St Mary's Churchyard, Sompting #9

This is the last one of the churchyard for the moment. Perhaps too many gravestones?

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St Mary's Churchyard, Sompting #8

I find this one sad. 'Grandad', on the left, is obviously new. While, as you move from left to right, the graves get older.

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St Mary's Churchyard, Sompting #7

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St Mary's Churchyard, Sompting #6

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St Mary's Churchyard, Sompting #5

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St Mary's Churchyard, Sompting #4

I find this image a little macabre. These gravestones look so much like people queueing...

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St Mary's Churchyard, Sompting #3

This single black marble headstone sticks out amongst the lighter coloured ones.

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St Mary's Churchyard, Sompting #2

The same place; same morning. For the photography geeks among you, this is on Kodak Professional BW400CN - another C41 process B&W film.

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St Mary's Churchyard, Sompting #1

Same film, a couple of weeks later.

If you look around this site, you may have seen this composition before :-)

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Highdown Hill #2

Since I dusted off my serious cameras a year ago, I've been trying to standardise my methods and workflow. I work in 35mm film have it processed and scanned. So far, I've been shooting colour neg and using software to convert it to B&W.

Mistake! I was given an out of date roll of Ilford XP2 C41 process B&W film and these latest pix are the result. Frankly, I've been blown away by the quality - the smoothness, richness of tone and lack of grain. So it's back to one body with colour and the other with black & white.

I've done a little tweaking on this pic, but the two previous images are straight.

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Looking north from Highdown Hill

Looking north from Highdown Hill towards a low spot in the South Downs. I think the village of Clapham is just visible in the valley.

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Goats

I went for a walk over Highdown Hill, the closest piece of high ground to where I live and the sea. On the opposite side of the hill from where I started, I found these goats in a field, close to farm buildings.

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