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35mm · Film photography · Photography

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.

35mm · Film photography · Photography

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.

Film photography · Medium Format · Photography

Fencepost nourishment

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Back to the black and white stuff (at least for a roll). While taking a walk on the wetlands beside the River Rother not far from home (luckily, Sheffield is a very hilly city, so we’re in no danger of flooding where our house is) I spotted this lone can of Nourishment left atop a fencepost close to the road where I’d parked. I’ve never drank the stuff myself, but I believe it’s some sort of sugary milkshake thing – not sure just how nourishing it is exactly…

I liked how the lone can looked though and made my first shot of the roll.

Nourishment

Yashica Mat 124G & Ilford HP5+. Ilfotec DD-X 1+4 9mins @ 20°.

Taken on 10 October 2020