‘To keep from going stale you must forget your professional outlook and rediscover the virginal eye of the amateur.’
Brassaï (Hungarian/French photographer) – September 9, 1899 – July 8, 1984.
Throwback Thursday… ‘Oh, Oh, Dyane’
‘Oh, Oh, Dyane’
Fujifilm X-T10, Fujinon XF 18-55mm f2.8~4 R LM OIS at 42mm, 1/125s, f8, ISO 1600
What was I photographing on this day in previous years?
Two years ago it was this sorry specimen… A Citroën Dyane slowly rotting away in the corner of a field in France.
The title of this image comes from the Fleetwood Mac song ‘Oh Diane’ (on the ‘Mirage’ album). The lyric popped into my head as I was editing the image…
Wordless Wednesday… Morston Quay
Morston Quay, September 2018
Fujifilm X-T1, Fujinon XF 18-135mm f3.5~5.6 R LM OIS WR at 20mm, 1/160s, f11, ISO 200
Monochrome Monday… Steamboat on the Trent & Mersey Canal
Steamboat on the Trent & Mersey Canal
Nikon FE2, Tamron Adaptall-2 35-70mm f/3.5 at 70mm – 1/250s, f8, – Lomo Lady Grey 400 rated at ISO 320
Another shot taken with a charity shop find Tamron Adaptall-2 35-70mm f/3.5 lens mounted on my Nikon FE2. A steamboat chuffs its way along the Trent & Mersey Canal at Shardlow during a recent(ish) ‘Photography Friday’ jaunt.
Scan by AgLab with minimal cropping and tweaking in Lightroom Classic CC.
Square Saturday… Funk
Funk
Diana+ – Lomo CN 400
I’m obviously still having problems with loading film into my charity shop find Diana+… I’m also getting too close to my subject matter as most of my shots are far too tightly framed, a problem exacerbated by my dodgy film loading technique.
This shot is OK though, something I spotted during a wander around Cosne-sur-Loire in the Nièvre department in central France.
Scan by AgLab with minimal cropping and tweaking in Lightroom Classic CC.
Wordless Wednesday… ‘A NOS MORTS GLORIEUX’
‘A NOS MORTS GLORIEUX’
Nikon FE2, Nikkor 50mm f/1.8 AI-S, 1/125s, f8, CineStill 50 Daylight
Monochrome Monday… Tees Transporter Bridge
Tees Transporter Bridge, September 2017
Olympus μ[mju:] Zoom 115 – Fuji Neopan 400CN rated at ISO 200
The Tees Transporter Bridge links Middlesbrough on the south bank of the river Tees to Port Clarence on the north and is the longest transporter bridge in the world with a span (between the towers) of 590ft.
Built by Sir William Arrol & Co. of Glasgow between 1910 and 1911 the bridge replaced a ferry service and the travelling ‘gondola’, suspended from the bridge, can carry 200 people or nine cars across the river in just 90 seconds!
Scan by Peak Imaging with minimal cropping and tweaking in Lightroom CC.
Square Saturday… Another pic from the Diana+
Papas, Cleethorpes
Diana+ – Lomo CN 800
While I’m eagerly awaiting the postie rattling the letter box with an envelope of negatives from AgLab (an envelope that should include two rolls from my charity shop find Diana+), I thought I’d post another image from my first roll with said camera…
Lots more vignetting on this pic and I can only assume that this is down to the wider aperture (the ‘cloudy’ setting) that I used for this, the first shot on the roll.
Scan by AgLab with minimal cropping and tweaking in Lightroom Classic CC.
Born on this Day… Galen Rowell
‘You only get one sunrise and one sunset a day, and you only get so many days on the planet. A good photographer does the math and doesn’t waste either.’
Galen Rowell (wilderness photographer, adventure photojournalist and climber) – August 23, 1940 – August 11, 2002.
Wordless Wednesday… SNCF class BB 67300 diesel locomotive
SNCF class BB 67300 diesel locomotive 67357
Fujifilm X-T1, Fujinon XF 18-135mm f3.5~5.6 R LM OIS WR at 62mm, 1/120s, f11, ISO 400
Freelance Wastrel 