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Lord Line Buildings Hull
The Lord Line building opened in 1949 and was a major part of Hull’s fishing industry. Sadly up to the 80’s, thousands of fishermen lost their lives at sea. The Lord Line buildings demise began in 1975 when the dock closed and became completely derelict in the 90’s. Several fires have damaged parts of the […]
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Vivitar 400mm
5 years after my last post I’ve decided its time for a new start and a new theme. I’ve been playing with a Canon Eos M for a while, the ability to adapt to FD lenses appealed to me, this is just a couple of shots from that setup. A bit of cropping and resizing […]
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Low Mill Keighley
The only “surviving” part of this mill, it’s in a poor state of repair. Access is straightforward, even inside; however there is evidence of people living inside so I didn’t venture too far in I was very interested in the remains of the sluice gate and could have easily wasted a roll or more just […]
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Prospect Mill, Thornton, Bradford
Another mill I pass often in Bradford is Prospect Mill Damaged by fire and closed in 2011, it was already in a pretty poor state by then, as Google Maps from 2009 shows. Access was straightforward, past a row of terraced houses and into an open yard, with access all the way round HISTORY The site […]
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CineVision Film
Movie film in still cameras seems to be a bit of a “thing” these days, and like a lot of these “things” I wanted to try it. The first problem is the reel size, they are usually 400ft or 1000ft, quite a lot to squash into 35mm cans The second problem is the Remjet anti […]
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Sliding into Polaroid addiction
It all started innocently enough, I called in at a local second hand shop that sometimes has half decent photography bits, while buying a genuine Canon Speedlite for my EOS3 I spotted a very 80’s Polaroid It was in fact a Polaroid Supercolor 635CL, complete with 80’s rainbow stripe, unable to resist I paid the […]
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Italian towers, abandoned building and more…….In Leeds
With Tower works in the news recently I decided to take a look, with a camera of course (From Wikipedia) Tower Works is a former factory notable for its three listed towers. It is located on Globe Road in Holbeck, Leeds, West Yorkshire, next to the Leeds and Liverpool Canal. The Italianate towers of the […]
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Film Acceleration
This is a process I stumbled on by accident, apparently often used on old film that someone wants to recover, ive been feeling experimental lately, with the monobath (coming soon) and this idea I’ve also seen it claimed to be an “extreme” cross processing technique when use on E6 slide film, whereby the film is […]
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Russian Invasion part 1. Kiev 60
My parcel of Russian cameras finally arrived, after being kicked and battered around customs in various countries for several weeks, I will be using each one and posting a bit about it here. Not a review as such, just a few of my thoughts. First up is the Kiev 60, medium format SLR in a […]
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Another graveyard, Another mill….
I seem drawn to these places, usually when I have a camera in my hand An old mill in Batley, West Yorkshire, and a very well kept graveyard over the road from each other I will need to go back to the mill for another look around, was a bit busy when I went T-Max100 […]
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