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After so many "bright lights - big city" - styled shots, it's been time to turn the eyes to some other, darker, aspects of Shanghai.
The area around Xiaonanmen (小南门) , a maze of tiny and tinier alleys and "弄 nong", filled with small 1 to 2 storey houses is in parts still in the same state as it was in colonial times - and/or even before that. One of the last remnants of the (in colonial times) so called "Chinese City".
But it's doomed - urban redevelopment calls for demolition of the small old buildings and construction of new, shiny apartment and office towers.
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Now that the awning has been removed and taken away at the former Tri Towne Plaza it reminds me of walking down here when the plaza had its original look. The block wall was brown before it was painted grey and there weren't as many windows then.
Demolition of the remaining building of the former Arbutus Mall has started in earnest. The glass roofed atrium came down earlier today and now the rest of what used to be Safeway and the BMO are being torn down.
Covering for a booked Sprinter job, BR 47555 'The Commonwealth Spirit' in the original InterCity livery heads away from Cardiff in January 1989 with the Table 87 'Express Service', the 1M75 15:00 Cardiff Central to Rhyl via Crewe.
To the right of the Class 47/4, redevelopment construction work was well underway for the City Link Retail Park. This land had previously been part of Pengam, Newport Road Yard [Up Yard] being occupied by both rail-served warehouses and the main domestic coal yard in Cardiff.
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Taken with a Nikon Pronea-S camera in week 225 of my 52 film cameras in 52 weeks project:
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The Nikon Pronea-S is the second APS camera that I have used. The APS (Advanced Photo System) was introduced in 1996, it used 24mm wide film, and had provisions for three different aspect ratios to be selected, though the negative always recorded the full frame, and the different formats were implemented at the printing stage, with data being read from the film to tell the machines which aspect to use.
APS was a short lived format as soon after it was introduced digital cameras started to become more affordable, and the non-technically minded snap shooter, for whom the APS system was ideal, soon switched to digital. The film is no longer made, but is still fairly easy to find online. This Fujicolor Nexia A200 colour negative film was in the camera when I found it in a charity shop, only the first few frames had been used. I adapted one of my 35mm spirals to take the 24mm wide film, and developed it in the Tetenal C41 kit.
Unlike the Minolta APS SLR that I used recently, the Nikon accepts all the Nikon mount lenses, so I was able to use my 18-200mm VR lens which is made for the smaller than full frame DSLRs, there is some vignetting at the wide angle end of the range, but otherwise the lens works perfectly with the APS negative size.
eastern span of the bay bridge and demolition of the former naval station barracks - treasure island, san francisco, california. 3 stitched images.
7DOS old/new Black & White Wednesday
Quartermile - a redevelopment of the former Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh. The scheme comprises a mixture of new build apartments, apartments converted from the existing hospital buildings, new build offices and retail/leisure uses.
A vacant office building in downtown Syracuse has had its glass exterior removed from the upper floors in its conversion into an apartment building.
The castle like facade has gone, together with its broken windows in the turrets which provided a home for many a pigeon.
The attractive canopy survived until the later redevelopment, but an ugly office building replaced this once characterful view, and remains to this day. The arches on the right and Victorian bridge have also been replaced, in reengineering the line's steep descent to St Paul's Thameslink, after Holborn Viaduct closed in early 1990.
New York Central observation car hickory creek and 2 other private cars are on the back of Amtrak empire service train 233 as it skirts the Hudson river in Peekskill, NY. The scene at Peekskill is rapidly changing with a new development set to block the scenic view of the numerous daily Amtrak & Metro North trains passing by. The situation in Peekskill serves a reminder to document what is there now as it may not be there tomorrow.
This whole area is at the beginning of a massive evolution. The train station has been razed since I shot this and the train line is being closed to remove the level crossing.
A none too great negative taken in poor light, 1968 somewhere in the Manchester area (the previous pictures on the film were taken at Manchester Victoria). Working tender first a Stanier Black 5 gets under way with a train of fitted vans. I hope the atmosphere of this makes the technical side become unimportant.
Scan from a 35mm negative on Ilford FP3 film.