Steel City Snapper photography
35mm, medium format and large format film photography (with the odd bit of digital every now and then…)
Another Venetian church, this time San Giacomo di Rialto which is supposedly the oldest chuch in the city, dating back to the year 421, although this may not be the case.
The clock seen in the picture is from the 16th century and is apparently considered a standing joke due to its inacuracy.
Olympus Trip 35 & Colorplus. Lab developed. Home scanned and converted with Negative Lab Pro.
Taken 6 May 2023.
I’ve been out for a visit to the seaside with my wife today, which has been nice, but tiring. I shot almost a full roll of HP5+ with my Olympus OM-1N while there, so once I finish the final few frames, I’ll get that developed and scanned. I’m currently at one of those points where I have a decent backlog of images to upload (and even scan), so it might be a while before they apear here on the blog.
Here’s another shot from Venice with a very busy canal.
Olympus Trip 35 & Colorplus. Lab developed. Home scanned and converted with Negative Lab Pro.
Taken 6 May 2023.
One of them appears to be doing better business than the other…
Olympus Trip 35 & Kodak Gold & Colorplus (last two pictures). Lab developed. Home scanned and converted with Negative Lab Pro.
Taken 6 May 2023.
Another photograph of a Venetian canal, but one where I took two photographs of the same scene – one with my Olympus Trip 35mm film camera, the other with my Ricoh GR III diigtal APS C compact.
I like both pictures. The the digital shot certainly has the edge in terms of resolution and the 28mm lens gives a different POV (as well as being in a different orientation), but I think I prefer the colours from the film shot. They’re less contrasty and rich, but feel more like what I saw on the day (although this is probably subjective).
Which do you prefer, and why?
Olympus Trip 35 & Kodak Colorplus. Lab developed. Home scanned and converted with Negative Lab Pro.
Ricoh GR III (bottom picture)
Taken 6 May 2023.
One thing that never seems to be far away in Venice is a view down a narrow canal bordered on each side by interesting and colourful buildings. Here are four such views.
Olympus Trip 35 & Kodak Gold & Colorplus (last two pictures). Lab developed. Home scanned and converted with Negative Lab Pro.
Taken 6 May 2023.
Bacino Orseolo is a gondola station in Venice, jus a minute away from St Mark’s Square. There were a steady stream of gondolas arriving and departing as we walked through, carrying tourists on rides propelled by the gondoliers in their distinctive striped shirts.
Olympus Trip 35 & Kodak Gold. Lab developed. Home scanned and converted with Negative Lab Pro.
Taken 6 May 2023.
This was one of those brief moments where a shot briefly appears before your eyes. The shape of the buildings, the people resting by the fountain, and the man in the bright yellow shirt striding across the campo. Seconds later other groups of people had wandered into the frame, cluttering the scene, and removing the sense of space and heat that this picture says to me.
Quite often I miss those chances, those decisive moments, as Henri Cartier Bresson famously said. I think I got a nice picture here though.
Olympus Trip 35 & Kodak Gold. Lab developed. Home scanned and converted with Negative Lab Pro.
Taken 6 May 2023.
There was something in the jumble of white buildings, cluttered windows, and the bands of water and sky that appealed here. The classy looking powerboat adds a splash of additional warm colour at the bottom.
Olympus Trip 35 & Kodak Gold. Lab developed. Home scanned and converted with Negative Lab Pro.
Taken 6 May 2023.
Two photographs of bridges in Venice today. There are probably other famous bridges in Venice, but these are the two that immediately spring to mind.
The first is the Bridge of Sighs which connects the interrogation chambers in the Doge’s Palace to the New Prison. It is so named because the view of Venice from the windows of the covered bridge would be the last sight of the outside that convicts would see, and they would sigh wistfully before being taken to their cells.
If prisoners were to cross the bridge today, they would witness dozens of tourists (such as I) taking photographs of the bridge from the next one along.
The second bridge is the Rialto Bridge, a spectacular crossing across the width of the Grand Canal. The Grand Canal is spanned by just three other bridges other than this one.
The Rialto Bridge was completed in 1591, replacing an earlier wooden bridge dating to 1251 (which itself had replaced the first crossing – a floating pontoon bridge – from 1181). Similar to the wooden bridge that came before, the current stone built bridge has two rows of shops on its span.
It was difficult to find a good vantage point to capture the bridge in it’s entirety, especially with the Trip 35’s fixed focal length, but I quite like this picture with the colourful mooring poles in the foreground.
The final picture is the southerly view along the Grand Canal from atop the bridge’s arch.
Olympus Trip 35 & Kodak Gold. Lab developed. Home scanned and converted with Negative Lab Pro.
Taken 6 May 2023.
This tower is one of those that doesn’t look as big in pictures but which is huge when you get up close and personal. On my last visit to Venice I went up to the viewing balcony (without my wife, who isn’t keen on heights), but this time I just admired it from its base and the surrounding area.
I didn’t realise until recently that the tower completely collapsed in 1902 and the tower in place today was completed in 1912.
Olympus Trip 35 & Kodak Gold. Lab developed. Home scanned and converted with Negative Lab Pro.
Taken 6 May 2023.
