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Saturday Street Art… Sheffield, June 2024 (again)

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Zeus the Blind Owl
Zeus the Blind Owl by Peachzz
Nikon FE2, NIKKOR 50mm f/1.8 Ai-S, 1/125s, f11 – Kodak Portra 400 rated at ISO 200

Some more street art from Sheffield today, photographed during a walk around the city organised by Andy Carter, better known as Street Art Sheffield.

Developed by AgLab
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.

Saturday Street Art… Sheffield, June 2024

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Street art by Kid Acne, Brown Street, Sheffield
Street art by Kid Acne, Brown Street, Sheffield
Nikon FE2, NIKKOR 50mm f/1.8 Ai-S, 1/500s, f11 – Kodak Portra 400 rated at ISO 200

Some street art from Sheffield today, photographed during a walk around the city organised by Andy Carter, better known as Street Art Sheffield.

Street art, Brown Street, Sheffield
Street art, Brown Street, Sheffield
Nikon FE2, NIKKOR 50mm f/1.8 Ai-S, 1/125s, f11 – Kodak Portra 400 rated at ISO 200

There are pieces by two artists in the above photo, the upper piece is by Phlegm and is at least nine years old, the lower piece dates from 2022 and is by the artist Enso.

All three pieces of art can be found on Brown Street in the city centre.

Developed by AgLab
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.

Saturday Street Art… Nottingham, October 2023

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Part of Soz Mate's LGBT+ artwork in Nottingham
Part of Soz Mate’s LGBT+ artwork in Nottingham
Nikon FE2, NIKKOR 50mm f/1.8 Ai-S, 1/60s, f8 – Kodak Portra 400 rated at ISO 200

I’m becoming increasingly interested in street art, it adds some much needed colour and interest to our towns and cities and there are some fantastic examples to be seen in Nottingham and Sheffield, two places I visit regularly.

Part of a large piece of street art by 'Boaster' on Goose Gate in Nottingham
Part of a large piece of street art by ‘Boaster’ on Goose Gate in Nottingham
Nikon FE2, NIKKOR 50mm f/1.8 Ai-S, 1/60s, f5.6 – Kodak Portra 400 rated at ISO 200

Developed by AgLab
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.

Monochrome Monday… Heanor Grammar School

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Heanor Grammar SchoolHeanor Grammar School
Nikon FE2, Nikkor 45mm f/2.8P, 1/90s, f8 – Ilford Delta 400 Professional
Developed in Ilford DDX at 1:4, 8 mins at 20°c.

Apparently the Grade-II listed former Grammar School buildings have been ‘saved’ and are to become a ‘mixed-use development site’ (whatever one of those is…)

We wait with baited breath…

Digitised using Nikon D5500 & AF-S Micro-NIKKOR 40mm f/2.8 and Nikon ES-2 Film Digitising Adapter with minimal cropping and tweaking in Lightroom Classic CC.

Monochrome Monday… Motor Rail Ltd Bedford England

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Motor Rail Ltd Bedford EnglandMotor Rail Ltd Bedford England
Nikon FE2, Nikkor 50mm f/1.8 Ai-S, 1/60s, f8 – Ilford Delta 400 Professional
Developed in Ilford DDX at 1:4, 8 mins at 20°c.

An image from the Golden Valley Light Railway (GVLR), a narrow gauge line only a mile or so from here.

Motor Rail Ltd (or the Motor Rail & Tramcar Co Ltd) built many narrow and standard gauge locomotives powered by either diesel or petrol engines at their works at Bedford… The company also used the trade name ‘Simplex’ and parts from at least two (unidentified) locomotives are visible here.

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.

Monochrome Monday… Pulley wheel

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PulleyPulley wheel
Nikon FE2, Nikkor 50mm f/1.8 Ai-S, 1/125s, f8 – Ilford Delta 400 Professional
Developed in Ilford DDX at 1:4, 8 mins at 20°c.

I’m back! Yes, after a two-week COVID enforced hiatus ‘Freelance Wastrel’ is back!

This pulley wheel is attached to the stonework of Scarborough Bridge in York. I assume it’s a remnant of the semaphore signalling system that once controlled train movements over the bridge. (I should point out that the railway line is paralleled by a footpath across the bridge and I wasn’t trespassing.)

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.