George Street car park

October 19, 2025 fishyfisharcade2 Comments

Another example of brutalist architecture, this time in the form of Hull’s George Street car park. The multi-storey construction takes the form of a continuous spiral and it was developed and designed in the 1960s by Maurice Weston who had built other similar car parks.

As with many car parks from the 60s (in the UK at least), the parking bays were designed for smaller vehicles, meaning that some of today’s considerably larger cars – particularly SUVs, I would imagine, find it a greater challenge to fit. I’ve noticed similarly small bays in other car parks from those times, often with the disadvantage of concrete pillars that form part of the structure meaning that the bays cannot easily be widened.

Nikon F80 & Tamron 28-300mm F/3.5-6.3 Di VC PZD on Kodak Tri-X. Ilfotec DD-X 1+4 @ 20° 9mins.

Taken on 9 August 2025

35mm · Film photography · Photography

Morris Minor in a car park

April 13, 2024 fishyfisharcadeLeave a comment

Another delve into the archives and another shot that I haven’t posted before (or I can’t find it, if I have).

I remember this being quite an unexpected find – a vintage Morris Minor sat all on its lonesome on the top deck of a multi-story car park. It was a chance encounter too as I only climbed to the top floor to see if there might be a decent view to be had from up there.

I’ve been to Photo North in Leeds today and didn’t get back until early evening, which is why I’m dipping into the archives as it somehow seemed easier than writing about one of my more recent pictures.

Minolta SRT 101b, Rokkor 50mm f/1.7 & Kodak Tri-X (expired circa 2000-ish). Ilfotec DD-X 1+4 8mins @ 20°

Taken on 31 August 2020

Digital

In the car park

July 13, 2023 fishyfisharcadeLeave a comment

I’ve been out all day in London for a meeting today. I took my Ricoh with me and made a few pictures when I got opportunity. This one was taken in the car park this evening when I got back to my car. It’s just a support girder, but something about it appealed, as it sometimes does.

Ricoh GR III
Taken 13 July 2023

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Car-park abstact

July 13, 2021 fishyfisharcadeLeave a comment

I’ve titled this post “Car-park abstract”, but is it really abstract, or just a photograph of a car-park. Moments after entering the title I decided to search online for abstract photography and, if I’m honest, judging by the results it’s perhaps on the very edge of what might be classed abstract.

A lot of the results were either close-ups of objects that are still easily recognisable, close-ups that require a little more thought in a “can you tell what it is?” type fashion, identifiable objects placed or lit in an unusual way, objects reduced to collections of primary colours, shades, or shapes by composition, or just images of random patterns.

I guess my car-park photo probably needs a bit more work to truly fit into the abstract realm but, hey, it got me a blog post when five minutes ago I had no idea what I was going to write.

I’m losing focus
Drifting into the abstract
I paraphrase NIN

Olympus XA3 & Ilford HP5+. Ilfotec DD-X 1+4 9mins @ 20°.

Taken on 29 May 2021

Film photography · Medium Format · Photography

Nineteen

January 8, 2020January 13, 2020 fishyfisharcadeLeave a comment

A shot taken a couple of days before Christmas in typically wet UK December conditions. It was raining quite heavily when I took this so I perhaps rushed the shot a little. With hindsight I should have either gotten lower or angled the camera down to get more of the reflection in frame (and at the same time removing some of the somewhat uninteresting sky). I have thought about cropping it, but in the end decided not to.

I do like it though, and think it might be worth a re-visit if there are similar wet conditions (and an empty car park) again at some point.

Zeiss Mess-Ikonta 524/16 & Ilford HP5+.

Taken on 23 December 2019

Film photography · Medium Format · Photography

Only £7

May 7, 2019 fishyfisharcadeLeave a comment

Another photo from a recent trip to Manchester. The meeting I was attending finished earlier than expected so I had an hour or so to kill while waiting for the train I had a ticket for. So I went for a walk. I’d taken the Zeiss on the trip for two reasons: Firstly, I’d just had it CLA’d and wanted to test it out if I got the chance, and; Secondly, it folds down to almost pocket size, which is a wonderful feature in a medium format camera when you need to travel light.

Zeiss Mess-Ikonta 524/16 & Ilford Delta 400.

Taken on 23 April 2019