A bit of an image dump today, gathering up all the pictures of cars and bikes that I photographed at this year’s Sheffield Steam Rally. Again, the shots are a mixture of Kodak Portra 160 and Kodak Ektar images.
I still have some more pictures from the event yet to come – perhaps a couple more medium format colour shots, and then a bunch of B&W 35mmj pictures.
Yashica Mat 124G & Kodak Portra 160 / Kodak Ektar. Lab developed. Home scanned and converted with Negative Lab Pro.
Three shots of the same Studebaker pickup truck, each taken at different times and in changing light as I wandered around the vehicles on display at the steam rally. The first two on Kodak Portra 160, the last on Kodak Ektar.
Yashica Mat 124G & Kodak Portra 160 / Kodak Ektar. Lab developed. Home scanned and converted with Negative Lab Pro.
The Sheffield Steam Rally usually has a selection of vintage fairground rides and stalls present. It’s not a huge full size funfair and it’s usually the same attractions every year (presumably because it’s the same owners who attend each time) – the biggest of which is a carousel, but it’s mostly smaller rides and stalls.
I’ve photographed most of them before, but I’m usually drawn back to them each time I go. Here are three shots from this year’s visit.
Yashica Mat 124G & Kodak Portra 160. Lab developed. Home scanned and converted with Negative Lab Pro.
It wouldn’t have been the summer without my annual visit to the Sheffield Steam Rally, where I increasingly seem to be photographing the same things every year.
I took a whole bunch of pictures as usual and, as I still have quite a backlog of photos to catch up with, will post them in batches rather than individually. Starting with some traction engines…
The final shot is interesting because, while the main subject isn’t a traction engine, there is a tiny one perched atop it (and a full size one in the background too).
Yashica Mat 124G & Kodak Portra 160. Lab developed. Home scanned and converted with Negative Lab Pro.
I was going to say that this post features the last of this year’s crop of autumnal pictures, but I have a few more on a roll of 35mm Kodak Gold still to be uploaded, so there will still be a few more to share (although I expect it will be after Christmas before that happens, unless I move them up the schedule).
The two pictures here were taken near the village of Barlow in Derbyshire, not too far from Chesterfield. I’ve driven past the lone tree pm a few occasions and noticed that it has a handy public footpath running through the field beside it. Whit it was the main reason I got out of the car with my camera, I think I prefer the first shot of the woodland, which has a nice selection of autumnal tones against the slightly hazy blue sky. The lone tree is ok, but I think there is a better photograph to be had.
I’ve managed to shoot (almost) a couple of rolls of 120 Ilford HP5+ this weekend during an overnight trip to York with my wife to visit the Christmas market. I’m not sure how they will turn out – I rarely make my best pictures when I’m out with someone else, and always feel like I’m rushing or missing things. I’ll hopefully get a chance to develop them soon though, so we shall see…
Bronica ETRSi, Zenzanon 150mm f/3.5 MC / Zenzanon 75mm f/2.8 PE & Kodak Portra 160. Lab developed, home scanned & converted with Negative Lab Pro.
A few miles south from the Herdings Twin Towers that I posted about yesterday lies St. Peter’s church at Greenhill. The church was built in 1964/65, so is a relatively modern structure. It’s slightly squat spire always has an air of a witches’ hat, I think.
The early morning light was casting a beautiful glow onto the willow trees that grow beside the church. I don’t think my photograph does proper justice to the light.
Bronica ETRSi, Zenzanon 75mm f/2.8 PE & Kodak Portra 160. Lab developed, home scanned & converted with Negative Lab Pro.
This pair of residential towers are a Sheffield landmark. Not particularly because of the way they look, but their location at the top of the Herdings district means they are widely visible from across the city and can be seen from many miles away, particularly from the east.
They were built in 1959 and there were originally three towers named Leighton, Morland and Raeburn and were referred to as The Three Sisters, but Raeburn was demolished in 1996 when it was deemed unsafe following the discovery of a fault in the ground where it stood. The remaining two towers were renamed as Queen Anne Court and Queen Elizabeth Court and are now sometimes known as the Herdings Twin Towers.
I’ve driven past them at sunrise before and always thought they would make for a nice picture, so a few weeks back I decided to go and make one. The light was nice on the day, but I’d have preferred a bit of cloud to break up the blue sky. The image is also vey slightly soft despite me using a tripod. An excuse to re-visit the location at some point, I think.
Bronica ETRSi, Zenzanon 150mm f/3.5 MC & Kodak Portra 160. Lab developed, home scanned & converted with Negative Lab Pro.
I took this picture on my way home from my autumn walk in the Peak District (which I ‘ve posted about over the past three days). I was driving through Coal Aston, a district that sits about halfway between Sheffield and Chesterfield, and saw how the morning sun was illuminating the front of this church and making vivid the colours of the Remembrance Day poppy displays.
I found a place just down the road where I could park and then walked back to take the photograph from across the street. The lady in the purple jacket walked through the scene as I was focusing the camera, and then stopped to look at the bus timetable at the bus stop, so I got a human element in the picture, which is nice.
Bronica ETRSi, Zenzanon 75mm f/2.8 PE & Kodak Portra 160. Lab developed, home scanned & converted with Negative Lab Pro.
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