Sun through the silver (birch)
Contax T2, Carl Zeiss T* 38mm f/2.8 lens – 1/60s, f16, – Ilford Pan 100
Scan by Peak Imaging with minimal cropping and tweaking in Lightroom Classic CC.
Single frame… Bluebells
Bluebells
Fujifilm X-T1, Fujinon XF 18-135mm f3.5~5.6 R LM OIS WR at 70mm, 1/70s, f5.6, ISO 200
Another image from the tiny patch of woodland close to my home…
Wordless Wednesday… Leeds Corn Exchange
Leeds Corn Exchange
Fujifilm X-T1, Fujinon XF 18-135mm f3.5~5.6 R LM OIS WR at 18mm, 1/80s, f8, ISO 500
Monochrome Monday… Gate weight
Gate weight, February 2018
Nikon FE2, Nikkor 35mm f/2 – 1/125s, f8, – Lomo Lady Grey 400 rated at ISO 320
A fantastically ‘low-tech’ way to keep a farm gate closed… Another image from my February trip to Trent Lock…
Scan by AgLab with minimal cropping and tweaking in Lightroom Classic CC.
Instant gratification… Pylon Down
Pylon Down
Polaroid 636 – Impossible B&W instant film
Madam is out on a hen night tonight (which involves a cocktail making class… it won’t end well…) so I filled a bag with cameras and went out snapping!
Another shot on Impossible Project type 600 black & white film, again digitised using Google’s PhotoScan app for iOS.
Single frame… Street Photography in London
Kings Cross St Pancras, May 2018
Fujifilm X20, Fujinon 7.1-28.4mm f2~2.8 at 8.9mm, 1/300s, f8, ISO 200
Surely there’s nowhere better to practise street photography than in a busy city, hardly anyone gives a photographer a second glance…
Born on this day – Bill Brandt
‘Photography is not a sport. It has no rules.’
Bill Brandt (British photographer and photojournalist) – May 2, 1904 – December 20, 1983.
Monochrome Monday… Houseboat
Houseboat on the Erewash Canal, February 2018
Nikon FE2, Nikkor 35mm f/2 – 1/125s, f8, – Lomo Lady Grey 400 rated at ISO 320
Another image from my February trip to Trent Lock…
Scan by AgLab with minimal cropping and tweaking in Lightroom Classic CC.
Single frame… World Wide Pinhole Photography Day
Scallop, Aldeburgh
Panasonic Lumix GF-1, Wanderlust Pinwide 22mm pinhole lens, 1/3s, f128, ISO 100
As it’s World Wide Pinhole Photography Day I thought I’d dig out one of the few attempts I’ve made at a pinhole image.
‘Scallop’ is a sculpture on Aldeburgh beach in Suffolk, dedicated to English composer, conductor and pianist Benjamin Britten. Created by Suffolk-based artist Maggi Hambling, the stainless steel piece is made up of two interlocking scallop shells, each broken, the upright shell being pierced with the words: “I hear those voices that will not be drowned”, which are taken from Britten’s opera Peter Grimes.
The image was made during a holiday to the Suffolk coast back in July 2011. Sadly the Wanderlust Pinwide lens doesn’t seem to be available at the moment and if memory serves it was only ever available for micro 4/3 cameras (which I no longer shoot) but I am rather tempted by one of the Skink Pinhole Pancake lenses for my Fujifilm X-T1…
Single frame… Hard Rock Cafe
Hard Rock Cafe, Manchester
Fujifilm X-T1, Fujinon XF 18-135mm f3.5~5.6 R LM OIS WR at 38mm, 1/80s, f5.6, ISO 1250
Freelance Wastrel 