There’s something interesting about hardware stores, in particular the more traditional variety such as the one pictured here today. They always seem to have busy storefronts, not only with a window packed with tools, fasteners, devices, and gadgets of all kinds, but also with a spillover onto the pavement. They also have that nice earthy smell about them, a distinctive mix of wood, chemicals, and plant fertilizer.
Another set of pictures taken while wandering around Huddersfield town centre with my wife back in April. This impressive structure is the library and art gallery. It’s currently closed for redevelopment, with the facilities moved to temporary locations before the building reopens to the public next year.
The grade II listed building was originally opened to the public in 1940.
This is one of those times where I wish I’d had my large format camera and it’s range of movements to hand. It’s a building that I think would be well served by the sort of photograph that the format would produce.
However, I doubt my wife would have been quite as understanding had I kept stopping to faff around with tripods, camera movements, and heads beneath dark cloths. So the the Olympus XA3 had to suffice. 🙂
A direct follow on from yesterday’s post. Those photos were taken outside Sheffield Midland station before I set off for a trip to Leeds to visit the Photo North exhibition. The ones posted here today were shot inside Leeds railway station when I arrived.
A couple more bridges, to keep the trend going from yesterday (spoiler: there will be no bridges tomorrow).
These two are closer to home, the first is a derelict railway bridge crossing the main road into the village of Killamarsh, which is not too far from where I live. It was taken from another bridge (and another disused railway bridge at that) which carries the Trans Pennine Trail across the same road.
The second is a footbridge crossing the River Rother not far from where the first picture was taken.
I posted some other photos of bridges spanning the Sheffield and Tinsley Canal recently – those shot with my Zeiss medium format folding camera. The ones here were shot on the same day with my Olympus XA3 along the same stretch of water in Attercliffe, Sheffield.
I think I said in the earlier post that this is now a pleasant stretch of the can to walk along. It has a high embankment on both sides which shields it from what is otherwise quite an industrial part of the city. The spring foliage also brings a pleasantly arboreal feel to the place.
When I was much younger the canal was horribly polluted. I remember crossing it on the bus route that took me into the city centre and the water was a vivid orange colour, presumably due to pollutants from the steel industry in the area. Now the water is clear and sustains fish and other wildlife.
I thought I’d go back to posting film shots again today – although I may drop in the occasional digital picture now and then as I still have loads of decent shots taken with my GRIII on my recent holiday. I have another “Walk With a Camera” post coming soon – perhaps this weekend – as well.
Despite the title of the post, this tree has only the most tenuous connection with brides or weddings. It stands, however, behind a cafe where we got a sandwich after my wife had chosen the dress she will be wearing at out eldest son’s wedding later this summer. Maybe the post should have been titled “Back of the cafe tree” as that would be more geographically apt – the formal wear shop where my wife got her dress was further down the road.
I’ll be back to posting mostly film photos again soon – maybe tomorrow – as I have a large backlog forming. I’ve one full roll of 135 developed and processed on the PC, but which I’ve published nothing from as yet. Then I have four rolls awaiting development (three 135, and one 120), and four further rolls in cameras with just a few frames left to shoot on each. Add to that some stuff that’s already on Flickr but which hasn’t been seen here and I’m going to be spoilt for choice when it comes to feeding the blog!
In the meantime though, here’s another picture from the little Ricoh GRIII digital compact that I took while walking the city walls that surround Dubrovnik’s Old Town.
I bought this camera because I thought it would be good for street photography (it’s what it’s probably most used for), but it’s great for lots of other stuff too. The lens is amazingly sharp! I sometimes wish it had a flip-out screen and / or a viewfinder, but I guess that’s being greedy.
I’ve returned home after a week long holiday with my wife in Dubrovnik, Croatia. Normally, when I’m going to be away from my computer for a few days, I will pre-write a bunch of posts and schedule them to auto-publish while I’m absent. This time I decided to do something different.
As I knew I would be taking a digital camera (my Ricoh GRIIi compact) on the trip as well as a film camera, I figured I would take the chance that I could transfer the images to my phone and then edit and publish them from there. There was a risk that this would go awry and I would end up publishing text only posts, but it was one I felt safe to accept.
As it turned out, I had no problems at all. I was easily able to transfer RAW files from the camera to my phone and then edit them in Lightroom Mobile. It was a little trickier than on my PC, and I had some concerns that my editing might suffer given I only had the phone screen to judge the final results, but they seem to have turned out ok.
I shot a few tolls of film on the trip too, but it will be a while before I’m able to develop, scan, and publish those, but they will appear here at some point. I ‘m currently in one of my surplus periods where film negatives are concerned and have several rolls of images backing up, so I have plenty of stuff to publish here on the blog.
The picture shared today is another of the digital pictures made on the trip, although this one has been edited on my PC and uploaded to Flickr before adding to the blog. It shows the tranquil waters of one of the hotel’s swimming pools reflecting a lovely blue hour sky.
Steel City Snapper photography 