Steel City Snapper photography blog
Medium format and 35mm film photography from an amateur snapper.
This one’s a bit of a random re-scan – after I finished re-scanning the Agfa CT Precisa slides, I scanned a single frame of Superia 100 – mostly because I’d not done anything with this shot before. So here it is.
I’ll hopefully have a bunch of new stuff to go through this week once Easter has passed and the labs are open again.
Nikon F70, Nikkor 50mm f/1.8 AF-D & Fuji Superia 100 (expired 2007).
Taken on 17 October 2017
My slide re-scanning has continued again today. Here’s a double-helping of churches from the roll (there’re a couple more on the roll too, but they’ve either not been post-processed yet, or I’ve already posted them here when I did the original flatbed scans).
The first is St. Michael’s and All Angels church at Brodsworth (this was taken from the grounds of Brodsworth Hall – there’s a gate into the churchyard, but I don’t think it’s accessible for visitors to the hall).
The second is St. Mary’s church at Boston Spa and is another phot I took after visiting the camera fair.
Nikon F70, Nikkor 28-80mm f/3.5 – 5.6 AF-D & Agfa CT Precisa.
Taken on 15 October 2017
Another re-scan of an Agfa CT-Precisa slide. This one taken in the grounds of Brodsworth Hall.
Nikon F70, Nikkor 28-80mm f/3.5 – 5.6 AF-D & Agfa CT Precisa.
Taken on 15 October 2017
A photo that’s around 18-months old now at the time of posting. It was taken at Boston Spa in North Yorkshire. They have a camera fair there several times a year, and I’d decided to visit. The morning was lovely and crispy, as the best autumn mornings are, and the light was lovely. This was my first (and so far only) roll of slide film, although that will change when I get around to shooting the roll of Ektachrome that is waiting patiently in the fridge.
Nikon F70, Nikkor 28-80mm f/3.5 – 5.6 AF-D & Agfa CT Precisa.
Taken on 15 October 2017
This shot was taken not too far from the S1 Artspace building which had an exhibition last year entitled “Love among the ruins” which was a collection of photographs taken of people going about their lives in the Park Hill Flats complex in the 60s, 70s & 80s, so the title of today’s shot is a spin on that.
This shot isn’t linked otherwise, but sometimes a weed growing out of a crack in some concrete steps makes for a pleasing photograph.
Nikon F70, Nikkor 50mm f/1.8 AF-D & Klick XD200 (expired in 2001).
Taken on 16 March 2019
The refurbishment of another section of Park Hill flats is underway and the block in question is cocooned in scaffolding and yellow netting.
This was taken on a roll of 2001 expired Klick XD200 film that I was shooting for this year’s Expired Film Day. Due to the age of the film, I overexposed it a couple of stops. It’s not come out too badly though – a little extra noise and a slight pink cast are the only real signs of its age.
Nikon F70, Nikkor 50mm f/1.8 AF-D & Klick XD200 (expired in 2001).
Taken on 16 March 2019
We had to say goodbye to our cat, Luigi, last night. He was 19 years old, so had enjoyed a pretty long life for a moggy, but his health had been failing over recent years. He was pretty much totally blind and deaf, and was diagnosed with chronic kidney failure last year. He’s been on a special renal diet and daily blood pressure medication for the past few months but over recent weeks had started to lose a lot of weight and suffer from stomach upsets.
We took him to the vets yesterday probably expecting the worse, but also hoping for the best, but the diagnosis was that he had contracted a secondary digestive illness, possibly IBS or lymphoma. While steroids can be given to help relieve these, this isn’t possible for a cat with renal problems, so there was nothing to be done.
We love him very much, but didn’t want him to suffer, so agreed with the vet that it was time to say goodbye.
Farewell old buddy, we have so many happy memories of you. You were loved and will be missed so very much. 😦
Nikon F70, Nikkor 28-80mm f/3.5-5.6 D & Kodak Tmax P3200.
Taken January 2019
