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
Category: Photography
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.
Wordless Wednesday… The Wharf Shed
The Wharf Shed, February 2018
Fujifilm X-T1, Fujinon XF 18-135mm f3.5~5.6 R LM OIS WR at 62mm, 1/60s, f8, ISO 400
Monochrome Monday… A hole in the roof
A hole in the roof, January 2017
Kershaw 450, Otar Anastigmat 80mm f/4.5 – 1/50s, f8.5, – Ilford HP5+
A folder of scans from a roll of Ilford HP5+ that I shot last January turned up this afternoon (when I was looking for something else entirely!) so I thought I might as well post an image from it…
Luckily this hole is in the roof of one of the two disused piggeries at a friend’s house in the Nièvre department of France. It was shot on Ilford HP5+ using a Kershaw 450 folding camera that I’m planning on writing about in an upcoming post… watch this space as they say…
Scan by Peak Imaging with minimal cropping and tweaking in Lightroom CC.
Born on this day – Leonard Nimoy
‘Live long and prosper 🖖’
(I couldn’t resist that! Photography-related quotation below…)
‘Most of my images have been done in-studio, under very controlled lighting conditions. There have been a few that have been shot in nature, but even then they were shot almost exclusively at night, and again, under controlled lighting conditions.’
Leonard Simon Nimoy (American actor, film director, photographer, author, singer and songwriter) – March 26, 1931 – February 27, 2015.
Instant gratification… Summer house
Summer house, March 2018
Polaroid 636 – Impossible B&W instant film
A few weeks ago I took advantage of an offer on some Impossible Project type 600 black & white film from MrCad, this is my first image, shot with a charity shop find Polaroid 636 Closeup camera.
I quite like it, I’m looking forward to shooting more…
Born on this day – Mary Ellen Mark
‘Photograph the world as it is. Nothing’s more interesting than reality.’
Mary Ellen Mark (American photographer) – March 20, 1940 – May 25, 2015.
