Yashica Mat 124G & Kodak Ektar. Lab developed. Home scanned and converted with Negative Lab Pro.
Taken on 29 June 2025
Little red tractors
Tag: Sheffield Steam Rally
’48 Studebaker pickup
Three shots of the same Studebaker pickup truck, each taken at different times and in changing light as I wandered around the vehicles on display at the steam rally. The first two on Kodak Portra 160, the last on Kodak Ektar.
Yashica Mat 124G & Kodak Portra 160 / Kodak Ektar. Lab developed. Home scanned and converted with Negative Lab Pro.
Taken on 29 June 2025
Fairground attractions
The Sheffield Steam Rally usually has a selection of vintage fairground rides and stalls present. It’s not a huge full size funfair and it’s usually the same attractions every year (presumably because it’s the same owners who attend each time) – the biggest of which is a carousel, but it’s mostly smaller rides and stalls.
I’ve photographed most of them before, but I’m usually drawn back to them each time I go. Here are three shots from this year’s visit.
Yashica Mat 124G & Kodak Portra 160. Lab developed. Home scanned and converted with Negative Lab Pro.
Taken on 29 June 2025
Traction engines
It wouldn’t have been the summer without my annual visit to the Sheffield Steam Rally, where I increasingly seem to be photographing the same things every year.
I took a whole bunch of pictures as usual and, as I still have quite a backlog of photos to catch up with, will post them in batches rather than individually. Starting with some traction engines…
The final shot is interesting because, while the main subject isn’t a traction engine, there is a tiny one perched atop it (and a full size one in the background too).
Yashica Mat 124G & Kodak Portra 160. Lab developed. Home scanned and converted with Negative Lab Pro.
Taken on 29 June 2025
Further scenes from a steam rally
I still have a sizeable backlog of photos that I haven’t yet published on the blog (or, in some cases, even uploaded to Flickr yet). I’ve already posted quite a few pictures that I took at this year’s Sheffield Steam Rally back at the end of June, but those were all medium format shots. I also finished off a roll of expired Fuji C200 on the day as well, and the photos below are the best from that batch.
Hopefully, in the coming days, I’ll share the rest of the photos from this roll, which were taken elsewhere and turned out better than I had expected…
Olympus OM-10 & G.Zuiko 35mm f/2.8 on Fujifilm C200 (expired 2012 and shot at 100asa) . Lab developed. Home scanned and converted with Negative Lab Pro.
Taken on 30 June 2024
A further set of steam rally pictures
I’m really happy with the colours I got from this roll of Ektar. Coupled with the GW690 and the fact that the 6×9 negatives allow for a noticeable shallow depth of field even at f/5.6, these were a great set of pictures to behold when they came off the scanner.
I have more pictures from this year’s rally shot with my Olympus OM-10, but I’ve not uploaded any of them to Flickr yet, so they will wait for a later day.
Fujica GW690 & Kodak Ektar. Lab developed. Home scanned and converted with Negative Lab Pro.
Taken on 30 June 2024
Plastic pig
The Honda C-90 is a variant of the Super Cub range which has, remarkably, been in continuous production since 1958!
I never had a particular interest in motorbikes, but two of my friends from my teenage years were, and they used to refer to these bikes as “plastic pigs”.
Fujica GW690 & Kodak Ektar. Lab developed. Home scanned and converted with Negative Lab Pro.
Taken on 30 June 2024
Sentinel steam wagon
Another handsome steam vehicle spotted at Sheffield Steam Rally. I tend to find that the same vehicles turn up each year I attend but, if this one has been there before, I don’t have any photographs of it (on Flickr, at least).
Fujica GW690 & Kodak Ektar. Lab developed. Home scanned and converted with Negative Lab Pro.
Taken on 30 June 2024
Fordson tractor
I’m not sure which model of Fordson tractor this is, but it made for a nice picture.
Fujica GW690 & Kodak Ektar. Lab developed. Home scanned and converted with Negative Lab Pro.
Taken on 30 June 2024
Invacar (in colour)
This is not the first time I’ve posted a picture of an Invacar on the blog – you can see an earlier post about them here which covers them in a little more detail.
That post had black and white photos though, which were of a slightly worse for wear model of the vehicle. This time you can see the classic “ice blue” colour scheme that made them so familiar back when I was young.
Fujica GW690 & Lomography Color Negative 400. Lab developed. Home scanned and converted with Negative Lab Pro.
Taken on 30 June 2024
Steel City Snapper photography 