A few tree portraits taken while on a walk around the Longshaw estate in the Peak District last week.
Nikon F70, Nikkor 50mm f/1.8 AF-D (with red filter) & Fujifilm Acros 100.
Taken on 20 September 2017
Mablethorpe Rock
I’m not sure when this shop first opened, but it’s been there as long as I remember, and I’ve taken more than one photograph of it over the years.
I don’t tend to buy or eat rock (maybe occasionally if it’s a fruity variant akin to a boiled sweet, rather than the pure sugar or peppermint stuff), and was amused on a recent trip to Skegness to see that the flavours available have evolved to include things like chicken tikka masala and other, perhaps non-too-appealing, varieties!
Anyway, I hope this place remains in business for a long time, it’d be sad for it not to be there.
Nikon F70, Nikkor 50mm f/1.8 AF-D & Fujifilm Acros 100.
Taken on 13 September 2017
Easy like Sunday morning
While I was wandering around Victoria Quays on Sunday morning, wondering where the Distinguished Gentleman’s Ride was, I spotted what looked like a nice composition of the wharf area. As I was about to take the picture, this chap (who was with his kids and, I think, also looking for the motorbikes) walked into the shot and I think has improved it by adding a bit of human interest.
The scene brought to mind the old Halifax cashcard advert from the 1980s – this one here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7nFru5iQg0
Yashica Mat 124 G & Kodak Tri-X (Expired December 2006).
Taken on 24 September 2017
Sheffield Distinguished Gentleman’s Ride, 2017
I went along to this year’s Distinguished Gentleman’s Ride yesterday and shot a couple of rolls of expired Tri-X on my Yashica Mat 124 G. I overexposed the film by a stop to compensate for its age (it expired in 2006) and the results are, on the whole, pretty nice (although this is likely down to the large amount of latitude for overexposure that the film has).
Anyway, after a slight hiccup where I turned up at Victoria Quays to find not a single motorcycle in sight, I overheard a couple of other people chatting to someone about the same concern, and after listening and chatting to them, we walked to the correct venue a short distance away (rather giving itself away by the sound of dozens of motorbike engines).
Apart from four frames, I shot two rolls of film at the event and came away with nineteen shots. I lost the final shot on the second roll when the film jammed, necessitating me taking it out and rolling it onto the spool in a dark closet when I got back home. A few of the shots on this roll ended up with a mark along the top edge of the negative, possibly as a result of the jam. Luckily, in almost every case, the mark was on an area of sky and I was able to edit it out, but I’ve had to crop one shot where the mark was overlaid on a building.
I’d gone with the intention of trying to get a few portraits, but in the end only got a couple, both of the same gent who was kind enough to pose for my photos*. The first one hasn’t quite worked as I messed up the exposure – something I suspected at the time – but the second has come out a treat, as have a couple of other shots of the same chap that I took while walking around.
*If you’re reading this, apologies, I didn’t get your name, but I’d like to say thanks to you for allowing me to take the shots and being patient while I fiddled around with the camera and my light meter. Hope you like the photos!
Anyway, before the photos, here’s a link if you’d like to donate to the cause supported by The Distinguished Gentleman’s Ride:
https://www.gentlemansride.com/donate
And now, here’re the photos (in the order I took them):
All photos: Yashica Mat 124 G & Kodak Tri-X (Expired December 2006).
Taken on 24 September 2017
Double selfie
Neither of these ‘selfies’ was the primary intention here, but I got them anyway. 🙂
Nikon F70, Nikkor 50mm f/1.8 AF-D & Fujifilm Acros 100 (cropped).
Taken on 13 September 2017
On the beach
Another trio of photos taken on Mablethorpe beach.
Nikon F70, Nikkor 50mm f/1.8 AF-D & Fujifilm Acros 100.
Taken on 13 September 2017
At the edge of the world
Well, at the beach to be more specific. Three shots of small waves on Mablethorpe beach during an ebbing tide.
Nikon F70, Nikkor 50mm f/1.8 AF-D & Fujifilm Acros 100.
Taken on 13 September 2017
The departing storm
We had some pretty heavy showers recently (for the UK, at least – I’m not talking hurricane season here), and I took this from the bathroom window both because clouds are ace, but also because I’d received a red filter in the post that day and thought it would be a good shot to try it out with).
Nikon F70, Nikkor 50mm f/1.8 AF-D (with red filter) & Fujifilm Acros 100.
Taken on 15 September 2017
A world of colour (in black and white)
I had a day off work yesterday and took a trip out to the nearby Peak District National Park. On the north-eastern edge of the park, close to Sheffield, lies the Longshaw estate, and that was my destination.
I took the Yashica Mat 124 G loaded with a roll of Ektar, and the Nikon F70 with the remains of a roll of Acros 100. I’m a little disappointed with the Ektar shots – a couple at the start of the roll are spoiled by some sort of defect, and the others lack some of the wow factor I was hoping for.
However, I still got several photos I like and, although Ektar’s strength is in it’s richly saturated colour, I decided to throw that all out of the window after deciding many of the shots had a lot more impact in monochrome. I also cropped the third of these to a 6×7 ratio to remove some distracting highlights from the top of the frame.
So, here are three of them.
Yashica Mat 124 G & Kodak Extar 100 (converted to black and white in Lightroom).
Taken on 20 September 2017
The empty playground
I spotted this deserted climbing frame the other week when I went to photograph the Humber Bridge (it’s next to the car park, and behind a building that seemed to be deserted – or at least was on the day I was there). It looked kinda forlorn on such a gloomy and drizzly day, but made for a nice shot.
Yashica Mat 124 G & Fujifilm Acros 100 (expired 2014)
Taken on 30 August 2017.
