Back in September I decided to visit the town of King’s Lynn, in Norfolk. I did this for no other reason than I had never visited the place before and that I thought it might be an interesting place to take some photographs. It was, and I’ll be posting some of the results over the next week or so.
I didn’t get the best weather on the day – it being largely overcast through the morning – although it did brighten up in the afternoon, so the light was a little low for the first part of the day. This didn’t really harm the Tri-X I had loaded, although I was effectively shooting it at 200asa because I had a yellow filter fitted to the camera, but I did wonder how the roll of Delta 100 in the other camera I took would fare. More on that in another post though.
This roll of Tri-X was also the first I’ve ever developed using Rodinal. I’d previously shied away from using this developer with faster films, having heard tales of “golfball”-size grain but, having read some posts by Andy on his S.H.O.U.T photography blog about his experiences with Rodinal, I decided to see how I would get on.
I think the results are, on the whole, pretty good. There’s more grain that I would have seen had I developed it in my usual Ilfotec DDX, but nothing outrageous, and the tonality of the negatives is good.
I’m not sure I would rush to develop 135 Tri-X in Rodinal, but I’m not averse to using it for Tri-X (or perhaps HP5+) again in future. It’s certainly a more cost effective option.
Anyway, the photo today is of a statue of King’s Lynn born George Vancouver (22 June 1757 – 10 May 1798) a British Royal Navy officer best known for his exploration of the American north-west coast. The city of Vancouver, Vancouver Island, and Mount Vancouver are all named after the man, as is another Mount Vancouver in New Zealand! He also named a number of other locations after his friends, colleagus and fellow officers, including Mount St. Helens, Puget Sound, and Mount Rainier.
That’s the top of the custom’s house behind his head, and not some sort of fancy hat he’s wearing.
Zeiss Mess-Ikonta 524/16 & Kodak Tri-X. Adox Rodinal 1+50 13mins @ 20°
Taken on 19 September 2024
Steel City Snapper photography 
Ah, (George) Vancouver! Just rode down N. Vancouver Ave this afternoon.
BTW, there are two cities named after Vancouver: The one that everyone thinks of, Vancouver BC in Canada, and the one that few think of, unless you live near it like I do: Vancouver WA in the US.
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I must confess that it’s the Canadian city that springs to mind first. I am not surprised that there’s a Vancouver in the US though, it seems like there are US versions of countless cities and towns from other places, especially the UK and Europe (for obvious reasons). I live in Sheffield, UK, and according to Wikipedia there are no less than nine Sheffields in the US (plus some more in Canada, New Zealand, and Jamaica)!
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To be fair, the US Vancouver came before the Canada Vancouver.
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