Hidden places: Bradford 5. Contax AX, Vivitar 19mm

This is not so much a Bradford hidden place as a ‘hidden view’. On this superwide (Vivitar 19mm f/3.8) view at screen resolution the detail in the city centre is perhaps not very… Continue reading →

Baby Belle – Olympus OM4 and Contax AX

I’ve taken a lot of family ‘snapshots’ over the years but photographs of people have never figured much in the more serious side of my photography hobby. Recently, mainly as a result of… Continue reading →

Darkroom coming? – maybe, with a giant Durst D659 in the wardrobe!

I’ve commented before on this blog that although I really like the blogging, and digitising my images is necessary for that, I’d really like to get back to making ‘wet prints’ but had… Continue reading →

Hidden Places: Bradford 4 – Contax AX, Vivitar 19mm f/3.8, Fuji Superia 200

This one is much more obviously ‘in view’ than the previous two, but you have to be in the right place to see it. I don’t know what function it has, if any,… Continue reading →

Urban bee – Contax AX, Yashica 55mm f/3.5 macro, Superia 200

A lovely countryside scene, isn’t it? No. It is in Halford’s car park in the centre of the city of Bradford. An urban bee. For non-British readers I should explain that Halford’s is… Continue reading →

Hidden Bradford 3 – Contax AX, Vivitar 19mm f/3.8, Fuji Superia 200

Here’s a flight of steps going nowhere, or so it seems. Again a great number of people pass along a major road within yards of where I was standing when I took the… Continue reading →

In praise of buttercup

Like the dandelion, which gilded the fields here a month ago, the buttercup frustrates many gardeners as it invades their lawns. There are a lot of frustrated gardeners around here just now! I… Continue reading →

May was a little late this year

We usually see the hawthorn in blossom in late April or May. So the popular name for the blossom is May. This year we didn’t see it until June. But when she came,… Continue reading →

Weekly Photo Challenge: CURVES

Menston, Wharfedale (in the Metropolitan District of Bradford), West Yorkshire, UK. Olympus OM1, Zuiko 28mm f/2.8. Kodak B&W400 C-41 film.