Steel City Snapper photography
35mm, medium format and large format film photography (with the odd bit of digital every now and then…)
This was taken back in January on a walk where I wish I’d worn some Wellies – although the ground looks crisp and frozen, the snow was in melt and my feet were sinking up to the ankles in places.
Zeiss Mess-Ikonta & Kodak Tri-X (expired 2013).
Taken on 17 January 2018
Bedgreave Mill was built in the late 16th century and operated until 1947. It lay unused for the next thirty or so years until it was restored when Rother Valley Country Park (in which it resides) came into being in the early 1980s.
Olympus OM-1, Zuiko 28mm f/3.5 & Kodak Tri-X
Taken on 18 March 2018
Given that I didn’t post anything to the blog yesterday (I left it until late in the evening and then forgot and went to bed!), it’s a double-post day today.
I’m not quite sure why the shot below has such pronounced grain (it was taken with the same roll of HP5+ as many of the other recent shots I’ve posted, and they don’t have nearly so much). Maybe the snow and mist threw the camera’s meter out and then I overcompensated the exposure at the scanning stage or something. I guess I could re-scan the negative and see (but I probably won’t).
Grain isn’t something I dislike though, so not to worry. 🙂
Nikon F70, Nikkor 28-80mm f/3.5-5.6 AF-D & Ilford HP5+.
Taken on 4 March 2018
On the Trans-Pennine trail at Killamarsh, on the remaining part of a railway bridge structure, is this piece of street art.
Nikon F70, Nikkor 28-80mm f/3.5-5.6 AF-D & Ilford HP5+.
Taken on 4 March 2018
This renewable energy facility has only recently been completed. It reminds me a little of the facility in Stranger Things.
Nikon F70, Nikkor 28-80mm f/3.5-5.6 AF-D & Ilford HP5+.
Taken on 4 March 2018
The term ‘forest’ in the title up there is somewhat misleading. This is actually a small plantation of pines nestled into a meander of the River Rother not far from Eckington. It’s a place I’ve never visited before, but it has potential for some nice photos – it certainly did on the snowy, misty day when this photo was taken.
Nikon F70, Nikkor 28-80mm f/3.5-5.6 AF-D & Ilford HP5+.
Taken on 4 March 2018
I had a day off work this week and took a trip out into the nearby Peak District National Park. I was mostly trying my hand (not very successfully) at some landscape stuff using my digital camera, but I still stuck a couple of film cameras in my bag and managed to polish off a roll of 120 Portra 400, plus the remains of some Tmax 400 in my Pentax P30T.
The area I visited is littered with millstones in varying stages of completion, hewn from the local gritstone. The one in this photo must’ve been photographed many, many thousands of times as it lays right next to the footpath leading to Over Owler Tor.
Zeiss Mess-Ikonta & Kodak Portra 400 (expired 2016).
Taken on 7 February 2018
Something a little abstract today – a shot of a dusting of snow atop the tiles on my garage roof.
Olympus OM-1, F.Zuiko 50mm f/1.8 & Ilford HP5+.
Taken on 21 January 2018
While this path looks lovely and rural, it actually runs through an industrial estate and has large industrial units on either side. Amazing what a bit of snow can do…
Canon Sure Shot Telemax & Agfa Vista Plus 200 (converted to B&W in Lightroom).
Taken on 21 January 2018
This field looks hard and frost-bitten. It wasn’t – there were times when my feet literally sank completely in the thick wet mud of the footpath that runs along the bottom edge (and where all the meltwater was draining).
Zeiss Mess-Ikonta & Kodak Tri-X (expired 2013).
Taken on 17 January 2018
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