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Post Nuclear

Seems like all the security goons are keeping tabs on olympic “targets”. My collar was not felt here at this decommissioning nuclear installation.

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Funny thing was I forgot to focus. So all things considered…

I’m slightly fascinated by it and haven’t yet got round to developing a couple of rolls of 120 6×9 film I took last year with the x100′s proper grown up sister camera, the GW690III. I didn’t get hassled then either so perhaps nobody cares.

It is the incongruity of the location that is interesting, though thinking about it, some of these nuclear power stations are in drop dead lovely locations like Dungeness. Another oddness is its size. Really small. The others I have seen have been huge fuck-off installations that look like what they are. You can hear them humming and buzzing from several kilometres away. Not this one.

Nice sky too.

Camera
Fuji X100, auto ISO, manual focus

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doclorraine17 May, 2012 - 23:04

and yet, van Gogh like, there is a hint of menace in those storm clouds darkly at top left

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Foodbank Britain

Nothing says austerity more than food parcels for people on low income. Not just people on no income, they now have more clients in work who are paid too little to afford the food bills.

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Voluntary work

In a crumbling Victorian church hall this volunteer is packing food parcels. It is tempting to process the photo in a faux-Dickensian way but it would be wrong to do so. Despite ticking all the boxes, this is not the 1870′s. It is the reality for many people in May 2012, the year the UK is spending billions of pounds on the Olympics and The Queen’s jubilee.

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Raw data

The year on year increase is obvious from this whiteboard.

The full story can be found at katebelgrave.com

 

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Green Water

Got lots of photos with people, but I can’t publish them yet. So I’ve been photographing trees again…

There are lots of trees around here. And water.

After blue water, red water, now we have green water. The water would be green if you could see in colour… Trust me, I’m a photographer.

Nice sense of the primordial soup here.

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Camera
Ricoh GXR, A12 M Mount, CV Super Wide Heliar 15/4.5, auto ISO 200-1600,  f11

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Slingshot

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Camera
Ricoh GXR, A12 M Mount, CV Super Wide Heliar 15/4.5, auto ISO 200-1600,  f11

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Maciej8 April, 2012 - 10:28

That’s a perfect shot! I wish I could learn to use wideangle lenses like that. Very inspiring!

skinnyvoice8 April, 2012 - 18:52

Thanks! Appreciated

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Post Industrial

Views over Ellesmere Port, Runcorn and Liverpool at dusk. Not sure which is which.

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It is strange walking through dark woods to the top of the hill (Woodhouse Hill?) and suddenly being filled with this view.

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100% crop from above

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I think it was worth lugging the tripod up there. Despite it looking like I was armed with a Kalashnikov in the dusk.

Or hunting rabbits with The Dog.

Camera
Ricoh GXR, A12 M Mount, Leitz Summicron 90/2, ISO 200, tripod, between 1/2 – 8 seconds exposure, f11 – f16. Zero noise reduction in camera (and none post)

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