lens reflex camera, 135mm Sekor lenses, Ilford FP4 film exposed at 125 ISO and developed in Ilford IDXI. Negative scanned using CanoScan 8800F and end processed in Adobe Lightroom.

Montage of three DNGs. My Grandfather's 1st World War medals and his map of the September 1918 trenches at Camporovere, Italy, are superimposed on part of Benjamin Britten’s War Requiem where these words by 2nd Lieutenant Wilfred Owen MC (1893/1918 ) are set to music: Great gun towering toward Heaven, about to curse; Reach at that arrogance which needs thy harm, And beat it down before its sins grow worse; But when thy spell be cast complete and whole, May God curse thee, and cut thee from our soul! These 1st World War trenches are on the Asiago Plateau, Italy, sometimes called the “Forgotten Front” having been eclipsed by the scale of the fighting in France and Belgium. The totals of dead and injured (of all nations) in this area nevertheless totalled many hundreds of thousands over the period 1915-18.

Multiple exposures on a single DNG.

"Time present and time past // Are both perhaps present in time future // And time future contained in time past. // If all time is eternally present // All time is unredeemable." (T S Eliot, 'Burnt Norton') Three exposures on one DNG. Taken in 2012. Pentax A 50mm f1,7 lens.

A 35 year old Kodak negative, scanned using a CanoScan 8800F and processed in Lightroom and Photoshop Elements. Mamiya C220 medium format film camera.