Matt

@matt303.bsky.social

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Technology curmudgeon with a background in electronics, software and video game development. Mostly posting about photography (film and digital), synths, making things or random thoughts.

Conical concrete weather shelters with benches inside set in a curve, they are in a depression just back from the sea front, the outside was dark blue and the inside white.
A view across the Sett Valley, in the lower foreground slightly blurred grass and across the valley green fields and clumps of trees, sandstone cottages group together in a patch of bright sunlight. Shot on Harman Phoenix II which makes blues and greens really pop.
The side of an old stone church (13th century) is highlighted by the midday sun while the grass and some gravestones are still in the shade giving a dream like light to the scene. The image is black and white and shot on film.
White modular panels with dark windows make up the upper floor of this swimming pool building, to the right is a brick and black painted steel staircase, the sky is a very saturated blue.
A side on black and white film photograph of a Dutch barge moored on the river Soar, the bow is to the left, behind the bow is a weeping willow tree.
A JCB Telehandler viewed via two of the very big culverts they are including in the roadway for the new Walton-on-Trent bridge, the bridge is quite slim concrete with temporary barriers on the top, in the foreground is some dry long grass. The photo is black and white film.
Mill's Boatyard, a pristine black wooden building with a tin roof and white window and door frames sits behind a couple of moored narrow boats, one of which has someone working on it.
The entrance to a library with split staircase with PAX above the left and LUX above the right. In the middle above the door is another mosaic of a woman holding a torch in one hand and a bible in the other.
A single detached house sits on the A38 dual carriageway near Burton-upon-Trent, it's nearest neighbour being a massive distribution centre, in the foreground are some railway lines.
A black and white photo of a repurposed building in Leeds called The Electric Press which is an old printing press. The chimney towers over the brick building and has The Electric Press painted in white capital letters on all sides.
Someone walks in front of a tree planted behind a low stone wall on an inner city street in Leeds, the only backdrop to the tree is security fencing, a wooden building site wall in white and white scaffold sheeting that covers the entire hospital wing. The image is black and white and was shot using digital on a bit of a flat light day.
The Pinnacle building Leeds a 18(?) story building that's almost monochromatic, taken from street level looking up with a featureless blown out white sky.
A colour photo of the back of a sea wall from the path with two and a half painted on the wall and the chamfer in bright yellow paint, behind the wall is a sandbank with green sea grass poking out and the clear blue sky with just the faintest white clouds to the right of center
Looking up at some terraced housing from the under a bridge arch in the gully cut by the River Goyt. The image is square and framed by the brickwork arch, a trail leads towards a cliff and some trees, above this is a row of houses on steep road that are just viable. The image is black and white with the blues reduced during conversion to mimic an orange filter if it was film.
Looking from behind a bench with ferns in front of it but with a view over the a valley in the Peak District, small dry stone walled fields, occasional cottages and trees pepper the scene. The image is black and white and the effect of an orange filter has been simulated buy darking blue and cyan in the conversion.
Looking up at the tree tops from a trail, some branches are dark and shaded, others in the sun almost glow. Image is in portrait and shot on black and white film.
A close up of a headlight cluster on a 50's American car, the image is portrait and black and white. The headlight has two headlamps and two lower lights separated by a grid of chromed metal that runs the full width of the grill.
A black and white photo of a 60s/70s Minolta AL-F range finder camera on a gridded section of a cutting mat.
An about 6 story office block of light coloured cladding between darker vertical strips where the windows are, the lower floor is made of darker concrete. To the lower right is an empty parking area with short poles set along the edge which in black and white look like they have a white middle section.
A square black and white photo of some brick buildings that are towered over by the cylindrical vats at the Coors brewery, each vat is metal and has vertical ribs.
A purposely grimy looking American pickup at a car show, it's packed on grass, tow people look on from behind the car which is a light shade in this black and white photo
A Minolta AL-F rangefinder camera sitting on a desk, it's your classic 60's compact film camera with the range finder on the left and a fixed lens, the top bottom and lens are silver with a band of black leatherette around the body.
A portrait shot of a bridge over a canal with people standing to the right of it on the towpath, the photo is taken from some woodland above the canal so only the far towpath is visible due to plants. The bridge is made of metal with 4 supports that meet at a point above the centre of the bridge. The image is black and white and was shot on film
The front drivers side corner of a big 50's American car painted to advertise the 1950's American diner and placed upon a shipping container painted as a desert. Image was shot on B&W film.
A footpath crosses a stream on a bridge made from two long planks on top of two telephone poles with a railing down one side, there's been a bridge here for as long as I can remember. The photo is black and white and shot on film towards the sun giving it a mix of contrast and some bloom where the brightness causes halation.
Tall daises and other wild flowers fill the lower half of the frame while in the distance a wheat field leads up to some woods. Image is black and white
Side on view of an excavator parked up on a building site taken through a gap in a hedge, the image is black and white
The cab of a decaying truck, at some point it's been painted blue and then red over the top of that, the paint is peeling. The wing mirror has almost rotted away and the front of the cab has a tarpaulin on it and the dead remains of some ivy.
Some orange poppies among black painted railings
A cyanotype of the Assembly Rooms photo I posted a couple of days ago, cyanotypes are like black and white where the black is Prussian Blue.
Looking up at a concrete modernist building with the sky behind it, to the left of the image is a lamppost with lighting and security cameras almost silhouetted against the sky. Image is from a black and while film photograph
Rectangular bolts of cloth are illuminated by light from a skylight while the rest of the rack is relatively dark. Image is shot on black and white film.
A 24 exposure black and while film hanging up in a shower to dry
A colour film photo of a dilapidated red phone box with most of its glass missing in front of a tall brick wall with decorative recesses, to the left of the phone box is a black bin and to the right a parking times sign. The scene is harshly lit from the side and has given the image a slightly washed out look.
An old telephone box sits next to a stone cottage on a gravel driveway but rather than home a telephone it contains hundreds of DVDs for guests of the cottages to watch, its paint is flaky. Photo is black and white.
A black and white portrait photograph of the right had side of a metal gate, the gatepost is a thick trunk with a sign wedge behind a large rusty bolt that says LON BREIFAT - PRIVATE ROAD and BACH WEN, below that is a length of rope wrapped around the post and a Private Property sign. Behind the gate is a grassy bank and in the distance at the top a glamping pod can be seen.
The brick and concrete office block fills the left of the image to the right lower corner is the top corner of a concrete building where the exposed parts of the structural beams have been painted in LGBT rainbow colours. I was going to name the venue but on the Google search to find building's name it was obvious from the reviews it's not a nice place anymore so I left the name off this post.
A rock covered beach curves around the left side of the image, the tide is half out, there is a slight haze in the air but it's otherwise sunny, a solo kayaker is paddling out to sea on the right hand side of the image. The photo was shot on black and white film.
A rock covered beach curves around the left side of the image, the tide is out, there is mist in the air and the hills and mountains in the background are faint shadows in the sky. Being a misty and dull day the black and white film grain is clearly visible.
The shadows of two people cast onto a rocky beach from the top of some steps in a v of bight light.
A brown concrete building in shade dominates the left front of the images and to the right are the tops of two tower blocks clad in white and grey, the background to this is a blue sky with wispy clouds.
Looking down on some cottages on at the bottom of a shallow cliff, the sea is to the left and the coast arcs around back towards the left in the distance but fades in to the morning sea haze. Image is black and white.
A singular early purple flower in one of the pots in the garden with its background in shadow.
A small dumper truck with a very square cab with a missing window sits in some undergrowth at a waste processing company.
A path between a wooded area and a metal fence, the sun is low and the stripy shadow from the fence is the same width as the path.
Aged concrete with some tagging and railings make up a motorway bridge, there the wall meets the bridge deck grass attempts to make a home. There is a solid white painted section which a number of local bridges seem to have. The sun is from behind and the shadow if leafless branches plays across the frame.
A photo of a church and war memorial, the memorial is in the foreground to the right and the base is covered in reefs of poppies and the memorial is surrounded by daffodils that have come into flower.
Two tall windows in a brick wall of a chapel, between them a down pipe from the guttering runs, the brickwork is darker near the pipe, towards the top of the pipe a Buddleja is growing out of the brickwork.
A very trodden snow covered path cuts between bare trees and bushes. Image is black and white
Looking up at Grace Dieu Railway Viaduct, the light through the trees is painting on the brickwork in the arches. Image is in black and white.
A tabby cat sleeping on an orange and grey bed with some back lighting from a window highlighting her fur, there is a short depth of field and the film gives it a slightly dreamy feeling.
A double window set into a rectangular panelled wall where the panels where a sort of grey/green colour iirc, photo is in black and white film.
The side of Melbourne Hall with a circular driveway and glass entrance between two wings, the photo is in black and white
Looking back towards Leicester at Freemen's Meadow Lock, the photo is black and white, power lines run across the sky above the lock.
A very orange sun reflects of a still Irish Sea before vanishing behind a bank of sea mist.
A black and white photo with in the foreground to the left a circular building with five floors, to the right there is an old hotel and poking over the top a tower block.
A black and white photo with to the right the Art Gallery building at DMU with it's metal slats to shade the inner glass building almost black against the sky.
A single roof support with 4 spans hold up a rood with a octagonal hole above it, shot on black and white
Street art of someone taking a photo with a BT equipment box painted to match with the word smile on it
A Tattoo parlour in Derby, the red woodwork above and below the curved window fades into the black surround, the curved window facing the camera has the word TATTOO down it, there are small lights strung from the ceiling and the window is frosted or misty.