‘A NOS MORTS GLORIEUX’
Nikon FE2, Nikkor 50mm f/1.8 AI-S, 1/125s, f8, CineStill 50 Daylight
Month: August 2018
Monochrome Monday… Tees Transporter Bridge
Tees Transporter Bridge, September 2017
Olympus μ[mju:] Zoom 115 – Fuji Neopan 400CN rated at ISO 200
The Tees Transporter Bridge links Middlesbrough on the south bank of the river Tees to Port Clarence on the north and is the longest transporter bridge in the world with a span (between the towers) of 590ft.
Built by Sir William Arrol & Co. of Glasgow between 1910 and 1911 the bridge replaced a ferry service and the travelling ‘gondola’, suspended from the bridge, can carry 200 people or nine cars across the river in just 90 seconds!
Scan by Peak Imaging with minimal cropping and tweaking in Lightroom CC.
Square Saturday… Another pic from the Diana+
Papas, Cleethorpes
Diana+ – Lomo CN 800
While I’m eagerly awaiting the postie rattling the letter box with an envelope of negatives from AgLab (an envelope that should include two rolls from my charity shop find Diana+), I thought I’d post another image from my first roll with said camera…
Lots more vignetting on this pic and I can only assume that this is down to the wider aperture (the ‘cloudy’ setting) that I used for this, the first shot on the roll.
Scan by AgLab with minimal cropping and tweaking in Lightroom Classic CC.
Born on this Day… Galen Rowell
‘You only get one sunrise and one sunset a day, and you only get so many days on the planet. A good photographer does the math and doesn’t waste either.’
Galen Rowell (wilderness photographer, adventure photojournalist and climber) – August 23, 1940 – August 11, 2002.
Wordless Wednesday… SNCF class BB 67300 diesel locomotive
SNCF class BB 67300 diesel locomotive 67357
Fujifilm X-T1, Fujinon XF 18-135mm f3.5~5.6 R LM OIS WR at 62mm, 1/120s, f11, ISO 400
Monochrome Monday… The Sound Tower
The Sound Tower, Chapel Six Marshes
Nikon FA, Nikkor 85mm f/2 AI-S – 1/125s, f11, – CineStill BwXX rated at ISO 250
The Sound Tower is part of The Structures on the Edge (SOTE) project, a fascinating series of installations on the Lincolnshire coast.
Designed by R Cannon and M Springett, London, the tower is ‘a device that focuses people’s senses and amplifies the windy nature of the site.’
I’ve no idea what the pipes in the foreground are for…
Single frame… TFiF
TFiF, Hull, August 2018
Fujifilm X-T1, Fujinon XF 18-135mm f3.5~5.6 R LM OIS WR at 66mm, 1/105s, f8, ISO 200
Spotted this street art in Hull today… ‘TFiF’ indeed! 😉
Wordless Wednesday… Shutter Shadows
Shutter shadows, August 2018
Fujifilm X-T1, Fujinon XF 18-135mm f3.5~5.6 R LM OIS WR at 41mm, 1/150s, f11, ISO 200
Born on this Day… Horst P. Horst
‘I like taking photographs, because I like life. And I like photographing people best of all, because most of all I love humanity.’
Horst P. Horst (German-American fashion photographer) – August 14, 1906 – November 18, 1999.
Monochrome Monday… Rusty Roller
Rusty roller, July 2018
Nikon FA, Nikkor 45mm f/2.8P – 1/60s, f8, – CineStill BwXX rated at ISO 250
It’s so easy to lose track of time when ‘researching’ something on the internet… In this case it’s the ageing Aveling-Barford roller seen above.
I mean, I don’t ‘need’ to know which model it is or when it was built to post an image of it here but I’ve still lost over an hour today browsing various websites for information and can still only hazard a guess that it’s a model A2 that dates from the 1930s…
Scan by AgLab with minimal cropping and tweaking in Lightroom Classic CC.
Freelance Wastrel 