Steel City Snapper photography
35mm, medium format and large format film photography (with the odd bit of digital every now and then…)
These are the final two colour pictures that I’m publishing from the steam rally this year (that I shot with my Yashica Mat 124G).
While the subjects differ considerably, I did notice that there is a nice Red / Yellow / Blue thing going on in both pictures, so I think they work together in that regard.
Yashica Mat 124G & Kodak Portra 160 & Kodak Ektar. Lab developed. Home scanned and converted with Negative Lab Pro.
Taken on 29 June 2025
When I posted my pictures of traction engines a few days ago, I missed one from the set. So here it is today. It’s worth posting, I think.
Yashica Mat 124G & Kodak Ektar. Lab developed. Home scanned and converted with Negative Lab Pro.
Taken on 29 June 2025
A bit of an image dump today, gathering up all the pictures of cars and bikes that I photographed at this year’s Sheffield Steam Rally. Again, the shots are a mixture of Kodak Portra 160 and Kodak Ektar images.
I still have some more pictures from the event yet to come – perhaps a couple more medium format colour shots, and then a bunch of B&W 35mmj pictures.
Yashica Mat 124G & Kodak Portra 160 / Kodak Ektar. Lab developed. Home scanned and converted with Negative Lab Pro.
Taken on 29 June 2025
These two pictures felt like they went together nicely, both showing unconventional truck-based accommodation.
Yashica Mat 124G & Kodak Portra 160 / Kodak Ektar. Lab developed. Home scanned and converted with Negative Lab Pro.
Taken on 29 June 2025
Yashica Mat 124G & Kodak Ektar. Lab developed. Home scanned and converted with Negative Lab Pro.
Taken on 29 June 2025
Three shots of the same Studebaker pickup truck, each taken at different times and in changing light as I wandered around the vehicles on display at the steam rally. The first two on Kodak Portra 160, the last on Kodak Ektar.
Yashica Mat 124G & Kodak Portra 160 / Kodak Ektar. Lab developed. Home scanned and converted with Negative Lab Pro.
Taken on 29 June 2025
The Sheffield Steam Rally usually has a selection of vintage fairground rides and stalls present. It’s not a huge full size funfair and it’s usually the same attractions every year (presumably because it’s the same owners who attend each time) – the biggest of which is a carousel, but it’s mostly smaller rides and stalls.
I’ve photographed most of them before, but I’m usually drawn back to them each time I go. Here are three shots from this year’s visit.
Yashica Mat 124G & Kodak Portra 160. Lab developed. Home scanned and converted with Negative Lab Pro.
Taken on 29 June 2025
It wouldn’t have been the summer without my annual visit to the Sheffield Steam Rally, where I increasingly seem to be photographing the same things every year.
I took a whole bunch of pictures as usual and, as I still have quite a backlog of photos to catch up with, will post them in batches rather than individually. Starting with some traction engines…
The final shot is interesting because, while the main subject isn’t a traction engine, there is a tiny one perched atop it (and a full size one in the background too).
Yashica Mat 124G & Kodak Portra 160. Lab developed. Home scanned and converted with Negative Lab Pro.
Taken on 29 June 2025
I seem to have captured a nice range of tonality in this picture. Considering it’s reversal film, I’ve managed to keep detail in both the bright clouds and also the shadows, resulting in a nicely exposed scene. I’m not sure that the colours are quite right though – those red poppies look a little vivid. Or is it just me?
Yashica Mat 124G & Fujichrome Provia 100. Lab developed and home scanned on an Epson V850.
Taken on 30 March 2025
On my previous visit to Cleethorpes last year, the new lifeboat station consisted of little more than a series of concrete pilings set into the beach and surrounded by a metal fence. You can just make it out in the first picture of this post from February 2024.
Now, although at the time of taking these shots there were still construction vehicles parked on the slipway, it seems to be almost complete and, given these pictures were taken over three months ago now, could well be fully operational (I said that in the voice of the emperor from Star Wars, as though describing the second Death Star…).
Yashica Mat 124G & Fujichrome Provia 100. Lab developed and home scanned on an Epson V850.
Taken on 30 March 2025
Steel City Snapper photography 