Steel City Snapper photography
35mm, medium format and large format film photography (with the odd bit of digital every now and then…)
A handful of remaining Woodhouse washlands pictures. Just snaps, really, but I like the tonality of them. The slight vignette of the XA3’s lens doesn’t go amiss here either.
Olympus XA-3 & Fomapan 400. Ilfotec DD-X 1+4 9mins @ 20°
Taken on 16 May 2026
More pictures from Woodhouse Washlands.
I’ve noticed that WordPress (or possibly Flickr) seem to have altered something this week and I now have to use a different URL to embed my pictures. I used to use the Flickr share URL and paste it straight into my posts, but now I have to use the URL in the browser address bar. Anyone else had anything similar?
Olympus XA-3 & Fomapan 400. Ilfotec DD-X 1+4 9mins @ 20°
Taken on 16 May 2026
Another hawthorn tree. It has two main trunks, but the short branch makes it look like two trees hugging.
Yashica Mat 124G & Ilford HP5+. Ilfotec DD-X 1+4 9mins @ 20°
Taken on 16 May 2026
Hawthorns are a very ubiquitous tree. They seem to thrive in varied situations, including land that is polluted, so they can often be found beside rubbish tips , on current and former industrial sites, and beside busy roads and railway lines. There are many Hawthorns on Woodhouse Washlands and when they flower in spring they look almost snow-covered due to the masses of white flowers they sport.
Because of the time they traditionally blossom, another name for the Hawthorn is, in fact, the May tree, although climate change is causing them to go into bloom earlier..
Yashica Mat 124G & Ilford HP5+. Ilfotec DD-X 1+4 9mins @ 20°
Taken on 16 May 2026
This hawthorn tree stands beside the River Rother and its twisted trunk made for an appealing photograph. I had to duck beneath the tree’s canopy to get this picture and, as I had no tripod, open up the aperture to get a good shutter speed (and also to throw the river and far bank out of focus).
Yashica Mat 124G & Ilford HP5+. Ilfotec DD-X 1+4 9mins @ 20°.
Taken on 10 October 2020
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