Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Paris, September 2000
Nikon F90X Pro, Sigma 28~200mm f/3.8-5.6 DL Macro – Ilford Delta 400 rated at ISO 320
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Monochrome Monday… A few frames from Tideswell on JCH Street Pan 400
Forget Not The Dead
Nikon FA, Nikkor 50mm f/1.8 AI-S – 1/500s, f4 – JCH Street Pan 400 rated at ISO 320
One of the films that came back from the lab on Saturday was a roll of JCH Street Pan 400 that had been lurking in my Nikon FA since August last year!
Corner House, Tideswell
Nikon FA, Nikkor 50mm f/1.8 AI-S – 1/125s, f8 – JCH Street Pan 400 rated at ISO 320
Tideswell in the Derbyshire Dales (known locally as ‘Tidza’) is a beautiful village, the centrepiece of which is the Church of St John the Baptist, known as the ‘Cathedral of the Peak’.
The dull weather during my visit didn’t do the sights any favours but Bellamy Hunt’s JCH Street Pan 400 film has still delivered some nice, contrasty images…
1929 Ford Model A, Tideswell, October 2018
Nikon FA, Nikkor 50mm f/1.8 AI-S – 1/60s, f8 – JCH Street Pan 400 rated at ISO 320
Epson 4870 Photo scans with minimal cropping and tweaking in Lightroom Classic CC.
Single frame… Fishing peg, Fradley Reservoir
Fishing peg, Fradley Reservoir
Fujica GW690 – 1/250s, f11, – Bergger Pancro 400
Some more films back from the lab today… This is another image from the Fujica GW 690 that I’ve currently got on loan and it’s on my first roll of Bergger Pancro 400 film.
It’s difficult to judge from just eight shots but the results from this film are quite soft (contrast-wise) which isn’t something I’m particularly used to… I’m pleased with the images though and will order a couple more rolls to experiment with.
Epson 4870 Photo scan with minimal cropping and tweaking in Lightroom Classic CC.
Throwback Thursday… Steam on the North Norfolk Railway
LNER class B12 4-6-0 8572
Nikon D600, AF-S NIKKOR 24-85mm f/3.5-4.5G ED VR at 50mm, 1/160s, f8, ISO 200
What was I photographing on this day in previous years?
Five years ago it was this beautiful steam locomotive at the North Norfolk Railway (NNR). 8572 is a London & North Eastern Railway (LNER) class B12 4-6-0, built in 1928 by Beyer, Peacock & Co Ltd and withdrawn from British Railways service in 1961.
It arrived at the NNR in 1967 and was finally returned to steam in 1995 after a long and difficult restoration.
I’ve spent many hours photographing heritage railways in general and the North Norfolk in particular and I’m looking forward to more of the same this summer.
I should point out that this image was captured with the aid of a NNR lineside photographic pass.
Wordless Wednesday… Silver Birch (Betula pendula)
Silver Birch (Betula pendula)
Fujica GW690 – 1/60s, f4, – Kodak Portra 800 rated at ISO 400
Epson 4870 Photo scan with minimal cropping and tweaking in Lightroom Classic CC.
Monochrome Monday… He’ll be running round the fountain…*
* To the tune of ‘She’ll be coming ’round the mountain’ obviously!
He’ll be running round the fountain…
Contax T2, Carl Zeiss T* 38mm f/2.8 lens – 1/60s, f8, – Ilford Pan 100
A snapshot taken during the Photo Marathon Sheffield that my wife and I entered in October 2017.
Scan by Peak Imaging with minimal cropping and tweaking in Lightroom Classic CC.
Wordless Wednesday… Glass Bridge, Coventry
Glass Bridge, Coventry
Fujifilm X-T1, Fujinon XF 18-135mm f3.5~5.6 R LM OIS WR at 18mm, 1/60s, f16, ISO 200
Born on this day – Martine Franck
‘My grandfather killed himself falling off the dike in Ostend while photographing my two cousins. This can happen so easily when looking through a lens: for a split second nothing else exists outside the frame.’
Martine Franck (Belgian documentary and portrait photographer, co-founder and president of the Henri Cartier-Bresson Foundation) – April 2, 1938 – August 16, 2012.
Monochrome Monday… 120 Bridge Street
120 Bridge Street
Olympus OM-2 Spot/Program, F-Zuiko Auto-S 50mm f/1.8 – 1/100s, f8 – Ilford HP5 Plus rated at ISO 640
I’ve mentioned before the idea of photographing all the different ways in which house numbers are displayed, ancient and modern, simple or elaborate… maybe it’s time I got on with it?
Scan by AgLab with minimal cropping and tweaking in Lightroom Classic CC.
Single frame… Knife Angel, Coventry
Knife Angel, Coventry
Fujifilm X-T1, Fujinon XF 18-135mm f3.5~5.6 R LM OIS WR at 18mm, 1/420s, f8, ISO 400
Currently on display in Coventry, the National Monument Against Violence and Aggression, more commonly known as the ‘Knife Angel’ is a towering, poignant tribute to the lives lost to knife violence.
Artist Alfie Bradley disinfected and blunted more than 100,000 weapons before welding them together to form the angel. Thirty percent of the knives used in the sculpture were bloodied on arrival and came in biohazard bags.
It’s an incredibly moving piece of art and ironically I almost had a moment of ‘violence and aggression’ myself while viewing it… The urge to slap senseless the person who insisted on telling me ‘it’s a statue dedicated to Mick Dagger! Geddit? Mick DAGGER!’ was almost irresistible…
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