Live Eels

Here's another Minox film scan. Quality from this old black and white film is a bit hit and miss but there's nothing like film. This picture must have been sitting waiting to be developed for about four years. I'm sure the Live Eels have passed on by now...

Back from the Dead

If you go back to the very first post I made on this blog you'll notice a picture of the digital minox sitting alongside the beautiful original Minox iii from the 1950s. Well this camera hasn't been used for years, mainly due to the difficulty of getting film developed and the cost involved when it has been possible. Luckily, minox themselves have continued to sell film in their own format so what we might call 'Minoxing the analogue way' has been able to continue in this instant world.

Anyway, I caught wind of a brave company in Burnley who have a passion for all things film and heard that they were prepared to have a go at Minox film. I found this hard to believe, as even when minox were relatively popular I still had to send films to Germany for development and tiny, fuzzy prints. So i sent off my two ancient films and waited for development and scans to cd to arrive, which they did today! I'm going to be posting a few of these as they are indeed 'digital' just in a slightly more roundabout and filmic way.

Audrey x2

Had a daytrip to Cardiff this week as I had a few days off work. Never been there before (apart from to the station for work) We were only there for a few hours and had a brief walk around the shops and the lovely Victorian arcades. Sight of the day was a massive Audrey Tautou draped over the front of House of Fraser. I had to be forcibly removed...

Gap

New year and no updates for ages. Still using the Minox but the weather has been terrible for ages and photo opportunities have been few and far between. This, by the way is not the entrance to a branch of the American t shirt franchise.

NRM

I've been visiting Yorkshire regularly for about twenty years. What started as an annual visit to Headingley for the test match has now developed to the occasional out of cricket season trip to see a bit more of the county and to sample a few new pubs.

One thing I've always fancied doing was visiting the National Railway Museum in York. Everyone I know who has been there says it's a great day out whether you're interested in trains or not. For one reason or another it's taken this long for us to get there but this year we took the train from Menston into Leeds and from there to York.

The museum is indeed a great attraction and it's free to get into! After a very long walk around and a decent lunch surrounded by retired choo-choos we left vowing to not leave it another twenty years before we return.

Yoghurt Weaving in Hebden Bridge

On one of our days in Yorkshire we paid a visit to the scenic town of Hebden Bridge. We were told that it's a popular tourist destination and that it's a favourite haunt of hippies and artists. Now, coming as I do from Devon we have the hippie mecca of Totnes, known as two square miles surrounded by reality. Hebden Bridge turned out to be something of a disappointment on the cheesecloth front but very good for nick-nack boutiques!

Up the Junction

Well it's been a while since my last post and it's a while since I picked up the Minox Dsc. I'm on a couple of weeks leave from work and have just had a few days in Yorkshire staying with an old college friend. He lives in a town a few miles from Leeds in a very scenic part of the country. Luckily the area is blessed with excellent beer and many great pubs, the best of which is The Junction in Otley. This is an unpretentious no food sort of place which is normally packed with all ages and types. They have live music, but unfortunately I didn't get to see my favourite crazy dancing Cajun performer this time round. He does a sort of David Byrne style running on the spot dance while singing his cajun/zydeco ditties but performed here a couple of weeks before my holiday.
Anyway, a few pints of Timothy Taylor in The Junction is a great way to spend an evening and is a fine end to a day spent exploring new places in Yorkshire. Here's a snap of the pub, nothing much to look at photographically or architecturally but there are more Yorkshire pics to come!