Month: June 2021

35mm · Film photography · Photography

Another day the same

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After yesterday’s grumble about not wanting to write a blog post, I’m in the same boat again today. Still at work finishing off a report I need to present tomorrow. The hard part is done, but PowerPoint is dedicating it’s efforts to slow my progress by making seemingly simple tasks time consuming and frustrating.

I’m writing the blog to take a break, so please enjoy a photograph of Pond Street bus station (or “interchange” as I believe it is now named), in Sheffield.

WordPress seems to be on it’s only little mission to perplex me at the moment too. For the last week or so every time I post a new blog entry I get a message congratulating me that I’m “on a streak“. I expect today I’ll get one letting me know my streak is now at 892 days of continual posting. I’ve no idea why this has started, when it will decide I realise and stop bothering me, or why just-under-two-and-a-half-years of continual posting is the time to begin telling me about it.

Why do things happen?
It’s often a mystery
Or a cosmic joke

Pond Street bus station

Olympus XA3 & Ilford HP5+. Ilfotec DD-X 1+4 9mins @ 20°.

Taken on 16 May 2021

35mm · Film photography · Photography

On days like these…

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I really don’t feel like writing a blog post. A busy day at work and all I want to do is chill out, but my daily posting regime means I won’t allow myself to evade the blog. The fact that I’m adding a haiku to every post this year is an extra unwanted bonus on a day like this. It’s all of my own making of course, and no-one is forcing me to write a new post every day, but sometimes I really fancy a day off from it. The issue with doing so is that then the run is broken. What would then stop me from taking a day off every time I didn’t feel like it (which happens on a pretty regular basis)? I suspect that any sort of break would be a straw to break a camels back and my frequency of posts would fall off a cliff.

But hey, look, I managed to get a post out of moaning about not wanting to post anything! Winner winner chicken dinner!

Anyway, here are two more “test” photos from the little XA3.

I can’t be bothered
To try and write a haiku
Here’s one anyway

Sheffield Hallam University
Electric Works

Olympus XA3 & Ilford HP5+. Ilfotec DD-X 1+4 9mins @ 20°.

Taken on 16 May 2021

35mm · Film photography · Photography

The smallest camera I own

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A few shots today from my new (to me) Olympus XA3 which I acquired a month ago. I’ve shot three rolls with it so far and the results from each have been pretty impressive. It’s a low-frills camera, but it makes up for it with a sharp lens and tiny form factor – a benefit both in its portability and also because the film transport is so short that I’ve gotten 39 shots a roll from it each time!

The photos from this first roll were made on a walk around the edge of the city centre and intended mostly to test the camera for oparating problems / light leaks etc. (of which there are, thankfully, none) so expect a bunch of slightly randon pictures of buildings and anything else that caught my eye on the day in coming posts.

Random city scenes
Just the things that catch my eye
While taking a walk

Graffiti and bike
The old bus garage
The Leadmill

Olympus XA3 & Ilford HP5+. Ilfotec DD-X 1+4 9mins @ 20°.

Taken on 16 May 2021

35mm · Film photography · Photography

Street corners

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Just a couple of shots of street corners today.

I’ve had quite a full and busy weekend, but not much time for any photography. I have finished scanning another roll of 35mm film though, leaving me with just another two rolls yet to scan. This makes a total of six rolls of film (4x36exp 35mm & 2x12exp 120) from which I’ve not published a single image as yet. At least I can relax in the knowledge that I can feed the blog for a few weeks without running out of new photos should I need to. I’ll probably have shot more before that happens though…

Plenty of pictures
Waiting in the photo bank
Soon to be seen here

OH MY GOD WE'RE BACK AGAIN!
Pedestrians crossing

Canon Sure Shot Supreme & Kodak Colorplus.

Taken on 16 May 2021

35mm · Film photography · Photography

Modern monolith

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Like a Borg Cube descended to Earth, this angular structure sits adjacent to the River Don behind Savile Street. The circular “portholes” and horizontal bands break up what might otherwise be a plain and undistinguished structure. I like the way it looms in the picture both above and below the water.

Angular it stands
A monolith by water
Blue and grey tower

Riverside

Canon Sure Shot Supreme & Kodak Colorplus.

Taken on 9 May 2021

35mm · Film photography · Photography

No ice cream today

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Not for me, at least. Seeing this photo has made me long for a nice Mister Whippee 99 with some raspberry sauce, but all we have in the house is a brick of vanilla that our freezer has probably turned into permafrost.

On hot summer days
An ice cream treat is fun ’till
It drips down your hands

Everybody's favourite

Canon Sure Shot Supreme & Kodak Colorplus.

Taken on 9 May 2021

35mm · Film photography · Photography

Ball Street bridge

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The Ball Street bridge crosses the River Don a little upstream from Kelham Island and is immediately adjacent to Kelham Weir. The bridge dates to 1856 and was built by Milton Iron Works at Elsecar. The bridge holds grade II listed status.

The bridge is now only open to non-motorised traffic (although maybe motorcycles too). I believe that this is to manage road traffic around the area.

Red and green iron
Spanning the flowing river
Now blocked to traffic

Riding across the Don
Across

Canon Sure Shot Supreme & Kodak Colorplus.

Taken on 9 May 2021

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Capri in colour

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Apologies to anyone hoping to see the beautiful island of Capri in this post. Instead you are going to get an infinitely cooler Ford Capri instead. It may not have the designer stores, millionaire’s residences, or crowded funicular railway, but who wants any of those when you can have a cool old car?

It’s the same car I portrayed back on 28 May, and these were taken at the same time with my Canon Sure Shot on a roll of Kodak Colorplus. I much prefer these colour photographs.

If you really want to see some colour photos of the isle of Capri, I have some of those too. 🙂

Orange paint fading
But not dulling the appeal
Of classic beauty

Capri
Capri
Capri
Capri
Capri

Canon Sure Shot Supreme & Kodak Colorplus.

Taken on 9 May 2021