The #FrugalFilmProject, August 2025: The One Where We Took The Golden Wonder On Holiday

The #FrugalFilmProject, August 2025: The One Where We Took The Golden Wonder On Holiday. 

We generally spend the month of August on holiday down in Meco, which means that most of the time I don't have my Frugal Film camera with me. This usually meansI either I miss a month, or find myself rushing around to grab something in the last couple of days after we get back. This year, though, I have the Golden Wonder, and that little beastie is small enough to carry around in a pocket. So I decanted Harman Phoenix into a couple of Rapid canisters and took it with me.

What I especially wanted to try this month was diptychs and triptychs, two or more half-frame images presented alongside each other. First of all, I took the Golden Wonder loaded with a canister of redscaled Harman Phoenix into the woods between the village of Meco and the Praia Ria da Prata. These are the pine woods that we have to walk through to get to the beach, and I've taken a lot of images of these trees over the years.

The afternoon sun falls sideways on the trees, and it's perfect for redscale. This time I was focusing on isolated trees, and I tried to fill each side of the diptych with one tree. I also found a few telegraph and electricity poles, so of course I had to get a few diptychs of these, too. On the whole,  it was a fun exercise, and it got me outside on a day that it was too windy to go on the beach.

The second canister was filled with 'normal' Harman Phoenix (the roll was not reversed, as for redscale), but this time the results were less satisfactory. I still got some nice results, especially from the tripych and the sunsets, but some of the images were really disappointing. For some reason, with the Golden Wonder I always get better results with redscaled Phoenix. I've posted the both rolls in albums on my Flickr, light leaks and all, if you want to see the rest of the images. You can find the normally exposed Phoenix here (), and the redscaled version, here ().

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