Steel City Snapper photography
35mm, medium format and large format film photography (with the odd bit of digital every now and then…)
…to say hello. And that’s all you get today as I need to go out straight from work and won’t have the time (or probably the inclination) to write a blog post when I get home. 🙂
Olympus Trip 35 & Colorplus. Lab developed. Home scanned and converted with Negative Lab Pro.
Taken 7 May 2023.
A slightly sorry looking establishment that appears to have fallen on hard times. This is on the main street that runs right through the centre of Lido di Jesolo, but right at the northern end, away from the busier part. While there are hotels and apartments all around, it would appear that most foot traffic perhaps ventured further into town for their snacks, drinks, and gelato.
Or perhaps it was closed for a completely different reason? We visited early in the season, so perhaps it was just waiting to be spruced up ready for the influx of summertime visitors?
Whatever the case it stood out as an interesting subject for a picture.
Olympus Trip 35 & Colorplus. Lab developed. Home scanned and converted with Negative Lab Pro.
Taken 6 May 2023.
The building you can see in the two photos here today stood out in Lido di Jesolo by dint of its height when compared with most other structures. It has a distinctly futuristic look, like a retro rocket launch pad or something. I think it’s an apartment building though.
It will turn up in the background of a least one of the pictures to come in the next few days.
Olympus Trip 35 & Colorplus. Lab developed. Home scanned and converted with Negative Lab Pro.
Taken 6 May 2023.
I was going to write about today’s trip out in today’s blog but my computer is being a complete dick once again and preventing me from doing even the most basic of tasks in a timely fashion, so now I’m in a bad mood and not feeling like writing anything. I’m very sorry.
So here’s a picture of a bright red bus at a bus station. I feel like getting on that bus and just letting it take me away someewhere.
Maybe I’ll be allowed to post something better tomorrow but you’d better ask my computer though.
Olympus Trip 35 & Colorplus. Lab developed. Home scanned and converted with Negative Lab Pro.
Taken 6 May 2023.
As a child, VW Beetles were a commonplace sight, whether parked on the street or seen driving along roads, their passage announce by distinctive air-cooled engine sound. Sometimes I would be overjoyed to see one that had been painted to look like Herbie.
But over time they faded from view and it wasn’t until the new, much worse looking (in my opinion), New Beetle arrived in the late 1990s that the cars began to be widely seen again, on British roads at least. The New Beetle lasted from 1997 to 2011, when it was replaced by the sleeker-looking Beetle A5, which itself was finally retired in 2019.
The original Beetle design is a classic and as a result there are still many being maintained, so it’s easy to find one (or several) at classic car shows, and they also turn up in customised form. There’s a customised green Beetle often to be found parked near my local fish & chip shop which I’ve thought about photographing but, apart from a digital snap I took a few years ago, I haven’t gotten around to doing so.
When I spotted this pristine Beetle in Lido di Jesolo, I just had to get a few pictures. It’s nice to see one in such pristine condition in the wild.
Olympus Trip 35 & Kodak Gold. Lab developed. Home scanned and converted with Negative Lab Pro.
Taken 5 May 2023.
A very noticeable feature of the beach at Lido di Jesolo was the sheere quantity of sunloungers and beach umbrellas. There were thousands of them, probably tens of thousands! It’s someting I’ve noticed in other Italian resorts too (in my relatively limited experience of them), but they really stood out here.
Hotels have their own section of beach with sunloungers for their guests, although I think they can be hired by non-residents too. Some of the hotels are directly adjacent to the sand, but others might be a street or two further inland.
We visited in early May, before the main Italian holiday season begins, so most of the loungers were unoccupied while we were there. I expect it is a sight to behold at the height of the season!
Olympus Trip 35 & Kodak Gold. Lab developed. Home scanned and converted with Negative Lab Pro.
Taken 5 May 2023.
This interesting building sits atop the EuroSpar supermarket in Lido di Jesolo. It was pointed out to me that it was designed by Stefano Pujatti of ELASTICOFarm. This doesn’t mean much to me being somewhat unfamiliar with the world of modern architecture, but I was happy to see more pictures of the structure and find out more about it via this link: https://www.elasticofarm.com/architecture/le-batiment-descendant-lescalier/
I had no idea that the swimming pool was there on the occasions we visited the supermarket!
Olympus Trip 35 & Kodak Gold. Lab developed. Home scanned and converted with Negative Lab Pro.
Taken 5 May 2023.
Or should that be gellato?
Should you be in the mood for a frozen treat, you can glimpse more giant ice creams here, here, here, here, here and here. 🙂
Olympus Trip 35 & Kodak Gold. Lab developed. Home scanned and converted with Negative Lab Pro.
Taken 5 May 2023.
A whole bunch of pictures to come over the next week or two from my recent trip to Lido di Jesolo in Italy with my wife. It was only a short, three-day break, but I managed to get through two-and-a-half rolls of film with my Olympus Trip 35.
As it’s late and I (shock! Horror!) almost forgot to write a blog post today, I’ll keep this one quite short.
This small building was set just back from the beach and, like so many other hotels and houses, was painted a vivid shade. It has “1937” written on the wall in Roman numerals. I guess it’s possible that the building dates back to then, but I suspect it may have some different significance. Whatever the case, I felt it made for a nice colourful subject, and I like the leading lines formed by the strips of matting in the foreground..
Olympus Trip 35 & Kodak Gold. Lab developed. Home scanned and converted with Negative Lab Pro.
Taken 5 May 2023.
I got back home yesterday after a few days away with my wife. We took a short trip to Lido di Jesolo, a beach resort in north-east Italy, that she had said she would like to visit. The resort is very much built for tourists – it’s mostly hotels and the restaurants, cafes, and shops that serve the visitors, but it’s clean, friendly, and a nice place to spend some time. It has a very long beach – over nine miles in length – which is equally clean (it has a Blue Flag rating) and with lots of public facilities such as cafes, bars, and showers. It also has thousands of sun-loungers and parasols, with many of the resort’s hotels having their own reserved section of the beach.
The resort is also only a short distance from Venice, and it’s easy to catch a bus and a ferry to the historic city – a trip of approximately an hour from the bus station – meaning an abundance of culture and history is there should you wish to partake of it. We visited Venice on the second day of our trip, and here are a few pictures from the day out.
I’ll be posting a bunch of photos from the trip once I’ve got them processed and scanned, but in a break from tradition (given that this blog is advertised as being about film photography) I’ve dropped a few digital photos into today’s post. I don’t intend to start posting digital photographs on a regular basis, but I’ve decided that sometimes it might be apt. Because I often have a backlog of film pictures to develop, scan, and upload, it can often be many weeks before I get to post them. Using some digital pictures now and then will allow me to better illustrate the posts where I witter on about what I did that day with actual images from the events, rather than some random unrelated film photo I took weeks earlier.
Ricoh GR III.
Taken 5 and 6 May 2023.
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