Steel City Snapper photography
35mm, medium format and large format film photography (with the odd bit of digital every now and then…)
The first two boats in this scene – Willow and Trisantona – look best suited to the adjacent River Trent, although I suppose they can also traverse the River Idle. I’m not sure if boats like this venture onto the Chesterfield Canal, and I expect that their wakes would cause quite a commotion if they did. That journey is probably left to narrowboats, like the ones moored in the background.
Yashica Mat 124G & Kodak Tri-X. Ilfotec DD-X 1+4 8mins @ 20°
Taken on 24 March 2024
Occasionally on this blog I will post a photograph without saying anything about it. I could try and bluff my way through this and claim that “the picture speaks for itself“, or something similar, but that would be – pardon my French – bullshit.
What it actually means is, usually, one of two things:
Option 2 is the usual culprit. I’ve either been doing something that has kept me from the computer, or I’ve been doing something else on the computer (or PlayStation…) and the time has gotten away from me. Either way, the result is the same, a picture without words.
Today was going to be a similar thing, but then I wrote this.
So here’s a picture that has words, they’re just not connected to its contents whatsoever…
Yashica Mat 124G & Kodak Tri-X. Ilfotec DD-X 1+4 8mins @ 20°
Taken on 24 March 2024
This is the same house that I shared a picture of yesterday. It definitely needs some TLC, but I imagine it will be worth a fortune when renovated.
Those two black specks at the top of the picture are birds. I ummed and aahed about painting them out, but decided they were there when the picture was shot, so there they can remain.
Yashica Mat 124G & Kodak Tri-X. Ilfotec DD-X 1+4 8mins @ 20°
Taken on 24 March 2024
Yashica Mat 124G & Kodak Tri-X. Ilfotec DD-X 1+4 8mins @ 20°
Taken on 24 March 2024
I was going to publish the second part of my West Stockwith to Misterton walk post today but I got waylaid on other important stuff (not playing Fallout 4, honest… 😉 ). I will endeavour to write it for tomorrow though.
It’s not been all videogames today though, most of the day was taken up by a trip to Bakewell with my wife as there was a food market on. Other than a couple of bratwurst’s for lunch, and some cakes from a shop, we didn’t actually buy that much food. My wife came home with a new coat though, and I bought a second-hand Ladybird book (one that I used to own as a child).
I took a handful of photos while there, although I’ll have to wait and see if any of them were worthwhile. One, at least, ought to be interesting.
So instead of photos from my second planned Walk With a Camera outing, here’s a picture of the closed post office in Eyam (which, to be fair on myself, I shot during the earlier hike I posted about here).
Yashica Mat 124G & Kodak Tri-X. Ilfotec DD-X 1+4 8mins @ 20°
Taken on 9 March 2024
Yashica Mat 124G & Kodak Tri-X. Ilfotec DD-X 1+4 8mins @ 20°
Taken on 9 March 2024
This structure stands on a sloping side street in Eyam, Derbyshire.
I’m not sure what the buildings are. Workshops? Outbuildings? Stables? Whatever their purpose, there was a definite air of Goldilocks about it – A Daddy Bear – Mummy Bear – Baby Bear arrangement of size. I felt it worthwhile of a picture.
Yashica Mat 124G & Kodak Tri-X. Ilfotec DD-X 1+4 8mins @ 20°
Taken on 9 March 2024
A couple more photographs taken inside St. Martin’s church.
Yashica Mat 124G & Kodak Tri-X. Ilfotec DD-X 1+4 8mins @ 20°
Taken on 9 March 2024
A couple of pictures of hand-made hassocks on the wooden pews within St. Martin’s church in Stoney Middleton.
Yashica Mat 124G & Kodak Tri-X. Ilfotec DD-X 1+4 8mins @ 20°
Taken on 9 March 2024
This church featured in the second part of my Eyam to Stoney Middleton hiking post a couple of days ago, the picture shot with my Olympus XA-3. The pictures today were taken with my Yashica Mat 124G.
Yashica Mat 124G & Kodak Tri-X. Ilfotec DD-X 1+4 8mins @ 20°
Taken on 9 March 2024
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