Street art

August 11, 2020 fishyfisharcade4 Comments

It’s too hot to sit at my PC typing this evening, so this will be quick post.

A couple of pieces of street art a stone’s throw from each other – you can see the second piece in the first picture if you look closely.

I’m not sure of the artist of the first, but the second is by Phlegm and decorates the rear of the building that housed the now sadly departed Rare & Racy store. It closed because the building was compulsorily purcheased for re-development, but years have passed and not a sign of this has yet appeared.

Canon Sure Shot Supreme & Agfa APX100. Ilfotec DD-X 1+4 10.5 mins @ 20°.

Taken on 23 July 2020

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An abandoned church

August 10, 2020 fishyfisharcade8 Comments

This is the entrance to the former Christ Church Central building in Sheffield city centre. The building is no longer used by the church – it appears they’ve moved just across the road to what looks like a bigger location.

I’ve never been in either building but used to work nearby when I was younger and also found it interesting how the church resided in a low-rise building mostly indistinguishable from the other small industrial units that surrounded it.

Now it looks like a group of weeds are awaiting the doors to be opened.

Canon Sure Shot Supreme & Agfa APX100. Ilfotec DD-X 1+4 10.5 mins @ 20°.

Taken on 23 July 2020

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Denby Dale again

August 9, 2020 fishyfisharcadeLeave a comment

As with yesterday’s post of 35mm photos of Emley Moor, today here are a couple of 35mm shots of Denby Dale (or, more specifcally, the viaduct) taken on the same visit as the medium format pictures I posted here.

Of the two pictures, the first one (above) is my definite favourite. I also have a medium format version of the same scene but, despite it’s increased resolution and detail, I prefer the more gritty look of the 35mm image. It would perhaps have been nice to have a train crossing the bridge, but my time was limited and I didn’t know the running schedule.

The second shot is another variant of one of the medium format pictures I made (which can be seen in the linked post above), but taken from a vantage point a little further up the road.

Canon Sure Shot Supreme & Agfa APX100. Ilfotec DD-X 1+4 10.5 mins @ 20°.

Taken on 21 July 2020

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More views of Emley Moor

August 8, 2020 fishyfisharcadeLeave a comment

A few more photographs of Emley Moor transmitter, this time made with my Canon Sure Shot Supreme. I bought five rolls of Agfa APX 100 a few weeks ago to see how it looked in 135 format – I’ve shot it once before, but that was 120 (plus it was an expired roll) – and the first roll I’ve developed has been a little hit and miss.

The whole roll looks slightly over-developed, with overly bright results and, while some frames have little grain, others look like they’ve been shot with agrainy high-asa emulsion. I don’t think that this is an exposure issue as the camera used hasn’t suffered in that way on anything else I’ve shot with it, so it’s either the film and developer combination, or something that has occurred as a result of my scanning and post-processing.

I shall be interested to see the results from the next roll when I shoot it.

Canon Sure Shot Supreme & Agfa APX100. Ilfotec DD-X 1+4 10.5 mins @ 20°.

Taken on 21 July 2020

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Windows and reflections (and annoying internet problems)

August 7, 2020 fishyfisharcadeLeave a comment

It’s one of those horribly humind days here today. I had plans of finishing work for the week and getting on with a few things I wanted to do. But then, literally just as I was about to down tools for the day one of my sons infomed me that his internet wasn’t working. All the other network connected devices in the house were operating as expected. Cue the next 1.5 hours of me faffing around trying to find a solution.

At first I thought it might just be a case of resetting the router, but that failed to resolve things. Then I tried swapping his homeplug for one from a working device. No luck there. I tried deleting his PC from the router so it would reconnect. Nada. Eventually I found out that, for some unknown and annoying reason, the plug socket in which his homeplug was inserted was at fault. Despite it looking like it was fine – the homeplug lit up and flickered as though connected, and it had been working perfectly well for years up until today – for some reason it now wasn’t. Connecting the homeplug to another socket six inches away resolved the issue.

And now, here I am, hot, sweaty and pi**ed off at having to start my weekend in this way.

Here are a coiple of photos of windows on office blocks for no real reason other than I uploaded them both to Flickr today.

Canon Sure Shot Supreme & Agfa APX100. Ilfotec DD-X 1+4 10.5 mins @ 20°.

Taken on 11 July 2020

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Norton water tower

July 29, 2020July 29, 2020 fishyfisharcadeLeave a comment

Norton water tower (or to give it its official name Oakes water tower) sits to the south-east of Sheffield. While you can’t really say it sits atop a hill, it’s still located at a more elevated position than much of the surrounding area and as such is visible for miles around.

It’s one of those structures that is much larger than expected when you get close to it. It stands 109 feet tall.

It was originally built to supply water to homes in the Norton district of the city, including the Gleadless Valley housing estates – around ten-thousand homes at the time. It cost approximately £90,000 to build and was officially opened in July 1961, so 59 years ago as I write this.

Canon Sure Shot Telemax & Kodak Colorplus.

Taken on 5 July 2020

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Pandemic scenes #13

July 28, 2020September 30, 2020 fishyfisharcade4 Comments

As the number of people buying face-masks and gloves has increased, so has the number of them I see discarded on the floor.

I try not to be all doom-and-gloom about the human race – we’ve achieved so many amazing things. Sometimes though, it’s hard not to think of ourselves as just a blight on the planet. Consuming that which we don’t need and polluting with what we don’t want.

It really isn’t that difficult to find a bin in most places, and if not, just take the rubbish with you until you do.

Canon Sure Shot Telemax & Kodak Colorplus.

Taken on 5 July 2020

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Kodak Colorplus doing the business

July 27, 2020 fishyfisharcadeLeave a comment

A quick post today because it’s approaching midnight and I’ve just realised I’ve not written anything for the blog!

So, just a picture of a church I passed that was nicely lit by sunlight. It’s perhaps a shame about the bin bags, but the scene is otherwise attractive, and maybe the bags add a sense of real-life to the shot or something.

This roll of Kodak Colorplus has been giving me some particularly saturated colours, reminding me of the look I get (and like) from the Lomography Color Negative films.

Canon Sure Shot Telemax & Kodak Colorplus.

Taken on 5 July 2020

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Woollen Signs

July 26, 2020 fishyfisharcade2 Comments

A couple of photos of the old Woollen Signs building in Sheffield. The company was bought out about twelve years ago and the site was permanently closed, having been in business since 1883. Some employees went on to form a new Woollens business trading on their expertise in traditional sign writing.

Canon Sure Shot Telemax & Kodak Colorplus.

Taken on 28 June 2020

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Dot Cotton caged

July 25, 2020 fishyfisharcadeLeave a comment

While wandering around Sheffield’s Kelham Island area recently I came across this piece of street art that I thought was deserving of a photograph. For those readers outside the UK, the person depicted is Dot Cotton, a long serving character of the British soap opera Eastenders. June Brown, the actor who plays the role, joined the soap back in 1985. She had a hiatus in the 90s from 1993, but returned again in 1997 where she played Dot up until January this year.

I don’t actually like Eastenders, and I don’t think I’ve ever watched a full episode (although my wife used to watch it and I picked up many of the storylines of the time via osmosis). Dot Cotton is, however, an archetypal British screen character and I really liked this small homage to her on this namesake street.