Reading at the beach, Portobello, August 2019
Nikon F-801s, AF Nikkor 24-50mm f/3.3-4.5 at 50mm, 1/500s, f5.6, Lomography Lady Grey rated at ISO 320
Scan by Ag Photo Lab with minimal cropping and tweaking in Lightroom Classic CC.
Category: Black & white
Monochrome Monday… Cromer Pier
Cromer Pier, September 2019
Fujica GW690 – 1/250s, f11, – Ilford Delta 400 Professional rated at ISO 320
Another image from the batch of Fujica GW690 negatives that I recently received back from the lab…
Cromer Pier is a Grade II listed structure and dates from 1901. Designed by Douglass and Arnott, the 495ft long pier is home to the Cromer Lifeboat Station and the Pavilion Theatre.
Epson 4870 Photo scan with minimal cropping and tweaking in Lightroom Classic CC.
Monochrome Monday… Morston Quay
Morston Quay, September 2019
Fujica GW690 – 1/250s, f11, – Foma Retropan 320
An image from my first (and apart from a roll currently loaded in my Olympus OM20, possibly my last) roll of Foma Retropan 320…
I’ve not heard many positive reports of this film, with a number of people saying that it’s very lacking in contrast… I’d agree with that (although maybe a grey day on the North Norfolk coast isn’t an entirely fair test) but it also seems to be very easily damaged, about half of the shots are pretty much unusable due to what look like smears on the emulsion. Other films shot and processed at the same time as this roll (mainly Ilford Delta 400) are perfectly fine with just the occasional dust spot.
Epson 4870 Photo scan with minimal cropping and tweaking in Lightroom Classic CC.
Monochrome Monday… Tractors, Cromer
Tractors, Cromer
Fujica GW690 – 1/500s, f16, – Ilford Delta 400 Professional rated at ISO 320
Another image from the batch of Fujica GW690 negatives that I recently received back from the lab… and some more tractors used for hauling fishing boats onto the beach at Cromer in Norfolk.
Epson 4870 Photo scan with minimal cropping and tweaking in Lightroom Classic CC.
Throwback Thursday… Gateway, Coniston, September 2018
Gateway, Coniston, September 2018
Nikon F3HP, Nikkor 35mm f/2 AI-S – 1/60s, f5.6, – Kentmere 400 rated at ISO 320
What was I photographing on this day in previous years?
Last year I was accompanying a pal of mine (Hi Mark!) on his annual pilgrimage from Derbyshire to the Lake District to climb a hill in memory of his father. I didn’t join him on his climb up the 2,634 feet high Old Man of Coniston but did have a gentle stroll down the old Furness Railway line towards Torver and this shot was taken just before I took a detour off the path for a pint in The Sun Inn.
Today we’re off to the Lakes again, Mark’s got his Kendal Mint Cake and I’ve got my camera…
Scan by AgLab with minimal cropping and tweaking in Lightroom Classic CC.
Wordless Wednesday… Gated but dilapidated…
Gated but dilapidated…
Fujifilm X-T2, Fujinon XF 18-55mm f2.8~4 R LM OIS at 35mm, 1/250s, f11, ISO 200
Monochrome Monday… Fordson Major tractor, Cromer, September 2019
Fordson Major tractor, Cromer, September 2019
Fujica GW690 – 1/500s, f11, – Ilford Delta 400 Professional rated at ISO 320
Another image from the batch of negatives that I received back from the lab last week.
JPR 292, one of several Fordson Major tractors used for hauling fishing boats onto the beach at Cromer in Norfolk. This example was first registered in May 1956 in the Bournemouth area.
Epson 4870 Photo scan with minimal cropping and tweaking in Lightroom Classic CC.
Wordless Wednesday… Old school Kwakker ‘Old No.7’
Old school Kwakker ‘Old No.7’
Fujifilm X-T2, Fujinon XF 18-135mm f3.5~5.6 R LM OIS WR at 55mm, 1/200s, f5, ISO 200
Monochrome Monday… Midland Railway-Butterley on Paterson Acupan
‘Devious’ Diesel
Nikon F-801s, AF Nikkor 85mm f/1.8 – 1/4000s, f8, – Paterson Acupan 800 rated at ISO 1600
A couple of images from a sheet of negatives that turned up while I was looking for something else yesterday…
For a while in the late 1990s Paterson Photographic sold their own brand of film with both ISO 200 and 800 emulsions being available.
Pushing the ISO 800 film one stop really accentuated the grain but I love the effect on these images, taken at my local heritage railway, the Midland Railway-Butterley.
‘Devious’ Diesel is a character in the Thomas the Tank Engine books (I’ve probably still got my childhood copy of ‘Duck and the Diesel Engine’ squirrelled away somewhere…) and the fibreglass face is being worn here by British Railways class 08 diesel shunter 08590 (built in 1959 at Crewe).
The other diesel loco in these images is probably Andrew Barclay Sons & Co Ltd 0-4-0DM No.2 (works no.416 of 1957) that was preserved at Butterley after it was withdrawn from use at Castle Donington Power Station.
Water crane
Nikon F-801s, AF Nikkor 85mm f/1.8 – 1/4000s, f8, – Paterson Acupan 800 rated at ISO 1600
Nikon COOLSCAN IV ED scans with minimal cropping and tweaking in Lightroom Classic CC.
Square Saturday… Pylon down (once more with feeling!)
Pylon down, May 2018
Seagull 4A – 1/60s, f8 – Ilford Pan F Plus
This particular scene has featured on this blog before, here and here, but I couldn’t resist posting yet another image, this time taken on a charity shop find Seagull 4A twin-lens reflex camera.
Scan by AgLab with minimal cropping and tweaking in Lightroom Classic CC.
Freelance Wastrel 