A couple of pictures of hand-made hassocks on the wooden pews within St. Martin’s church in Stoney Middleton.
Yashica Mat 124G & Kodak Tri-X. Ilfotec DD-X 1+4 8mins @ 20°
Taken on 9 March 2024
Hassocks
Tag: TLR
St. Martin’s Church, Stoney Middleton
This church featured in the second part of my Eyam to Stoney Middleton hiking post a couple of days ago, the picture shot with my Olympus XA-3. The pictures today were taken with my Yashica Mat 124G.
Yashica Mat 124G & Kodak Tri-X. Ilfotec DD-X 1+4 8mins @ 20°
Taken on 9 March 2024
Flood control
The Woodhouse Mill regulator stands at the northern end of Woodhouse Washlands beside the B6200 Retford Road. It has been there for as long as I remember – unsurprising as it was commissioned a decade before I was born!
Although I know it has been used on many occasions, causing the expected flooding of the washlands, I’ve never actually seen it in use.
Yashica Mat 124G & Kodak Tri-X. Ilfotec DD-X 1+4 8mins @ 20°
Taken on 3 March 2024
Raised manhole
There are a number of these raised manhole covers to be found on Woodhouse Washlands. They stand, like strange tumuli atop their mounds of grassy earth.
I expect they are raised to prevent them from flooding if the washland is submerged when the river is high as they probable provide access to sewage pipes – there is a sewage treatment works at the northern edge of the wetlands, just across the B6200 road that marks the boundary.
Yashica Mat 124G & Kodak Tri-X. Ilfotec DD-X 1+4 8mins @ 20°
Taken on 3 March 2024
Washlands when wet
One of the interesting features about Woodhouse Washlands is how it can change noticeable when flooded. As it’s a floodplain (with a flood barrier at the northern end to boot), this is to be expected and, to be honest, it becomes somewhat challenging to navigate without getting wet and muddy in these circumstances. It does allow for different photographs to be found though. What were previously just grassy fields, now become ponds.
Yashica Mat 124G & Kodak Tri-X. Ilfotec DD-X 1+4 8mins @ 20°
Taken on 3 March 2024
Like a monkey with a miniature cymbal
As the Hot Chip song goes, “Over and over and over and over. Like a monkey with a miniature cymbal. The joy of repetition really is in you.“, so it seems that I photograph the same things over and over too. The flyover at the southern end of Woodhouse Washlands is one such subject. It is an interesting subject, I think, and I don’t think I’ve exhausted it yet, but I wonder if there is a limit on how many times I can photograph it before the repetition becomes too much?
Yashica Mat 124G & Kodak Tri-X. Ilfotec DD-X 1+4 8mins @ 20°
Taken on 3 March 2024
Handshake
What, at first glance, looks like a muddy obstacle when out for a walk, might also be seen as two figures shaking hands. On what, who knows? Giving me wet feet probably.
Yashica Mat 124G & Kodak Tri-X. Ilfotec DD-X 1+4 8mins @ 20°
Taken on 3 March 2024
Ticky Tacky
Little boxes, on a hillside, made of it.
Yashica Mat 124G & Kodak Tri-X. Ilfotec DD-X 1+4 8mins @ 20°
Taken on 11 February 2024
In between
The same subject as yesterday’s picture, just with a different composition. I prefer this one.
Yashica Mat 124G & Kodak Tri-X. Ilfotec DD-X 1+4 8mins @ 20°
Taken on 11 February 2024
Parent and child
Can you anthropomorphise electricity transmission poles? Why yes, yes you can.
Yashica Mat 124G & Kodak Tri-X. Ilfotec DD-X 1+4 8mins @ 20°
Taken on 11 February 2024
Steel City Snapper photography 