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At Oldcotes

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Back in June my wife and I went strawberry picking at a farm near Tickhill. It was a hot day so, on the way home, laden with three large tubs of delicious berries, we decided to see if we could find a cafe. Looking on Google Maps, I found a place called Manor Farm (which is the building in the last photo below) in the village of Oldcotes which has a cafe and makes its own ice cream. The ice cream was very nice, as was the cafe which had seating in a lovely courtyard as well as indoors.

In getting to the place, I noticed a few other things in the area that might make for interesting photos. I didn’t have my camera with me at the time so, a few days later, I returned, parked the can and went and took some pictures (I also returned to Tickhill on the same trip, and took a bunch more there, but those are for another day).

As tends to be my thing quite often these days, most of the pictures are of buildings I found interesting (although I snuck a kissing gate in too…).

Church and rectory
Kissing gate
Wesleyan chapel
House with a tower
Manor Farm

Olympus OM-10, Zuiko Auto-S 35mm f/2.8 & Ilford HP5+. Ilfotec DD-X 9mins @ 20°

Taken on 22 June 2025

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A busy long weekend

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I thought I’d just throw out the remaining pictures from my trip to Bury for today’s post. It’s the last day of a bank holiday weekend here in the UK, and it’s been quite a busy one. It feels like it’s still Sunday, but I’m back at work tomorrow (I could do with another bank holiday to recover from this one!).

Saturday started with me developing a roll of film first thing in the morning. Normally I would do this later in the day, but we had plans to visit our eldest and I wanted to get the roll sorted out and hung to dry before we set off. We got back in the afternoon, so I had time to cut and sleeve the negatives before going back out to visit my dad.

Sunday was my day out with a camera (actually three cameras, more fool me) on a trip to Spurn Head on the east coast. I’ll post more about the trip when I have some photos to share, but suffice to say that the lighthouse at the end of the head is a lot further than it looks!

More developing today, and I managed to get through three rolls. Two rolls of Acros developed together in the same tank while, at the same time, I used semi-stand development on a roll of Fomapan 400. The Across looks good, but there are problems with the Fomapan. Some of it might be down to my development (I can see bromide drag – the first time this has happened when I’ve used semi-stand), but it’s also beset by the tiny white specks issue that I’ve had in the past with Foma stocks, plus some other weird artefacts that I think are also film related. I’ll do what I can to rescue the shots, but it’s disappointing, especially given some of the shots are from my lengthy walk yesterday and look nice otherwise. I’ll say more about this when I post the shots.

I did shoot more (non-Foma) film on the trip too, so hopefully those will work out better.

Bury Detachment
The Art Picture House
Big Size Menswear
In Bury Market
Tram stop
One of these bins can't read

Olympus OM-10, Zuiko Auto-S 35mm f/2.8 & Ilford HP5+. Ilfotec DD-X 9mins @ 20°

Taken on 16 May 2025

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The Kay Monument, Bury

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The Kay monument commemorates several members of the Kay family, notably John Kay, a prolific inventor most famous for the ‘flying shuttle’ a simple device which dramatically increased the output of hand loom weaving.

Apologies for a concise post today. I’ve been out for a hike and am exhausted!

Kay Monument

Olympus OM-10, Zuiko Auto-S 35mm f/2.8 & Ilford HP5+. Ilfotec DD-X 9mins @ 20°

Taken on 16 May 2025

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Bolton Street Railway Station

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I visited Bury in Lancashire a couple of months ago for my, now regular, visit to Bury Arcade Club where myself and a large group of other middle-aged blokes meet up for a curry, and then a full day playing arcade games.

Before I was able to check into my hotel on the first day, I decided to wander around Bury town centre and take a few pictures. I might share some of the others, but I’ve grouped the ones below as they were all taken at Bolton Street Railway Station, which forms part of the East Lancashire Railway heritage line upon which all manner of vintage locomotives and trains operate.

There were no locomotives present when I visited, just a few carriages, but the station itself still offers plenty of nice photographic opportunities. I was stuck with quite harsh light, but things haven’t turned out too badly.

Bolton Street railway station
Bolton Street railway station-2
Bolton Street railway station-4
Bolton Street railway station-3
No way out
Luggage

Olympus OM-10, Zuiko Auto-S 35mm f/2.8 & Ilford HP5+. Ilfotec DD-X 9mins @ 20°

Taken on 16 May 2025

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Office space crop

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I don’t tend to crop my photos all that often. I’ll occasionally trim a little from the edge if something distracting has crept into the scene or, on occasion, reduce a 6×6 square image to a 6×4.5 (3:2) ratio if there’s a lot of empty space, but it’s quite rare that I perform more significant crops, especially on a 35mm image.

This shot is one of those unusual occasions where I did. I cropped it to a 16:9 ratio, keeping the upper part of the picture while removing a chunk of bland and empty foreground. The photo looked unbalanced without the crop, but I think it works much better in this “widescreen” version. The Reflecta ProScan scanner I used has got enough resolving power to mean there’s still plenty of detail in the reduced frame.

Office space

Olympus OM-10, Zuiko Auto-S 35mm f/2.8 & Ilford HP5+. Ilfotec DD-X 9mins @ 20°

Taken on 18 May 2025

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More Lincoln scenes

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Another batch of Kodak Pro Image photos from Lincoln today. Again, I’m really enjoying the colours from this roll.

Today has been a nice day. I started off with a bit of a lie in (nothing to extravagant – the days of laying in bed all morning are a thing of the past, my free time is too precious these days – but staying in bed till 8:30 is still a joy).

Later in the morning my wife and I went to view a bungalow (as we are planning on moving house). The property had a lot of potential, but would no be somewhere we could move straight into as it has too many things that would need to be done to make it liveable. It would cost quite a lot of money to carry out the necessary work too. The house was vacant and we were told that the lady who originally owned it had moved into care and the council was now selling the house to pay for this. While all the furniture had been removed, there were still a few small signs of the person who had lived there before, including a certificate of her husband’s retirement from his job on one of the walls, beside which was stuck a sheet of paper listing names and birthdays of people the owner had once known. It was quite sad to see these small reminders of lives now moved on.

Then, this afternoon, we went strawberry picking. The weather had forecast rain showers, but this changed and it was a lovely warm day with blue skies scattered with fluffy lumps of cumulus. We got three large punnets of strawberries, most for us, but also for my day, my sister-in-law, and our niece. I snuck a few berries while picking them and they were delicious. I’ll enjoy more of them this evening with a bit of cream.

It’s very nice to have a day like this.

Terrace
Castle Hill Club
Eastgate Post Office
Man on the roof
Background cathedral

Olympus OM-10, Zuiko Auto-S 35mm f/2.8 & Kodak Pro Image. Lab developed. Home scanned and converted using Negative Lab Pro.

Taken on 1 March 2025

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Shadow drop off

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One thing I noticed with this first roll of Kodak Pro Image is that a few shots seemed to lose a lot of shadow detail, including the one below. I actually cropped this one as the lower bottom left of the image fell to mush, although you can still see some of the effect in the hedge. I had another shot from the roll that looked similar too.

I’m not sure if my camera just metered badly in these cases as all other images on the roll are well exposed. It’ll be interesting to see if I spot any similar issues when I scan the next roll.

Looming castle

Olympus OM-10, Zuiko Auto-S 35mm f/2.8 & Kodak Pro Image. Lab developed. Home scanned and converted using Negative Lab Pro.

Taken on 1 March 2025

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Lincoln Cathedral on my first roll of Kodak Pro Image

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I mentioned the other day about posting some colour medium format pictures from my trip to Lincoln. Those are still to come, but I almost forgot about the partial roll of colour 135 shots I took as well!

These are shot on Kodak Pro Image film – the first time I’ve ever shot this stock. I bought a pro-pack of five rolls a few years ago – long enough back that they’re now expired. Luckily, they’ve been cold-stored since I bought them and so show no signs of age.

I was very pleasantly surprised at the results I got. They converted very nicely in Negative Lab Pro, producing good results from the off with little tweaking required. I like the colours too, nothing brash, just nice, slightly pastel tonality. Some of the later shots from the roll were shot on an overcast day and those look nice too.

I took another roll of the film on my recent holiday in Spain, so it will be interesting to see how those turn out when I get them back from the lab, but overall I’m happy with the film and will probably buy more when my existing colour stash runs a bit drier.

Lincoln cathedral
Lincoln cathedral-2
Lincoln cathedral-3

Olympus OM-10, Zuiko Auto-S 35mm f/2.8 & Kodak Pro Image. Lab developed. Home scanned and converted using Negative Lab Pro.

Taken on 1 March 2025