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A windmill and the scene across the road

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As mentioned the other day, I took the opportunity during our holiday in Menorca to return to the city of Ciutadella alone to take pictures. While I still take pictures when my wife is with me, it’s not the same as wandering by myself, when I can lose myself down side streets and wait for the light and composition of a scene to improve. My wife if patient, but there are limits…

I took the two pictures here just before I entered the “old town” area. The windmill was nigh on impossible to photograph without some type of vehicle in shot as the roads beside it were quite busy, but I don’t mind this van poking its snout into the bottom corner too much.

Ciutadella windmill

Just across the road from the windmill was a small pedestrianised area and the play of light and shade, plus the people moving through the scene caught my eye. I like this shot a lot, and I’m impressed at how well this batch of almost 20-years-expired film renders scenes.

Across from the windmill

Olympus 35 RC & Fuji Superia 100 (expired 2008). Lab developed. Home scanned and converted with Negative Lab Pro.

Taken on 2 October 2025

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A corner in Ciutadella

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Today’s picture is just an ordinary street corner in Ciutadella, but there was something about the arrangement of the windows and doors, the colours of the rendered walls, and the way the light fell on the scene that encouraged a picture.

There was quite a lot of foreground street in the full-size shot, so I decided to crop it to a 16:9 ratio, which I think works better and still provides plenty of detail.

A corner in Ciutadella

Olympus 35 RC & Fuji Superia 100 (expired 2008). Lab developed. Home scanned and converted with Negative Lab Pro.

Taken on 2 October 2025

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A bus change and a cemetery

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Following our trip to Mahón, as seen in yesterday’s post, we had to change buses when we got back to Ciutadella. Our bus wasn’t due for a while, so I took a few minutes to have a quick look at the municipal cemetery, which was right across the road from the bus terminal.

My wife was a little anxious that the bus would arrive and we would miss it, so it was a very brief visit. I also only had a couple of shots remaining on the roll of film in my camera, so it didn’t take long to use those up, with one shot of the entrance, and another of a curved row of vaults* within.

It’s interesting to note the differences between cemeteries in hot, southern European countries like Spain, and those in colder, wetter countries like the UK. The architecture, and methods of interment are very different in both.

* I’m not sure of the correct terminology.

Municipal cemetery
Within the cemetery

Olympus 35 RC & Fuji Superia 100 (expired 2008). Lab developed. Home scanned and converted with Negative Lab Pro.

Taken on 30 September 2025

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A last minute trip to Mahón

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During our holiday in Menorca we decided one day to take a trip to the nearby city of Ciutadela. However, after arriving, my wife didn’t seem that impressed by the place (I’m not sure why, as I quite liked it, and would return on my own later in the week). So we decided to get a bus to Mahón (or Maó as it appears on all the road signage), the island’s capital.

Menorca isn’t a huge island, and it only took about an hour on the bus to get there. The pictures in today’s post are those I took while there.

The blues in the skies look a little strange in some shots. No matter how much I feel like I’ve got a good handle on scanning colour negatives, I still get caught out by it sometimes, often for not discernible reason.

A side street in Mahon
Ask for a table before sitting down
You've nothing left to lose Just take off your shoes
Ship and steps
Above and below
At the lift
Mini balcony
Painting the railings
Scooter
Two bells
Out over the bay

Olympus 35 RC & Fuji Superia 100 (expired 2008). Lab developed. Home scanned and converted with Negative Lab Pro.

Taken on 30 September 2025

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Far d’Artrutx

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All taken the same evening as yesterday’s picture, these four shots show the Far d’Artutx lighthouse at the south-western point of Menorca.

The light was dropping and I was shooting 100asa film (which I’d rated at 80asa) so I had to use a slower shutter-speed to get a wide enough aperture for the camera to allow me to get the pictures. Some of them are slightly soft as a result, although not to the extent that they are ruined or anything.

The last one of the four, and my favourite, is pretty sharp though. It looks almost like a moonlit scene, although the effect is a result of the sun lighting up some high cumulus through a gap in the lower clouds.

The road to the lighthouse
Out of the foliage
Far d'Artrutx lighthouse
Blue hour light

Olympus 35 RC & Fuji Superia 100 (expired 2008). Lab developed. Home scanned and converted with Negative Lab Pro.

Taken on 29 September 2025

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A scimitar reflection

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One evening on our holiday we walked to the nearby lighthouse (pictures coming tomorrow!). It had rained heavily earlier and the sky was still full of impressive clouds. On the edge of this road lay a large scimitar, or crescent shaped puddle, and I grabbed a quick photo of this couple reflected in its surface.

Scimitar reflection

Olympus 35 RC & Fuji Superia 100 (expired 2008). Lab developed. Home scanned and converted with Negative Lab Pro.

Taken on 29 September 2025