Cave Dweller

On Sunday I discovered that an old house martin nest at the front of the house had an unusual resident. A wren has taken up residence and is feeding her family of chicks. We sat in the afternoon sun and marvelled at this thumb sized bundle of energy bustling back and forwards with endless beak-fulls of food. I've never heard of such a thing before. Amazing. If she's still there on Saturday I'll try to photograph her.

A very annoying thing I discovered on Sunday was that I had misloaded some darkslides. I tried to develop my river photos from last week. I was using up the last of my DDX developer. When I unloaded the dark slides I discovered that the negatives were loaded with the emulsion facing away from the lens. I didn't even bother running them through the process. I new they would be poor quality and binned them. It was just four sheets but at 65p a sheet it is still irritating.

So I developed the shots I took on HP5 on Saturday. The negatives look fine. I've decided to concentrate on the Delta 100 for the next while. The HP5 is good for portrait work where shorter exposures helps. But I don't need it most of the time. I've loaded up most of the darkslides with the Delta 100 - the right way around! I've only got four HP5 shots left. I plan to order some more film, the Delta 100, for when I'm off next week.