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No sign of Sansa

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I wasn’t sure what to upload today. I have a bunch of film shots but they’re going to be part of a longer post that I haven’t written yet, and I don’t have a lot of other stuff uploaded and ready to go (although I have a huge backlog of stuff to develop and scan – the best part of 200 photographs!).

So I’ll upload a digital picture today, another from my recent holiday in Dubrovnik. Dubrovnik is very popular with Game of Thrones fans as it was a key filming location, mostly as the site for the fictional city of King’s Landing. Dotted through the old town are many shops selling GoT merchandise, and there are guided tours of the filming locations.

The place in today,s photograph was used at least once in the series (in a scene with Sansa Stark and Lord “Littlefinger” Baelish), and can be seen here on this webpage of the filming locations. The jetty that featured in the show is just to the left of frame in my shot – I avoided its inclusion predominantly because there were at least two tour groups crowded onto the narrow strip. I’m surprised someone didn’t fall into the water!

If King's Landing had motorboats

Ricoh GRIII

Taken on 29 May 2024

Digital · Photography

Sub-frame

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I’ll be back to posting mostly film photos again soon – maybe tomorrow – as I have a large backlog forming. I’ve one full roll of 135 developed and processed on the PC, but which I’ve published nothing from as yet. Then I have four rolls awaiting development (three 135, and one 120), and four further rolls in cameras with just a few frames left to shoot on each. Add to that some stuff that’s already on Flickr but which hasn’t been seen here and I’m going to be spoilt for choice when it comes to feeding the blog!

In the meantime though, here’s another picture from the little Ricoh GRIII digital compact that I took while walking the city walls that surround Dubrovnik’s Old Town.

I bought this camera because I thought it would be good for street photography (it’s what it’s probably most used for), but it’s great for lots of other stuff too. The lens is amazingly sharp! I sometimes wish it had a flip-out screen and / or a viewfinder, but I guess that’s being greedy.

Letterbox

Ricoh GRIII

Taken on 29 May 2024

Digital · Photography

Holiday posting – a reflection

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I’ve returned home after a week long holiday with my wife in Dubrovnik, Croatia. Normally, when I’m going to be away from my computer for a few days, I will pre-write a bunch of posts and schedule them to auto-publish while I’m absent. This time I decided to do something different.

As I knew I would be taking a digital camera (my Ricoh GRIIi compact) on the trip as well as a film camera, I figured I would take the chance that I could transfer the images to my phone and then edit and publish them from there. There was a risk that this would go awry and I would end up publishing text only posts, but it was one I felt safe to accept.

As it turned out, I had no problems at all. I was easily able to transfer RAW files from the camera to my phone and then edit them in Lightroom Mobile. It was a little trickier than on my PC, and I had some concerns that my editing might suffer given I only had the phone screen to judge the final results, but they seem to have turned out ok.

I shot a few tolls of film on the trip too, but it will be a while before I’m able to develop, scan, and publish those, but they will appear here at some point. I ‘m currently in one of my surplus periods where film negatives are concerned and have several rolls of images backing up, so I have plenty of stuff to publish here on the blog.

The picture shared today is another of the digital pictures made on the trip, although this one has been edited on my PC and uploaded to Flickr before adding to the blog. It shows the tranquil waters of one of the hotel’s swimming pools reflecting a lovely blue hour sky.

Sky pool

Ricoh GRIII

Taken on 28 May 2024