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A statue, a sign, and an onlooker

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Today was my annual trip to the seaside town of Mablethorpe. I wasn’t sure I’d get there this year what with the pandemic, but managed to sneak in a visit before the Covid cases rise to the extent we can’t travel again (although I hope that doesn’t happen!).

I don’t want to say much about it today because I only got home about half-an-hour ago; I’m very tired from the walking and driving; and I want a shower! Assuming no disasters, there will be photos from the trip in upcoming blogs.

Anyway, here’s a random image of a statue, a sign pointing to a church (I didn’t photograph this one!), some houses, and a bloke looking at me and probably wondering what I’m doing…

Statues, signs, and onlookers
Is he looking at me, or just in my general direction?

Minolta SRT 101b, Rokkor 50mm f/1.7 & Kodak Tri-X (expired circa 2000-ish). Ilfotec DD-X 1+4 8mins @ 20°

Taken on 31 August 2020

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Old signs and empty shops

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I walked past this abandoned shop while shooting the roll of expired, but satisfyingly good, Velvia 100 that I bought from eBay. The “Properties Cleared” sign was what caught my eye, the paint peeling away from the wood beneath with lovely texture.

Properties cleared

Then I noticed the shop next door, with posters pasted on the boarded up windows, so walked across the road to get a wider view of the whole scene.

It’s probably not everyone’s cup of tea, but I quite like scenes like this and find them interesting to look at. Plus, with the rate of re-development going on in this part of town it will probably not be long before the scene changes again.

I’m very pleased with the sharp rendering of this 50m lens. I already owned the F.Zuiko version, which is very nice anyay, but got the chance to pick up the Auto-S model in the 5xxxxxx seriel number range and the “made in Japan” marking, which is supposed to be the sharpest variant of the OM 50mm lens line up. For a 35mm film shot, the full size scan shows some very nice detail.

On Harvest Lane

Olympus OM-2n, Zuiko Auto-S 50mm f/1.8 & Fujichrome Velvia 100.

Taken on 2 August 2020

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Pandemic scenes #3

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The majority of the hospitality industry in the UK has now closed. After a period where the government advised people to avoid socialising in groups and that they shouldn’t go to pubs -something that caused dismay to the owners and operators of the establishments as, apparently, without a formal government order for them to cease business, they were inelligible to make claims against their insurance policies that would pay out necause they were unable to trade because of the situation – the government formally ordered their closure.

A number of pubs in my local area (although I suspect it to be a widespread thing across the nation) placed messages of support to NHS and other key-workers on their notice-boards when the closed. Today’s photo depicts one of these messages.

During the lock-down, with significantly less opportunity to go out, I’ve started to make progress on enjoying the large (and continually growing) stack of photo books that I’ve bought. Today I chose one of the books further down the pile that must have been there for a significant amount of time now: Portraits of America, by William Albert Allard. The book contains images from his National Geographic work in the US. I’ve only looked at the first set of images so far: a series on the Amish shot back in the 1960s, but the photographs are beautiful and I’m looking forward to enjoying the rest of the book.

Pandemic scenes - Thank You NHS

Canon Sure Shot Telemax & Ilford Delta 400 – Ilfotec DD-X 1+4 9mins

Taken on 28 March 2020

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Another bridge chapel

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Back in April of this year, I posted about the bridge chapel in Wakefield that stands over the River Calder. I mentioned in that post that it was one of only five such structures in the country, the others being situated in Rotherham, Derby, Bradford-on-Avon, and St. Ives (Cambridgeshire). The picture in today’s post is of the Chapel of Our Lady of Rotherham Bridge, in Rotherham, which dates back to 1483. This bridge crosses the River Don.

It was raining heavily on the day I took the photograph (you can just about make out the diagonal streaks of the raindrops if you look at the image at larger sizes), but the door was ajar and a service looked to be just about to start. I did try and get a photo of the worshippers inside, but someone came and closed the door just as I took the shot and I instead captured a somewhat blurry image of a clergyman who looks a little bit like a ghost!

This one turned out nicer, and was the last shot on the roll. As I was thoroughly soaked by this time, I treat myself to a fresh cream scone to eat when I got home. 🙂

FILM - Bridge chapel

Pentax Espio 140m & Ilford HP5+.

Taken on 1 October 2019