Steel City Snapper photography
35mm, medium format and large format film photography (with the odd bit of digital every now and then…)
This interesting looking outlet produces upcycled furniture items and I thought it made for an interesting photograph with the streetlamp and the telephone pole with it’s web of wires.
Recycling tables
And chairs and benches and and…
Well, everything!
Canon Sure Shot Supreme & Kodak Elite Chrome 200 (expired 2003).
Taken on 17 April 2021
This Cole’s Corner, a record shop and cafe in Sheffield presumably takes its name from another, more well-known, Cole’s Corner in the city centre. Although not an officially named place, the original was situated at the corner of Fargate and Church Street and was the former location of Cole Brothers department store. Cole’s (as it was often shortened to) moved to new premises in Barkers Pool many years ago – in the late 60s I think – but Cole’s Corner retained it’s name long after to a generation of people who would use it as a well known landmark for meeting their dates before embarking on whatever they got up to around town.
Cole Brothers was acquired by the John Lewis chain (although, as mentioned, never really lost it’s original name for locals) and remained at Barker’s Pool up until spring this year, when the company announced that the branch would be closing it’s doors for good. I didn’t shop all that often in the store – it was always a little on the pricey side for me – but I visited on numerous occasions and am sad that it has gone. I once had one of my photos on display in its cafe.
Boyfriends and girlfriends
At the start of their night out
Met at Cole’s Corner
Canon Sure Shot Supreme & Kodak Elite Chrome 200 (expired 2003).
Taken on 17 April 2021
An impressive work of street art adorns the side of this building. I wonder if it’s a complete piece, or if it was intended to fill the entire wall?
Futuristic girl
Big eyes gaze off to some place
An unseen vista
Canon Sure Shot Supreme & Kodak Elite Chrome 200 (expired 2003).
Taken on 17 April 2021
We’re about to eat, so a super-quick post today. Once again, lovely colours from this expired slide film.
Where once smoke would belch
Now the skies are clear from grime
Not like the old days
Canon Sure Shot Supreme & Kodak Elite Chrome 200 (expired 2003).
Taken on 17 April 2021
It’s not often that I see classic American cars while out with my camera – outside of car shows and the like at least – so I had to grab a photo of this Chevy when it pulled up beside me. A moment after taking this shot the traffic lights changed and the car pulled forward but had to stop to wait for oncoming traffic. Grabbing the opportunity to photograph it without other cars in the way I composed a quick shot… only for another car to shoot into the frame and ruin the picture. Grrr.
While the car is still obscured in the first frame, it looks much better than the second.
Classic red Chevy
Stood in traffic at the lights
Waiting for the green
Canon Sure Shot Supreme & Kodak Elite Chrome 200 (expired 2003).
Taken on 17 April 2021
Sheffield is not a city with a skyline. Being nestled in and atop valleys and hills, most of it’s buildings stand against a backdrop of topology rather than sky. There are noteable buildings that stand out however: Hyde Park and Park Hill flats, The university arts tower, the Royal Hallamshire Hospital, The former Hallam Towers hotel and others which are visible from afar both by dint of their size, and sometimes their location.
One building that sits low in one of the valleys also stands out though – the Madina Masjid / Madina Mosque. Completed in 2006 the building has a large green dome and two green-roofed towers which are visible from far around. Today’s photo shows the mosque from a vantage point on Queen’s Road. As Eid is about to be celebrated, I felt it made a fitting subject for today’s post.
Dome and minarets
Stand green-topped and prominent
A city feature
Canon Sure Shot Supreme & Kodak Elite Chrome 200 (expired 2003).
Taken on 17 April 2021
If you catch a quick glance of this photo it can seem a little odd – at least it does to my combination of eyes and brain. For a moment it looks like the building is symetrical, with to identical ends seperated by the garage doors. It isn’t of course – both ends are different in both shape and size – but before you catch yourself in this realisation it looks like perspective has somehow gone out of whack and the far section of the building is smaller than it should be. Or is it just me?
My eyes can play tricks
Or is it my silly brain
That’s really to blame?
Canon Sure Shot Supreme & Kodak Elite Chrome 200 (expired 2003).
Taken on 17 April 2021
The B6067 heading east through Aston to the east of Sheffield. This road used to form part of the the A57, which runs from Liverpool on the west coast of England all the way to Lincoln in, er, Lincolnshire to the east of the country. It lost this designation when the Aston relief road was built – part of a new route taking traffic more swiftly into and out of Sheffield city centre – which now bears the A57 name.
This stretch of road forms part of the route I would take to Mablethorpe with my grandparents (and sometimes my parents) when I was young. Even though it’s no longer necessary (and slower) to follow this section when I visit Mablethorpe on my occasional trips, I sometimes make the detour to follow it for nostalgia’s sake. It’s a much nicer section of road than the bypass.
Just past Aston Hall
And a row of big houses
The road heads out east
Canon Sure Shot Supreme & Kodak Colorplus.
Taken on 5 April 2021
This is the Yellow Lion pub at Aston. I think I’ve only ever been inside once, and that was decades ago, mostly because it’s out of the local area. On the day I made these photos it was closed, the second tranche of lockdown easing that would allow pubs to open for customers in outdoor seating yet to arrive. Now, I expect it will be serving people outside and, unless the situation changes, probably for indoor service later this month.
Some disappointment with my Plustek scanner has arisen. I’ve spotted it might have developed a fault as I’ve noticed feint vertical bars on some of my photos. While they are only noticeable on shots with areas of low contrast (clear skies and so forth), and not immediately visible unless you’re really looking for them, now I’ve noticed I can’t un-notice the problem. Oddly it only seems to be affecting colour negative scans – slides don’t seem to have any sign of the issue, and neither do B&W negatives. Whatever the case, I’ve sent a message to Plustek to see if there’s a way to fix the problem, but in the meantime I’ll just have to put up with it.
I’m feeling concerned
My scanner has a problem
I hope it can be fixed
Canon Sure Shot Supreme & Kodak Colorplus.
Taken on 5 April 2021
I already posted a shot of this path in an earlier post – that one shot with my OM-2n on Delta 100. This was made shortly afterwards and a little further down the path.
These clear skies show how the Sure Shot Supreme tends to vignette – something I’ve found to be the case in a number of compact 35mm cameras – but it’s not an unpleasant effect.
Penny Hill turbine
Stands rotating in the breeze
Making clean power
Canon Sure Shot Supreme & Kodak Colorplus.
Taken on 5 April 2021
Steel City Snapper photography 