Category: Monochrome Monday

Monochrome Monday… Narrow Boats, Langley Mill Basin

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Narrow Boats, Langley Mill BasinNarrow Boats, Langley Mill Basin
Nikon F2S, NIKKOR S·C 50mm f/1.4, 1/250, f11 – Kodak Tri-X
Developed in Ilford Ilfotec DD-X at 1:4, 8 mins at 20°c.

An image from an Erewash Canal Preservation and Development Association event at Langley Mill Basin last May… an event where the narrow boats were packed in like sardines!

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… Wellington Hotel, Cromer

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Wellington Hotel, Cromer
Wellington Hotel, Cromer
Canon EOS 5, Canon EF 28-135mm f/3.5-5.6 IS USM at 28mm, 1/90s, f8 – Ilford Delta 400 Professional
Developed in Ilford DDX at 1:4, 8 mins at 20°c.

Another image from the first roll of film through my charity shop find Canon EOS 5.

I loved how the sunlight (remember that?) projected the lettering on the door of the Wellington Hotel onto the doorframe. I’m not so keen on the obvious barrel distortion at the wide end of my Canon EF 28-135mm lens though…

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… The Waterfront, Norwich

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The Waterfront, Norwich
The Waterfront, Norwich
Canon EOS 5, Canon EF 28-135mm f/3.5-5.6 IS USM at 70mm, 1/250s, f8 – Ilford Delta 400 Professional
Developed in Ilford DDX at 1:4, 8 mins at 20°c.

Waterfront buildings on the River Wensum in Norwich, photographed on an unseasonably warm 18 March this year… also the very first image from a charity shop find Canon EOS 5, a camera I coveted in the early 1990s when using a Canon EOS 1000FN.

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… Shopper Shadow

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Shopper ShadowShopper Shadow
Pentax Zoom 105 Super – Fuji Neopan 400CN

I’m still struggling to find any motivation for photography at the moment and that’s translating into a lack of posts here… But I have exposed a couple of rolls of film this past couple of weeks and I’m hoping to start on my developing backlog tomorrow.

In this post I mentioned how looking at old(er) images can be interesting from a point of view of seeing what’s changed locally and the above image is an example of that.

This alleyway linked two of the main shopping streets in town and although it’s still accessible from the other end, this end is now home to a carpet shop!

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… The Angel, Ripley

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The Angel, RipleyThe Angel, Ripley
Pentax Zoom 105 Super – Fuji Neopan 400CN

I’ve not had much enthusiasm for photography this past couple of weeks, other than feeling a little under the weather I’m not sure why but I’m sure the feeling is something everyone with a hobby can relate to at some point…

But in a burst of enthusiasm I’ve spent the last hour digitising some negatives from 2015 that had previously ‘slipped the net’ and although I’ve found nothing spectacular it’s interesting to see what’s changed hereabouts in just nine years.

The Angel pub opened in 2004, converted from a building that had at one time been ‘The Jubilee Club’ dating from 1897. It was never a pub that registered on my boozy radar (although my step-mum regularly met friends there for coffee) and it closed down on 8 April last year.

Allegedly, the Angel statue (visible above the entrance on the right) and a number of the pub’s fittings were purchased from the set of the Carlton Television soap opera ‘Crossroads’ (a revival of the ATV/Central Independent Television series that ran from 1964-1988) the final episode of which aired in 2003.

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… Reading…

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Reading…Reading…
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.

I’m definitely looking forward to warm, bright days, I’m fed up with damp and dreary…

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.