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If there is one thing that I didn’t get enough of when exploring it was old industry, massive sprawling complexes that were built up slowly over their life span. And Flintkote was one that I only visited twice, but it certainly matched what I wanted in an old location. Buildings that were slowly being absorbed back into nature. You had to know what to look for when trying to check the spot out as it was mostly hidden by trees with only a rusted water tower and brick smoke stack sticking up behind a rusted fence. For almost every site I’ve featured in this series,Read More →

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While I certainly used FP-3000b more than FP-100b, but still not as much as I thought I did. The best use of this film I ever got was on a road trip through Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania and New York in 2011 (!). FP-3000b is a high-speed instant film that was available in both Type-100 and 4×5 formats and certainly holds up to what a high-speed film should be, but made all the better by the fact that you got a big positive print and after careful preparation a useable negative. It is also one of the two Fuji Type-100 films missed the most by theRead More →

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The continuing rebellion shifted after Pelee Island, as the leadership changed and William Lyon MacKenzie separated himself while living in Rochester while out on bail from his arrest in Buffalo following the evacuation from Navy Island. The Rebel Cause fell under the leadership of the Council of Thirteen. A mixed group of Canadian and American sympathisers. However, their actions against Upper Canada and their behaviour in the American cities had forced them to seek shelter in the rural areas along the border. Charles Duncombe had been working in the east and was spreading a new secret society based on a French-Canadian society to spread theRead More →