Tag: Derbyshire

Square Saturday… Handyside Bridge

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Handyside Bridge
Handyside Bridge
Seagull WWSC-10, Haiou 75mm f/3.5 – 1/125s, f11, – Ilford FP4 Plus
Developed in Adox FX-39II at 1:9, 6 mins at 20°c.

Handyside Bridge spans the River Derwent in Derby and used to carry the Great Northern Railway’s (GNR) Derbyshire and Staffordshire extension from Eggington Junction to Colwick.

You can now walk across the bridge from Darley Park to Chester Green… to the Little Chester Ale House should that appeal 😁

Digitised using Nikon D5600 & AF-S Micro-NIKKOR 40mm f/2.8, pixl-latr and Negative Lab Pro plugin with minimal cropping and tweaking in Lightroom Classic CC.

Monochrome Monday… The equation of windows

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The equation of windows
The equation of windows
Nikkormat FT2, NIKKOR-H Auto 50mm f/2, 1/500s, f11 – Kentmere Pan 400
Developed in Ilford Ilfosol 3 at 1:9, 6½ mins at 20°c.

Another image taken with the charity shop find NIKKOR-H Auto 50mm f/2 lens…

Digitised using Nikon D5600 & AF-S Micro-NIKKOR 40mm f/2.8 and Nikon ES-2 Film Digitising Adapter with minimal cropping and tweaking in Lightroom Classic CC.

Single frame… Vicarage Lane, Little Eaton

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Vicarage Lane, Little Eaton
Vicarage Lane, Little Eaton
Nikkormat FT2, NIKKOR-H Auto 50mm f/2, 1/125s, f8 – Kentmere Pan 400
Developed in Ilford Ilfosol 3 at 1:9, 6½ mins at 20°c.

A few years ago I found a shabby NIKKOR-H Auto 50mm f/2 lens in a charity shop for a fiver… I wouldn’t say the results are shabby though, would you?

Digitised using Nikon D5600 & AF-S Micro-NIKKOR 40mm f/2.8 and Nikon ES-2 Film Digitising Adapter with minimal cropping and tweaking in Lightroom Classic CC.

Throwback Thursday… Leawood Pump House

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Leawood Pump House
Leawood Pump House
Fujifilm X-T1, Fujinon XF 18-135mm f3.5~5.6 R LM OIS WR at 18mm, 1/160s, f11, ISO 400

What was I photographing on this day in previous years?

Five years ago it was Leawood Pumphouse near Cromford in Derbyshire.

The Grade II* listed building dates from 1949 and houses a Watt-type beam engine that pumped water from the River Derwent to the Cromford Canal until 1944 when the canal closed. The Pump House was restored in 1979 by the Cromford Canal Society and the engine is steamed periodically.