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A big metal fish at the railway station

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This wonderful sculpture was sat outside Midland Station in Sheffield when I walked past a few weeks ago. The day was bright with autumn sunshine and the metal body of the fish caught the light nicely on its scales. The OM-2n metered the scene with aplomb, the Zuiko glass resolved sharp images, and the expired Ektachrome gave a gorgeous look (although I have removed a purple cast that was lurking in the shadows).

Fish
Closer fish

Olympus OM-2n, Zuiko Auto-S 50mm f/1.8 & Kodak Ektachrome 100 EPP (expired at some unknown date).

Taken on 17 September 2020

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5 thoughts on “A big metal fish at the railway station”

    1. There was some info about the sculpture at its base, but I neglected to read it for some reason – too busy making photographs I guess! But if I had to hazard a guess, I’d say it’s a trout.

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  2. I have also taken some photographs of the steel fish but you’ll have to wait til Monovember to see them. The fish is a salmon and it is in celebration of the return of salmon to the River Don.
    You may have seen that over the last few years salmon runs have been added to all the weirs along the Don. I was chatting to a fisherman recently and he mentioned how the river has been restocked. He also mentioned that there is a massive invasive crayfish problem which is having a huge affect on other River life. To give a sense of the scale to the cray fish problem he said it would be difficult to thrown a stone in the river and not hit one!!! That’s all for this fishy update.
    Best wishes…. 🐟🐟🐟

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    1. Thanks for the correction on the species. 🙂

      The re-vitalisation of the rivers has been astonishing over the past few decades. When I was a teenager the River Rother used to run orange with effluent and industrial waste. I can still remember the chemical scent of the water. Now it’s completely transformed.

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