If you enjoy photographing narrow streets, then the Old Town of Dubrovnik will be right up your alley!
Olympus Trip 35 & Fomapan 100. Ilfotec DD-X 1+4 8mins @ 20°
Taken 28 May 2024.
Back streets and alleyways
Tag: Steps
Above and below
This house sat above the footpath that led from our hotel into an area of bars and restaurants. I liked the nice, isometric appearance of the structure emerging from the foliage.
Access to these properties is by sets of steps, but as they sit on the hillside between the footpath and a road that runs behind them further up the hill, there is a climb or descent no matter which route the occupiers take.
Olympus Trip 35 & Fomapan 100. Ilfotec DD-X 1+4 8mins @ 20°
Taken 28 May 2024.
Bicycle on a skylight
Just one of those little scenes that catch your eye when you have a camera to hand sometimes. I probably would have photographed it even if the bicycle hadn’t been present, but I think it adds to the shot.
Olympus Trip 35 & Fomapan 100. Ilfotec DD-X 1+4 8mins @ 20°
Taken 28 May 2024.
Steep narrow streets
Olympus Trip 35 & Fomapan 100. Ilfotec DD-X 1+4 8mins @ 20°
Taken 28 May 2024.
Steps and a cycle gate
A quick post today, and it’s of a subject I’ve shot before (see here), but it’s the steps to the top of a railway bridge and, beside it, a particularly pointless cycle gate. It’s one of those mundane pictures that I nonetheless quite like.
Ricoh GR III
Taken on 8 July 2024
Overpass steps
Just a load of lines and angles I guess, but something in it spoke to me. So I pressed the shutter button.
Bronica ETRSi, Zenzanon 75mm f/2.8 PE, and Ilford HP5+. Ilfotec DD-X 1+4 9mins @ 20°.
Taken 6 August 2023.
Feeling poorly
On Tuesday night I had a bit of a painful throat. Yesterday night it got much worse. I was feeling shivery in bed and had to call in sick at work today. I felt awful this morning and basically climbed into bed fully dressed to try and feel warm. My throat is swollen, making it difficult to swallw, and I’m now wondering if I might have a bout of tonsilitis. I think I might have to call the doctor tomorrow to find out what is the matter – it certainly doesn’t feel like the regular type of sore throat I sometime get when I have a cold.
Here’s a photo I took a few weeks ago at Leeds University when I visited the Photo North exhibition.
Yashicamat 124G & Ilford HP5+. Ilfotec DD-X 1+4 9 mins 30 secs @ 20°
Taken 25 March 2023.
Riverside path and frustrating weather
I returned to work today following a week-and-a-day’s leave. The whole week I was off, the weather was dull and overcast, which kinda spoiled the days of photography I’d hoped for. I still went out and took pictures, but I knew the light was poor and they wouldn’t be what I might have hoped for.
Today, back at work and unable to venture out to take pictures, the weather has been lovely all day. Blue skies with smatterings of cumulus clouds and nice light. Sometimes it feels like I am being punished…
Here’s one of the pictures from last week, took while walking alongside the River Derwent in the Peak District near Calver.
Chroma 4×5. Fujinon NW 135mm f/5.6 & Fomapan 100. Fomadon R09 1+50 9 mins @ 20°
Taken 3 March 2023.
Lifeguard hut
I posted a series of photos of lifeguard huts on the blog a while ago. Here’s another to add to the set (it’s the hut at Mablethorpe, which I’ve photographed on several occasions now – including another picture shot on the day this one was taken).
Yashicamat 124G & Kodak Plus-X (expired 2008). Ilfotec DD-X 1+4 6mins @ 20°
Taken on 27 August 2022
Stairway to heaven (or the location of a little man)?
It’s in a catherdral, so maybe the former? Most likely just a stairway to the upper gallaries and the clock-tower though.
This picture instantly brings to mind the poem, Antigonish:
Yesterday, upon the stair,
I met a man who wasn’t there!
He wasn’t there again today,
Oh how I wish he’d go away!”
When I came home last night at three,
The man was waiting there for me
But when I looked around the hall,
I couldn’t see him there at all!
Go away, go away, don’t you come back any more!
Go away, go away, and please don’t slam the door…
Last night I saw upon the stair,
A little man who wasn’t there,
He wasn’t there again today
Oh, how I wish he’d go away…
© William Hughes Mearns
Canon Sure Shot Z135 & Ilford HP5+. Ilfotec DD-X 1+4 9mins @ 20°
Taken on 7 September 2022
Steel City Snapper photography 