Lower Largo, 25 October 2017
Lubitel 166B, Lomo 75mm f/4.5 lens – 1/60s, f5.6 – Rollei Digibase CN 200 Pro rated at ISO 100
Category: Photography
Born on this day – Alfred Eisenstaedt
‘It’s more important to click with people than to click the shutter.’
Alfred Eisenstaedt (German-born American photographer and photojournalist) – December 6, 1898 – August 23, 1995.
Monochrome Monday… Lower Largo, Fife
Drummochy Road, Lower Largo, Fife
Nikon F3HP, Nikon Series E 75~150mm f/3.5 at 75mm – 1/500s, f8, +1EV – Ilford Delta 100
Back in October I posted a few digital shots from a fantastic holiday in Lower Largo on the Fife coast in Scotland. I also shot a few rolls of film that week and got some of the results back from the lab a few days ago.
Drummochy Road leads down to the harbour from the west and crosses Keil Burn on a narrow bridge just out of shot to the right. The viaduct in the background once carried the Fife Coast Railway that ran from Thornton Junction in the west to St Andrews in the north. The line closed to passengers in September 1965 and completely in December 1966.
Scan by Peak Imaging with minimal cropping and tweaking in Lightroom Classic CC.
Born on this day – Simon Marsden
‘I remain firmly convinced that a hidden, very different ‘spirit world’ runs parallel to our own so-called ‘reality’, and that this other secret existence, which lies concealed behind material appearances, can be revealed to any one of us if the conditions are right and we allow ourselves to be receptive to it by conquering our innermost fears of the unknown.’
Simon Marsden (Sir Simon Neville Llewelyn Marsden, 4th Baronet (English photographer, author and ghosthunter) – December 1, 1948 – January 22, 2012.
Born on this day – Jeanloup Sieff
‘There are no reasons for my photographs, nor any rules; all depends on the mood of the moment.’
Jeanloup Sieff (French photographer) – November 30, 1933 – September 20, 2000.
Wordless Wednesday… Street art in Sheffield
Negative woman, Sheffield, November 2017
Fujifilm X-T10, Fujinon XF 18-55mm f2.8~4 R LM OIS at 25mm, 1/35s, f5.6, ISO 3200
Pink wall, Sheffield, November 2017
Fujifilm X-T10, Fujinon XF 18-55mm f2.8~4 R LM OIS at 31mm, 1/60s, f8, ISO 2500
Wordless Wednesday… Rhododendrons, Wakehurst Place
Rhododendrons, Wakehurst Place, November 2017
Fujifilm X-T1, Fujinon XF 18-135mm f3.5~5.6 R LM OIS WR at 41mm, 1/60s, f5.6, ISO 1250
Monochrome Monday… London
London, August 2015
Kodak 66 Model II, Anaston 75mm f/6.3 – Ilford XP2 Super
Taken with a Kodak 66 Model II folding camera found in charity shop a couple of years ago for the princely sum of £3!
Single frame… Autumn colour
Autumn Colour
Fujifilm X-T1, Fujinon XF 18-135mm f3.5~5.6 R LM OIS WR at 18mm, 1/60s, f8, ISO 400
It’s easy to forget about places right on the doorstep, small spaces, places without a big name to draw people in… This tiny patch of woodland is one such place, trapped between two main roads, sandwiched by a MacDonald’s and a care home. Thanks to the roads it’s never quiet but it is somehow peaceful and a very pleasant spot for a gentle wander with a camera.
A friend has been well and truly bitten by the photography bug and we explored the woodland together this morning to get a bit of practise with her new camera. I managed a few frames too, this is my favourite…
Wordless Wednesday… Kensington Place, Brighton
Kensington Place, Brighton, November 2017
Fujifilm X-T1, Fujinon XF 18-135mm f3.5~5.6 R LM OIS WR at 19mm, 1/150s, f11, ISO 400
Freelance Wastrel 