Square Saturday… British Railways 16-ton Mineral Wagon

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British Railways 16-ton Mineral Wagon
British Railways 16-ton Mineral Wagon
Ondu 6×6 Pocket Pinhole, 20s, f167 – Kentmere Pan 100
Developed in Ilford Ilfotec DD-X at 1:4, 10½ mins at 20°c.

This railway wagon has featured here before and to be honest I’d forgotten I’d photographed it on the Ondu…

You can tell I still forget how close to the subject you need to get when using this camera!

Digitised using Nikon D5600 & AF-S Micro-NIKKOR 40mm f/2.8, pixl-latr and Negative Lab Pro plugin with minimal cropping and tweaking in Lightroom Classic CC.

Throwback Thursday… LNER class J72 0-6-0T 69023

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LNER class J72 0-6-0T 69023 at Swanwick Junction, Midland Railway-Butterley)
LNER class J72 0-6-0T 69023
Panasonic Lumix GF-1, Lumix G Vario OIS 14-45 f/3.5~5.6 at 28mm, 1/320s, f8, ISO 400

What was I photographing on this day in previous years?

15 years ago it was this beautifully restored London & North Eastern Railway (LNER) class J72 0-6-0 tank locomotive at Swanwick Junction on the Midland Railway-Butterley.

Although built to a North Eastern Railway (NER) design dating from 1898 this sole remaining example was built in 1951 by British Railways (BR) at Darlington Works.

If memory serves 69023 was visiting the MR-B for a weekend-long model railway exhibition.

Freelance Wastrel’s 9th birthday!

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‘Freelance Wastrel’ was nine years old on Sunday 🎂 (and I forgot!)

During the past 12 months I’ve written 73 posts containing 78 images.

I’ve posted images from 16 digital cameras, 14 film cameras and 10 different film stocks are represented! (9 black & white, 1 colour).

Thank you all once again for reading, following and putting up with my waffling.

Throwback Thursday… Sidmouth Folk Festival

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The only way is Sidmouth - £7
The only way is Sidmouth – £7
Panasonic Lumix GX1, Olympus 15mm f/8 Body Cap Lens, 1/640s, f8, ISO 160

What was I photographing on this day in previous years?

13 years ago it was the Sidmouth Folk Festival in Devon.

Stormy Dawn - Exeter
Stormy Dawn – Exeter
Panasonic Lumix GX1, Olympus 15mm f/8 Body Cap Lens, 1/500s, f8, ISO 160

Not being a huge fan of folk music I mainly just wandered and snapped away but I did enjoy this chap…

Unicycling juggler, Sidmouth Folk Festival
Unicycling juggler, Sidmouth Folk Festival
Panasonic Lumix GX1, Panasonic LUMIX G X VARIO PZ 14-42mm f/3.5-5.6 at 22mm, 1/200s, f5.6, ISO 640

I didn’t get much use out of the Panasonic Lumix GX1, I found the 16MP Micro Four Thirds sensor to be far too noisy for my liking and I remember wishing I’d stuck with the 12MP Lumix GF1.

Monochrome Monday… Ford Pop – A work in progress

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Ford Pop - A work in progress
Ford Pop – A work in progress
Nikon FG, NIKKOR 50mm f/1.8 Ai-S – 1/250s, f/11 – Foma Pan 200
Developed in Adox FX-39 II at 1:9, 10 mins at 20°c.

This Ford Popular 103E caught my eye a couple of months ago and with the permission of its owner I snapped a few frames, on both film, and digital.

Digitised using Nikon D5600 & AF-S Micro-NIKKOR 40mm f/2.8, Nikon ES-2 Film Digitising Adapter and Negative Lab Pro plugin with minimal cropping and tweaking in Lightroom Classic CC.

Monochrome Monday… Fish & Chips, Cleethorpes

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Fish & Chips, Cleethorpes
Fish & Chips, Cleethorpes
Nikon F2S, NIKKOR S·C 50mm f/1.4, 1/250, f11 – Kodak Tri-X
Developed in Ilford Ilfotec DD-X at 1:4, 8 mins at 20°c.

An image from March this year… there’s something about somewhat run-down seaside resorts out of season that really appeals to me.

Digitised using Nikon D5600 & AF-S Micro-NIKKOR 40mm f/2.8, Nikon ES-2 Film Digitising Adapter and Negative Lab Pro plugin with minimal cropping and tweaking in Lightroom Classic CC.