snow – Simon Hendy Photography

Bristol 2018

31/12/201831/12/2018 By shendyNo Comments

My most obvious subject! Working right in the centre of the city and very close to the Harbourside, I do take a lot of photos of Bristol. HarboursideGetting out of the office for a bit of fresh air naturally takes me to the Harbourside, so I've taken a lot of photos of this area this year. I've also found that it's possible to walk right round the harbour, up to Cumberland Basin and back to Prince Street Bridge, in my lunch hour. I've only done it with the phone so far but must try it with something a bit more serious at some point.So we have some shadows, a bit of the remaining industrial side of the harbourside - the steam crane is an absolute favourite of mine and I must get out and shoot it with the large format camera - and a shoot late in the year around the refurbished Metro Bus bridge and nearby. SS Great BritainI'm occasionally involved...

Going Back to Film, part 2

27/05/201806/05/2022 By shendy Comment Closed

A bit of a follow-up on the previous post, with some more on my adventures back into film photography. In February I upgraded the TLR, buying an MPP Microcord. Unfortunately it turned out that mine was faulty so it went back to the supplier. The first images on it were taken during the heavy snow we had - I wish I could claim that I was trying to emulate the soft look of some of the early photographers, but no - the shutter was slow and it also had issues with winding on. It did take some slightly sharper shots on a visit to Aust for the spring tides, and at the SS great Britain, but it wasn't good enough so back it went. This left me with the dilemma about what to try next. In the end I went for a substantial upgrade and succumbed to a Hasselblad, having lusted after them for many years. I found one on Ebay at a...

More pinholery

24/01/201331/07/2018 By shendyNo Comments

Some more pinhole pics with the panoramic kit camera from Photographique. The roll of film had the end of the Westonbirt pics from the autumn, and I finished it in the snow - in the back garden and Canford Cemetery....

Let it snow (part 2)…

20/01/201308/04/2015 By shendyNo Comments

On Saturday evening I went back over to Royal Victoria Park to see how it looked at night. It was fairly interesting, but the difficulty was actually that it was so light - it needed a bit of work to get the images looking like they were taken at night! I also had to remove a very substantial orange cast from the street lights. I'm quite pleased with them....

Let it snow (part 1)…

20/01/201308/04/2015 By shendyNo Comments

As you all knew I would, I have been out and about photographing the snow - we had about 3 inches, although other bits of Bristol apparently had 6. Not sure how that works... On Friday the buses were buggered (as they always are when we get a couple of millimetres of snow) so I was working from home - the joys of being able to connect to my work PC from my laptop. Due to a lack of pre-planning I had to go into Westbury-on-Trym to get some food, so took the opportunity to take the camera out. The first couple are from the back garden, then some from Royal Victoria Park. After that, I wandered round Canford Cemetery and Canford Park....