Steel City Snapper photography
35mm, medium format and large format film photography (with the odd bit of digital every now and then…)
After yesterdays post showing the church at Elmton, here’s a picture of it from the other side.
Round back of the church
People have been laid to rest
Passing the ages
Olympus Superzoom 160 & Agfa APX 100. Ilfotec DD-X 1+4 12.5mins @ 20°.
Taken on 7 August 2021
A few more photographs of St. Peter’s Church in the village of Elmton. I’ve posted other photos of this church here and here.
Apologies for the rather concise posts lately – I’ve been caught up with a few other things that have been taking my time.
Look at the tower
There’s a crucifix up there
Fixed on the window
Olympus Superzoom 160 & Agfa APX 100. Ilfotec DD-X 1+4 12.5mins @ 20°.
Taken on 7 August 2021
This is an old barn in the village of Elmton. I was out shooting the remaining frames of film in an Olympus Sure Shot 160 I got as a freebie along with my XA3 when I made this picture. I wasn’t expecting too much from the camera – it has a pretty slow lens, especially when zoomed, and the last Superzoom model I owned, a 105G, made photos which were a little soft – but it’s surprised me with nice crisp results.
I shall drip-feed further images from the camera over the next few days.
Old barn in a field
Providing shelter for trees
An odd crop I think
Olympus Superzoom 160 & Agfa APX 100. Ilfotec DD-X 1+4 12.5mins @ 20°.
Taken on 7 August 2021
The Tramlines festival takes place in Sheffield each summer (although it was cancelled in 2020 due to the pandemic). The first event took place in 2009 and was a free-to-attend event for several years, although it has now become corporately run and ticketing is in place for the main festival, which is held in Hillsborough Park. The festival attracts big-name artists and is named after the city’s tram network, SuperTram.
Although a paid ticket is required for the Hillsborough event, there are a number of free entry venues scattered around the city under the moniker of Tramlines Fringe. The photos in today’s post were made at one of these events, held outside the Dorothy Pax bar at Victoria Quays.
Down by the canal
Music and dancing take place
It’s time for Tramlines
Nikon F80, Nikkor 35mm f/1.8G DX & Ilford HP5+. Ilfotec DD-X 1+4 9mins @ 20°.
Taken on 24 July 2021
I’ve been out all day today at a steam rally and after walking around the place (and the four hours of driving there and back) am pretty tired, so just a couple of quickly published photos in this post.
It’s hard to think of
A haiku when you are tired
I hope this will do
Nikon F80, Nikkor 35mm f/1.8G DX & Ilford HP5+. Ilfotec DD-X 1+4 9mins @ 20°.
Taken on 24 July 2021
This chap was sketching the straddle warehous at Victoria Quays while I walked around with my camera and he allowed me to maje a portrait of him at work.
Sketching with pencils
An image of a building
Bridging a canal
Nikon F80, Nikkor 35mm f/1.8G DX & Ilford HP5+. Ilfotec DD-X 1+4 9mins @ 20°.
Taken on 24 July 2021
Being forced to shoot with the lens wide open (or almost – this was at f/2) when using the crop 35mm lens in order to avoid heavy vignetting means that objects are thrown into pleasing relief with the drop-off in depth of field. It’s not massively pronounced when the subject is further away, but still there, as with this photo of a cruiser moored at Victoria Quays with the straddle warehouse in the background.
Is this a cruiser?
I had to Google in case
I had got it wrong!
Nikon F80, Nikkor 35mm f/1.8G DX & Ilford HP5+. Ilfotec DD-X 1+4 9mins @ 20°.
Taken on 24 July 2021
At the Sheffield end of the Sheffield and Tinsley canal sits the straddle warehouse building at Victoria Quays. Now an office building, it was built around the turn of the 20th century. It’s design was due to there being insufficient space for the buildings around the edge of the canal basin, so the design supported by stilts was constructed.
Office block on stilts
Where once cargo unloaded
Now there is admin
Nikon F80, Nikkor 35mm f/1.8G DX & Ilford HP5+. Ilfotec DD-X 1+4 9mins @ 20°.
Taken on 24 July 2021
There are a number of these stone plinths beside the canal near the wharf area. I’m unsure as to their original purpose – perhaps supports for some structures no longer present or something. I’m sure canal afficionados would know.
These have each been decorated with various images of animals – the swan seen here, and also a kingfisher and horses. I’ve a couple of pictures of the horses which I thought might be nice, but there are some odd artefacts on the negatives – possibly a light leak or other camera problem (I shot those using an Olympus Superzoom 160), or maybe a developing issue (I found a bit of loose film leader in the developing tank when removing the film after washing, which I suppose might have caused a problem).
Swan by the canal
Graceful as ever it seems
But frantic beneath
Nikon F80, Nikkor 35mm f/1.8G DX & Ilford HP5+. Ilfotec DD-X 1+4 9mins @ 20°.
Taken on 24 July 2021
I can’t hear the word “underpass” without it bringing the sound of John Foxx’s 1980 electronic classic song of the same name – although I still always have a childish urge to switch the chorus to “Underpants!” :).
I’m really happy with how this shot turned out. Again, the vignetting has added some grit to an already nicely gritty scene. I’d just walked beneath the underpass myself and was out the other side when I saw someone going the other way. So I about-turned and grabbed a picture of their silouhetted form as they reached the light at the far side of the tunnel. The 35mm lens focuses pretty slowly for some reason on the F80 so the figure isn’t totally sharp, but I don’t think it matters at all in this picture.
Figures pass below
Under the traffic above
Echoes of John Foxx
Nikon F80, Nikkor 35mm f/1.8G DX & Ilford HP5+. Ilfotec DD-X 1+4 9mins @ 20°.
Taken on 24 July 2021
