Steel City Snapper photography
35mm, medium format and large format film photography (with the odd bit of digital every now and then…)
Today I present two views of the same scent. One in portrait orientation, the other landscape. I’m not sure which I prefer – the portrait shot has better composition, I think, while the landscape orientation possibly has more atmosphere thanks to the birds in flight (and in the trees), but at the expense of the foreground fence being less well positioned. Anyway, here are both of them.
Olympus OM-1, Zuiko 135mm f/3.5 & Kodak Tmax 100.
Taken on 21 December 2017
Spider webs have an odd feature of being both a little creepy (have you ever walked face-first into one in the dark?) and beguilingly elegant (watching a spider construct one of these natural works or architecture is both fascinating and also slightly humbling). Sometimes though, when they’re festooned with dewdrops and bathed in a shaft of early morning sunshine, they’re simply beautiful.
Olympus OM-1, F.Zuiko 50mm f/1.8 & Kodak Tmax 100.
Taken on 21 December 2017
It’s another tree! This time stood guard beside a stile I climbed while out walking last week.
Zeiss Mess-Ikonta 524/16 & Kodak Tmax 100.
Taken on 31 December 2017
It’s a tree. And a field with pleasantly curved lines of planting. 🙂
Zeiss Mess-Ikonta 524/16 & Kodak Tmax 100.
Taken on 31 December 2017
The light was wonderful on the day I took this. It made for nice photos of all manner of things.
Olympus OM-1, F.Zuiko 50mm f/1.8 & Kodak Tmax 100.
Taken on 21 December 2017
After parking the car with the intention of a walk in the countryside, I spotted these houses across the road. I liked the uniformity of shape and the way they receded down the hill.
Olympus OM-1, F.Zuiko 50mm f/1.8 & Kodak Tmax 100.
Taken on 21 December 2017
This charming looking duck waddled over to me, perhaps hoping for something tasty to peck at. Instead, she had to make do with a portrait.
Olympus OM-1, Zuiko 135mm f/3.5 & Kodak Tmax 100.
Taken on 21 December 2017
A canal-side building on the Sheffield & Tinsley canal.
Nikon F70, Nikkor 50mm f/1.8 AF-D, Kodak Tmax 100 (expired September 1994 and shot at 50 ASA)
Taken on 28 August 2017
Another from the roll of expired Tmax.
Nikon F70, Nikkor 50mm f/1.8 AF-D, Kodak Tmax 100 (expired September 1994 and shot at 50 ASA)
Taken on 28 August 2017
The photos here are of the Hancock & Lant tower. Where it stands there used to be a furniture retailer of the aforementioned name – we bought a bed, or a wardrobe, or something from there once. They moved locations years ago though. I remember visiting a few times, and one of the most memorable things about the location was that it was accessed via a narrow alley bordered on one side by the River Don, and the building itself on the other. Outside the store there was a tiny area for customer parking. Thankfully, the alley formed a one-way system allowing vehicles to exit at the opposite end to where they came in (where the columns are in the fist photo below), so avoiding any road (alley) blocks, or cars falling through the railings and into the river below.
These are both shots taken with the 23-year expired roll of Kodak Tmax 100 I shot recently.
Nikon F70, Nikkor 50mm f/1.8 AF-D & Kodak Tmax 100 (expired September 1994 – shot at ASA 50)
Taken on 28 August 2017.
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