Witches Hat

 I took the 'Blad for walk along Portstewart Prom a while back - this was one of the better shots.  Yer man in the foreground is helping his friend finish her tub of ice-cream.  As I've said before, I think it's the law that you have ice cream when in Portstewart.  There are a number of sellers, including the famous Morelli's, which has been on the Prom since 1927.   I'm not a huge ice-cream fan and neither is my wife but we're the odd ones out around these parts.

The Crescent at Portstewart, on MGV RC paper

The 'Witches Hat' bandstand is quite the thing, isn't it?  In the summer time you get all sorts happening there - preachers and bands and that sort of thing.  But its main purpose, it would appear, is to provide a handy shelter from the rain when it comes (as it inevitably does).  It can get a bit cosy in there at times!  Well, pre-COVID times, that is.

As you can see, unfortunately I had a rare process fail on this film - doubly annoying when there were one or two half-decent shots on it.  It was the very last bit of a 5l batch of ID-11 developer and by the look of things there must have been some undissolved particles in it, which I failed to notice.  It's the first time that's happened (to me) and if it happens again I'll consider switching to a developer that comes in liquid form.  But I'm used to ID-11 - it's pretty cheap and I like it for HP5+, so I'll stick with it for now.