Monkeyspill

I’m really enjoying this. More than anything I’ve played in ages. I’m shit at it though - apart from the first island I’ve been getting through everything on simple mode. My plan is to go back when I can afford more weapons.

I cheesed it by using the auto parry charm. I’m not very good at this. I’ve only done a few of the bosses on regular so far. Now I’m stuck on the 3rd run and gun level. I’m not convinced I’ll ever get past it.

I actually had some negatives scanned from West End Cameras 5 - 10 years ago. From what I remember, they only did jpegs with a resolution of 500px. They were from a shitty toy camera so it didn't matter too much and I would hope they are a bit better now. I'll look up Mr Cad - Victoria's fairly easy for me to get to.

Any film people have any recommendations for getting medium format film developed (and negatives scanned) around London? I'm in West London (near Kew) so nearby preferably.

This is what I've borrowed from my dad: It's a bit dusty and might need a clean out. There's some old film in it (probably been inside it for around 10 years) - is it likely to be usable still?

Some of the more interesting photos - at least the ones I found interesting - seem to have come out of me just mucking about rather than trying to take a good photo.

I know, but it’s nostalgia. Also, they were coloured really well.

I reread them again recently in the black and white right to left versions. I kind of miss the 90s colourised comics though.

Still mucking about with holiday photos: Edit: I was quite pleased with the edit on this one. Here's how it originally looked when I loaded up the raw file in ACR:

I’d love to get into analogue photography - I haven’t done any since college. My dad’s got a knackered old Rolleiflex I’ve been meaning to try out for ages. Does anyone here process their own film and develop photos? Is this even feasible anymore (the last time I got a roll of film and photos developed they just scanned in the negative and printed it digitally - it was actually pixelated)?

Both for me. Plus they - understandably - get irritated with me when I stop to take photos. If I take any longer than the time it takes them to snap something with an iPhone, then apparently I’m too slow and pissing about.

Yeah - I guess it wasn’t that bad but I did end up getting pissed off which didn’t make me feel like taking many photos. That said I took loads - 1000+ - but most of them were a bit shit.

More stuff: View from our Airbnb in Taipei. View from a cable car at Sun Moon Lake in Taiwan. Taipei alleyway. Stray dogs on the beach in Hua Hin. I quite like the soupy sky in Thailand. Part of an abandoned factory in Kanchanaburi. Another sunset. Last time I was here, this big Buddha had scaffolding covering it. Same statue from 2014.

Head washing at my brother-in-law's monk ordination. I'm not sure what that stuff is - it was bright yellow - but the photo came out better in black and white. Just an angry cat eating rice. Flying ice cream juggler in Nakhon Pathom. Year of the pig.

I think I kind of prefer the before image. The increased contrast has lost some of the details and made it look a bit dark. The colour looks better in the edit though. That said, I still don't know what I'm doing with my photos. I've never actually used Lightroom. My laptop is ancient and really slow and Lightroom seems to freeze it up. I just muddle through with an old version of Adobe Camera Raw and PS.