This photo is one of those examples where I focused on one thing, while completely missing something else that was right before my eyes.
The thing I took a picture of was the street art, with the narrow street vanishing into the distance with a lone figure approaching. I spotted the wooden pole with the cables and thought it framed the scene nicely.
What I didn’t notice at all until I scanned the negative what what was affixed to the pole – namely a pair of divers flippers, what might be some stuffed leggings, and a sign which reads “Si el pais se hunde estamos preparados” which translates to the English phrase “If the country sinks we are prepared“. I like it when I spot these little hidden surprises in photographs (although maybe I should more time seeing, rather than just looking when I’m composing a photograph).
Nikon F80, Nikkor 28-80mm f.3.5-5.6 AF-D & Kodak Gold. Lab developed. Home scanned and converted with Negative Lab Pro
I feel like I’ve been posting pictures from my trip to Malaga for aaages, especially give the holiday was almost three months ago now. I still have a full roll of un-posted images too, although I won’t be posting all of them and will try to bundle some together, as with today’s post showing another selection of streets that I photographed while wandering the city in the heat of the afternoon.
As well as getting a bunch of pictures on these walks, I also benefitted from treating myself to gelato, which was a nice little reward for venturing out in the mid-afternoon heat. 🙂
Nikon F80, Nikkor 28-80mm f.3.5-5.6 AF-D & Kodak Gold. Lab developed. Home scanned and converted with Negative Lab Pro
A trio of pictures of the lighthouse at the port of Malaga. The fist was shot on Kodak Gold (and had turned out quite grainy for some reason), the latter two on Kodak Colorplus.
The lighthouse is named La Farola, a unique name as most Spanish lighthouses are called El Faro, using the usual maculine gender. El Faro translated to “the lighthouse”, although Google Translate seems to think “La Farola” translates to “the streetlight” – not sure if there’s a lost-in-translation thing going on there…
It was originally built in 1817, but has been modified several times since then, including to repair damage suffered during the Spanish Civil War. I believe you can enter the building and enjoy the views from the top, although we didn’t while we were there.
Nikon F80, Nikkor 28-80mm f.3.5-5.6 AF-D & Kodak Gold and Kodak Colorplus . Lab developed. Home scanned and converted with Negative Lab Pro
I have a bit of a habit of photographing giant ice creams, the big plastic display things that you see outside ice cream parlours and the like, especially in seaside towns. I’ve featured them on this blog on a number of occasions.
So, just to mix it up, here’s a giant ice lolly. I can only imagine the wails of distress form the giant child who dropped it…
Nikon F80, Nikkor 28-80mm f.3.5-5.6 AF-D & Kodak Gold. Lab developed. Home scanned and converted with Negative Lab Pro
On our first day in Malaga, while walking around the port, we saw this cruise ship berthed. The Seabourn Sojourn is chartered and operated by Seabourn Cruise Line and is the flagship of their fleet. She took her maiden voyage in 2010, leaving Greenwich, London and cruised the northern European countries before crossing the Atlantic to cruise the Caribbean and Panama.
Since then, she has carried round-the-world cruises, and also operated between the US and Cuba. In 2020, during a world cruise, she made it as far as Hawaii where she was held in quarantine due to the Covid pandemic, with passengers unable to depart.
The ship has 229 suites and, from a quick glance at the Seabourn website, cruises might be a touch out of my price range except maybe for a very special occasion…
Nikon F80, Nikkor 28-80mm f.3.5-5.6 AF-D & Kodak Gold. Lab developed. Home scanned and converted with Negative Lab Pro
A mini theme today, with a couple of shots of trees at the Port of Malaga. That cruise ship in the background? Yeah, you’ll be seeing more of that soon.
Nikon F80, Nikkor 28-80mm f.3.5-5.6 AF-D & Kodak Gold. Lab developed. Home scanned and converted with Negative Lab Pro
One of my pet peeves with writing this blog on WordPress is the number of typos that end up in my posts. It’s kinda embarrassing to see them because, generally speaking, I can spell words correctly. Sure, I might have to look an unusual word up sometimes, but most of the time I’m just fine.
So off I’ll go, clacking away on the keyboard, the words falling onto the screen while, unbeknownst to me, I’m actually sprinkling a load of misspelt crap in there at frequent intervals. What makes things worse is that I often don’t notice this until after I submit the post, sometimes only when I re-read a much earlier post, whereupon I feel duty bound to correct them and hide my shame.
Back when I first started this blog, WordPress had a very handy spellchecker built into the editor which would highlight any errors. But then, for reasons unknown, they removed it. I guess there might still be spellcheckers available as plug-ins, but last time I looked (admittedly quite a long time ago) there were only premium versions available. Maybe I’ll look again.
Anyway, I can only apologise for my lack of editorial care and make some sort of half-hearted promise that I’ll try to do better in this regard.
I have checked this post carefully for typos. 🙂
The picture today contains no typos. I like the abstract nature of it.
Nikon F80, Nikkor 28-80mm f.3.5-5.6 AF-D & Kodak Gold. Lab developed. Home scanned and converted with Negative Lab Pro
Back at the end of July my wife and I visited The Great British Food Festival at Hardwicke Hall in Derbyshire. Although the event took place in the grounds at the rear of the hall, there was no entry to the building itself, so maybe I’ll make another visit to see that sometime.
But it was the food festival that we were attending, to which my wife had bought tickets months earlier. It’s not something we’ve done before, so I didn’t know quite what to expect, but it was essentially a whole range of stalls selling all manner of produce, including meats, pastries, ice cream, biscuits, alcoholic beverages, crisps – loads of stuff. In addition to this there were a bunch of food vendors selling pizzas, burgers, gyros, jerk chicken, hot dogs and a variety of other walkaround foods. There were also live cooking demonstrations on a number of topics throughout the day, and also live music and children’s entertainments.
The weather on the day was forecast to be a mixture of sunshine and cloud, but around lunchtime we were also paid a visit by a short-lived but sqally rain shower, necessitating me eating my lunch beneath an umbrella kindly held over my head by my better half (she’d already eaten her pizza while I was waiting for my jerk chicken to be served).
The rain came down pretty heavily during the shower, forcing people to seek shelter wherever they could find it, including, amusingly, beneath some oversized deckchairs, which I managed to photograph. The wind became quite gusty too, at one point blowing a free-standing flag out of the ground and depositing it atop a tressle table where some people were determinedly trying to eat their food in the rain!
After the rain passed, the sun soon reappeared and the rest of the day was bright, warm, and pleasant, although you can still see the slowly retreating rain clouds in some of the pictures.
After lunch, we spent some time watching a barbeque cook-off in one of the marquee tents in the centre of the field, the format based on the TV show Ready, Steady, Cook – each chef given a selection of ingredients and then making something from them. One of the chefs made skewers of chorizo and vegetables which was very nice (we all got so sample a small piece), the other a marinated pork dish which, while also nice, didn’t pack the same flavour punch as the Spanish sausage.
On the whole, apart from the spell of rain, it was a nice day out. We spent quite a lot on produce from the stalls, including some delicious Portugese custard tarts. I suppose you might as well spoil yourself if you’re going to attend these things, hadn’t you? 🙂
Nikon F80, Nikkor 28-80mm f.3.5-5.6 AF-D & Kodak Gold. Lab developed. Home scanned and converted with Negative Lab Pro
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