a load of old cobbles

The snow settling on the cobbles reminded me of the bleak Bill Brandt prints highlighting wartime austerity.

It was an attractive technique, back in the day, to use grade 5 bromide paper to achieve high contrast prints, and over-developing thin negatives shot in low light to get that grainy effect was all the rage. Photoshop and Hipstamatic apps were science fiction then. I sound like an old fart, rabbiting on ...