‘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.
Wordless Wednesday… Sunset, Elie
Sunset, Elie, Fife, October 2017
Fujifilm X-T1, Fujinon XF 18-135mm f3.5~5.6 R LM OIS WR at 18mm, 1/40s, f5.6, ISO 1600
Monochrome Monday… The Gallery Café, January 2018
The Gallery Café, January 2018
Pentax MZ-30 + SMC-A 28mm f/2.8 – 1/45s, f4, – Kodak T400CN
One of my projects for 2018 is to become more comfortable with street photography, a genre I’ve never had much success with (one of many if truth be told…)
This is one of my recent attempts, taken in the Millennium Gallery in Sheffield during a trip to view the exhibition of images from last year’s Photo Marathon Sheffield.
With hindsight a camera with a waist-level viewfinder might be a better bet for future attempts… less obvious than holding an SLR to the eye.
Scan by AgLab with minimal cropping and tweaking in Lightroom Classic CC.
Single frame… Kodak T-Max P3200
Eddy Morton, The Fishpond, 1999
Nikon F-801s or F90X, AF Nikkor 50mm f/1.8 or AF Nikkor 85mm f/1.8 – Kodak T-Max P3200
Following Kodak’s announcement yesterday that the much-missed black & white film T-Max P3200 is to make a return I thought I’d post another pic shot on that film… (for others see here and here).
This is what I mainly used it for, concert photography… In this case Eddy Morton performing with The Bushburys at The Fishpond in Matlock Bath back in 1999.
I’ve got no notes regarding development but do know that the film was rated at box speed and remember the negatives being surprisingly easy to print.
I’ll definitely be ordering a few rolls…
Wordless Wednesday… Looking forward to days like this…
North Sands, Bridlington, March 2017
Fujifilm X-T1, Fujinon XF 18-135mm f3.5~5.6 R LM OIS WR at 18mm, 1/200s, f11, ISO 200
Born on this day – Ansel Adams
‘It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.’
Ansel Easton Adams (American photographer and environmentalist) – February 20, 1902 – April 22, 1984.
Monochrome Monday… Turntable
Turntable, February 2018
Pentax MZ-30 + 35-80mm f/4~5.6 FA at 35mm – 1/180s, f8, – Kodak T400CN
Another shot from the Midland Railway-Butterley in Derbyshire, this time taken on my last roll of the much missed Kodak T400CN film.
The turntable was used to turn steam locomotives at Chinley railway station (also in Derbyshire) and is a 60ft diameter, hand-operated type built by the Midland Railway. It was dismantled in 1973 and stored for a number of years before arriving at the MR-B’s Swanwick Junction site in 1981. Sadly, 37 years later it is still awaiting reconstruction…
Scan by AgLab with minimal cropping and tweaking in Lightroom Classic CC.
Born on this day – Fay Godwin
‘I had been working in colour for ten years or so and looked at digital and liked the possibilities it gave me.’
Fay Godwin (British landscape photographer) – February 17, 1931 – May 27, 2005.
Single frame… All’s well that…
All’s well that…
Olympus OM-1N + F.Zuiko 50mm f/1.8 Auto-S – 1/250s, f8 – Kodak Portra 400 rated at ISO 200
‘Hudswell’ a cast builder’s plate adorning ‘Albert Fields’, a 260hp 0-6-0 diesel-mechanical locomotive built by Hudswell, Clarke & Co Ltd of Leeds in 1958 as works no.D1114.
The loco is now preserved at the Midland Railway-Butterley in Derbyshire having spent its working life at a number of local collieries, ending up at Butterley Engineering, a company famous for many engineering projects including the Barlow train shed at London St Pancras International railway station, the Falkirk Wheel and the Spinnaker Tower in Portsmouth.
Scan by Ag Photo Lab with minimal cropping and tweaking in Lightroom Classic CC.
Freelance Wastrel 