New Old Film Challenge #254 'Things On Hills' ***POLL ADDED***

Please vote for your three favourite photographs.

  • Wainhouse Tower, Halifax by Boots

    Votes: 1 11.1%

  • Wadenhoe church by mdpF2

    Votes: 1 11.1%

  • Steeple Gate, Ely by PeterSpencer

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Trig Point on top of Cox Tor by Topsy

    Votes: 5 55.6%

  • Tree on the hill by moggi1964

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Houses on the hillside at Stoney Middleton by FishyFish

    Votes: 1 11.1%

  • Gondolas, Aonach Mor by Peter B

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Selfie on a Lake District hill by Kevin Allan

    Votes: 1 11.1%

  • Lindisfarne Castle by scook94

    Votes: 6 66.7%

  • The "whalebones" on North Berwick Law by ChrisR

    Votes: 4 44.4%

  • On top of a hill for viewing London by excalibur2

    Votes: 1 11.1%

  • Landscape photographers in the wild by RaglanSurf

    Votes: 6 66.7%
  • Total voters
    9
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Photos of things on hills. Not of hills, but of things perched atop or on the sides of them.

As usual the following rules apply:
1) Must be taken by you
2) Must have been taken on film, notwithstanding which, digital post processing is allowed
3) Must have been taken and developed prior to the start date of this challenge

Discussion in the Discussion thread (link below) rather than this Entries thread, please.

Please include details of the camera, lens, film etc and anything else of relevance, if you can possibly recall the details and remember far back.

Entries close Midnight on 21st February 2025, following which a voting page will be opened with a three day voting window.

Please keep all discussion and comments in the "new old film discussion thread" https://www.talkphotography.co.uk/threads/new-old-film-challenge-discussion-thread.698995/page-23
 
Wainhouse Tower, Halifax (a.k.a. The Tower of Spite)

Wainhouse Tower.jpg

Taken about 1988?

Canon F-1
FD 35-70?
Kodakchrome

T'internet tells me (which I certainly did not know at the time) that the tower was built between 1871 and 1875. It was originally conceived as a chimney for the owner's dyeworks following the local corporation's efforts to reduce air pollution. However it morphed into vehicle to heighten a feud between the owner and a neighbouring landowner whose property was not previously overlooked. Hence the alternate name. It was never used as a chimney.
 
The "whalebones" on North Berwick Law. These were originally whale jaw bones, but after deteriorating were replaced with replicas.

2111APMXBW15 The Law.jpg

Taken on a Pentax MX with the SMC Pentax A 35mm f/2 lens and orange filter, on HP5 film processed in HC-110 dilution B (1+31) in the Rondinax 35, scanned on a Plustek 7500i with Vuescan Pro.

Even at this reduced resolution, if you look closely you can see the small vertical line artefacts on diagonal high contrast edges. This was the subject of extended correspondence between me and Ed Hamill; he did not solve the problem until much later. AFAIK few people were seeing the problem. I later formed the hypothesis that the issue probably had something to do with me scanning at a non-native scanner resolution (4800 samples per inch; the scanner natives are 1800, 3600, 7200)) and using his resolution halving option (so some sort of double interpolation effect). I had been having problem with multiscan, which I liked to use to reduce noise; the second scan often did not register properly. In theory scanning at greater density and then averaging the results was supposed to give similar results. I eventually abandoned this technique when I discovered that multiscanning was working properly again! I also now scan at 3600 rather than 2400...
 
On top of a hill for viewing..London about 13 miles away, in the opp direction much clearer but a bit boring.
7TCYTRS.jpg
 
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