Architecture, the good, the bad and the ugly
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Canon Sure Shot Supreme
Fujifilm Superia X-tra 400
Lab Developed
Home scanned and converted with Negative Lab Pro
Camera - Olympus Trip 35
Film - AgfaPhoto Vista Plus 200 (Expired Dec 2018)
Processing - Harrison Cameras
Canon Sure Shot Supreme
Fujifilm Superia X-tra 400
Lab Developed
Home scanned and converted with Negative Lab Pro
Camera - Canon AL-1 QF
Lens - Canon Lens FD 50mm 1:1.8
Film - AgfaPhoto Vista plus 200
Processing - Boots
Camera - Canon T50
Lens - Ranger 28-70mm 1:3.5-4.5
Film - Samsung Prime Color Film 200 (Expired)
Processing - Boots
The infamous Park Hill Estate, Sheffield - built between 1957 and 1961 as a Utopian "City in the Sky" - now Grade II listed. A collection of 1970s-80s cars in the foreground. Note the old church dwarfed by the modern blocks.
Sheffield Park Hill Estate history
"Park Hill is one of the seven hills on which Sheffield is built. It is south of the River Don, and to the east of the River Sheaf. The estate is on steeply rising land the lower slopes, it is upwind of the former heavily polluting industrial areas of the Don valley.
The concept of the flats was described as streets in the sky. There were four street decks, wide enough for milk floats, with large numbers of front doors opening onto them. This was a key concept of the design. Each deck of the structure, except the top one, has direct access to ground level at some point on the sloping site.
The 995 Park Hill flats and maisonettes, 4 pubs and 31 shops were built in 4 ranges linked by bridges across the upper decks. The ranges were canted at obtuse angles to maximise the panoramic views across the city and the southern Pennines.
Construction of the flats was of an exposed concrete frame with a progression of purple, terracotta, light red and cream brick curtain walling. However, as a result of weathering and soot-staining from passing trains, few people realised this and assumed the building to be constructed entirely from concrete."
More information here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Park_Hill,_Sheffield
Taken using a Soviet made Zenith TTL SLR camera.
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Why did the pensioner cross the road?
Who knows - he'd forgotten by the time he got to the other side!
Footbridge across Sheaf Street near Ponds Forge International Sports Centre
Taken with the Ricoh 500 GX camera that I first used in week 74 of my 52 film cameras in 52 weeks project. This camera is unusual in having the ability to do double exposures. For this photo I used a piece of black plastic to mask half the lens, then rotated the camera and mask by 180 degrees and re-shot the scene.
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view from under The Arts Tower at The University of Sheffield.
Grade 2 listed building, built in the 60s thats just has a re-fit and is looking very shiny
continuing my quest of Sheffield architectural photography cliches (still to upload some from weekend)
iphone 4 with ps express and iDarkroom
Moor Market multi-storey car park.
I'm sorry to say that a building that was a contender for the Carbuncle Cup soon after it was built is gradually creeping its way into my affections.
Several years on I look forward to seeing it!
I suppose this is because of all the nondescript blocks of student accommodation that continue to be thrown up in the city - very few of them have any real architecture merit worth mention (if any).
It takes really bad architecture to make bad architecture look almost acceptable!
What a world we live in!!