Category: Winter

Throwback Thursday… 2013 Great Central Railway winter steam gala

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Great Western Railway 6000 class 4-6-0 6023 KING EDWARD II
Great Western Railway 6000 class 4-6-0 6023 KING EDWARD II
Nikon D600, AF-S NIKKOR 24-120mm f/3.5-5.6G ED VR at 48mm, 1/400s, f8, ISO 400

What was I photographing on this day in previous years?

11 years ago it was a cold and snowy Great Central Railway winter steam gala.

London Midland & Scottish Railway class 8F 2-8-0 48624
London Midland & Scottish Railway class 8F 2-8-0 48624
Nikon D600, AF-S NIKKOR 24-120mm f/3.5-5.6G ED VR at 120mm, 1/500s, f8, ISO 400

These pics (and in fact most of my pics that day) were taken at Leicester North station while the locomotives were running round their respective trains.

Monochrome Monday… Osborne’s Pond, New Year’s Day 2018

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Osborne's Pond, New Year's Day 2018Osborne’s Pond, New Year’s Day 2018
Minolta Dynax 505si Super, Minolta AF 50mm f/1.7 – 1/60s, f8, – Ilford FP4+ rated at ISO 200

Wishing you all a happy and healthy 2024 with an image from New Year’s Day 2018.

This is another negative re-digitised to take advantage of the Negative Lab Pro plug-in for Lightroom that’s now part of my workflow.

Developed by AgLab
Digitised using Nikon D5600 & AF-S Micro-NIKKOR 40mm f/2.8 and Nikon ES-2 Film Digitising Adapter with minimal cropping and tweaking in Lightroom Classic CC.

Single frame… Vicarage Lane, Little Eaton

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Vicarage Lane, Little Eaton
Vicarage Lane, Little Eaton
Nikkormat FT2, NIKKOR-H Auto 50mm f/2, 1/125s, f8 – Kentmere Pan 400
Developed in Ilford Ilfosol 3 at 1:9, 6½ mins at 20°c.

A few years ago I found a shabby NIKKOR-H Auto 50mm f/2 lens in a charity shop for a fiver… I wouldn’t say the results are shabby though, would you?

Digitised using Nikon D5600 & AF-S Micro-NIKKOR 40mm f/2.8 and Nikon ES-2 Film Digitising Adapter with minimal cropping and tweaking in Lightroom Classic CC.

Throwback Thursday… Darley Dale station (Peak Rail)

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HE class WD 0-6-0ST WD132 (originally works no.3163 of 1944)-20130112 (Peak Rail)
Hunslet class WD 0-6-0ST WD132 at Darley Dale (Peak Rail)
Nikon D600, Nikkor AF-S 24-120mm f/3.5-5.6G at 40mm, 1/60s, f8, ISO 400

What was I photographing on this day in previous years?

Ten years ago it was this Hunslet class WD ‘Austerity’ 0-6-0ST steam locomotive at Darley Dale station at Peak Rail.

Peak Rail was one of the few heritage railways that ran trains in January and February but sadly they haven’t done so for a few years now… I’ll definitely be paying another visit when they do start running in March though!