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Blooming magnolia tree (Leica M4-2, Voigtländer Heliar 40, Ilford FP5):

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M4, Nokton 50mm/ 1.5, 400TX

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villa de zaáchila, mexico 2011

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At the local pottery....turning.   [m6, hp5 at 1 stop push]     

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As above, still turning... same camera, film etc.

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Bouilleur de cru    [m6, wolfen P400 pushed 1 stop]

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Testing the product at the bouilleur de cru. Cheers!   [m6, Wolfen P400 at 800]

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There used to be a Swiss lady in the village in the Var where I have a house, who distilled her own cherry fruit and cherry blossom eaux de vie. Before retiring she had been a research chemist and her still was a quite high tech one all made with laboratory glassware and gleaming copper pipes, rather than an old beer keg and retired plumbing. The cherry blossom liqueur was particularly good. Sadly she is no longer with us. A number of the locals make liqueur by just steeping fruit and sugar in 96% Ethyl Alcohol, that the local village store sells. It is less than wonderful. When I first bought the house some 20 years ago, there were a couple of elderly retired agricultural workers, who used to buy grape juice and the 96% alcohol from the village shop, to make their own highly alcoholic "wine" at less than it could be bought. 

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1 hour ago, Suede said:

Testing the product at the bouilleur de cru. Cheers!   [m6, Wolfen P400 at 800]

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Thanks for sharing more pics from this scene.
Wonderful close to life pictures.

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2 hours ago, wlaidlaw said:

There used to be a Swiss lady in the village in the Var where I have a house, who distilled her own cherry fruit and cherry blossom eaux de vie. Before retiring she had been a research chemist and her still was a quite high tech one all made with laboratory glassware and gleaming copper pipes, rather than an old beer keg and retired plumbing. The cherry blossom liqueur was particularly good. Sadly she is no longer with us. A number of the locals make liqueur by just steeping fruit and sugar in 96% Ethyl Alcohol, that the local village store sells. It is less than wonderful. When I first bought the house some 20 years ago, there were a couple of elderly retired agricultural workers, who used to buy grape juice and the 96% alcohol from the village shop, to make their own highly alcoholic "wine" at less than it could be bought. 

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Thank you for sharing your experience surrounding 'alcool' in the Var, Wilson. The tradition of the bouilleur de cru is unfortunately fading out. They are licenced distillers but I hear the government does not issue these (licences) any longer. So, as the last holders pass on, there will be no more to replace them.

My photos are of a local resident, Jean-Louis' operation and this was his last distillation stint. He has sold his equipment, I hear. Sadly, he lost his wife just a few days before I took these photos. He might not have distilled this year at all after her passing but for the fact that he honoured commitments made prior. 

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There is a Musée de la Distillerie at Les Condamines, 04330 (temporarily closed at the moment), which shows a wonderful colour film made in the early 1970's. This shows a travelling distillery pulled by a steam traction engine, that used to go from fruit farm to fruit farm. The farmers would allow batches of their fruit to ferment and then it was tipped into the stills on the trailer pulled by the traction engine.  I seem to remember (I was last there 25 years ago) that steam from the engine was used to heat the stills. Rather sadly the film goes on to say that this was the last season the elderly owners of the travelling distillery were going to be in operation. I have seen a small still being operated off a cart in a street but cannot now recall where that was, maybe in Croatia. Given that there was no thermometer in sight to minimise methyl alcohol content, I decided not to partake. 

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Workers - at a protest for their jobs

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Finally scanned (Plustek) a roll of HP5 that I took with my M4 35mm Lux on a trip to Norway some time ago. This building caught my eye - it's somewhere in the town of Bodo, just inside the Arctic Circle. D76 1+1.

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On the same trip I ended up in Jena, Germany. Same camera & film. Only wish I'd had a Zeiss lens for this shot but alas I don't own one (yet).

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Nikon F2 Photomic Micro-Nikkor 55 f/3.5 ADOX Mission 

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7 hours ago, Mr.Prime said:

On the same trip I ended up in Jena, Germany. Same camera & film. Only wish I'd had a Zeiss lens for this shot but alas I don't own one (yet).

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That's a nice architectural shot, Mr Prime. As this is a showcase for film and your vision, though, don't you think that some time cleaning up the frame from dust marks etc would help optimize the impact the picture makes? 

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