35mm, medium format and large format film photography (with the odd bit of digital every now and then…)
This is one of those shots that turns out much better than you expected. I took a few shots of the reservoir and reflected trees, but the ones I thought would look best featured some ducks in the middle of the still water. I didn’t really think much about this one until the negatives came back, and it was the best of the bunch.
Olympus OM-1, Zuiko 135mm f/3.5 & Ilford HP5+.
Taken on 21 December 2017
I spotted this curious little box attached to the wall of a reservoir. I’m not sure what might be inside (someone suggested the key to the lock 🙂 ).
Olympus OM-1, F.Zuiko 50mm f/1.8 & Ilford HP5+.
Taken on 20 January 2018
It was slightly awkward taking these photos. The horses were on the other side of a stone wall, but there was only a small length of it accessible to me (the rest was blocked by a hedge), and the section I could get to was at the top of a small, but slippery earth bank, so it was difficult to keep the camera steady.
Still, these have come out nice and sharp – mostly due to the sun making an appearance and allowing a snappier shutter speed.
Unfortunately, the horse at the rear was enjoying its lunch and didn’t move position, and my vantage point was such that it wasn’t possible to take any pictures that didn’t have its head hidden by the backside of its buddy.
Olympus OM-1, Zuiko 135mm f/3.5 & Ilford HP5+.
Taken on 21 December 2017
To be honest, the day I took this shot was not an ideal one for walking, but at the time I left the house it didn’t seem too bad. It wasn’t blizzard conditions or anything, or even heavy rain, just intermittent wintry showers of sleet.
The main problem was that there was a great deal of surface water around which had turned the footpaths into mud. The path in the shot below wasn’t too bad (although I had to walk with my feet straddling the central stream of meltwater for much of its length), but in some places my feet became completely submerged in mud, and one particular steep uphill gully – filled with mud, leaves and water, and closely bordered with prickly holly bushes – made for a bit of an ordeal. I also had an incident where I stopped to talk to a lady walking her dog. The dog was a friendly looking thing and so decided it would rear up on its hind legs and plant its very muddy paws on me, leaving me with a large splotch of wet mud atop my thigh.
It was still a nice walk though.
Olympus OM-1, F.Zuiko 50mm f/1.8 & Ilford HP5+.
Taken on 17 January 2018
A fairly mundane subject for today’s photo, but the light falling on it was lovely, so I couldn’t resist the shot.
The title is in reference of the Electric Six song, Danger! High Voltage, in case you were wondering.
Olympus OM-1, F.Zuiko 50mm f/1.8 & Ilford HP5+.
Taken on 31 December 2017
A few of the buildings clustered around St. Paul’s Square in Sheffield city centre, including the distinctive “Cheesegrater” car-park..
Olympus 35 RC & Kodak Tri-X.
Taken on 29 October 2017
I took a number of pictures on this street in Hull a couple of month’s back. This is the only medium format shot amongst them. I like the shot and the composition, but wish there had been a little more light – I had to open up the aperture to get the photo (a side-effect of my Mess-Ikonta having a slow / sticky shutter at speeds below 1/100 sec, which forces me to open it up in lower light, rather than dropping the shutter speed). As a result, the focus is a little soft in the foreground.
Zeiss Mess-Ikonta 524/16 & Kodak Tri-X.
Taken on 29 November 2017
The trailer with the dog’s face on it has been parked in this field for years. For a while there would be canine “gymkhana” type events that would take place here from time to time, where people would run their dogs through courses of fences, ramps, tunnels and the like. I never visited any of these events, but I drove past on a few occasions when they were taking place and there was often quite a crowd of people in attendance. However, at some point a few years ago the events came to an end, but the trailer, with its jolly artwork, has remained in the field since. At some point more recently, someone has broken into the trailer and there were various pieces of equipment scattered beside it.
Zeiss Mess-Ikonta 524/16 & Kodak Tmax 100.
Taken on 1 January 2018
A farm at Ridgeway Moor, partly silhouetted against the morning mist.
Olympus OM-1, Zuiko 135mm f/3.5 & Kodak Tmax 100.
Taken on 21 December 2017
A fourth shot from the same location (the shot of the Duck was taken here too).
Olympus OM-1, Zuiko 135mm f/3.5 & Kodak Tmax 100.
Taken on 21 December 2017
