As a direct follow-on from yesterday’s post, here are the remaining shots from the roll of Kodak Gold that I finished off during a walk through Retford.
The first two pictures show Trinity hospital, which has served as an alms house since the 17th century, although the current building was constructed between 1832-1834. It’s a beautiful looking place and one that I’ve admired whenever I drive past (usually on trips to Mablethorpe) but this is the first time I’ve taken the opportunity to photograph it.
The next picture is some grand looking house peeking up above a wall across the road from the hospital.
Then some new houses under construction…
A big tree that looked nice in the sunshine.
Some older residential properties.
And finally, another attractive old building that now houses a barbershop and a beauty parlour.
Canon Sure Shot Z135 & Kodak Gold. Lab developed. Home scanned and converted with Negative Lab Pro.
About a week after returning from Dubrovnik, I drove to Retford (a town in Nottinghamshire about 25 miles to the east of Sheffield) with the intent of using up the last of the Kodak Gold in the camera after the holiday. It was a beautiful early summer day with blue skies and fluffy cumulus clouds.
I parked the car in the town centre (where I had to scrounge a pound from a passerby as the parking meters didn’t take card payments and I didn’t have enough coins) and then headed out to where the canal passes to the east of the town. From there I took a leisurely walk westwards along the Cuckoo Way, making a number of photos, a selection of which are included below. Eventually I left the canal and took a few more pictures on my way back into the town centre, but I’ll post those tomorrow.
Canon Sure Shot Z135 & Kodak Gold. Lab developed. Home scanned and converted with Negative Lab Pro.
On the penultimate full day of our holiday in Dubrovnik, we decided to take an excursion to Kotor in the neighbouring country of Montenegro. Kotor is a World Heritage Site set deep in a vast fjord-like tidal bay surrounded by mountains. We had two potential days when we could have made the trip, but chose the second as the weather seemed ok at the time of booking.
The weather was not ok…
There were two stops on the trip (well, four if you also count the toilet break at a service station, and the quite long stop while passing through the border), the first being Perast – a small village beside the bay – where we had a short boat trip to the Church of Our Lady of Škrpjela, which sits on a small man-made island. Unfortunately, as soon as we got off the coach the heavens opened with a torrential downpour that continued throughout the stop. While we had a waterproofs with us, they were jackets and provided no cover whatsoever for our legs and feet and before we even got inside the church our shoes were soaked.
I posted this picture already during the holiday, but here it is again for some context – the church we visited is on the island at mid-right, the one with the blue dome.
We got wet again after leaving the church, although thankfully the small boat we used for the crossing had a roof. The boat’s roof did not protect us on the walk back from the jetty to the coach however.
Thankfully, by the time we arrived at Kotor itself the rain had stopped, and it stayed dry for the rest of our visit, but the wet feet and damp clothing persisted and took some of the shine off the trip.
We had an affable tour guide inside the walled city, and our group of soggy day-trippers followed him dutifully around the crowded and narrow streets of the town while he pointed out various sights, explained the history, and suggested which restaurants might be good places for lunch.
Kotor is apparently quite famous for the number of cats that live there, and as well as seeing them everywhere you looked, there was a wide range of cat-related merchandise available from almost every shop.
Three live cats, and one sculpted kitty are lurking in this scene…
I shot both colour and black and white film during the visit, sometimes of the same subjects.
The rough cobbles of this steep street were treacherously slippy under the soles of my (wet) trainers!
The entrance to the walled city.
Kotor is a destination for cruise ships and there were three of them moored when we visited, which probably explained why the place was so busy!
High above the city is a line of walled fortresses. We didn’t even think of climbing this trail with our wet feet, but it looks like quite the climb!
Remnants of the wet weather obscure the mountain tops.
On the whole, while Kotor is certainly an interesting destination, visiting it while soaked through (literally) dampens the enthusiasm somewhat.
A couple of near identical photos today, both of the underside of the parasol that sheltered my sun lounger from the sun during our holiday in Dubrovnik.
The first was with the Canon Sure Shot Z135 on Kodak Gold. The Z135 has a noticeable vignette, particularly at the wide end, which is readily apparent here, and the sky is a rich and saturated blue.
The second was taken with my Ricoh GR III and is a lot more subtle in it’s tonality. The Ricoh’s excellent lens and the 24Mp digital sensor have also resolved more finer detail. The digital image also stands up to more post processing than the film scan and I think, in this case, that it’s the better picture.
Ricoh GR III
Canon Sure Shot Z135 & Kodak Gold. Lab developed. Home scanned and converted with Negative Lab Pro.
Someone commented that this picture looked like the woman was fleeing from the small black car, like in a suspense movie of something, which I quite liked.
It wasn’t my intent to create such drama – I was simply photographing the large bridge and thought the jogger would add some interest. I probably just waited for her and the car to reach favourable positions in the scene before pressing the shutter button. A happy accident, I guess. 🙂
Canon Sure Shot Z135 & Kodak Gold. Lab developed. Home scanned and converted with Negative Lab Pro.
On one of the days during our holiday in Dubrovnik, I left my wife reading her book on the roof terrace of the hotel while I got the bus into town and took a walk all the way around the city walls which encompass the Old Town. It was a very warm day and there is little shelter atop the wall (although there was a place selling reasonably priced drinks, and a somewhat more expensive bar restaurant at various points of the circuit), but there were plenty of other people doing the same thing.
There are a number of places where you can enter various turrets, and I took a number of pictures looking out of these, one of which is included below, and I also tool many other photographs, some of which I’ve already posted, and quite a few still to come (although I think these are the last city wall shots in colour).
Canon Sure Shot Z135 & Kodak Gold. Lab developed. Home scanned and converted with Negative Lab Pro.
I spent a few minutes atop the Dubrovnik city wall watching people leap into the sea from the rocks above the water. At the time I wasn’t sure if this photo would work, mostly because I wondered if the people jumping would be noticeable in the frame (they aren’t, really – although I dig catch one of them mid-leap), but it works nicely as a landscape picture with the composition making it look almost like a large lake or fjord.
Canon Sure Shot Z135 & Kodak Gold. Lab developed. Home scanned and converted with Negative Lab Pro.
For whatever reason, I took tow very similar shots for the same location atop the old town city wall in Dubrovnik. The colour version with my Canon Sure Shot Z135, and the black and white shot with my trusty Olympus Trip 35.
I like them both, but err towards the monochrome version, I think.
Canon Sure Shot Z135 & Kodak Gold. Lab developed. Home scanned and converted with Negative Lab Pro.
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