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The space between

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The pictures I took on our holiday in Dubrovnik seem to have no end. I shot four-and-a-half rolls while there and and I’ve only just started posting images from the second today! I think I’m going to have to start lumping stuff together or I will be posting them for the rest of the year!

Anyway, the next bunch of posts will be images from my Canon Sure Shot Z135. It’s a nice point-and-shoot camera, if a little larger than some of the others I own. It has one of those champagne coloured bodies that make it look less serious than black-bodied cameras, but the lens on it is pretty good, even if a little soft at the corners and with a noticeable vignette at the wide end. Sometimes the vignette can be a little obtrusive (especially where it darkens parts of a sky), but other times it looks quite nice. In this shot the edges of the two buildings – two parts of the hotel complex we stayed in – take the brunt of the vignetting.

In the space between hotels

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

Taken 28 May 2024.

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Close to the edge and a white cross (and a wedding)

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A couple more Mount Srđ pictures today, the first of someone who looks perilously close to the edge (actually a drop of just a few feet…) and then a couple of pictures of the white stone cross that was rebuilt after being destroyed during the war in the 1990s.

In other, non-photography news, I’ve had a busy few days. My eldest son got married at the weekend, which was a lovely event and made me very happy and proud, and then today my wife and I drove him and his wife (it feels a bit odd calling her that somehow!) to the airport where they flew off on their honeymoon (to New York and Las Vegas).

While I didn’t have a lot to do in terms of any of the wedding planning, I did have to step in to do the Best Man’s speech after my son’s friend got a teaching job in Singapore and so couldn’t be there on the day. I’ve never given a Best Man’s speech before, so I was a little nervous about that, but it seemed to go well and I got a few compliments, which was nice.

It feels a little strange now that the wedding is over.

Close to the edge
The cross atop Mount Srđ
Flag and cross

Olympus Trip 35 & Colorplus. Lab developed. Home scanned and converted with Negative Lab Pro.

Taken 27 May 2024.

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More pictures from the top of Mount Srđ

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Mount Srđ (pronounced serj) stands above Dubrovnik old town and is 1,352 feet tall. A cable-car takes visitors to the top and back, where there stands a cable car station with a restaurant with panoramic views over Dubrovnik and the coast. A Napoleonic fort, Fort Imperial, also resides at the top, which is now a museum to the events of the Croatian War of Independence in the 1990s. In addition, there is a tall television transmission mast.

The mountain played a key role in the Siege of Dubrovnik during the conflict between the Croatian forces and the Yugoslav People’s Army, with the Croatian’s literally holding the fort.

People on the up
Descending
High above the old town
As the cable car passes
DO CL
Cable car approaching
Television mast

Olympus Trip 35 & Colorplus. Lab developed. Home scanned and converted with Negative Lab Pro.

Taken 27 May 2024.

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Around the old town in Dubrovnik

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I thought I’d drop a bunch of pictures I took while wandering around the old town on the first day of hour trip to Dubrovnik. They’re mostly random shots of scenery (and there will be more, similar posts to come), but I was carefully trying to shoot the wedding party in their colourful clothes only for someone to photobomb the picture with their hand!

Stradun, Dubrovnik
Off the main drag
UI. Pred Dvorom, Dubrovnik
Wedding party
Behind the collonade

Olympus Trip 35 & Colorplus. Lab developed. Home scanned and converted with Negative Lab Pro.

Taken 25 May 2024.

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Boats in Dubrivnik old town harbour

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There are a couple of main harbours in Dubrovnik. One is large and to the north of the town, filled with everything from small dinghies and pleasure boats, up to super yachts and cruise ships.

The other is nestled into the side of the old town and, while much smaller, is also much more picturesque. It’s still a working harbour, as can be seen with the small boat full of ropes and fishing nets, but it’s also bang in the heart of the tourist-filled part of the town.

Skala on film
Disembarking
Embarking
A load of old rope

Olympus Trip 35 & Colorplus. Lab developed. Home scanned and converted with Negative Lab Pro.

Taken 25 May 2024.

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Snapping a snapper

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This was a very quick, spur-of-the-moment picture, but one that I think turned out quite nicely.

It’s a scene looking west down one of the side streets in Dubrovnik old town towards the city wall in the background. Pretty much all of these narrow streets were bustling with restaurants and bars like in this scene.

Snapping a snapper

Olympus Trip 35 & Colorplus. Lab developed. Home scanned and converted with Negative Lab Pro.

Taken 25 May 2024.

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Rubber duck shop

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There were a number of shops in Dubrovnik old town that sold nothing but rubber ducks. While regular rubber ducks were available, so were ducks resembling a whole range of other characters, from pug dogs to Darth Vader.

I didn’t buy one though – we don’t have a bath, just a shower, so they don’t tend to float very well. 🙂

Duck shop

Olympus Trip 35 & Colorplus. Lab developed. Home scanned and converted with Negative Lab Pro.

Taken 25 May 2024.