Shore Road II
Another image from Shore Road, Hythe – this time looking over the mud-flats down towards the nearby Fawley Oil Refinery. Leica M7 with Zeiss C-Sonnar 50mm and lots of photoshop patching.
Shore Road
View towards Weston (Southampton) from Shore Road, Hythe. Taken just before sunset with the Leica M7 and Zeiss C-Sonnar 50mm f1.5 and a very very expired Fuji colour film. The vignetting and blur that you see here are characteristics from using the Sonnar wide-open. Mouse-over to see the impeccable scratches added by Fotoprix when processing the negatives… painfully cloned-out with partial success using photoshop. As if the scratches were not enough, I also hit problems using our Wacom tablet with photoshop. Pen-up events were not being recognised, causing all manner of mouse/tablet control chaos. This […]
Sofia X
To finish the sequence, a shot of the NDK.
Sofia IX
Building work around the fountains in front of the NDK, Sofia, Bulgaria.
Sofia VIII
Sofia VII
New buildings under construction in the centre of Sofia, Bulgaria.
Sofia VI
Everywhere McDonalds signs. Sofia, Bulgaria.
Sofia V
I really liked the juxtaposition of the child and bicycle with the controversial communist era monuments and NDK.
Sofia IV
Storm channel, Sofia, Bulgaria.
Sofia III
Peep show, cats and cleaning in Sofia, Bulgaria.
Sofia II
Leica M7, Zeiss ZM 2/35 and Ilford HP5+. And a very wet morning.
Sofia I
While running around to try to repair the camera, I have been catching up with the scanning and processing of some sets of photographs taken at the end of last year. This is the first of a short sequence of black-and-white film (HP5+) images, taken just before Christmas in Sofia, Bulgaria. This was a working trip, and something of a disaster photographically. One mis-loaded film meant loosing most of a day of images (grumble grumble superior Leica engineering…), while the second film was partly destroyed after opening the camera before rewinding the […]
Hotel Relicario
To finish off the sequence “Relics”, some photographs and information about the hotel and surrounding area where the pictures were taken. Unusually, we have a mix of colour, black-and-white, digital and film images all shown together – reflecting the diverse photographic subject matter in this area. The Hotel Relicário is a strange place. The lasting impression is of a mountain refuge crossed with an antiques museum. It is one of the most unique places that we have ever visited, and one of the few that we would without reservation (or possibly with) return […]
Relics XII: Exit
The last in the series. Leica M7 with Zeiss 2/35 and Ilford HP5+. For the terminally curious, the remainder of the series of candidate images for this sequence are here: Tomorrow, back to some colour photography…
Relics XI
Leica M7 with Zeiss 2/35 and Ilford HP5+.
Relics X
Old wooden desk. The building is in quite bad condition here, with sections of the roof having collapsed. Leica M7 with Zeiss 2/35 and Ilford HP5+.
Transient Eye 