Street shadows, Mansfield
Konica Big Mini – Ilford HP5+
The simple things that catch your eye when you’re roaming the streets in the sunshine…
Scan by AgLab with minimal cropping and tweaking in Lightroom Classic CC.
Born on this day… Bob Carlos Clarke
‘The big problem for photography is the machine called ‘Camera’. Billions of snaps are churned out, most worth less than the chemicals and paper that created them. This relatively new and brilliant invention has been brutalised by the fumbling fingers and unfocused eyes of the ordinary man. Politicans, pathologists, parents, paparazzi – everyone’s a photographer.
And now photography lies bleeding at the feet of Art, and won’t get up until 67 billion ‘ordinary users’ are rounded up and stripped of their accessories.’
Bob Carlos Clarke (British documentary, portrait and fetish photographer) – June 24, 1950 – March 25, 2006.
Photography Friday… Shardlow
The Trent & Mersey Canal, Shardlow
Nikon D5500, AF-S Nikkor 18-55mm f3.5-5.6 G II at 30mm, 1/160s, f11, ISO 125
In recent weeks Fridays have become ‘Photography Fridays’ with myself and my camera finding friend Rachel taking ourselves off out for the day with far more photographic equipment in tow than is sensible…
Today we ended up in Shardlow in Derbyshire, a village on both the River Trent and the Trent & Mersey Canal, and spent the day snapping and ‘Gongoozling’ (and managed a pub lunch!)
These shots are pretty much as they came out of the camera (my wife’s Nikon D5500) but I also managed to get through a roll of film in my Nikon FE2. Rachel was also shooting film (a new thing for her) and somehow (on such a glorious day, with such a colourful subject) we both managed to have black & white film loaded!
Narrow boats, The Wharf, Shardlow
Nikon D5500, AF-S Nikkor 18-55mm f3.5-5.6 G II at 26mm, 1/200s, f11, ISO 125
Wordless Wednesday… NOT Market Day
NOT Market Day
Konica Big Mini – Ilford HP5+
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Monochrome Monday… Footbridge over the railway line
Footbridge over the railway line
Konica Big Mini – Ilford HP5+
A snapshot taken while waiting for my wife to collect me from the Victoria Hotel in Beeston, Nottinghamshire, after a couple of hours sampling the local ales…
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Born on this day… Irving Penn
‘Using simple equipment and daylight alone is for me a pleasure and a replenishment.’
Irving Penn (American fashion and portrait photographer) – June 16, 1917 – October 7 2009.
Born on this day… Margaret Bourke-White
‘The camera is a remarkable instrument. Saturate yourself with your subject, and the camera will all but take you by the hand and point the way.’
Margaret Bourke-White (American documentary photographer) – June 14, 1904 – August 27 1971.
Wordless Wednesday… Canalside crane, Fradley Junction
Canalside crane, Fradley Junction
Nikon FA, Nikon Series E 50mm f/1.8 – 1/1000s, f4 – out of date Kodak 200 rated at ISO 100
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Monochrome Monday… A wedding and Kodak T-Max P3200
Quiet please!
Nikon FA, Nikkor 85mm f/2 AI-S – Kodak T-Max P3200 rated at ISO 1600
Rosie and Daniel’s wedding must have been the first that I’ve attended in 20 years where I wasn’t actually expected to take photos… needless to say, I still packed a camera though.
I couldn’t resist trying some of the recently reintroduced Kodak T-Max P3200 black & white film and the above shot is one of the first I took. I’m reasonably happy with the results (even if I didn’t quite nail the focus), the grain isn’t too obtrusive and I think there’s just the right amount of contrast.
I’ve a couple more rolls in stock… what to shoot with them?
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Single frame… Anderby Creek
Steps up to the Round and Round House, Anderby Creek
Fujifilm X-T1, Fujinon XF 18-135mm f3.5~5.6 R LM OIS WR at 44mm, 1/80s, f11, ISO 400
An enjoyable trip to the Lincolnshire coast today, starting off at Anderby Creek, north of Chapel St. Leonards. A few hundred metres south of the tiny hamlet is the ‘Round and Round House’ a small building ideal for bird watching and accessible from the beach via a wooden boardwalk and steps… Part of the Structures on the Edge (SOTE) project, the building was designed by Soma Design of Morecambe and is one of a number of architectural installations along the 10 mile stretch of coast between Chapel St. Leonards and Mablethorpe.
Freelance Wastrel 