Finding the combination with a new camera, new size, new film et al. sometimes doesn't happen as quick as we like.  I've had more than my share of good luck with this so figure this time I'm dues paying.

The lens is a 12" Darlot Landscape Meniscus.  Used with no stops it is not so different from any of the later portait menisci that followed.  It has a wonderful diffused glow.  The film is what bit me this time.  And the developer.  I love the Pyrochatecol because it helps me out in the high end of the curve when I can't chop exposures close enough.  The problem I'm having here is that this film had perforations for a tractor drive and the stain tends to run into the film extra where the perfs are.  So I got the lines you see.  I like the pictures enough to do them over exactly as you see but with different film and perhaps even switching to Rodinal.  I'll get the combination and then, look out.