Nothing too special here, just continuing where I left off at the end of the last roll: at the summit of Signal Hill.
Camera: Ricoh KR-10 Super
Lens: SMC Pentax-A 50mm f/2
Film: Ilford FP4+ shot at ISO 200.
Post Processing: GIMP
We start with a couple of trichromes from the summit looking over the city. This first one was a nightmare to process, since there are vanishingly few fixed points to align on. The leaves in the foreground move in the wind, and the clouds drift over time. This leaves only the city, which only constrains a relatively thin band of the composition.
The second trichrome came out much better in my opinion. The corner of the stone wall constrained the entire lower right quadrant well enough, and the coastline of the harbor did not shift significantly over the course of taking these photos. That, combined with the intense red of the flowers below, lead to a stunning trichrome. 
The true first frame of the roll had a small light leak from where I extracted the film leader again. It wasn’t over anything important, and wasn’t nearly as major in a previous roll, so I’m not too worried. 
This is kind of the inverse shot that terminated the previous roll. Funnily enough, while I waited a long time to get the previous composition, this one was required much less waiting, only a minute or so before I had a moment where no one walked through the scene. 
Oops, macro flowers! But wait, here’s a surprise… 
Macro flowers with a macro extension tube!! Getting the depth of field right was tricky, but by God look at the detail we get on those petals! 
Now descending the hill, I liked this composition with the small pond acting as a reflecting pool. 
The descent was no less steep than the ascent. I felt like a mountain goat at times, and was leaning well back while taking this shot. 
A little tough to expose this correctly, keeping details in the shadows while not blowing out the highlights. The compromise required adjusting the shutter speed a little lower than I would like, but the frame came out fine. 
Not technically a flower… but I like the depth of field effect here. You can see how fluffy the fronds are in the foreground, and are lead to assume about the background. That’s oddly pleasing to me, although I couldn’t explain why. 
Once more, mountain goat. Now we’re starting to see a hint of the city again, which makes for some nice compositions. 
Home again, home again. Here’s the Konica and Minolta beside the last remaining box of FP4+ I had. This box was a special anniversary edition for Ilford’s 145th anniversary. To me, that’s peculiar. Why not wait for 150? They better not be expecting to go out of business in the next five years!! 
Once more I wish I had either a wider lens, or just stepped back a bit. Without context, it’s hard to tell this mural is massive, at least five meters tall. The contrast leaves something to be desired, too. 
Speaking of contrast, I was very happy to have left this shot for a day that had bright sun and I was passing through in the early afternoon, so I could get the shadow casting itself nicely. The additional context gives a sense of depth that was missing in full, bright sunlight. 
Out for another walk, I tried to capture Mount Cargill and the radio tower. One day I will make my way up there, but I am yet to find the courage. That tower scares me! 
The light was fading at this point, especially for shooting at ISO 200. There’s zero detail on the trees, but I don’t mind it when contrasted with the sky. At least we can still tell those are trees in the skyline. 
These remaining frames are all from a walk down to Port Chalmers. This specific composition I thought would be a nice view under the bridge at Ravensdown Fertilizer Works, but unfortunately the construction of the wharf does not lend itself to the shot I was hoping for. This is nice enough, but… ah well. Expectation is the mother of disappointment, or something. 
I love this frame. The bird platform, divorced from any surrounding context, looks so lonely out in the harbor. The water itself is nicely captured, and the waves make for lovely reflections of the peninsula opposite. And the clouds still came out with enough contrast to be visible! This is probably one of my highlights over my photography thus far. 
Here’s a pair of exposures of two birds playing in a puddle. I sort of like the composition; industrial railway tracks and discarded wood piles contrast the wildlife nicely. 
I was very pleased to get a shot of the bird actively bathing, throwing water about and flapping its wings. Thankfully there was enough light to shoot at a shutter speed of 1/1000 and really freeze the motion! 
A nice view down the harbor. The post-processing here may be ba little heavy-handed, but I think the frame is nice. 
A similar composition but edited significantly less aggressively. I don’t know which is better… probably this one. 
Stopping the St. Leonards school for a rest. There was a lovely fence here that was interesting enough for a frame. 
But the main attraction at the school was the highly colorful playground that was begging for a trichrome. This one came out nice enough, but I struggled a lot with the alignment. Checkout the base of the slide, in which the layers are tremendously out of alignment! 
And the journey continues! Finally, after walking next to the train tracks for two hours, a train came by! 
Once more, the light was kind enough (read; bright enough) to freeze motion. The train wasn’t traveling at any great clip, which helped. Happy with this composition! 
I like these low angle shots, and in this composition in particular I like how we are deprived of any additional context. To me, this gives the feeling of the journey — just a walk with no destination, ignore all the highways and buildings and bushes and railways. Just focus on the steps before you. 
And one final look over the harbor to round out this roll. I think this was one of my most consistent rolls so far! There were no truly awful shots, and FP4+ gives pretty smooth results which are pleasing to look at. 
