Delicious Burritos
Nikon FE2, Nikkor 50mm f/1.8 AI-S – 1/125s, f4, – O.O.D. Kodak 200 rated at ISO 100
Tag: Derbyshire
Single frame… Shop window Triton
Shop window Triton
Nikon FE2, Nikkor 50mm f/1.8 AI-S – 1/125s, f4, – O.O.D. Kodak 200 rated at ISO 100
Now here’s something you don’t see everyday… a Triton motorcycle in a shop window… and a clothes shop window at that!
Built in the 1960s and 70s, Tritons were the marrying of a Triumph parallel twin engine to a Norton ‘Featherbed’ frame, creating a hybrid superior to anything either manufacturer could offer ‘off the shelf’.
The Triumph engine was widely regarded as being more reliable and easier to tune that the Norton but the Norton frame was easily the best handling example of its time, the Isle of Man TT racer Harold Daniel tested the new frame in 1950 and declared it like “riding on a featherbed” as opposed to a “garden gate” and the name stuck.
This example currently sits in a window display surrounded by products from Barbour, a British brand known for their ‘International’ jacket as worn by motorcyclists for decades.
One thing I’ve always been curious about with the Triton concept… what happened to all the Triumph frames and Norton engines? Are garden sheds countrywide hiding ‘Norumphs’ banished there for misfiring and wobbling around bends? Maybe we’ll never know…
Scan by AgLab with minimal cropping and tweaking in Lightroom Classic CC.
Single frame… No wheels
No wheels, Derby, October 2018
Nikon FE2, Nikkor 50mm f/1.8 AI-S – 1/125s, f4, – O.O.D. Kodak 200 rated at ISO 100
Were the wheels removed by the owner for safety? Or were they swiped by some light-fingered oik?
Scan by AgLab with minimal cropping and tweaking in Lightroom Classic CC.
Wordless Wednesday… ‘This Memorial is Unstable’
‘This Memorial is Unstable’
Nikon D5500, AF-S Nikkor 18-55mm f3.5-5.6 G II at 52mm, 1/100s, f5.6, ISO 125
Single frame… Adventures with half-frame, part 1
Alleyway, Derby
Olympus PEN EE-2, – O.O.D. Kodak 400 rated at ISO 200, converted to black & white in Lightroom
A few months ago I picked up my first half-frame camera in the shape of an Olympus PEN EE-2. It’s a gorgeous little beast, simple, elegant and tiny.
The above shot is from the first roll I put through it, an incredibly out of date roll of Kodak 400 colour negative film that’s been lurking in my fridge for ages.
The image quality offered by the small 18x24mm negative and fixed focus lens are certainly not helped by dull conditions and very out of date film but I’m quite pleased with the results even so…
Scan by AgLab with minimal cropping and tweaking (and black & white conversion) in Lightroom Classic CC.
Monochrome Monday… Steamboat on the Trent & Mersey Canal
Steamboat on the Trent & Mersey Canal
Nikon FE2, Tamron Adaptall-2 35-70mm f/3.5 at 70mm – 1/250s, f8, – Lomo Lady Grey 400 rated at ISO 320
Another shot taken with a charity shop find Tamron Adaptall-2 35-70mm f/3.5 lens mounted on my Nikon FE2. A steamboat chuffs its way along the Trent & Mersey Canal at Shardlow during a recent(ish) ‘Photography Friday’ jaunt.
Scan by AgLab with minimal cropping and tweaking in Lightroom Classic CC.
Wordless Wednesday… Erewash Canal on CineStill BwXX
Erewash Canal, July 2018
Nikon FA, Nikkor 45mm f/2.8P – 1/125s, f8, – CineStill BwXX rated at ISO 250
Monochrome Monday… Rainbow Bridge, Shardlow
Rainbow Bridge, Shardlow, June 2018
Nikon FE2, Tamron Adaptall-2 35-70mm f/3.5 at 35mm – 1/250s, f8, – Lomo Lady Grey 400 rated at ISO 320
A couple of boats at Dobson’s Boatyard on the Trent & Mersey Canal at Shardlow… Taken during a recent ‘Photography Friday’ jaunt and the first outing for a charity shop find Tamron Adaptall-2 35-70mm f/3.5 lens… a bargain at a fiver!
Scan by AgLab with minimal cropping and tweaking in Lightroom Classic CC.
Single frame… Crich Stand
Crich Stand
Fujifilm X-T1, Fujinon XF 18-135mm f3.5~5.6 R LM OIS WR at 24mm, 1/220s, f11, ISO 400
High above the Derbyshire village of Crich and 1,000 feet above sea level, is Crich Stand, a memorial to the soldiers of the Sherwood Foresters Regiment who died in World War I, World War II and in conflicts from 1945 to 1970. It also commemorates those who died serving the Worcester and Sherwood Foresters Regiment from 1970 to 2007 and the Mercian Regiment since 2007.
A peaceful spot to remember my wife’s father who served in the Sherwood Foresters during World War II…
Single frame… Large White butterfly
Large White butterfly (Pieris brassicae)
Fujifilm X-T1, Fujinon XF 18-135mm f3.5~5.6 R LM OIS WR at 135mm, 1/200s, f8, ISO 200
A much shorter ‘Photography Friday’ today with far fewer pictures taken.
This Large White butterfly (Pieris brassicae) rested briefly on the Great Willowherb (Epilobium hirsutum) growing beside the Chesterfield Canal at Tapton Lock Visitor Centre.
The shot is massively cropped from the original… I was doing my best to not fall in the canal!
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