On a night like this.
Unusually for recent history, Britain had a good summer this year. By that I mean it replicated the days I recall from my childhood when there seemed a demarkation between it and the worst excesses of winter plus it wasn't grey and wet all the time. The winter season is now upon us it seems and because of that I offer this evening's picture.
I took it in 1976 as a sixteen year old on a cold wet evening in Manchester. It couldn't have been far from the Opera House as we'd arrived there by coach with a party from school. Even then I had a habit of carrying my camera everywhere though my photographic ability was even more challenged when the sun went down than it was when there was good light.
The desire to photograph this very nice looking Plaxton Panorama Elite bodied AEC Reliance, also waiting for its party, got the better of me. However, this image of Battersby's GMB 902K had lain dormant in my scrap folder all these years as it was almost impossible to make it out, the negative was so 'thin'. With ever improving tools at our finger tips nowadays (and dark wet winters weekends) it allows time to play with things a little. Hopefully its now sufficiently viewable to post here.
Is my mind playing tricks, or was this coach pink and white?
On a night like this.
Unusually for recent history, Britain had a good summer this year. By that I mean it replicated the days I recall from my childhood when there seemed a demarkation between it and the worst excesses of winter plus it wasn't grey and wet all the time. The winter season is now upon us it seems and because of that I offer this evening's picture.
I took it in 1976 as a sixteen year old on a cold wet evening in Manchester. It couldn't have been far from the Opera House as we'd arrived there by coach with a party from school. Even then I had a habit of carrying my camera everywhere though my photographic ability was even more challenged when the sun went down than it was when there was good light.
The desire to photograph this very nice looking Plaxton Panorama Elite bodied AEC Reliance, also waiting for its party, got the better of me. However, this image of Battersby's GMB 902K had lain dormant in my scrap folder all these years as it was almost impossible to make it out, the negative was so 'thin'. With ever improving tools at our finger tips nowadays (and dark wet winters weekends) it allows time to play with things a little. Hopefully its now sufficiently viewable to post here.
Is my mind playing tricks, or was this coach pink and white?