Continuing the occasional series featuring my eclectic collection of cameras, here’s the
This fascinating little camera came into my possession when some of the remaining possessions of my wife’s late grandfather Sam Scott were being sorted through, quite a while after his death.
Continue reading The ‘Jiffy Kodak’ Vintage CameraA Ballymacarrett icon, St Patrick’s Church on the Newtownards Road, with one of the Harland & Wolff cranes in the background.
Photographed on film with the Nikon FM3a classic camera.
On Wednesday 27th October (It’s 2023) the good citizens of Norn Iron were introduced to Big Aggie, or, more formally, Storm Agnes, the remnants of a gale blowing across the Atlantic, or somewhere! We were, apparently, spared the worst of it; that privilege was granted, so they say, to the people of the south west of England, but we did have lashing rain and some wind. Anyway, I was in Comber that day, with the Fujifilm X-T30 resting in the car seat beside me, and I had the photo-itch. (You know that urge you get to make a photo of something – anything…) but there was no way I was getting out of the car in THAT rain.
So, I was looking something, something that would appeal to me as an image, that I could shoot from the comfort of the driver’s seat! (Yes, I know, a total lack of dedication.. A REAL photographer would stand in the rain, la de da de da…)
I was to meet someone in Killinchy Street, – and I just happened to park opposite this…
I lifted the camera, and – there it is! My photo-itch was scratched! Later, on Flickr, the image was elevated to ‘explore’ status, – something I was really chuffed about!
Hornby’s ‘SMOKEY JOE’ locomotive. Introduced by Hornby in 1983, this OO Gauge model represents the small shunters in the The Caledonian Railway 264 class. They were 0-4-0 saddle tank locomotives designed by Dugald Drummond and built by Neilson and Company in 1885, later built at St Rollox Works, up to 1902. I’ve owned this one for a long number of years, probably around 30 years or more.
I photographed it under studio lighting (2 Elinchrom heads) with the Fujifilm X-T3. Post-capture RAW conversion in Photoshop.
Lough Erne, Co.Fermanagh
Photographed with the Nikon FM3a Film Camera, on Ilford HP5 ISO 400.
It could be Rotterdam, or anywhere, Liverpool or Rome – another bland stereotypical modern, soulless shopping mall.
The famous Belleek Pottery, in Co.Fermanagh, Northern Ireland. Photographed with a Fujifilm X-T30 on Acros film simulation mode, with (digital) red filter added in-camera.
X-T30, F=18mm, f/6.4 @ 1/160th sec on ISO100
Continue reading Belleek PotteryThe Diamond, Enniskillen, Co.Fermanagh. Photographed with a Fujifilm X-T30, on Acros film simulation with red filter.
Our Lady of the Assumption RC Church – a striking modern building situated on Downs Road, Newcastle, Co.Down.
Photographed with a Fujifilm X-T4 F=35mm, f/9 @ 1/125th sec on ISO400
The long closed Glarryford Station on the NIR line between Cullybackey and Ballymoney. The station was opened on 1st July 1856 by the then Ballymena, Ballymoney, Coleraine and Portrush Junction Railway, and was in operation until it was closed 2 July 1973.
Photographed with the Nikon FG20 on Ilford HP5
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