‘Photograph the world as it is. Nothing’s more interesting than reality.’
Mary Ellen Mark (American photographer) – March 20, 1940 – May 25, 2015.
Monochrome Monday… Trent Lock
Barges on the Cranfleet Canal, February 2018
Nikon FE2, Nikkor 35mm f/2 – 1/125s, f8, – Lomo Lady Grey 400 rated at ISO 320
Trent Lock is a major canal navigation junction on the borders of Derbyshire, Leicestershire and Nottinghamshire, south of Long Eaton. Here the 11½ mile Erewash Canal from Langle Mill and the River Soar meet the River Trent. The Cranfleet Canal (or ‘Cut’) allows boats to access the Trent heading downstream/east (avoiding a weir) and boats heading upstream/west soon arrive at the beginning of the Trent & Mersey Canal at Derwent Mouth, the point at which the River Derwent flows into the Trent.
Trinity, Erewash Canal, February 2018
Nikon FE2, Nikkor 35mm f/2 – 1/125s, f8, – Lomo Lady Grey 400 rated at ISO 320
The area is still home to a couple of boatyards and a dry dock facility is available on the Erewash Canal immediately north of lock no.60 (the last lock before the River Trent). Visitors can also enjoy the Lock House Tea Rooms and the Trent Lock and Steamboat Inn public houses… (the food and beer in the latter being particularly good!)
Erewash Canal, February 2018
Nikon FE2, Nikkor 35mm f/2 – 1/125s, f8, – Lomo Lady Grey 400 rated at ISO 320
Scans by AgLab with minimal cropping and tweaking in Lightroom Classic CC.
Single frame… Café.Bar.
Café.Bar. Nottingham, December 2017
Nikon FE2, Nikkor 45mm f/2.8P – 1/1000s, f4, – Lomo Lady Grey 400 rated at ISO 320
A snapshot taken while passing the Nottingham Contemporary art centre in the Lace Market area of Nottingham. I must confess that I’ve never been inside the building but funnily enough have managed to enter the deconsecrated church next door that’s now the Pitcher & Piano pub!
Scan by AgLab with minimal cropping and tweaking in Lightroom Classic CC.
Wordless Wednesday… St Andrews Cathedral
St Andrews Cathedral, October 2017
Fujifilm X-T1, Fujinon XF 18-135mm f3.5~5.6 R LM OIS WR at 39mm, 1/140s, f11, ISO 200
Born on this day – Bunny Yeager
‘Though some will try to deny it, I believe that every woman, at some time in her life, has had or will have the desire to pose nude.’
Linnea Eleanor “Bunny” Yeager (American photographer and pin-up model) – March 13, 1926 – May 25, 2014.
Single frame… Canal Cottage
Canal Cottage, February 2018
Canon Sure Shot Sleek, – Kentmere 400
This cottage stands beside the Cromford Canal in Derbyshire, at the point where the ‘Nightingale Arm’ meets the main canal. Built by Florence Nightingale’s uncle the arm served a lead smelter at the village of Lea Bridge. Known as ‘Aqueduct Cottage’ (due to the proximity of the Leawood Aqueduct over the River Derwent) it was originally home to the Nightingale Arm’s lengthsman (the worker responsible for the maintenance and repair of a section of canal).
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.
Wordless Wednesday… The English Shoemaker & Restorer
The English Shoemaker & Restorer, Nottingham, December 2017
Nikon FE2, Nikkor 45mm f/2.8P – 1/60s, f4, – Lomo Lady Grey 400 rated at ISO 320
Scan by AgLab with minimal cropping and tweaking in Lightroom Classic CC.
Monochrome Monday… Lone tree
Lone tree, December 2017
Nikon FM, Nikkor 50mm f/2 – 1/125s, f8, – Ilford FP4+
Another image from the roll I shot in December for Emulsive’s FP4 Party but that didn’t return from the lab in time for post week.
Scan by AgLab with minimal cropping and tweaking in Lightroom Classic CC.
Born on this day – Roye
‘I always knew someone would one day hold an exhibition of my work, but I assumed it would be a posthumous one.’
Horace Roye-Narbeth (British photographer) – March 4, 1906 – June 11, 2002.
Born on this day – Ernst Haas
‘The camera doesn’t make a bit of difference. All of them can record what you are seeing. But, you have to SEE.’
Ernst Haas (Austrian photojournalist and pioneering colour photographer) – March 2, 1921 – September 12, 1986.
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