Steel City Snapper photography
35mm, medium format and large format film photography (with the odd bit of digital every now and then…)
I’ve been out all day helping my son move house, so don’t really have the energy to write too much today, so here’s a shot from my trip to Barcelona back in June that I’d not done anything with until now. Normal, slightly more wordy posts will resume tomorrow. 🙂
Olympus OM-10, Cimko 28mm f/2.8 & Arista Edu 200.
Taken on 18 June 2019
Another photo taken at the canal basin in Sheffield. I took five or six shots here to finish off a roll of film still in the camera after my trip to Barcelona and I shot all of them with a red filter. The somewhat harsh tones add a grittiness to the images.
Olympus OM-10, Zuiko 28mm f/3,5 & Arista Edu 200 (with red filter).
Taken on 23 June 2019
One of the old canal-side buildings near the canal wharf in Sheffield. It’s now an office for an employment agency. There’s some considerable grain present here, but the red filter has made the image pop nicely, I think.
Olympus OM-10, Zuiko 28mm f/3,5 & Arista Edu 200 (with red filter).
Taken on 23 June 2019
A multitude of small yachts moored in the marina at Barcelona, spindly masts poking skywards.
I took this while sitting on a bench ovelooking the marina – we’d walked from the hotel to the city plaza, and from there down Las Ramblas to the spot where this was taken. There’s a modern shopping mall over to the right of this composition and that was our destination (although there wasn’t all that much to see when we got there).
My knee was killing me throughout the trip as I had (and still have as I type this) some sort of injury, although it now thankfully seems to be on the wane. I’m not sure that walking in excess of 20,000 steps each day of the trip had helped it!
Canon Sure Shot Z135 & Kodak Portra 400.
Taken on 18 June 2019
Taken in Barcelona’s Gothic Quarter while I waited for my wife who was browsing in shoe shops.
Canon Sure Shot Z135 & Kodak Portra 400.
Taken on 17 June 2019
I noticed this building when in Wakefield recently. The symbol in the decorative pediment identifies it as a freemason’s lodge and it has attractive features as a building. A tilt-shift lens would be very useful for shots such as these but, alas, I don’t have one (nor can I justify the expense either), so the picture is stuck with the converging verticals.
I’m presuming that a staircase runs from the left to the right of the upper floor to account for the different sized windows,
Nikon F80, Nikkor 28-80mm f/3.5-5.6 & Arista Edu 200.
Taken on 30 March 2019
Today’s photo was taken on the same walk last week where I photographed the cows in yesterday’s blog post. This shot of the farm was taken before I got to the cows though.
I’ve passed this farm a number of times, but never stopped to see if it offered any photo opportunities. Turns out it does – I took about five photographs during this session, and there are doubtless a few more to be had – even just standing on the road that passes it.
I’m not sure if the farm is still occupied. It’s surrounded by fields that are clearly still being worked, but the farm building themselves had a decidedly quiet air about them. Maybe I just passed at a quiet time though.
Nikon F80, Nikkor 28-80mm f/3.5-5.6 & Arista Edu 200.
Taken on 31 March 2019
I went for a walk last Sunday, with no plan in mind other than to follow a public footpath on a map. This is something I like to do and aim to do more this year – I basically look for a public footpath on an Ordnance Survey map and then follow it. Hopefully I’ll find a few nice photos on the way and, if I don’t, it’s still exercise.
The path I followed last Sunday went around a small grass airstrip that I had no idea was even there before spotting it on the map. The map seemed to indicate that there was passage across the strip, but the reality was that it was bordered by electric fencing, the reason for this precaution probably being the subjects of today’s photograph.
I’m slightly wary of cows after reading of a number of injuries and even deaths caused by these normally peaceful creatures (although, in most cases the victim had a dog with them at the time, which is likely the reason the cows became hostile). I also became trapped in a field as darkness fell by a sizeable herd not too long ago when they wandered to graze right next to the only point of exit while I was taking a photograph elsewhere in the meadow.
Whatever my fears though, unfounded or not, this group were content to munch on the grass as I passed them by at a safe distance.
Nikon F80, Nikkor 28-80mm f/3.5-5.6 & Arista Edu 200.
Taken on 31 March 2019
Boats and old riverside buildings cast reflections on the River Calder at Wakefield, UK.
Nikon F80, Nikkor 28-80mm f/3.5-5.6 & Arista Edu 200.
Taken on 30 March 2019
This is the Chantry Chapel of St Mary the Virgin in Wakefield, UK. It is one of just five remaining mediaeval bridge chapels in the country and is a grade 1 listed structure. The bridge chapel at Rotherham is much closer to where I live, but I’ve not had the opportunity to photograph that one.
Nikon F80, Nikkor 28-80mm f/3.5-5.6 & Arista Edu 200.
Taken on 30 March 2019
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