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Throwback Thursday… 2013 Great Central Railway winter steam gala

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Great Western Railway 6000 class 4-6-0 6023 KING EDWARD II
Great Western Railway 6000 class 4-6-0 6023 KING EDWARD II
Nikon D600, AF-S NIKKOR 24-120mm f/3.5-5.6G ED VR at 48mm, 1/400s, f8, ISO 400

What was I photographing on this day in previous years?

11 years ago it was a cold and snowy Great Central Railway winter steam gala.

London Midland & Scottish Railway class 8F 2-8-0 48624
London Midland & Scottish Railway class 8F 2-8-0 48624
Nikon D600, AF-S NIKKOR 24-120mm f/3.5-5.6G ED VR at 120mm, 1/500s, f8, ISO 400

These pics (and in fact most of my pics that day) were taken at Leicester North station while the locomotives were running round their respective trains.

Square Saturday… Nottingham Canal with the Chroma Cameras Cube (again)

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Nottingham Canal, August 2023
Nottingham Canal, August 2023
Chroma Cameras Cube, 30mm f/150 Pinhole + ND8 filter – 20s, f150, – Kentmere Pan 100
Developed in Ilford Ilfotec DD-X at 1:4, 10½ mins at 20°c.

Another image from the first roll through a Chroma Cameras Cube pinhole 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.

Square Saturday… British Waterways building

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British Waterways3
British Waterways building, August 2023
Chroma Cameras Cube, 30mm f/150 Pinhole + ND8 filter – 15s, f150, – Kentmere Pan 100
Developed in Ilford Ilfotec DD-X at 1:4, 10½ mins at 20°c.

Another image from the first roll through a Chroma Cameras Cube pinhole 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… Peak Rail (again)

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Hunslet class WD 0-6-0ST LORD PHIL at Rowsley South (Peak Rail)Hunslet class WD 0-6-0ST LORD PHIL at Rowsley South (Peak Rail)
Nikon D600, AF-S NIKKOR 24-85mm f/3.5-4.5G ED VR at 78mm, 1/640s, f8, ISO 400

What was I photographing on this day in previous years?

Ten years ago it was it was this Hunslet class WD ‘Austerity’ 0-6-0ST steam locomotive at Rowsley South station at Peak Rail.

I’ve just realised this post is almost identical to this one from January 12 2023… same railway, different loco!

Monochrome Monday… Hartshead Square car park

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Hartshead Square car parkHartshead Square car park
Nikon F3HP, Nikkor 105mm f/2.5 Ai-S, 1/125s, f8 – Ilford FP4 Plus
Developed in Ilford DDX at 1:4, 10 mins at 20°c.

A photo from this time two years ago, taken during one of my frequent wanders around the City of Sheffield.

If memory serves it was taken for an architectural photography challenge on Twitter…

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.