Kodak

Are Dahlia’s ever failures?

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These days I probably spend an average of two hours a day in the garden and there is always more to do than time permits. My first gardening activities took place in a school garden in the English Lake District. Mr Sharples the teacher impressed on the whole class of twelve or so children that while this was a vegetable garden every garden had to have a few beds and a variety of flowers growing in every month of the year. Some species of flowers had varieties that lasted for several months in the year one of these was the Dahlia of which there must be thousands varieties. To this day Dahlias are still one of my favourite flowers and if there are none present in the garden it feels like there is missing. As there is going to be a frost tonight so this maybe one of the last for 2025.
Canon 7 SLR and a kit lens with a +2 close up lens. Kodak Portra 160.

Digital Solutions, a modern ghost sign?

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Kodak Express lost in Hobart

More or less in the centre of Hobart Tasmania Sits a fine Art Deco building which harks back to the days when Kodak was one of the largest companies on the planet and at one point even had a factory in Melbourne that employed 2300 people. How fitting that this building adopted by the company in the early days of this century looks as if it was a cinema from the 1930s! As it happens only the upper part of the building remains in the indelible Kodak yellow, the lower part not visible from its side of the street is a Chocolate shop and more appropriate the upper story is now an architectural practice. Sadly there is only 2 shops in the whole of Tasmania that even sell Kodak film!