Minolta X-300, Minolta MD 50mm f/1.7 & Kodak Gold. Lab developed. Home scanned and converted with Negative Lab Pro.
Taken on 14 March 2026
The path beneath the spa
Tag: North Yorkshire
Wooden teeth
The weathered remains of a wooden breakwater.
Minolta X-300, Minolta MD 50mm f/1.7 & Kodak Gold. Lab developed. Home scanned and converted with Negative Lab Pro.
Taken on 14 March 2026
Scarborough chalets
I haven’t been able to bring myself to start (re)dust-spotting the image I spoke about yesterday yet, but I have completed my re-scans of my 2018 Sorrento negatives. I don’t think the final roll had as many interesting pictures, sadly, but there are a few good ones – although most of them have already been uploaded to my Flickr account previously, so it will just be a case of replacing them with (hopefully) better versions.
But today it’s another picture from Scarborough. I have a love/hate relationship with Kodak Gold. It can produce very nice results, but I always find it a pain to scan, sometime giving me differing results across a single roll. For instance, the picture today has some odd graininess at the upper right of the frame, which I’ve reduced a little, but not completely. Similar artifacts are not present on other shots, so who knows the cause?
Minolta X-300, Minolta MD 50mm f/1.7 & Kodak Gold. Lab developed. Home scanned and converted with Negative Lab Pro.
Taken on 14 March 2026
Scarborough
A view across Scarborough’s south bay.
I’m in an odd mood today and feel very little impetus to do anything with my pictures. I think this is in large part due to the fact that a scan I spent ages dust spotting a few days ago has been lost and I now only have the original with all the dust, and I really don’t have the energy to go through that process again right now. This has dampened my mood and put me off doing anything else.
It’s frustrating when lab negs have far more dust than the ones I develop at home and dry in the shower cubicle!
Minolta X-300, Minolta MD 50mm f/1.7 & Kodak Gold. Lab developed. Home scanned and converted with Negative Lab Pro.
Taken on 14 March 2026
Red spade
Sometimes it’s the little details that catch your eye, isn’t it?
Minolta X-300, Minolta MD 50mm f/1.7 & Kodak Gold. Lab developed. Home scanned and converted with Negative Lab Pro.
Taken on 14 March 2026
Daffodils
Minolta X-300, Minolta MD 50mm f/1.7 & Kodak Gold. Lab developed. Home scanned and converted with Negative Lab Pro.
Taken on 14 March 2026
Man with a hotdog
It’s very warn and muggy here again today. I have a bunch of Holga pictures that I’d planned to post, but I’m sat in my my office which is currently 31.4°c and don’t have the energy to add them all to the blog. So, instead, here’s a summery picture of a fella in Whitby holding a hotdog. It looks like it was hot on that day too (I can’t recall – it was nearly ten years ago!), but the people in jackets and hoodies perhaps suggest it wasn’t as warm as it is here today.
Panasonic Lumix GX7 & LUMIX G 20/F1.7.
Taken on 18 August 2016
Steel City Snapper photography 