I maybe didn’t get the most attractive view of the building here, but it still has it’s charms.
Zeiss Mess-Ikonta & Kodak Portra 400 (expired 2016).
Taken on 7 February 2018
Paid and Displayed
This was a quick snap that I took in the car after a walk around town. It had begun to rain, and the water on the windscreen coupled with the reflection of my parking ticket seemed to be something worth photographing.
I don’t know if anyone else would agree, but I like it.
Pentax P30T, Rikenon 50mm f/2 & Kodak Tmax 400.
Taken on 3 February 2018
In suburbia
Just a couple of suburban dwellings, but I liked the way they were lit by the low afternoon sun while in the background the sky is dark with heavy cloud.
Pentax P30T, Rikenon 50mm f/2 & Kodak Tmax 400.
Taken on 2 February 2018
Picture house
This is the side of the Abbeydale Picture House in Sheffield. Opened in 1920, the building is undergoing a gradual refurbishment as a community arts centre.
Pentax P30T, Rikenon 50mm f/2 & Kodak Tmax 400.
Taken on 27 January 2018
Breaking the rules
One of the rules of composition is the “rule of space”. This states that there should be more space in front of an object moving through the frame than behind it. I’ve broken that rule here, but (to my eyes at least), I think the shot works well nonetheless. The fact that the man is closer to exiting the scene than entering it seems to add a sense of urgency (which is also helped by the motion blur).
But what do I know. 🙂
Pentax P30T, Rikenon 50mm f/2 & Kodak Tmax 400.
Taken on 03 February 2018
Millstone Grit
I had a day off work this week and took a trip out into the nearby Peak District National Park. I was mostly trying my hand (not very successfully) at some landscape stuff using my digital camera, but I still stuck a couple of film cameras in my bag and managed to polish off a roll of 120 Portra 400, plus the remains of some Tmax 400 in my Pentax P30T.
The area I visited is littered with millstones in varying stages of completion, hewn from the local gritstone. The one in this photo must’ve been photographed many, many thousands of times as it lays right next to the footpath leading to Over Owler Tor.
Zeiss Mess-Ikonta & Kodak Portra 400 (expired 2016).
Taken on 7 February 2018
The girl on Empire Road
Some gable-end street-art.
Pentax P30T, Rikenon 50mm f/2 & Kodak Tmax 400.
Taken on 27 January 2018
Cowabunga dude!
In the early afternoon light, this large gritstone boulder on the moors above Hathersage, UK, had the look of a face, so I took the photo. It was only after scanning the negative that it struck me as to what it reminded me of – a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle (albeit one with a slightly lopsided face), complete with the tail of its bandana fluttering from the left side of its neck.
Or maybe it just looks like a big rock…
Zeiss Mess-Ikonta & Kodak Portra 400 (expired 2016).
Taken on 7 February 2018
Only hardy leaves remain
Most deciduous trees are naked at this time of year, but a few still hold onto a thin veil of dead autumn leaves.
Olympus OM-1, Zuiko 135mm f/3.5 & Ilford HP5+.
Taken on 20 January 2017
A winter tree
Trees have a beauty to them after autumn has stripped them of their leaves.
Zeiss Mess-Ikonta & Kodak Tri-X (expired 2013).
Taken on 25 January 2018
