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35mm · Film photography · Photography

Cliff jumping

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I spent a few minutes atop the Dubrovnik city wall watching people leap into the sea from the rocks above the water. At the time I wasn’t sure if this photo would work, mostly because I wondered if the people jumping would be noticeable in the frame (they aren’t, really – although I dig catch one of them mid-leap), but it works nicely as a landscape picture with the composition making it look almost like a large lake or fjord.

Cliff diving

Canon Sure Shot Z135 & Kodak Gold. Lab developed. Home scanned and converted with Negative Lab Pro.

Taken 29 May 2024.

35mm · Film photography · Photography

Grebeni rocks and lighthouse

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I’ve already posted some photographs from our holiday in Dubrovnik at the start of the summer (a summer that is almost at a close!), but not any that I shot on film. I have quite a lot of them!

There will be more to come, either in blocks, or dribs and drabs, and I might break them up with other stuff, but here’s one to start. These are Grebeni Rocks, a small chain of barrier islands not far from the hotel where we stayed. Just visible on the rightmost island is a structure. That is Grebeni lighthouse. While the light is still active, the lighthouse keepers house can be rented as holiday accommodation apparently. A boat is probably handy.

The seas were mostly calm while we were at the resort, but there was one day when a storm had caused heavier conditions and waves were breaking on the rocks with considerable splashes.

Islands in the sun

Olympus Trip 35 & Colorplus. Lab developed. Home scanned and converted with Negative Lab Pro.

Taken 25 May 2024.

Digital · Photography

No sign of Sansa

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I wasn’t sure what to upload today. I have a bunch of film shots but they’re going to be part of a longer post that I haven’t written yet, and I don’t have a lot of other stuff uploaded and ready to go (although I have a huge backlog of stuff to develop and scan – the best part of 200 photographs!).

So I’ll upload a digital picture today, another from my recent holiday in Dubrovnik. Dubrovnik is very popular with Game of Thrones fans as it was a key filming location, mostly as the site for the fictional city of King’s Landing. Dotted through the old town are many shops selling GoT merchandise, and there are guided tours of the filming locations.

The place in today,s photograph was used at least once in the series (in a scene with Sansa Stark and Lord “Littlefinger” Baelish), and can be seen here on this webpage of the filming locations. The jetty that featured in the show is just to the left of frame in my shot – I avoided its inclusion predominantly because there were at least two tour groups crowded onto the narrow strip. I’m surprised someone didn’t fall into the water!

If King's Landing had motorboats

Ricoh GRIII

Taken on 29 May 2024

35mm · Film photography · Photography

Looking out to sea

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I’ve just come back from a couple of days in Blackpool, and I have to say the the sea was much less inviting looking than the calm Adriatic waters at Lido di Jesolo – even taking into account the no diving sign on this under-repair jetty. By contrast the Irish Sea looked very rough, brown, and cold.

I managed to shoot a couple of rolls of film in Blackpool, so you might get a glimpse of the sea in those when they appear here at some point.

No diving

Olympus Trip 35 & Colorplus. Lab developed. Home scanned and converted with Negative Lab Pro.

Taken 7 May 2023.

35mm · Film photography · Photography

Left behind

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There are a couple of details I like about this shot.

The most obvious is the boat in the distance. While it almost certainly has no connection with the couple on the jetty, its positioning might suggest otherwise. Have they been left behind? Or are they perhaps bidding farewell?

The other detail is much more minor, but it’s the way that the couple’s waists are aligned with the horizon. I didn’t do it deliberately, or not conciously at least, but it’s a cool little detail, I think.

Left behind

Olympus Trip 35 & Colorplus. Lab developed. Home scanned and converted with Negative Lab Pro.

Taken 7 May 2023.

Film photography · Medium Format · Photography

A print perhaps?

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It’s very rare that I make prints of my photographs. Occasionally, I’ll get a bunch of cheap mini prints of random shots as they can be nice things to put in gifts, and I had a print made of a picture my cousin liked for her to hang on her wall, but rarely do I make a print for myself.

I might get a print of the picture posted here today though. It’s not a perfect image and probably not something anyone would buy commercially, but I like the photo – it’s evocative and also, because I was there when it was made, personal. It’s mine. It would be a nice thing to look at when I’m at work, I think, maybe even moreso when the dark winter days kick in proper.

To the beach

Yashicamat 124G & Fujifilm Pro 160NS. Lab developed, home scanned, & converted with Negative Lab Pro.

Taken on 17 September 2022

35mm · Film photography · Photography

I’ll shoot what he shot

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While I was in Hornsea a few weeks back I noticed this man photographing something on the other side of the seawall. To be fair, I knew exactly what he was photographing – the waves crashing against the defences – but I wanted in on this sweet ocean action so, after taking a quick candid, I waited my turn and then made my own picture.

The guy in the photo looked like he had a telephoto attached to his camera, which probably benefited the scene when compared with the fixed 42mm glass on my Olympus 35RC, but the best camera (and lens!) is the one you have with you, right?

Shooting a man shooting the sea
What the man saw

Olympus 35 RC & Kodak Gold 200. Lab developed. Home scanned and converted with Negative Lab Pro.

Taken on 20 June 2022

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Erosion in action

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Another pebble, albeit one that appears more natural in character than the giant housebrick pebble I posted on Sunday. It’d be cool to rewind time to see this little lump of rock’s history. Where has it been, where was it sited before it entered the sea? How far has it travelled, and for how long? Was it a bigger rock that has been whittled down to size, or was it always this small?

Pebble formation

Olympus 35 RC & Kodak Gold 200. Lab developed. Home scanned and converted with Negative Lab Pro.

Taken on 20 June 2022