It’s not always pretty colours.
Rolleiflex 3.5E3 (Xenotar lens)
Ilford Pan F Plus film
I like the combination of Ilford HP5 Plus and Microdol-X Developer (I am using vintage packets of the latter; once it’s gone it’s gone so I will need to switch to the equivalent from other suppliers). It was a very dull day light-wise in the Beaches recently when I shot this but film/developer combination managed to pick out enough contrast.

Hasselblad 500CM, 50mm/f4 Distagon lens
Ilford HP5+ film, developed in stock Microdol-X
There is a song by The Rankin Family called The Fisherman’s Son, that contains the line: “I stared at the bright lights the dark city ways” and that line comes to mind when I look at this image of King street in the Theatre District at night recently.

Voigtlander Bessa R2M, 35mm/f.17 Voigtlander Ultron lens
Kodak Tri-X film shot at E.I. 3200
2 hour semi-stand development in Rodinal