I thought I’d post this shot today as it kinda got a preview in yesterday’s picture already. It’s another example of the sort of mundane scene that often draws my attention. The colours caught my eye on this day, with the soft warm tones of the building’s rendering against the blue of the morning sky. But it’s also details like the metal shine of the anti0vehicle posts in the foreground, the shadow of the tree against the building, the graffiti, and that big tangle of cables on the side wall.
Canon Sure Shot Supreme & Fujifilm Superia X-tra 400. Lab Developed. Home scanned and converted with Negative Lab Pro.
Nice light and strong colours are an obvious draw when shooting colour film and the reds and whites of the shutters on this African bar and restaurant caught my attention on the morning I took this photo. I also like the way the shadow of the out-of-shot street-sign is cast into the centre of the white shutter.
Canon Sure Shot Supreme & Fujifilm Superia X-tra 400. Lab Developed. Home scanned and converted with Negative Lab Pro.
I must apologise for what is likely to be a series of pretty sparsely wrtten posts this week. Something came up at work and has resulted in longer hours and less time to get everything else done.
Slightly less sparse posts will resume in due course. 🙂
Canon Sure Shot Supreme & Fujifilm Superia X-tra 400. Lab Developed. Home scanned and converted with Negative Lab Pro.
The building to the left of the frame here is The Two Rivers restaurant and bar. It sits where Blonk Street and Castlegate meet and is unusual because the building sits atop the confluence of the rivers Don and Sheaf. It’s also slightly unusual in that it is a re-purposed building. I wonder how many of the people visiting know that it used to be a public convenience?
It’s not the only re-imagined public toilet in the city either. There is a former gent’s toilets on Surrey Street wgich is now a cocktail bar named Public (pun no doubt intended). A public toilets in Handsworth, one of Sheffield’s districts a few miles from the city centre has a former public toilets now housing a barbershop. And I expect that there will be more.
While it’s good to see these places put to new life, I do wish that there were more actual public toilets around. They serve a very useful purpose and stop people having to use the facilities in cafes and bars where they might also be expected to buy food or drinks for the privilege. As much as it seems a humorous topic – particularly here in the UK where toilet humour is pretty much a curriculum subject – well maintained public toilets are a mark of a civilised society, I think. We all need to spend a penny now and then.
Canon Sure Shot Supreme & Fujifilm Superia X-tra 400. Lab Developed. Home scanned and converted with Negative Lab Pro.
The bridge in today’s photo is the northern span of Sprotbrough Bridge which crosses the navigable part of the river Don. The southern span crosses the river just below Sprotbrough Weir.
In the background of the shot can be seen Sprotbrough Lock.
Just downstream from the bridge I shared a photo of yesterday (you can see it in the background of today’s shot) is a second bridge, this time an active railway bridge. Indeed, as I was setting up this photo a train was sat idling off the the right of fram and actually crossed when I was ready to take the picture. I waited until it had passed though as, even though it was moving slowly, the half-second shutter speed I was using would have rendered it blurry, and probably not in an aesthetically pleasant way.
I’ve been out making more photos today, although with the Bronica ETRSi rather than the large format kit. We’ve had a big dump of snow the last couple of days which eased off yesterday afternoon and then began to melt quite rapidly. However temperatures overnight fell below freezing so I decided to go out this morning – a lovely sunny start – and try and catch some wintry scenes while they remained. I managed to shoot the full roll of HP5+ I had loaded, and also one or two frames of expired Provia 100 that is loaded in a compact I was carrying in my coat pocket. It was a nice morning and I was pleased that it actually fell on a day where I could take advantage of it for once!
Thos shots will appear here in due course, although I expect the snow will have become memory by the time they do.
Just downstream from Sprotbrough, the Trans Pennine Trail crosses the River Don on this former railway bridge.
While I wish I’d had better light, the riveted structure still manages to be an interesting subject, and the large format negative really captures the detail.
This is another of those scenes that I’ve photographed on more than one occasion. The subject almost cries out to be photographed and the location features in the photographs of many others besides mine.
