‘[Being a great photojournalist is] a matter of getting out on a damn limb and sawing it off behind you.’
Elizabeth “Lee” Miller (American fashion model, photographer and war correspondent) – April 23, 1907 – July 21, 1977.
Category: Photography
Monochrome Monday… Jitty, Belper
Jitty, Belper
Olympus OM-2 Spot/Program, F-Zuiko Auto-S 50mm f/1.8 – 1/200s, f8 – Ilford HP5 Plus rated at ISO 640
Jitty, Ginnel (or Gennel), Twitchel, Twitten or Snicket? What do you call an alleyway like this?
Scan by AgLab with minimal cropping and tweaking in Lightroom Classic CC.
Single frame… Knife Angel, Coventry
Knife Angel, Coventry
Fujica GW690 – 1/500s, f11, – Ilford Delta 400 Professional
One more image from my recent visit to Coventry to see the National Monument Against Violence and Aggression, more commonly known as the ‘Knife Angel’.
Yet another shot from the Fujica GW 690 camera that I’ve got on loan…
Epson 4870 Photo scan with minimal cropping and tweaking in Lightroom Classic CC.
Wordless Wednesday… Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Paris, September 2000
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
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(NNR). 8572 is a London & North Eastern Railway (LNER) class B12 4-6-0, built in 1928 by Beyer, Peacock & Co Ltd and withdrawn from British Railways service in 1961.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.
Freelance Wastrel 