Month: October 2023

Throwback Thursday… Desperate Dan, Dawg & Minnie the Minx!

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Desperate Dan, Dawg & Minnie the Minx
Desperate Dan, Dawg & Minnie the Minx
Fujifilm X-T1, Fujinon XF 50mm f2 R WR, 1/1500s, f2.8, ISO 400

What was I photographing on this day in previous years?

Six years ago it was this statue of Desperate Dan from the much missed comic The Dandy.

Created by artists Tony and Susie Morrow the statue stands on High Street in Dundee, home to DC Thomson, the publisher of both The Dandy and The Beano (whose character Minnie the Minx can be seen in the background aiming her catapult at Dan!)

Slide Film Sunday… Santa Pod Raceway

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Koffel's Place
Koffel’s Place
Fujichrome Sensia 100

Wading through my film archive often requires detective work…

I’m reasonably certain these images are from the August bank holiday weekend in 1995. I’m also reasonably certain I’d got both my Nikon F-601 and F-801s loaded with slide film at the same time, this roll of Sensia 100 is marred by a hair trapped inside the camera, it shows up on every frame… the other roll (probably Agfa CT100) is fine.

I’ve also found a few rolls of colour negative film from the same weekend, they’re next to be digitised!

Bel Air
Bel Air
Fujichrome Sensia 100

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

Monochrome Monday… Shipley Railway Bridge

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Shipley Railway Bridge
Shipley Railway Bridge
Nikon F-601, AF Nikkor 35-70mm f/3.3-4.5 at 50mm – 1/60s, f11, – Foma Pan 200
Developed in Adox FX-39 II at 1:9, 10 mins at 20°c.

An image from last summer, and possibly my first roll of Foma Pan 200 film.

There are two parallel railway bridges over the Erewash Canal at this point and I love the way the light shines between them…

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.