Steel City Snapper photography
35mm, medium format and large format film photography (with the odd bit of digital every now and then…)
Following up from yesterday’s pictures of the pavillions in Sheffield’s botanical gardens, here are a few pictures I took within. Warm and humid greenhouses are not the most condusive places to use metal and glass cameras that have been brought inside from the cold, but after a bit of acclimatisation all was good to make some photographs.
Minolta X-300 & Minolta 50mm f/1.7 MD on Ilford Type-517. Ilfotec DD-X 1+4 14.5mins @ 20°.
Taken on 25 October 2025
Fernlea garden centre has been doing business in the village of Maltby-le-Marsh near Mablethorpe for as a long as I can remember. I have a vague memory of my grandparents buying some plants from there one time when I was a kid – the caravan site where their caravan was berthed was in the same village (and still is, although considerably changed from how it was when I used to visit).
Each year when I visit Mablethorpe I drive through the village and see the garden centre. Unlike the caravan site, it seems remarkably unchanged (in my memory at least) from all those years ago, and whenever I go past I have a slight worry that it will no longer be there and another little piece of my life’s history will have gone. It hasn’t happened yet, thankfully, but this year when I drove past I decided to stop and take a couple of pictures so that, in the event that it ever disappears, I’ll still have a picture to remember it.
Yashica Mat 124G and Kodak Portra 400. Lab developed. Home scanned and converted with Negative Lab Pro.
Taken on 11 October 2025
Today’s post sounds like some sort of rubbish sequel to Snakes on a Plane. 🙂
It’s been a pretty slow day at work today, mostly because I’ve only really had my phone to use to try and do any work, which has limited my options somewhat. I’ve not heard anything about when my replacement laptop will arrive yet, but I’m hoping it might be tomorrow.
My mojo has been largely absent over the past few months where photography has been concerned, but I’ve found myself watching photography videos on YouTube again over the past week and it’s lighting a pilot beneath me and driving some inspiration to get out with the camera. I’m not back to that sense of compulsion to make photographs that I’ve had in the past just yet, but I’m hopeful that will return in time too.
Yashica Mat 124G & Ilford HP5+. Lab developed in Xtol.
Taken on 6 November 2021
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