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Chesterfield Market Hall

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Today’s post will be much briefer than the ones I’ve been posting over tha past couple of weeks. It’s been one of those days where I’ve been busy at work, and then had to pick one of my sons up from college. Now, as I sit here typing this, it’s just after 7pm and I really want to sit down with a cup of tea and maybe watch some TV. So I’m just going to drop in a few pictures I made of Chesterfield Market Hall a few weeks ago to fill out the post.

Chesterfield market hall
Chesterfield market hall
Chesterfield market hall

Olympus XA3 & Ilford HP5+ (@800asa). Ilfotec DD-X 1+4 10mins @ 20°

Taken on 25 October 2021

35mm · Film photography · Photography

Knife Angel

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This somewhat unnerving sculpture is the Knife Angel. It’s officially known as the National Monument Against Violence and Aggression. Apart from its head and hands, its body and wings are formed from thousands of knives that have been handed in as part of weapon amnesty programmes.

Towering above
An angel formed out of knives
Sending a message

Behold the Knife Angel

Olympus XA3 & Ilford HP5+ (@800asa). Ilfotec DD-X 1+4 10mins @ 20°

Taken on 25 October 2021

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Up to Chesterfield town hall

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The frontage of Chesterfield town hall is attractive and makes for a good photographic subject. While Sheffield town hall is a very nice building, the fact it is surrounded on three sides by roads and buildings means that finding a good vantage-point to see it at its best is more difficult. Chesterfield on the other hand has a large expanse of park in front of the building, with a path lading up to the main entrance of the building. There’s a road with a lot of car parking spaces directly in front, but these are obscured by the rise of the hill and the stone steps at the top.

I’ve posted photographs of the building before, here.

With ornate columns
Shining bright in the sunshine
A sight to behold

Chesterfield town hall

Olympus XA3 & Ilford HP5+ (@800asa). Ilfotec DD-X 1+4 10mins @ 20°

Taken on 25 October 2021

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Circus

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It’s not that often that I cee circuses, so when I drove past this one in a field beside the road I took the first opportunity I could to turn the car around and go back and grab a couple of pictures.

Above the hedges
Looms the shape of a big-top
Circus is in town

Circus
Circus

Olympus XA3 & Ilford HP5+ (@800asa). Ilfotec DD-X 1+4 10mins @ 20°

Taken on 22 October 2021

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Bolsover castle

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This viewpoint of Bolsover castle is always striking to behold, I think, and there was clearly good reason to place the castle in this location given it’s commanding position above the valley below. The castle dates to the 12th century and was built by Henry II and further extended in the 15th and 16th centuries.

M1 motorway
Runs like a river below
Bolsover castle

Bolsover castle

Olympus XA3 & Ilford HP5+ (@800asa). Ilfotec DD-X 1+4 10mins @ 20°

Taken on 22 October 2021

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Power and communication

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A slightly grandiose title today. It sounds like I’m about to launch into an essay on politics and propaganda or something. Well, if that’s what you’re here for then prepare for disappointment. Instead, you’re getting some power-line photos. The bonus is that they’re carrying telephone wires too. Woot!

I think it was the large web of wires atop the poles that caught my attention. Telephone poles are becoming less common in urban areas such as where I live, with new cabling being run underground through ducts, although there are still poles to be found on older estates, particularly out into the suburbs. Out in the countryside theough and they’re still pretty common, although not always with such a bounty of cabling. I spotted this pair in a small village while out driving arounf looking for photo opportunities. I think they look pretty good against the threatening skies.

When we’re mistaken
By something someone might say
We have got crossed wires

Telecommunication
Power and communication

Olympus XA3 & Ilford HP5+ (@800asa). Ilfotec DD-X 1+4 10mins @ 20°

Taken on 22 October 2021

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Pausing on a country lane

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A couple of weeks ago I wrote a post about how I’d gone out for a spot of photography as a break from all the renovation and decorating that has been going one, but then forgot to take my tripod with me.

Today’s photograph was made when I realised what I had done. Instead of a medium format picture of this scene, I used my XA3 which I had thankfully taken along too. Although the day was dull and without much in the way of good light, the HP5+ in the XA3 was being pushed a stop to 800asa, so gave me good leeway in the conditions.

I’m not sure how a 6×6 medium format version of this scene shot on Ilford Ortho Plus would have looked, but this HP5+ version came out nicely.

Sometimes a mistake
Can lead to good things instead
Of disappointment

Between Elmton and Whaley

Olympus XA3 & Ilford HP5+ (@800asa). Ilfotec DD-X 1+4 10mins @ 20°

Taken on 22 October 2021