Steel City Snapper photography
35mm, medium format and large format film photography (with the odd bit of digital every now and then…)
There’s an amazing richness to be had photographing blue skies on colour reversal film. Just look at those lapis tones in the sky above Hooton Pagnel church in this picture. There’s a tad of vignetting added by the Sure Shot Supreme’s lens which adds some even deeper tones to the corners.
Canon Sure Shot Supreme. Fujichrome Provia 100 (expiry unknown). Lab developed. Home scanned.
Taken 5 Feb 2023.
Three more shots here that I took on my walk in the snow (which, somewhat incredibly, was a full two months back now!).
I had my Canon Sure Shot Supreme in my pocket on the day and, while my main camera for the walk was the Bronica ETRSi, I took a handful of pictures with the compact too.
I think they’ve come out remarkably well given the fact that a) the roll of film might have been around twenty-years expired, b) the camera and it’s automatic metering system dates back to the 1980s, and c) snow can be difficult to meter for regardless of the meter, with cameras having a tendency to underexpose the stuff.
So, overall, these look pretty good to my eye. The snow is bright and white, but still retains detail.
Canon Sure Shot Supreme. Fujichrome Provia 100 (expiry unknown). Lab developed. Home scanned.
Taken 11 March 2023.
I got back home yesterday after a few days away with my wife. We took a short trip to Lido di Jesolo, a beach resort in north-east Italy, that she had said she would like to visit. The resort is very much built for tourists – it’s mostly hotels and the restaurants, cafes, and shops that serve the visitors, but it’s clean, friendly, and a nice place to spend some time. It has a very long beach – over nine miles in length – which is equally clean (it has a Blue Flag rating) and with lots of public facilities such as cafes, bars, and showers. It also has thousands of sun-loungers and parasols, with many of the resort’s hotels having their own reserved section of the beach.
The resort is also only a short distance from Venice, and it’s easy to catch a bus and a ferry to the historic city – a trip of approximately an hour from the bus station – meaning an abundance of culture and history is there should you wish to partake of it. We visited Venice on the second day of our trip, and here are a few pictures from the day out.
I’ll be posting a bunch of photos from the trip once I’ve got them processed and scanned, but in a break from tradition (given that this blog is advertised as being about film photography) I’ve dropped a few digital photos into today’s post. I don’t intend to start posting digital photographs on a regular basis, but I’ve decided that sometimes it might be apt. Because I often have a backlog of film pictures to develop, scan, and upload, it can often be many weeks before I get to post them. Using some digital pictures now and then will allow me to better illustrate the posts where I witter on about what I did that day with actual images from the events, rather than some random unrelated film photo I took weeks earlier.
Ricoh GR III.
Taken 5 and 6 May 2023.
I was going to write a longer post today but, after returning from a lovely four day trip with my wife, including around eight hours of travelling today, my computer has decided that now would be the prefect time to start throwing glitches at me. And I can’t be bothered to sort it out right now. I’m too tired, and I don’t want the residual sense of happiness from the trip to be ruined by trying to sort out technical problems.
So here’s a picture of a window with some red and white seats inside.
Canon Sure Shot Supreme. Fujichrome Provia 100 (expiry unknown). Lab developed. Home scanned.
Taken 5 Feb 2023.
Canon Sure Shot Supreme. Fujichrome Provia 100 (expiry unknown). Lab developed. Home scanned.
Taken 5 Feb 2023.
Canon Sure Shot Supreme. Fujichrome Provia 100 (expiry unknown). Lab developed. Home scanned.
Taken 5 Feb 2023.
Canon Sure Shot Supreme. Fujichrome Provia 100 (expiry unknown). Lab developed. Home scanned.
Taken 5 Feb 2023.
Canon Sure Shot Supreme. Fujichrome Provia 100 (expiry unknown). Lab developed. Home scanned.
Taken 5 Feb 2023.
The past three weeks have been pretty crazy. Even outside of the illness, I’ve been incredibly busy trying to sort a bunch of things out both at home and at work. I’ve had little to no chance to do any photography and my blog posts have frequently been, let’s say, concise.
I think that situation is likely to continue into next week at least, although I really do hope for a bit of calm and a chance to catch my breath before long.
So please exuse any lacklustre efforts I make. I don’t plan on missing any days, but there may be a few posts where there’s little to see other than a photograph.
Here’s another picture from the University of Leeds. I like this one a lot for some reason.
Yashicamat 124G & Ilford HP5+. Ilfotec DD-X 1+4 9 mins 30 secs @ 20°
Taken 25 March 2023.
I think I’m finally shrugging off the worst of the throat infection. I’ve actually managed to eat normal food today without the feeling it wouldn’t fit down my throat, which was very nice. I’m definitely not back to 100%, and swallowing is still slightly iffy, but at least I can manage to get a decent amount of sustenance into my body. The antibiotics are still making me feel vaguelly nauseous all the time though, and I get the odd headache and sudden horrendous coughing fits through the day, which I’ll be glad to see the back of.
I felt well enough to return to work and impressed my colleagues with my new (and temporary) deep, gravelly voice.
I was going to try to write something about reflecting on my experience to provide a link to the photo today, but coudn’t think of anything that really worked. So the picture stands alone.
Yashicamat 124G & Ilford HP5+. Ilfotec DD-X 1+4 9 mins 30 secs @ 20°
Taken 25 March 2023.
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