Month: October 2023

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Three views of Malaga lighthouse

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A trio of pictures of the lighthouse at the port of Malaga. The fist was shot on Kodak Gold (and had turned out quite grainy for some reason), the latter two on Kodak Colorplus.

Lighthouse

The lighthouse is named La Farola, a unique name as most Spanish lighthouses are called El Faro, using the usual maculine gender. El Faro translated to “the lighthouse”, although Google Translate seems to think “La Farola” translates to “the streetlight” – not sure if there’s a lost-in-translation thing going on there…

Golden hour lighthouse

It was originally built in 1817, but has been modified several times since then, including to repair damage suffered during the Spanish Civil War. I believe you can enter the building and enjoy the views from the top, although we didn’t while we were there.

Illumination

Nikon F80, Nikkor 28-80mm f.3.5-5.6 AF-D & Kodak Gold and Kodak Colorplus . Lab developed. Home scanned and converted with Negative Lab Pro

Taken 18 and 19 August 2023.

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A leak and a dirty car

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Here in the UK we’re being hit by storm Babet, which is dumping large volumes of rainfall, especially on the east coast of Scotland, where a red weather warning is in place. A forecast I saw earlier (from the UK’s Met Office, so a trustworthy source) spoke of up to 250mm of rain being possible in the worst hit areas! Where I live, the rain is less severe, but we’re still under an amber warning.

This morning, while in the kitchen, I felt a splash on my head and was dismayed to discover water dripping from one of the ceiling spotlights. This part of the kitchen juts out from the rest of the house by a few feet and it’s the small roof that appears to be the source, although it was difficult to ascertain exactly where this might be. Through the day we’ve noticed discoloured strips appear where the water is getting between the sheets of plasterboard. A roofer has been contacted and will hopefully be here tomorrow to take a look. I’m hoping the damage isn’t too bad and that it will dry out – I don’t fancy the prospect of having to replace part of the kitchen ceiling and all the upheaval that will entail!

Thankfully the rain has eased through the afternoon and while it’s forecast to continue into the early hours of tomorrow, I’m hoping that the lower volume of water coupled with a change in wind direction will help.

In counterpoint to the above, here’s a car I saw in Spain that could probably benefit from a drop or two of water…

Dusty

Nikon F80, Nikkor 28-80mm f.3.5-5.6 AF-D & Kodak Colorplus. Lab developed. Home scanned and converted with Negative Lab Pro

Taken 18 August 2023.

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A guy in the street with a trombone

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While sat on a bus at some traffic lights, I was surprised to see this guy walk into the middle of the road and start playing his trombone at the traffic. I managed to get a quick photo – maybe not the best picture ever, but at least I caught the moment for posterity. 🙂

Just a guy in the street with a trombone

Nikon F80, Nikkor 28-80mm f.3.5-5.6 AF-D & Kodak Gold. Lab developed. Home scanned and converted with Negative Lab Pro

Taken 18 August 2023.

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Splat!

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I have a bit of a habit of photographing giant ice creams, the big plastic display things that you see outside ice cream parlours and the like, especially in seaside towns. I’ve featured them on this blog on a number of occasions.

So, just to mix it up, here’s a giant ice lolly. I can only imagine the wails of distress form the giant child who dropped it…

Melt

Nikon F80, Nikkor 28-80mm f.3.5-5.6 AF-D & Kodak Gold. Lab developed. Home scanned and converted with Negative Lab Pro

Taken 18 August 2023.

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Cruising

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On our first day in Malaga, while walking around the port, we saw this cruise ship berthed. The Seabourn Sojourn is chartered and operated by Seabourn Cruise Line and is the flagship of their fleet. She took her maiden voyage in 2010, leaving Greenwich, London and cruised the northern European countries before crossing the Atlantic to cruise the Caribbean and Panama.

Since then, she has carried round-the-world cruises, and also operated between the US and Cuba. In 2020, during a world cruise, she made it as far as Hawaii where she was held in quarantine due to the Covid pandemic, with passengers unable to depart.

The ship has 229 suites and, from a quick glance at the Seabourn website, cruises might be a touch out of my price range except maybe for a very special occasion…

At anchor
Seabourne Sojourn
Crewmembers
Cruise ship

Nikon F80, Nikkor 28-80mm f.3.5-5.6 AF-D & Kodak Gold. Lab developed. Home scanned and converted with Negative Lab Pro

Taken 18 August 2023.

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A life ring

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Following on from yesterday’s post about typos, after a bit of faffing about in Firefox I now seem to have a working spell checker when typing blog posts. Hopefully, from now on, there will be fewer spelling errors in my posts!

I have to thank adventurepdx for suggesting that Chrome has a spellcheck feature which might need to be switched on. While I currently use Firefox rather than Chrome, his comment pushed me to see if that browser had a similar feature and if it also needed to be activated, and it did! I now get a bunch of easy-to-spot wiggly lines beneath my many typos, making them much easier to spot and fix.

So, thanks adventurepdx for throwing me a life ring. 🙂

Life ring

Nikon F80, Nikkor 28-80mm f.3.5-5.6 AF-D & Kodak Gold. Lab developed. Home scanned and converted with Negative Lab Pro

Taken 18 August 2023.