The hardest way to take photographs

It was a lovely morning

We think we might have found the hardest way to take pictures. You start with a twenty year old “digital back” which you fit on the back of a sixty year old camera in place of the film magazine. Then you plug the back into a fifteen year old Apple laptop and take the whole lot down to Hessle foreshore near the Humber Bridge. Then you take some snaps.

Each photograph is sent over the wire into the laptop. You’re not really supposed to do it like this unless you are in a studio. One of us was carrying the camera. The other the laptop. From a distance it must have looked like I was being taken for a walk with my camera.

Then we came home, took the pictures off the laptop and did some tidying up. I really like the results. They are very sharp and detailed and the light first thing in the morning was lovely.

I’m not sure this will become my preferred way to take pictures, but I’m very pleased that we managed to make it work. I took some shots on film too, but I’ll have to send those off for processing.