I was going to announce a major up-dating and restructuring of the Blog, but the chances are that I will get fed up with these changes in a few days and revert back to the old approach. So we will let the changes - if there any - slowly emerge.
I must have taken this photograph back in the 1980s and I suspect it is somewhere in South Yorkshire - probably Sheffield. It was a time when I didn't have a darkroom and I tended to develop my monochrome films and leave them unprinted in the belief that there would be a right time to return to them in the future when life was less stressful and the possibility of a functioning darkroom would be more attainable. So here we are, 30 years later and time is more plentiful and darkrooms are no longer necessary. Through luck rather than intention I managed to capture a strange collection of dog-in-a-hurry, newspaper-reading child and dangerously leaning sign-post. I think it was worth waiting for.
I agree. :)
ReplyDeleteI'm thinking of all the reasons a child would be in the road, hunched over a newspaper.
ReplyDeleteThat thought crossed my mind as well. Checking the football results perhaps!
DeleteEnigmatic! How do you capture the digital image?
ReplyDeleteA specialist scanner which can scan negatives and slides and then repairs via Photoshop. Next time you pass through Huddersfield give me a shout and I will give you a demonstration
Delete...and all three of them are completely oblivious of each other.t
ReplyDeleteI can't help but feel that it is the signpost that is aware of its surroundings in that timeless way all signposts are.
DeleteExcellent! Looks like a still from a very intellectual foreign film.
ReplyDeleteIt was certainly still and it was taken on 35mm stock therefore I suppose it could qualify as film .... Ah well, two out of three ain't bad!
DeleteI wouldn't have guessed 1980s had you not told us, I think the grainy B&W makes it look as if it could be older. Are the buildings still there? (I'm assuming the child and dog have moved ;)).
ReplyDeleteNot sure if the buildings are still there. I have a vague memory of where I think I took it but I will need to go exploring to check.
DeleteWhat a beautiful picture. The composition of light and shadow just fill my eyes.
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