I spent a few minutes atop the Dubrovnik city wall watching people leap into the sea from the rocks above the water. At the time I wasn’t sure if this photo would work, mostly because I wondered if the people jumping would be noticeable in the frame (they aren’t, really – although I dig catch one of them mid-leap), but it works nicely as a landscape picture with the composition making it look almost like a large lake or fjord.
Canon Sure Shot Z135 & Kodak Gold. Lab developed. Home scanned and converted with Negative Lab Pro.
For whatever reason, I took tow very similar shots for the same location atop the old town city wall in Dubrovnik. The colour version with my Canon Sure Shot Z135, and the black and white shot with my trusty Olympus Trip 35.
I like them both, but err towards the monochrome version, I think.
Canon Sure Shot Z135 & Kodak Gold. Lab developed. Home scanned and converted with Negative Lab Pro.
I was supposed to be visiting Newark Air Museum today with my dad but, as is often the case, the weather let us down. The forecast yesterday evening stated that it would be cloudy, but with some occasional sunshine in the afternoon. However, when I got up this morning the forecast had changed and was now claiming drizzly rain throughout the day. As a lot of the museum’s exhibits are outside, we decided to postpone the visit to a day with better conditions.
It annoys me a lot that weather forecasts change overnight so often. The whole purpose of a forecast is to allow people to plan activities accordingly and, while I appreciate predicting the weather is an extremely complex task, it is frustrating that in 2024 it sometimes feels that I would be better off with a pine-cone or bit of seaweed or something.
So, instead of looking at a load of old aeroplanes, I spent a lot of the day playing Astro Bot on the PlayStation. Not my initial plan for the day, but a lot of fun nevertheless.
The picture below has nothing to do with aircraft of PlayStations, but I guess it loosely ties into the gaming link.
Canon Sure Shot Z135 & Kodak Gold. Lab developed. Home scanned and converted with Negative Lab Pro.
Here are another bunch of pictures I took when I climbed Mount Srđ (I actually took the cable-car, but there is a big zig-zag path to the top for those so inclined…).
There’s also another shot of the daredevil woman who climbed the fence at the cable-car station and then sat on the rocks to take in the view.
If you’d like to experience the cable-car descent, I made a video:
Canon Sure Shot Z135 & Kodak Gold. Lab developed. Home scanned and converted with Negative Lab Pro.
The pictures I took on our holiday in Dubrovnik seem to have no end. I shot four-and-a-half rolls while there and and I’ve only just started posting images from the second today! I think I’m going to have to start lumping stuff together or I will be posting them for the rest of the year!
Anyway, the next bunch of posts will be images from my Canon Sure Shot Z135. It’s a nice point-and-shoot camera, if a little larger than some of the others I own. It has one of those champagne coloured bodies that make it look less serious than black-bodied cameras, but the lens on it is pretty good, even if a little soft at the corners and with a noticeable vignette at the wide end. Sometimes the vignette can be a little obtrusive (especially where it darkens parts of a sky), but other times it looks quite nice. In this shot the edges of the two buildings – two parts of the hotel complex we stayed in – take the brunt of the vignetting.
Canon Sure Shot Z135 & Kodak Gold. Lab developed. Home scanned and converted with Negative Lab Pro.
A couple more Mount Srđ pictures today, the first of someone who looks perilously close to the edge (actually a drop of just a few feet…) and then a couple of pictures of the white stone cross that was rebuilt after being destroyed during the war in the 1990s.
In other, non-photography news, I’ve had a busy few days. My eldest son got married at the weekend, which was a lovely event and made me very happy and proud, and then today my wife and I drove him and his wife (it feels a bit odd calling her that somehow!) to the airport where they flew off on their honeymoon (to New York and Las Vegas).
While I didn’t have a lot to do in terms of any of the wedding planning, I did have to step in to do the Best Man’s speech after my son’s friend got a teaching job in Singapore and so couldn’t be there on the day. I’ve never given a Best Man’s speech before, so I was a little nervous about that, but it seemed to go well and I got a few compliments, which was nice.
It feels a little strange now that the wedding is over.
Olympus Trip 35 & Colorplus. Lab developed. Home scanned and converted with Negative Lab Pro.
Mount Srđ (pronounced serj) stands above Dubrovnik old town and is 1,352 feet tall. A cable-car takes visitors to the top and back, where there stands a cable car station with a restaurant with panoramic views over Dubrovnik and the coast. A Napoleonic fort, Fort Imperial, also resides at the top, which is now a museum to the events of the Croatian War of Independence in the 1990s. In addition, there is a tall television transmission mast.
The mountain played a key role in the Siege of Dubrovnik during the conflict between the Croatian forces and the Yugoslav People’s Army, with the Croatian’s literally holding the fort.
Olympus Trip 35 & Colorplus. Lab developed. Home scanned and converted with Negative Lab Pro.
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