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Tube panic

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There wasn’t anything to panic about really, but the blog title suits the slightly disturbing and frenetic imagery that resulted from these two attempts to track a Tube train with my camera as it pulled into the station. Tube Panic is also, incidentally, the name of an arcade videogame from Nichibutsu that I remember enjoying back in the 80s.

While I don’t think these attempts at capturing motion were fully successful (or even partially successful for that matter) I still like them. There’s enough detail to realise what you’re looking at, but it’s distorted enough to make them nice an abstract.

Maybe next time in London I might try burning through a full roll of film taking similar shots to see how successful I am. Maybe I could make a contact sheet and circle the best ones with a grease pen. 🙂

Happy Thanksgiving to my American friends!

Tube panic #1
Tube panic #2

Olympus OM-1N, G-Zuiko Auto-W 35mm f/2.8 & Ilford HP5+. Ilfotec DD-X 1+4 @ 20° 9mins.

Taken 9 September 2023.

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From a gallery window

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When visiting the Evelyn Hofer exhibition at The Photographers Gallery I glanced out the wndow and saw this scene below me. The thing that caught my eye initially was the woman in the window above the air-con units. It’s not an actual woman, it’s a print or painting visible through the glass, but it stood aut in the scene.

The rest of the surrounding have a pleasing isometric quality to them though and I think I would have taken a picture even had I not seen the woman in the window.

The brighter area at lower centre-right is a reflection of the gallery floor. A polariser might have helped had I had one with me.

Isometricism

Olympus OM-1N, G-Zuiko Auto-W 35mm f/2.8 & Ilford HP5+. Ilfotec DD-X 1+4 @ 20° 9mins.

Taken 9 September 2023.

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Deflated

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This wheel kinda looks like how I feel at present. I seem to be having a lot of trouble finding enthusiasm for anything, even things I enjoy, on a regular basis. I don’t think I’m depressed or anything, just that I can’t seem to find the energy to do stuff. My attention wanders but never really settles on anything, just drifts from one thing to another, not gaining any real benefit. I’m finding it difficult to focus on things, both at work and at home.

It’s not a permanent, 24/7 thing – sometimes I feel better, but it’s noticeable enough for me to be giving it thought. It’s especially frustrating because, sometimes when I have free time to do something I’d like I end up doing nothing, which is a big disappointment. Free time is something I have in limited supply and to waste it is not good.

I’ve started to wonder if I might have Long Covid or something, as these symptoms are often associated with that condition, but I don’t really have any of the other signs. Or maybe I’m just getting older.

Wheel

Olympus OM-1N, G-Zuiko Auto-W 35mm f/2.8 & Ilford HP5+. Ilfotec DD-X 1+4 @ 20° 9mins.

Taken 9 September 2023.

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Scenes from Gower Street

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When walking to the West End of London, after disembarking my train, I decided to take a route I’ve never used before. Instead of heading south down Woburn Place / Southampton Row, which is the way I would normally go if walking, I headed further west along Euston Road and then cutting south down Gower Street.

I didn’t have any particular reason for choosing Gower Street other than it’s a road I’ve never walked before (and might therefore have some things worth photographing), and that it would take me towards my destination.

I already posted a couple of pictures yesterday that I shot outside University College London, but the ones featured today are what I photographed as I continued down the street past rows of elegant terraced houses. One of the things that struck me about these was the number on chimney pots visible above each property, with ten individual pots being visible on most of the buildings. Each has five floors including basement and attic, so I guess two or more fireplaces on each floor – which doesn’t actually sound that many – but to see them all emerging from the rooftop together is quite striking. None of the houses in the estate where I live has any chimneys, they instead have a simple vented tile on the apex of the roof where fumes from gas fires can escape (assuming a gas fire is still in use – our h0ome, and I suspect many others, now relies totally on gas-powered central heating, with any fumes vented from a flue from the boiler.. Different times, I guess.

Street corner
A street with houses
Gable end
Number 27
Store and Gower

Olympus OM-1N, G-Zuiko Auto-W 35mm f/2.8 & Ilford HP5+. Ilfotec DD-X 1+4 @ 20° 9mins.

Taken 9 September 2023.

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UCL doorways

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As promised, this post marks a change in imagery from all the Malaga pictures I’ve been posting. I’ve now moved onto a roll of Ilford HP5+ that I shot on a visit to London back in September. The trip was to see exhibitions at The Photographers Gallery (Evelyn Hofer), and The National Portrait Gallery (Sir Paul McCartney). Bot exhibitions were excellent, although I enjoyed the Evelyn Hofer photographs more.

After getting off the train, I decided to walk into the West End rather than catch the Tube, so was able to get a bunch of pictures during the amble southwards. These first two were taken outside University College London.

1907
Outside UCL

Olympus OM-1N, G-Zuiko Auto-W 35mm f/2.8 & Ilford HP5+. Ilfotec DD-X 1+4 @ 20° 9mins.

Taken 9 September 2023.

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Scanning woes

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I’ve been tearing my hair out (not that I have much) for the last couple of days trying to scan some Kodak Ektar which, for some reason, doesn’t look right despite me scanning it the same way as ever. I’ve now resorted to re-scanning some older Ektar negs that I know worked fine before to see it it’s just this new roll with a problem – and it appears it is.

In a way this is a relief as at least I know there’s not some issue with my scanner or my scanning configuration, but it does mean that something has gone awry somewhere else. My first thought is that I might have underexposed the film somehow – I did shoot a roll of 400asa film before this one, so it’s possible that I failed to change the ISO setting on the light meter before shifting to the 100asa Ektar, but I’m not sure if there’s two stops of difference to be seen. I’ll have to investigate further I guess…

Anyway, here’s a picture that has nothing to do with any of that stuff whatsoever.

Beach train

Olympus OM-1N, G-Zuiko Auto-W 35mm f/2.8 & Ilford HP5+. Ilfotec DD-X 1+9 15mins 45secs @ 20°

Taken 17 June 2023.

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On the beach with ghosts

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I’ve got three beach scenes to publish today. All taken at Bridlington.

The weather at the time was calm and there was a layer of high thin cloud as well as a fine sea-mist that threw the horizon into a dim line. There’s a sense of calmness to some of the shots, I think.

Curiously, some of the figures on the beach have an oddly faded look to them, like they are not fully there. I’m not sure of the cause, but wonder if the orange filter I was using might be the culprit?

Groynes
Seaside fade
A day at the beach

Olympus OM-1N, G-Zuiko Auto-W 35mm f/2.8 & Ilford HP5+. Ilfotec DD-X 1+9 15mins 45secs @ 20°

Taken 17 June 2023.

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Lifeguard paddleboard

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Following on from yesterday’s pictures of the Bridlington lifeguard station, here’s one of their paddleboards on the beach, ready for them to take action should someone be in distress.

The sand was wet from the receding tide and so cast nice reflections. The four people walking into shot made the picture. It breaks the “rule of odds” (not that I take such rules all that seriously), but the flag kinda makes five, I think.

Past the lifeguard flag

Olympus OM-1N, G-Zuiko Auto-W 35mm f/2.8 & Ilford HP5+. Ilfotec DD-X 1+9 15mins 45secs @ 20°

Taken 17 June 2023.