Steel City Snapper photography
35mm, medium format and large format film photography (with the odd bit of digital every now and then…)
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.
Taken 5 February 2023.
Some nice light and this building always seems to become a magnet for my camera…
You can see The Two Rivers, which I posted about yesterday at the lower left of the first photo.
Canon Sure Shot Supreme & Fujifilm Superia X-tra 400. Lab Developed. Home scanned and converted with Negative Lab Pro.
Taken 5 February 2023.
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.
Taken 5 February 2023.
Often, especially later in the day, calm water becomes disturbed by ripples as a breeze rises, or people begin to make use of the facilities. Early in the morning, when the water is still, is when you get the nice reflections.
Canon Sure Shot Supreme & Fujifilm Superia X-tra 400. Lab Developed. Home scanned and converted with Negative Lab Pro.
Taken 5 February 2023.
I commented someplace before that I will photograph pretty much anything, it doesn’t really matter what the subject is just as long as it calls out to me that “Hey, look. There’s a photo to be had!“. Anything from picturesque landscapes to, well, cigarette ends. To paraphrase Garry Winogrand – I photograph things because I want to see what they look like when photographed.
Here is a case in point. It’s a couple of vegetable oil cans repurposed as ashtrays near a bar / restaurant. There was something about the scene that grabbed my attention though. I think it’s a combination of the colourful cans against the drab colours of the wall and floor. the contrasty geometric lines of the graffiti, and – of course – the light (I probably wouldn’t have taken the picture without this last factor).
It’s probably not the sort of subject matter that many photographers would choose, but I like to think there’s room for all types of pictures – there are only so many picturesque landscapes you can look at before craving an ash-filled cooking oil can, right? Right?
Canon Sure Shot Supreme & Fujifilm Superia X-tra 400. Lab Developed. Home scanned and converted with Negative Lab Pro.
Taken 5 February 2023.
A quick post as I’ll be out all day and probably won’t have time to post anything when I get home.
Here are pictures of a couple of cobbled streets on overcast days, the first in Whitby, the other in Staithes.
Taken on 28 & 29 July 2022
A couple of pictures of boats in Staithes harbour today. They were probably taken about thirty minutes apart and the tide has risen by a small, but noticeable amount in the interim.
Nikon F80, Nikkor 28-80mm f/3.5-5.6 D & Fujifilm Superia Xtra 400. Lab developed. Home scanned and converted with Negative Lab Pro.
Taken on 29 July 2022
On the third day of our trip to the Yorkshire coast we visited Staithes, a picturesque and quaint fishing village up the coast from Whitby. While there are more modern areas of housing in the village, these sit at the top of the area. The older buildings down by the harbour are reached via steep roads on either side of Staithes Beck. Coming down the hill isn’t too much of a difficulty. Getting back up requires some air in your lungs!
As with much of this trip, the weather was mostly overcast (in fact it rained heavily when we first arrived). The tide was also out at the time of our visit, leaving many of the small boats in the harbour beached. I’ll have more pictures from Staithes to post here in the coming days.
Nikon F80, Nikkor 28-80mm f/3.5-5.6 D & Fujifilm Superia Xtra 400. Lab developed. Home scanned and converted with Negative Lab Pro.
Taken on 29 July 2022
A while back I posted about how I was going to begin uploading images to Flickr at a lower size than I have previously done. This process has been working fine – the JPEG images I upload are still plenty big enough, and I’ve kept the full-resolution original scans on my computer.
However, I’ve noticed today that the majority of my WordPress posts which feature images where I’ve replaced the original files on Flickr are now showing the photo description, rather than the embedded image. The links work fine, taking you to the Flickr version, and if I edit the posts, I can see the images displayed onscreen. But otherwise they are missing as in-line images from the posts, e.g. this post.
At first I wondered if it was a browser caching problem, but the same lack of pictures can be seen in multiple browsers on different devices. I also wondered if the URLs to the Flickr versions might have changes when I replaced the images on there, but they are identical. I’ve even edited the problem posts to remove the original links and replace them, but the same thing still occurs. Oddly, not all posts featuring images that I’ve replaced are affected, so the whole Flickr thing might be a big red herring!
I really dislike issues like this. They happen out of nowhere with no obvious cause and can take lots of meesing around to try to resolve them and I’m not in the mood to do so today. So, if you come across one of my posts that has a link rather than and in-line image, please accept my apologies. All new posts will hopefully be unaflicted, and I hope to fix the others when I get the time to figure out what exactly is going wrong.
Anyway… Here’s a picture of a nice thatched cottage at Sandsend (assuming it embeds into the post!)
Nikon F80, Nikkor 28-80mm f/3.5-5.6 D & Fujifilm Superia Xtra 400. Lab developed. Home scanned and converted with Negative Lab Pro.
Taken on 29 July 2022
During our recent trip to the Yorkshire coast we decided to walk into Sandsend one evening. Sandsend is a small settlement just to the north of Whitby – If you look closely at the picture below, you can see Whitby harbour wall, some residential buildings, and the ruined abbey maybe a mile to the east.
After some rather dull weather for most of the day, the evening was lovely and we found a nice restaurant called the Fish Cottage where we shared a very tasty seafood pizza topped with smoked salmon, tiger prawns and mussels.
A couple were walking on the beach below the road as we walked past and I thought it made for a nice picture.
Nikon F80, Nikkor 28-80mm f/3.5-5.6 D & Fujifilm Superia Xtra 400. Lab developed. Home scanned and converted with Negative Lab Pro.
Taken on 29 July 2022
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