Uploaded October 2021 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
But that's three wishes in one... it's just not possible... It was a Tuesday afternoon, I was at work and I thought my head was going to explode. So before I spattered my brains across the office walls, I grabbed my Intrepid 4x5 and walked out.
The next thing I knew I was meandering down a sun dappled path through a dense ancient woodland, heading towards Llancaut Church, or St James Church at Llancaut. It's an ancient church on the banks of the Wye River, just north of Chepstow.
I babbled some inaccurate rubbish about it in the video, the truth of the matter is that there has been a church on this site since 640AD, and the current building, and especially the archway, has been precisely dated to between 1120 and 1140. So it's pretty old.
Aaaanyway, I headed out with my camera, and some of the things I needed to make the camera work, and without some other things that I needed. And these are the results.
Nothing to learn here, nothing special that I'm doing (apart from the usual cocking stuff up), just me and a camera and a river and a forest, and a strong desire for my head not to explode.
BIG thanks to Chelsea and Connor who I bumped into at the church, took a photo of and sheltered from the rain under a tree with for a while. Really nice folks, great to meet you both. If you want a copy of that photo, drop me a message yeah?
#largeformatphotography #intrepidcameras #photowalk
But that's three wishes in one... it's just not possible... It was a Tuesday afternoon, I was at work and I thought my head was going to explode. So before I spattered my brains across the office walls, I grabbed my Intrepid 4x5 and walked out.
The next thing I knew I was meandering down a sun dappled path through a dense ancient woodland, heading towards Llancaut Church, or St James Church at Llancaut. It's an ancient church on the banks of the Wye River, just north of Chepstow.
I babbled some inaccurate rubbish about it in the video, the truth of the matter is that there has been a church on this site since 640AD, and the current building, and especially the archway, has been precisely dated to between 1120 and 1140. So it's pretty old.
Aaaanyway, I headed out with my camera, and some of the things I needed to make the camera work, and without some other things that I needed. And these are the results.
Nothing to learn here, nothing special that I'm doing (apart from the usual cocking stuff up), just me and a camera and a river and a forest, and a strong desire for my head not to explode.
BIG thanks to Chelsea and Connor who I bumped into at the church, took a photo of and sheltered from the rain under a tree with for a while. Really nice folks, great to meet you both. If you want a copy of that photo, drop me a message yeah?
#largeformatphotography #intrepidcameras #photowalk
