Steel City Snapper photography
35mm, medium format and large format film photography (with the odd bit of digital every now and then…)
I posted a couple of black and white pictures of the Spurn Lightship earlier this month, and mentioned that I had a colour picture too. Well, here it is.
Olympus 35 RC on Kodak Ultramax. Lab developed. Home scanned and converted with Negative Lab Pro.
Taken on 9 August 2025
It isn’t the first time I’ve posted pictures of the Spurn lightship on the blog – there are a couple more that I posted back in 2019 here and here.
The vessel has been moved to a new mooring now (one that makes it a little more difficult to photograph) so here are two new shots. I have a colour picture to come too at some point.
Nikon F80 & Tamron 28-300mm F/3.5-6.3 Di VC PZD on Ilford FP4+. Ilfotec DD-X 1+4 @ 20° 10mins
Taken on 9 August 2025
A couple of days ago I posted a photo of the Spurn Lightship. Today’s image is a detail shot of that ship’s bow.
I really like the tones I’ve got in this picture, especially the milky quality of the water, but also the relief of the plates and rivets of the vessel’s hull too. Despite the film being pushed to 800asa the grain has remained relatively unobtrusive in the shot as well.
Olympus OM-1, F.Zuiko 50mm f/1.8 & Ilford HP5+ (pushed to 800asa).
Taken on 25 October 2019
This is the Spurn Lightship, a floating lighthouse that served in a position off Spurn Point, a long coastal spit at the mouth of the Humber Estuary where it flows into the North Sea.
The vessel was built in 1927 and was in active service until it was decommissioned in 1975. It was restored and has served as a museum at it’s current location in Hull marina since 1987, although it is currently closed for conservation work and re-location elsewhere in the marina.
Olympus OM-1, F.Zuiko 50mm f/1.8 & Ilford HP5+ (pushed to 800asa).
Taken on 19 October 2019
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