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Brick Lane Music Hall, Silvertown. As a grade 2* listed building, no material alterations have been allowed to the church, but the spirit of Music Hall has been gloriously achieved with painted trompe l'oeil screens inserted within the arches.
London Docklands, Brick Lane Music Hall.
September 2013
A welcome gift to the collection from Tarboat on Flickr. Info supplied to me by Capitol 203;
Sandstorm was a trade brand used by G H Downing Ltd (and originally by Dignus Tileries Ltd) for their sand faced clay plain tiles. It referred to a patented system of applying the sand to the tile prior to firing.
This brick manufacturer must have held the patent for using the same system on bricks.
Marcel’s renovating and is roofless. The texture of these bricks either hides the grain or the grain hides the bricks. I still really don’t like this Kodak T-Max P3200 film.
I’ve used the film before and never really been happy with it. Everything I’ve read online from others suggests they love it but I find the grain too much and the lack of contrast annoying (and requiring too much post work). I’ve put most of this down to a lack of my own skills plus my selection and use of developers. Now I’ve come to the conclusion the film is what it is and I need to take it or leave it. There’s simply moments when only ISO 3200 films will capture your image but this isn’t one of them I was using the film because it expires next month. I’m down to two roles and might try the Ilford equivalent (Delta 3200).
Leica M6 TTL, Carl Zeiss Planar ZM T 50mm F2, Kodak T-Max P3200, Kodak D-76 1+1.
The storage shed at the history brick plant at Claybank, Saskatchewan is used to store bricks salvaged from demolished buildings around the province. The random nature of the stored bricks and the colours and patterns caught my attention as I walked through the shed.
George Street, Kingston-upon-Hull, East Yorkshire
Kingston-upon-Hull, or Hull to give it its familiar name, must be one of the least visited cities in England. And yet, it is a fascinating and rather beautiful place, full of interest. It is a city built on a grand scale, the townscape often filtered by the fogs which regularly roll in off of the Humber.
The city of Hull is in Yorkshire, but in some ways not of it, having more of a feel of other East Coast industrial ports like Kings Lynn, Great Yarmouth and Ipswich. It is much bigger than any of these, having a population which now falls just short of 300,000 people, making it one of the dozen biggest cities in England, a position it has held for more than half a millennium.
The urban townscape is striking for the unusual number of domes and statues. Although the last twenty five years have seen a serious ravaging of Hull's industry and economy, there has been a great revival recently, thanks partly to money from the European Social Fund, but also the energy and determination of the city to prove that Hull is Not the Same, in both senses.
Hull is said to have more museums and art galleries per head of population than any other English city outside of Cambridge and Oxford. The latest is the Deep, a huge submarium at the mouth of the Humber. The Ferens Art Gallery is, to my mind, the very model of what a provincial city's art gallery should be. The Wilberforce House Museum of Slavery is world famous.
Hull had its self-image as England's forgotten city confirmed in the summer of 2007, when the worst floods for fifty years ruined more than 15,000 homes in the city. It took nearly three days for the magnitude of this disaster to reach the national news, which was concentrating on more fashionable Sheffield.
Any serious student of medieval urban England must visit Hull. Around every corner there are relics of the past, forgotten and unrecorded by anyone outside of the city, the ghost of a great European merchant port. At the heart of it all is Holy Trinity, built in the full confidence and prosperity of the late medieval period. Inside, its vast area makes it England's biggest parish church.
Another brick shot from Day 41.
Taken Feb 10, 2012 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
¹⁄₅₀₀ sec at f/4.5, ISO100, no flash.
Lens: EF50mm f/1.8 II
This is some sort of tutorial on how I do my brick wall backgrounds. Though scrapbooking papers can give you a very realistic and easy brick background, sometimes I love to make a "real" wall with texture and color.
The wall is made out of styrofoam, the window is made of foamboard.
Every now and then, I paint a brick with a brighter shade, like with more red or more ochre. I love it when you get the idea of having individuals among the bricks, so pick a favorite brick and make it stand out a bit more.