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Photographer David Pexton and I recently crossed paths at the October meet of the British Beard Club. Here is his account of that afternoon and a selection of the wonderful photos he took.
On my recent short stint to the UK, I happened to stumble in to a pub in the Kings Cross area named The Queens Head. It’s a great little pub. Perfect for a Sunday afternoon pint and lunch. At the back of the bar, I noticed a lot of guys with beards. Not trendy young guys with beards, but extraordinary matured men with beards and couldn’t help admire these facial-haired wonders! I had to go over and introduce myself because it also just so happened that I had reluctantly taken out my Mamiya RZ (reluctant, because of its size) with the Polaroid back and some of that amazing Fuji FP3000b peel apart film.
So off I went and asked these guys if I could take their portraits. The sweet deal was that they would keep the print and I would keep the negative. I walked away with them looking a bit unsure as to my prerogative and didn’t get the reaction I was looking for until one fellow finished his sandwich sometime later and asked for his shot. Once taken, I peeled off the print from the negative and handed it to him. He loved it and others gathered round to look. Shortly after, they were all lining up to have theirs taken. What was meant to be a quick drink turned into 3 pints that these gents bought for me. They were seriously a great bunch of guys.
Scanning a Fuji Negative doesn’t come without problems. You have to keep that sucker dry and clean. Dust starts to attract almost immediately and you can’t put it face down because of the Goo. Unfortunately, I also had a situation where some brown paper menus became stuck to the negatives and after peeling them off, brown residue remained. I had to painstakingly wash them off with very tepid water, lightly rubbing the negative with my finger. I rescued most, but not all. These are a small collection of some of the negatives that made the cut. Some still have slight damage to them which I gave up trying to repair and decided this was part of the charm.
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