Yashica Mat 124G & Lomography Color Negative 400. Lab developed. Home scanned and converted using Negative Lab Pro.
Taken on 1 March 2025
The river in Lincoln
Tag: Bridge
A spiky bridge and a signal box
The spiky looking bridge in the first picture below provides an alternate route across the railway tracks in Lincoln when the level crossing barriers are closed. It crosses the same road where yesterday’s blog photograph was taken. The bridge was nicely backlit and I noticed some lovely silhouettes of pedestrians crossing. Unfortunately, when I got in a position to take the picture they’d all left or were walking at the far side of the bridge where they couldn’t really be seen. After waiting 15 minutes to see if the scene would replicate itself, I eventually left to find other pictures to take. I did take the shot of the signal box before I left the scene though (another picture of the signal box may make an appearance in a future post…).
Olympus OM-10, Zuiko Auto-S 35mm f/2.8 & Agfa APX 100 (@400). Rodinal 1+100 (+2ml) semi-stand 1 hour @ 20°
Taken on 1 March 2025
Eastbound tracks
The main railway line through Lincoln crosses a number of busy roads, necessitating the use of level crossings. While level crossings are quite common in the countryside, and probably in some other towns and cities, there are relatively few of them in Sheffield (five according to this website), where I live – although, that being said, there is one only a mile from where I live.
Which makes the situation in Lincoln quite novel for me. Level crossings are the only real place where you have an opportunity to take photographs of railway lines while actually on the tracks (without trespassing) as long as the barriers are raised, and in Lincoln this makes for interesting compositions like the one in today’s picture.
Olympus OM-10, Zuiko Auto-S 35mm f/2.8 & Agfa APX 100 (@400). Rodinal 1+100 (+2ml) semi-stand 1 hour @ 20°
Taken on 1 March 2025
The River Witham in Lincoln
The River Witham flows very sedately through the centre of Lincoln, feeling more like a canal than a river. It is joined at Brayford Pool (seen in the first picture below) by the Foss Dyke, a man made canal the joins the Witham with the River Trent at Torksey to the west.
After Lincoln, the Witham flows through the flat Lincolnshire countryside, passing Bardney and Woodhall Spa, before eventually entering the North Sea at Boston on the east coast.
Olympus OM-10, Zuiko Auto-S 35mm f/2.8 & Agfa APX 100 (@400). Rodinal 1+100 (+2ml) semi-stand 1 hour @ 20°
Taken on 1 March 2025
A glut
I seem to have quite a backlog of photographs to post at present. This is mostly a good thing, and far preferable to having nothing new to put on the blog, but at the same time it can become a little overwhelming.
While film, by it’s nature, will always have some delay between shooting and being able to publish the results (I think I’ve only once shot, developed, scanned, and published a film photo on the same day), sometimes it feels like everything I post is out-of-date. I’m always posting stuff that I photographed weeks, if not months ago.
Part of this is due to the way I blog. Posting at least one picture every day means I need to keep up a ready supply of images, something I’m usually ok to do – I enjoy making photographs, and enjoy seeing them revealed even more, so taking a lot of them is enjoyable and something I feel compelled to undertake. At the same time, often due to time constraints (there never seems to be enough of it!), I’ll often only post a single image at a time, meaning a roll of film can result in weeks of blog posts is I’ve had a good hit rate.
Pretty soon I’m going to start posting pictures shot with a Kodak H35N half-frame camera – which gives at least 72 photos from a 36-exposure roll – so I’m going to have to clump those together or it will be autumn before I’m done.
I think some of my perceived problem arises from the fact that I have a tendency to collect (hoard!) things given the opportunity – maybe some ancient instinctive mammalian behaviour coming through – and this includes photogrphs. Whatever the case, I think I’m going to have to fight my instinct to save things, and push out more photos when I’m in this situation, which is why this post contains a bunch of pictures all taken during a hike from Baslow to Chatsworth house. Ideally I would have written a post about the hike, but instead I’ve spent the time on this outpouring. 😀
Yashica Mat 124G & Kodak Tri-X. Ilfotec DD-X 1+4 for 8 minutes @ 20°
Taken on 25 January 2025
Dark arch
Just up the road from the houses featured in the blog yesterday is a bridge which crosses Bar Brook, a small river (or, I guess, a brook!) which originates on the moors to the north of Baslow before it joins the River Derwent a little further downstream. The sunlight was casting deep shadow beneath the bridge, which I attempted to capture in this picture.
Yashica Mat 124G & Kodak Tri-X. Ilfotec DD-X 1+4 for 8 minutes @ 20°
Taken on 25 January 2025
Along the farm track
Not far from the Trans Pennine Trail at Renishaw stands a farm. A public footpath runs along the farm track, fields to one side, and a wooded area to the other.
When the track reaches the farm gate the footpath forks away across a grassy field, beneath a row of power lines, and then descends down a stony path, passing an impressive tree with an large hollow exposing its roots.
After this point, the path is rejoined by the one I showed in yesterday’s post and they then descent to the railway line, which can be crossed by a footbridge.
Yashica Mat 124G & Kodak Tri-X. Ilfotec DD-X 1+4 8mins @ 20°
Taken on 28 December 2024
Further misty Trans Pennine Trail pictures
I’m still slowly posting these pictures I made during the misty days we got just after Christmas last year.
The two shots today are of the Trans Pennine Trail not far from Renishaw. I’ve posted pictures from this part of the TPT in the past, including this post which shows the bridge in today’s photos from a different perspective.
More picture from this misty outing to come in the next few days.
Yashica Mat 124G & Kodak Tri-X. Ilfotec DD-X 1+4 8mins @ 20°
Taken on 28 December 2024
Beside and over the Moss
The Moss flows (appropriately enough) through the Moss Valley, an area of farmland dotted with woodland. Despite it’s close proximity to suburbs of Sheffield, it feels very much like you are in the heart of the countryside when you explore the area, which is threaded with a host of footpaths and lanes.
The two pictures today were taken beside The Moss, the first shot required a little patience while I waited for a couple of dogs to finish their excited leaps into the river (the ripples in the water are evidence of their fun).
I’m not sure what lies across the narrow bridge in the second picture. It might be access to farmland on the opposite bank, but from looking at a map, there is also another pond on that side of the river a little further downstream, so it’s possible it’s access for anglers. Whichever, it looks a little overgrown.
Yashica Mat 124G & Kodak Tri-X. Ilfotec DD-X 1+4 8mins @ 20°
Taken on 27 December 2024
Misty TPT
A further trio of pictures taken on a Boxing Day walk on the Trans Pennine Trail. I was fortunate to enjoy three misty days straight after Christmas, all on days when I wasn’t at work so could take advantage of them.
Yashica Mat 124G & Kodak Tri-X. Ilfotec DD-X 1+4 8mins @ 20°
Taken on 26 December 2024
Steel City Snapper photography 