Fujica GW690 & Fujifilm Pro 160NS. Lab developed. Home scanned and converted with Negative Lab Pro.
Taken on 28 July 2024
Fairground ride
Tag: Haxey Feast
Chilling out in Bambi
I quite like this little scene. I would probably have photographed it anyway, but the guy relaxing in the van just made it, I think.
Fujica GW690 & Fujifilm Pro 160NS. Lab developed. Home scanned and converted with Negative Lab Pro.
Taken on 28 July 2024
Red tractor
I was quite surprised by the vividly saturated colours that I got with this roll of Fuji Pro 160NS. It’s not a film that I’ve shot a lot of, so my lack of familiarity might mean that my scanning process has resulted in a richer than usual output. But I like it, so who cares?
Sadly, given the film was discontinued in 2021, I’m unlikely to get to know it much better (although I do still have three rolls of it in the freezer).
Fujica GW690 & Fujifilm Pro 160NS. Lab developed. Home scanned and converted with Negative Lab Pro.
Taken on 28 July 2024
The sound of a hurricane
One of the loudest things I heard when visiting the Haxey Feast, was the sound of the engine in this Hawker Hurricane restoration project (the other was the gunshots from the military re-enactors). The engine made a tremendous, almost painfully loud amount of noise, which you can experience to a degree in this YouTube video (I’m also in the background of at least one part of the video too – where the helicopter lands 🙂 ).
The guy who owns the aircraft is hoping to restore it to a complete – although not airworthy – condition so that people can experience what it was like to sit in the cockpit when the engine was powered up.
Fujica GW690 & Fujifilm Pro 160NS. Lab developed. Home scanned and converted with Negative Lab Pro.
Taken on 28 July 2024
Mobile or immobile?
This old mobile library made for a colourful photograph. It’s only upon looking at it later that I realise that it’s probably not a mobile vehicle any longer. Not unless it has a very unique driving position…
Fujica GW690 & Kodak Ektar. Lab developed. Home scanned and converted with Negative Lab Pro.
Taken on 28 July 2024
Re-enactors at the Haxey Feast
There were a number of military re-enactment groups at Haxey Feast covering a variety of conflicts. I spoke to people from a number of the groups and it was interesting to find out more about the provenance of the uniforms and equipment they wore and used. Something I learnt was that the UK city of Leeds (famous for its textile industry) was a major supplier of cloth for the confederate army to produce their uniforms. Also, that the final surrender of the American Civil War took place in Liverpool, England, when the CSS Shenandoah, a confederate warship, surrendered to the British government.
I was also treat to some grisly details of how battlefield medicine and surgery was conducted during the Anglo-Zulu war on 1879.
Portraits I made of two of these re-enactment groups can be seen below.
Fujica GW690 & Kodak Ektar. Lab developed. Home scanned and converted with Negative Lab Pro.
Taken on 28 July 2024
Tractors
Fujica GW690 & Kodak Ektar. Lab developed. Home scanned and converted with Negative Lab Pro.
Taken on 28 July 2024
A landing and an ascent
The undoubted surprise highlight of my visit to the Haxey Feast, was when a helicopter landed.
I’d overheard murmurings from some of the people with displays that it was due to take place, including one guy who was battening down the hatches for fear that the downdraft would blow away the items he had on display.
Sure enough, a number of the event stewards asked people to vacate an open grassy area and formed a loose circle to keep people back from the landing area. I checked the direction of the light and positioned myself where I though I might have the best chance of getting a shot or two – as simple as it is to use, the rangefinder on the GW690 isn’t the easiest to achieve focus with, especially on moving subjects.
Happily, both the pictures I shot came out well. The first was the helicopter’s descent. The second as it was flying away again (it only stayed on the ground for a few minutes).
For anyone interested, it is apparently an Airbus H120.
Fujica GW690 & Kodak Ektar. Lab developed. Home scanned and converted with Negative Lab Pro.
Taken on 28 July 2024
Classic cars at the Haxey Feast
When I visited the Sheffield Steam Rally back in June, I noticed that some people had been given leaflets for “The Haxey Feast”, another vintage rally taking place at the village of Haxey in North Lincolnshire. Having never visited this before and as it’s not too far away, I marked it in my diary.
It was a much smaller event than the Sheffield Steam Rally but it’s quite a new thing, being in just its second year (according to someone that I talked to who had a display), so it will hopefully grow in coming years, especially now that the Lincoln Steam Rally is no more.
I shot three rolls of medium format film with my Fujica GW690 while there: one Kodak Ektar, one Fuji Pro 160NS, and one Fuji Velvia 50. The pictures shared today are from the latter.
I don’t shoot a lot of medium format reversal film, although I have quite a few rolls, and it can be tricky to get the metering right. I don’t think I’ve done too bad a job here, although maybe the shadows are a little dark, but I guess Velvia 50 is pretty tricky in that regard. I’ll try to shoot more reversal film if I get a chance when the autumn colour comes through more.
There are a few other shots from this roll that look nice too, but I got some scanning artifacts and haven’t had chance to re-scan them yet.
I believe the cars are, in order of appearance: a Chevrolet Stylemaster, a Volkswagen Karmann Ghia, a group of Beach Buggies (is there a collective noun for these? 🙂 ), and a Mercedes-Benz 300 SEL.
Fujica GW690 & Fujichrome Velvia 50. Lab developed. Home scanned and converted with Negative Lab Pro.
Taken on 28 July 2024
Steel City Snapper photography 