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Finishing a roll in Retford

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As a direct follow-on from yesterday’s post, here are the remaining shots from the roll of Kodak Gold that I finished off during a walk through Retford.

The first two pictures show Trinity hospital, which has served as an alms house since the 17th century, although the current building was constructed between 1832-1834. It’s a beautiful looking place and one that I’ve admired whenever I drive past (usually on trips to Mablethorpe) but this is the first time I’ve taken the opportunity to photograph it.

Trinity Hospital
Trinity Hospital-2

The next picture is some grand looking house peeking up above a wall across the road from the hospital.

Peeping over the wall

Then some new houses under construction…

New build

A big tree that looked nice in the sunshine.

Big tree

Some older residential properties.

Somewhere in England
Corner house

And finally, another attractive old building that now houses a barbershop and a beauty parlour.

Hairdressing for ladies and gents

Canon Sure Shot Z135 & Kodak Gold. Lab developed. Home scanned and converted with Negative Lab Pro.

Taken 8 June 2024.

35mm · Film photography · Photography

The Chesterfield Canal in Retford

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About a week after returning from Dubrovnik, I drove to Retford (a town in Nottinghamshire about 25 miles to the east of Sheffield) with the intent of using up the last of the Kodak Gold in the camera after the holiday. It was a beautiful early summer day with blue skies and fluffy cumulus clouds.

I parked the car in the town centre (where I had to scrounge a pound from a passerby as the parking meters didn’t take card payments and I didn’t have enough coins) and then headed out to where the canal passes to the east of the town. From there I took a leisurely walk westwards along the Cuckoo Way, making a number of photos, a selection of which are included below. Eventually I left the canal and took a few more pictures on my way back into the town centre, but I’ll post those tomorrow.

Canalside
The far side
The Idle
By the Chesterfield Canal

Canon Sure Shot Z135 & Kodak Gold. Lab developed. Home scanned and converted with Negative Lab Pro.

Taken 8 June 2024.

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Beneath a parasol (twice)

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A couple of near identical photos today, both of the underside of the parasol that sheltered my sun lounger from the sun during our holiday in Dubrovnik.

The first was with the Canon Sure Shot Z135 on Kodak Gold. The Z135 has a noticeable vignette, particularly at the wide end, which is readily apparent here, and the sky is a rich and saturated blue.

Underbrella

The second was taken with my Ricoh GR III and is a lot more subtle in it’s tonality. The Ricoh’s excellent lens and the 24Mp digital sensor have also resolved more finer detail. The digital image also stands up to more post processing than the film scan and I think, in this case, that it’s the better picture.

Parasol

Ricoh GR III

Canon Sure Shot Z135 & Kodak Gold. Lab developed. Home scanned and converted with Negative Lab Pro.

Taken 27 May 2024.

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Pursuit

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Someone commented that this picture looked like the woman was fleeing from the small black car, like in a suspense movie of something, which I quite liked.

It wasn’t my intent to create such drama – I was simply photographing the large bridge and thought the jogger would add some interest. I probably just waited for her and the car to reach favourable positions in the scene before pressing the shutter button. A happy accident, I guess. 🙂

Towards a big bridge

Canon Sure Shot Z135 & Kodak Gold. Lab developed. Home scanned and converted with Negative Lab Pro.

Taken 31 May 2024.

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Further views over Dubrovnik old town

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On one of the days during our holiday in Dubrovnik, I left my wife reading her book on the roof terrace of the hotel while I got the bus into town and took a walk all the way around the city walls which encompass the Old Town. It was a very warm day and there is little shelter atop the wall (although there was a place selling reasonably priced drinks, and a somewhat more expensive bar restaurant at various points of the circuit), but there were plenty of other people doing the same thing.

There are a number of places where you can enter various turrets, and I took a number of pictures looking out of these, one of which is included below, and I also tool many other photographs, some of which I’ve already posted, and quite a few still to come (although I think these are the last city wall shots in colour).

Over Dubrovnik old town
More rooftops
Again with the rooftops
Through a hole in the wall

Canon Sure Shot Z135 & Kodak Gold. Lab developed. Home scanned and converted with Negative Lab Pro.

Taken 29 May 2024.

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Cliff jumping

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I spent a few minutes atop the Dubrovnik city wall watching people leap into the sea from the rocks above the water. At the time I wasn’t sure if this photo would work, mostly because I wondered if the people jumping would be noticeable in the frame (they aren’t, really – although I dig catch one of them mid-leap), but it works nicely as a landscape picture with the composition making it look almost like a large lake or fjord.

Cliff diving

Canon Sure Shot Z135 & Kodak Gold. Lab developed. Home scanned and converted with Negative Lab Pro.

Taken 29 May 2024.

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Rooftops in colour and black and white

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For whatever reason, I took tow very similar shots for the same location atop the old town city wall in Dubrovnik. The colour version with my Canon Sure Shot Z135, and the black and white shot with my trusty Olympus Trip 35.

I like them both, but err towards the monochrome version, I think.

This time in colour
Rooftops

Canon Sure Shot Z135 & Kodak Gold. Lab developed. Home scanned and converted with Negative Lab Pro.

Olympus Trip 35 & Fomapan 100. Ilfotec DD-X 1+4 8mins @ 20°

Taken 29 May 2024.