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A church and a chapel

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A mere stones throw from one another, here are Cemetery Road Baptist Church and Lansdowne Chapel.

I’ve noticed that, in certain shots – and particularly when pointing the camera upwards – the blue skies in my pictures take on a deepr, almost petrol-blue tonality. While the sky does tend to be a deeper blue when you look towards the vertical, I’m not sure that explains this change in tonality that I sometimes get. I could probably fiddle with the colours during the edit, but I quite like the richness of it.

Cemetery Road Baptist Church
Lansdowne Chapel

Canon Sure Shot Supreme & Kodak Gold. Lab developed. Home scanned and converted with Negative Lab Pro.

Taken 20 May 2023.

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Framed by foliage

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I was going to title todays post “hiding in the bushes” but that just sounded creepy. Framed by Foliage sounds much nicer.

I guess the theme today – if four pictures can be said to constitute a “theme” – is my tendency to choose to frame subjects with vegetation, whether it be shrubs, flowers, trees, or all three. I notice that I do this a lot. I don’t know if it’s unusual or if everyone uses this particular device. Whatever the case, it’s one I use often.

The foliage in these images is rarely the subject, even if it sometimes takes up a lot of the frame, but it is still integral to the picture. All four pictures shown today would still work thout the framing, but they would be markedly different.

Salmon pink housing
Centrally secluded
Hotel
Manpower Services

Canon Sure Shot Supreme & Kodak Gold. Lab developed. Home scanned and converted with Negative Lab Pro.

Taken 20 May 2023.

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Underpass(es) and a dropped camera

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Or perhaps it’s “underpi”? 😉

Anyway, whatever the plural (and I expect there isn’t a collective noun), here are three photographs of underpasses. They’re all fairly close to one another – in fact, the latter two photos are in the same structure.

They felt like a good trio of pictures to publish together.

This whole roll of film had a sense of suspense about it. I took my Canon Sure Shot Supreme on an outing a couple of months back and decided to carry it in its case using the built-in belt strap. This was very convenient right up to the point where the strap came unglued and the camera fell onto a concrete floor (still inside the case, thankfully). The camera’s plastic shell became slightly misaligned and had to be popped back into shape, an a few little chips of plastic broke of around the shutter button. I was concerned about light leaks (so I filled the chip holes with a bit of black silicone), and also some sort of major damage to the mechanism or electronics. However, when I finished shooting to roll a few weeks later and got the negatives back they were all perfectly fine. So I still have a working Supreme, albeit now with a few battle scars.

Man in the underpass
Below Brutalism
In the midst

Canon Sure Shot Supreme & Kodak Gold. Lab developed. Home scanned and converted with Negative Lab Pro.

Taken 20 May 2023.

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Seeing red

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There is something that attracts me to photographing post boxes. It’s not hard to figure out – it’s the vivid red that does it. I photograph them in black and white sometimes too, but colour really works best.

This one dates back to the reign of King George, so would have been erected sometime between 1936 and 1952, when he died and new boxes tok on the ER markings denoting Queen Elizabeth II.

It also has a sticker on it advertising a march and rally seeking justice for the events that took place at the Battle of Orgreave during the miner’s strike in June 1984.

Red

Canon Sure Shot Supreme & Kodak Gold. Lab developed. Home scanned and converted with Negative Lab Pro.

Taken 20 May 2023.

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A place passed on a walk

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One of my primary means of taking photos is to just go for a walk somewhere promising and see what pictures present themselves. Even ordinary looking areas can usually turn up a wealth of subjects, particularly if the lighting or weather is agreeable for what you are seeking to achieve.

This is a photo (as, indeed, are most of the pictures I’ll be posting over the next few days) that was made this way. Just a place I walked past that looked like it would make a nice picture.

Hebblethwaites

Canon Sure Shot Supreme & Kodak Gold. Lab developed. Home scanned and converted with Negative Lab Pro.

Taken 20 May 2023.

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Sunny day street art

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On the wall of the Porter Cottage pub, this piece of street art looked great in the sunshine helped, I think, by the black brickwork.

I’m glad that this week has finished. I had two days out of the office, but the other three days felt like five day’s had been squeezed into them. I expect to be busy again next week, but at least I have no travel planned (thopugh maybe a day off on the Friday if I can squeeze it in…). Maybe I’ll be able to write more on the blog.

Black wall colour
Street art fragment

Canon Sure Shot Supreme & Kodak Gold. Lab developed. Home scanned and converted with Negative Lab Pro.

Taken 20 May 2023.

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Sea Vixen

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I thought I’d throw in another air museum photo before moving onto something new tomorrow.

Today it’s the back end of a DeHaviland Sea Vixen, a twin-boom carrier-based fleet defense aircraft that was introduced in the 1950s and saw service into the 1970s before being replaced by McDonnel Douglas Phantoms.

The asymetric cockpit is an interesting feature.

Today I went for a drive out to Rufford Abbey (although most of my time was spent wandering the surrounding Rufford Country Park). It was a nice day and the place was very busy, but I shot a couple of rolls of film with my Texas Leica (the Fujica GW690). The first roll was a little loosely wound when I removed it from the camera, so I’m expecting there may be some light leaks, but I took care to ensure the second roll was tightly wound on the takeup spool before closing the camera back and that came out fine. I shot half the second roll at Rufford Country Park, and the remaining frames at a couple of places I stopped off at on the way home. Pictures to come at some point (although I’ve got loads of other stuff before then!).

Tail

Canon Sure Shot Supreme & Ilford HP5+. Ilfotec DD-X 1+4 9 mins 30 secs @ 20°

Taken 7 April 2023.

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Vulcan

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The Avro Vulcan bomber is a truly impressive aircraft. It’s huge delta wings span almost 100 feet and it’s an imposing feeling when you walk beneath. The Vulcan was one of three aircraft that formed to so-called V-Bombers – the other two being the Vickers Valliant (two Vs in one!) and the Handley Page Victor. – Britain’s nuclear capable bomber force from the 1950s to the early 1980s. In the mid-1960s the V-bomber fleet counted almost one-hundred-and-sixty aircraft, with Vulcan making up the largest part with seventy aircraft in service.

Seeing one of these fly is a majestic experience, the noise of the engines and the shape of the huge delta wings was unforgetable and I remeber seeing them in flight sometimes as a child, and was also fortunate enought to see one of the (then) surviving airworthy aircraft making a display flight at an airshown in the 1990s.

Sadly, none of the surviving Vulcans is in airworthy condition any longer, although there are three which are taxiable, and the one pictured here at Newark Air Museum is on static display (although it is possible to go inside the aircraft).

Live long and prosper! (I had to get that in! :))

V bomber
Under Vulcan's wing

Canon Sure Shot Supreme & Ilford HP5+. Ilfotec DD-X 1+4 9 mins 30 secs @ 20°

Taken 7 April 2023.