Category: Canals

Monochrome Monday… Mills Dockyard

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Mills DockyardMills Dockyard
Nikon FM, Nikkor 50mm f/2 Ai – 1/125s, f8 – Ilford FP4 Plus
Developed in Adox Rodinal at 1:25, 9 mins at 20°c.

Mills Dockyard, on the Erewash Canal near Long Eaton… A day of gongoozling and a pub lunch is long overdue!

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.

Monochrome Monday… Marple Junction

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Marple JunctionMarple Junction
Nikon F2S, NIKKOR-S 35mm f/2.8, 1/250, f11 – Kodak Tri-X
Developed in Adox Rodinal at 1:25, 7 mins at 20°c.

An image from July last year (but not developed until a couple of weeks ago).

Marple Junction is where the Peak Forest Canal and Macclesfield Canal meet and is an excellent location for a spot of ‘gongoozling’.

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.

Square Saturday… Sawley Lock, Worldwide Pinhole Photography Day 2022

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Sawley Lock, WWPDSawley Lock, WWPD
Ondu 6×6 Pocket Pinhole + ND8 filter, 20s, f167 – Kodak T-Max 100
Developed in Ilford Ilfotec DD-X at 1:4, 7 mins at 20°c.

An image from Worldwide Pinhole Photography Day 2022… taken whilst enjoying a pint (or three) at The Lock Keeper’s Rest micro pub at Sawley.

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.