The Plastic Lens ~ Photos

Camera: Diana 151     Film: Konika Minolta Centuria 100 (expired)

A young fella contemplates life with his hand full of bounty. Slightly blurry (as Diana’s can be) but I find the selective focus of his right (on our left) hand holding the toy interesting. Camera: Diana 151     Film: Konika Minolta Centuria 100

This photo is from a roll that was an unintentional x-pro (cross-process – where E-6 slide film is processed as ‘ordinary’ negative C-41 film), I forgot I had slide film in the camera, dropped it off and they had already loaded it in the machine before we realised it was E-6. Normally they don’t X-Pro [...]

I took this shot with my trusty Diana camera during 2007, when I was in country Victoria for the Daylesford International Foto Biennale, which has now transformed into the Ballarat International Foto Biennale. When we first visited this area in the goldfields, we were detoured down a mainly one lane road, occasionally surfaced with bitumen, [...]

A suburban wall in a suburban car park. What appealed to me about this wall is the bright white loading doors against the brick, the slowly sagging chain-link fence and the blue, blue sky above the whole scene. Using asa 100 film in a camera like the original Diana is pushing it a bit but [...]

I grew up not far from here and always meant to photograph this place. I finally got around to it! Some extended exposure toy camera photography, of the Oakleigh Motel, heritage listed – the first motel in Victoria. Camera: Diana F+    Film: Fuji Pro 160S (approximately 60 second exposure)

I am contemplating facing possibly the hottest day in February in recorded weather statistics with my two young children whilst my wife goes off on a “Hen’s Weekend” (that’s right, the girls need a whole weekend to get rotten these days!) and ponder the irony that in the northern parts of Australia we have torrential [...]

A friendly paramedic who frequently drops off customers to our E.D. named “Buddy” He is a bit of a photog himself and has shown interest in my plastic cameras. Here he poses for the Diana + in the ambulance bay one afternoon we both had 5 minutes spare. Camera: Diana +    Film: Agfa 160

Baba Desi (also known as ‘The Belgrave Wizard’) is a wonderful character, a gentleman who is always happy to pose for a photograph This is one of my favourite portraits and was one of three photos of mine that I hung in my very first (joint) exhibition, the Light Leaks Exhibition that opened in Northcote, [...]

A talented young artist I know named Hazel Dooney held an exhibition earlier this year. The exhibition was (predominantly) of her photography with a couple of graphic works as well, the subject matter of these images being intimate in nature. The title of the exhibition was PORNO and the gallery staff all sported a T-Shirt [...]

A late night post in which I cannot muster the energy to enter much information apart from “hello, hope you like this one!” Camera: Diana F +  Film: Fuji Pro 160S

Here is another image I originally posted on the ‘old’ plasticlens a month or so ago. It is another of the beautiful Kantju Gorge at Uluru. I will repost the original comments made to it as soon as I can. Here is the original text (note that an image of the Skatepark was static on [...]

On a hot summer day the best thing one can do is have a bit of a nap under a tree. Horses are far more sensible than people most of the time, don’t you think? Camera: Diana +    Film: Fuji NPC 160