Saltaire, mostly distorted
Just a little random photo post for today…
We went to Saltaire for the day – always a nice day out and the art and bookshops in the mill are great. Still playing about with the Fuji XT-30, I thought that the fisheye lens might be interesting to play with on the canal and particularly between the two sides of the mill.
I’ve gone down to 10mm at Saltaire, with some quite spectacular results. Taking this down to 7.5mm is actually quite insane. I know that this style of imagery is definitely an acquired taste, but I do like to push a few boundaries!
The fisheye lens in the cavernous spaces inside the mill was also pretty spectacular!
Salts Mill is inextricably associated with Hockney – an artist for whom I admit to have mixed appreciation but given his death just a few weeks ago it was poignant to see his last works in the gallery.
Also in the Gallery was The Exhibition “Life Goes On” by Ian Beesley, one of the most talented doumentary photographers of the current age. The combination of his urban landscapes and the portraits and testimonies of his human subjects was quite something. It’s well worth a look.
After getting somewhat delayed in Fanny’s Ale House, we took a trip on the tramway – leaving this slightly later we didn’t really have a chance to walk up to the glen, but it’s nice to see the tranway thriving – a small but very important part of local history.
Saltaire is always a good day out.