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Outside the Winter Gardens

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I think I kinda take the Winter Gardens for granted somewhat. I don’t go in there all that often – often using it as a short-cut rather than a destination – but it’s a really nice space. Not only is there the large wood-framed glasshouse full of tropical plants, but off-shot from the main structure are the Millennium Galleries, which have a mixture of permanent and temporary exhibitions, often very interesting.

If I still worked in the city centre then I’d visit it more often.

Outside the Winter Gardens
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Fujica STX-1 & X-Fujinon 50mm f/1.9 FM on Agfa APX 100. Ilfotec DD-X 1+4 10.5mins @ 20°.

Taken on 12 September 2025

35mm · Film photography · Photography

Winner winner salad spinner

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A few weeks ago I wrote about how I’d bought a salad spinner as a means to remove excess liquid from my negatives before hanging them to dry. At that time I’d only tried it with a single roll of 120 film (and not scanned them at the time of writing). I’ve now developed and spun three rolls using this method and it’s been a resounding success so far. Today was the first roll of 135 film I’ve used the spinner to dry and it looks to have worked really well too – 135 film was where most of my issues occurred and I rarely got noticeable water marks on 120 film (that I could see, at least).

Today’s picture was shot in the Winter Gardens in Sheffield city centre. The table football game hasn’t been there when I’ve walked through on previous occasions, but it has been a while. It made for a nice photo though and I really like the airily lit upper part of the image. Colorplus is a surprisingly nice film, despite it’s ‘consumer’ status.

Table football

Olympus Trip 35 & Kodak Colorplus. Lab developed. Home scanned and converted with Negative Lab Pro.

Taken on 23 September 2022.