Street Photography – Cardiff Streets 3

All taken with an Olympus OM-1 on Fomapan Classic 100 with either 50mm Olympus OM Auto Zuiko or Vivitar 28mm lens.

28mm, f8, 1/250th sec. I like the contrast of the black wall and bright sunlit street.

Vespa

A Summer’s day, people enjoying the sunshine, the seagulls thankfully not mobbing you for the ice cream in your hand, and then stumbling across this, cool, classic styling in a small package, parked up in a picturesque location. Personally I’m not a huge fan of Vespa’s, not a scooter person me, but you’ve got to appreciate the Italian’s making a thing of beauty such as this.

Street Photography – Cardiff Streets 2

Taken using an Olympus OM-1 and either 28mm Vivitar 1:2.8 or 50mm Olympus Auto Zuiko 1:1.8 lens on Fomapan Classic 100 film.

Woman stood talking on her phone beneath this massive structure outside the Central Library. f8 1/250th sec.

Street Photography – Cardiff Streets

All shots taken with my Olympus OM-1 on Fomapan Classic 100 monochrome film using either 50mm Auto Zuiko or 28mm Vivitar Lens.

f8 1/125th sec 50mm. An elderly man, staring, perhaps with confusion, at his smartphone and alone in a churchyard bathed in light.

Lobster Pots

I called this shot “Lobster Pots” but now I think about it they’re probably used for catching crab, after all I’ve never heard of Cornish Lobster but I’m sure Cornish Crab is a thing, right?

Welsh Cliffs

All the following are taken with my Nikon FM, 28mm lens and on Agfa Vista Plus, I love this place, it’s a perfect example of why I love living in Wales, desolate and empty but beautiful landscapes are barely a 40 minute drive away. Greenery, roaring waves, ruined buildings reclaimed by nature and lonely fencing the only signs of mankind, senses overloaded by nature all around. It’s all very dramatic.

f8 1/100th sec.

Harbour Wall

Staring out to sea, St Ives, Cornwall. Nikon FM, 28mm, Agfa Vista Plus 200 f11 1/500th sec.

Guitar

Stumbled across this while walking a path through the woods back from the beach, an odd find, resting up against a tree, partly destroyed.

Lighthouse

A couple of images of the lighthouse that stands on the Harbour wall in St Ives, Cornwall. Both are taken with my Nikon FM with 28mm lens on Agfa Vista Plus 200 film. Personally I prefer the first one, the whole image just jumps out as a classic rule of thirds image but the cloud pattern in the right hand side of the shot I think helps make it more than just empty space their to compliment the main focus of the photograph itself. This first shot is taken at f16 1/500th sec.

That’s not to say I don’t like the second image as well, I think the comparison in size that can be seen between the lighthouse and the metal bollard used for tying ships up to the dock works well and it’s taken in portrait, something I think you’ll have noticed by now I rarely do. This is at f22 1/250th second.

Station