Tag: south-yorkshire

Film photography · Medium Format · Photography

Monday

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Back to work for everyone today, although I’ve found it quite hard to focus on things, wondering how my son was getting on during his first day back after receiving his bad news on Friday.

He’s told us that he doesn’t really want to talk about the situation at the moment as it keeps dragging it all to the surface. I can understand this, and I don’t want to upset him by keeping on at him. At the same time I’ve asked that he keeps us informed on what’s happening. We want to support him and are here for him 100%, whether that’s offering advice and support, or just being there to listen.

While he hasn’t told us much about his day, he has said that he’s going to spend some time this week in a couple of other areas of the company where he works which have vacancies. I don’t think either job appeals to him very much (and one in particular he definitely doesn’t want to do), but it may be a stepping stone while he looks for something better suited to his abilities and aspirations.

I wish I had some sort of magic dad-wand that I could wave and make everything ok. The thought of him being unhappy breaks my heart.

Here’s another random American car…

1954 Kaiser Darrin

Fujica GW690 & Lomography Color Negative 400. Lab developed. Home scanned and converted with Negative Lab Pro.

Taken on 18 August 2024

Film photography · Medium Format · Photography

Job hunting by proxy

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I feel like I’ve spent much of the weekend looking at job vacancies for my son – he hasn’t asked me to, but as his dad, it’s my natural desire to help him as much as I can. He will need to get his CV updated before he can apply for any of them though, which he will hopefully do this week – his colleagues have said they will help him with this and also coach him on interview techniques.

It’s quite a positive sign that there are a number of vacancies in the local area that look like they will be a good match for his experience, although some of them specify a specific qualification that he doesn’t have. I’m hopeful that this will not be too much of a hurdle as the different qualification he does have, plus his on the job experience, may be sufficient.

And, just because this is my photo blog, here’s another photograph of a classic car.

1959 AMC Rambler

Fujica GW690 & Lomography Color Negative 400. Lab developed. Home scanned and converted with Negative Lab Pro.

Taken on 18 August 2024

Film photography · Medium Format · Photography

Classic bus

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One of the old vehicles lovingly maintained by the South Yorkshire Transport Museum (or two, if you count the one partially out of frame at the right).

I remember riding on this model of bus – a Leyland Atlantean – when I was younger. It doesn’t look all that dated in style to my eyes, but these were first introduced into service in Sheffield in 1968, before I was even born!

Old Sheffield bus

Fujica GW690 & Lomography Color Negative 400. Lab developed. Home scanned and converted with Negative Lab Pro.

Taken on 18 August 2024

Film photography · Medium Format · Photography

Tucked around the back of the church

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I’ve photographed St Peter’s church at Elmton on a number of occasions before, and posted the results on the blog here, here, and here.

I decided to drive past again to finish off this roll of film, with a plan to shoot the church building with its low, squat tower, from a different angle. Ala, it wasn’t to be – the light wasn’t great and the fixed prime lens on the GW690 introduced limitations on how I could frame a shot, essentially meaning I’d have had excessive converging verticals, or the tips of gravestones poking into the bottom of the frame. In the end, I decided to take a picture of this small outhouse affixed to the rear of the building. The weathered door, and caretaker’s paraphernalia served to add a little interest.

Around the back of a church

Fujica GW690 on Ilford HP5+. Ilfotec DD-X 1+4 @ 20° 9mins.

Taken on 17 August 2024

4x5 Large Format · Film photography · Photography

St. Winifred’s Church, Holbeck

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The third of the large-format church photographs I shot a week ago. This is probably the worst of the three for two reasons.

Firstly, it’s not in proper focus for some reason. It probably looks fine at lower resolutions but once you zoom in, it becomes a bit soft – especially around the doorway with the two watering cans.

Secondly. because I’m out of practice at large format photography, I spent so much time getting things in focus (Ha! Right!) that I forgot to pay attention to the verticals. If I were shooting a smaller format then there would be little I could do about this, but with the camera movements available on my Chamonix, these can be corrected quite easily. But I forgot, so this one looks a bit wonky.

I might try and make another large format outing this weekend if the weather is good. Let’s see if I’ve learnt any lessons…

Amusingly, when I arrived at the church there were a couple of men already there who turned out to be a vicar and an organist. When I said I was there to take photographs they asked if I was the wedding photographer! It turned out that a wedding was due to take place that afternoon. While a few more guests turned up while I was there, I left before the happy couple arrived. 🙂

St. Winifred's Church, Holbeck

Chamonix 045n-1, Scneider-Kreuznach Super-Angulon 5.6/90 & Ilford Delta 100. Ilfotec DD-X 1+4 10mins @ 20°

Taken on 10 August 2024

4x5 Large Format · Film photography · Photography

St. Martin’s Church, Firbeck

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Another of my recent large format church photos. The figure in the distance is not some sot of spooky monk’s ghost, but a scarecrow – one of many that were placed around this village on the day I visited as part of a scarecrow-trail.

St. Martin's Church, Firbeck

Chamonix 045n-1, Scneider-Kreuznach Super-Angulon 5.6/90 & Ilford Delta 100. Ilfotec DD-X 1+4 10mins @ 20°

Taken on 10 August 2024

35mm · Film photography · Photography

Two bridges

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I took the following two pictures while walking to Woodhouse Washlands where I shot the photos that I’ve shared here during the past week.

The first bridge crosses the railway line that comes from Sheffield, via Darnall and Woodhouse, towards Chesterfield and onward destinations. A scrapyard sits just at the other side of the bridge, along with footpaths to Rotherham Road, Rother Valley Country Park, plus some other trails through the floodplain.

Just to the right of the the bridge is a somewhat pointless bike gate. That aint stopping anyone!

Railway bridge (and pointless bike gate)

The second is of the railway bridge which carries the stretch of track running between Rotherham and Chersterfield across the River Rother (from which Rotherham takes its name, translating from the Old English Homestead on the Rother). This line joins the line crossed by the footbridge pictured above a little further south. It’s not obvious from the picture, but the river bank in the foreground was quite slick and muddy!

From here I followed the course of the river downstream through the section of floodplain that lies south of the Mosborough Bypass (which marks the southern edge of Woodhouse Washlands). Before the bypass, I had to cross Ochre Dyke and Rotherham Road. The dyke is spanned by a small bridge. Or it normally is…

On this day I found that the bridge had been removed and the foundations for a replacement were now in evidence. The water looked jumpable, but I thought it might be prudent to walk around. Unfortunately, following a lot of rainfall, the route was blocked by swampy, submerged grass, and I would have had to make a significant backtrack to get around. So I decided to risk the jump after all.

Despite not looking too bad, it was quite a hard landing on the far bank, resulting in a muddy knee, a hand prickled on a bramble, and a pain in the joint just above my knee that has flared up on occasion ever since. I’m no longer young, it seems…

Arches

Olympus XA3 & Ilford HP5+ (@800asa). Ilfotec DD-X 1+4 10mins @ 20°

Taken on 3 March 2024