‘The marvels of daily life are exciting; no movie director can arrange the unexpected that you find in the street.’
Robert Doisneau (French photographer) – April 14, 1912 – April 1, 1994.
Category: Photography
Wordless Wednesday… Reflection, Manchester, April 2018
Reflection, Manchester, April 2018
Fujifilm X-T1, Fujinon XF 90mm f2 R LM WR, 1/110s, f2, ISO 400
Monochrome Monday… Beyond hope…
Beyond hope…
Canon Sure Shot Sleek, – Kentmere 400
As good as the craftsmen in the Historic Carriage & Wagon Workshop at the Midland Railway-Butterley are, surely these wooden carriage bodies are beyond hope…
Scan by AgLab with minimal cropping and tweaking in Lightroom Classic CC.
Single frame… Sexy Mamma Love Spaghetti
Sexy Mamma Love Spaghetti, Nottingham, December 2017
Nikon FE2, Nikkor 45mm f/2.8P – 1/60s, f8, – Lomo Lady Grey 400 rated at ISO 320
Loving this low budget sign on a little restaurant in Hockley, Nottingham… I haven’t tried the food there yet but if the reviews are anything to go by I’m gonna!
Single frame… Photo Kodak Cine
Photo Kodak Cine, January 2016
Fuji Superia 400
I started my return to film photography in 2016 and was even worse at making notes then than I am now… as a result I’m not even sure which camera this image was shot on… I ‘think’ it was an Olympus XA that I’d received as part of the Emulsive ‘Secret Santa’ a few weeks previously but I’m not 100% sure!
This empty shop is in Donzy, a commune in the Nièvre department in central France, I don’t know how long it’s been vacant for but retail properties don’t seem to sell quickly in rural France so it may have been empty for years. I’d love to have seen it (and shopped there) when it was still in business…
Wordless Wednesday… Peacock
Peacock, Sheffield, September 2017
Fujifilm X-T1, Fujinon XF 18-135mm f3.5~5.6 R LM OIS WR at 74mm, 1/60s, f8, ISO 400
Monochrome Monday… Pit Wheel
Pit Wheel, February 2018.
Canon Sure Shot Sleek, – Kentmere 400
A pit (colliery) wheel memorial at the gates of the Midland Railway-Butterley site at Swanwick Junction displayed ‘in remembrance of the miners of the highedge district who gave of their lives in local pits and those of their comrades who for nine hundred years worked in darkness and danger to help turn the wheels of industry.’
Another shot from my first roll of Kentmere 400 film, one of three that was a Christmas present from my wife, the Canon Sure Shot Sleek was yet another charity shop find.
Scan by AgLab with minimal cropping and tweaking in Lightroom Classic CC.
Born on this day – Martine Franck
‘Photography came as a substitute. I was painfully shy and found talking to people difficult; a camera in hand gave me a function, a reason to be somewhere, a witness, but not an actor.’
Martine Franck (Belgian documentary and portrait photographer, co-founder and president of the Henri Cartier-Bresson Foundation) – April 2, 1938 – August 16, 2012.
Single frame… High rise
High rise, Sheffield, August 2017
Nikon F-301, Nikkor 50mm f/1.8 AI-S – 1/250s, f8 – Rollei Digibase CN 200 Pro rated at ISO 100
Instant gratification… Railway Viaduct
Railway Viaduct, March 2018
Polaroid 636 – Impossible B&W instant film
Another shot on Impossible Project type 600 black & white film, this time digitised using Google’s PhotoScan app for iOS.
Freelance Wastrel 