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Brompton Cemetery Chapel, 26th April. Such a pity the asymmetrical hanging of the lamp offends my OCD! Minolta XD7 / Rokkor 28mm f3.5 / Tri-X / Rodinal 1:50 And I'll second Gary's thanks.

I was wondering how long it would take us to get to this stage. Here are some shots of my vintage Hornby O gauge layout which resides in the loft. They've been posted before but some may not have seen them and they fit in with this thread.

Thanks for this, Gary. Certainly I, for one, have been wondering for some time now.

Staying in the archive in the late seventies. On the one hand British Rail was wooing potential travelers with the slogan "This is the Age of the Train". On the other the freight arm was doing good business with the transport of import and export cars. Minolta SRT303b / Rokkor 135mm f2.8 /...

......so here's another.

Thanks Grerard. There I was thinking I might have overdone the graphic effect.......

Steam crane, detail. Minolta SRT303b, Rokkor 50mm f1.8, HP5 (Probably)

Yes, it's an optical illusion. The gauge is constant, 800cm in this case. I'm guessing that I used a telephoto to emphasise the way the route snakes round natural gradients to avoid overly steep gradients. The centre toothed rail, the rack, complicates the impression of unevenly spaced track.

Of the same vintage and with the same gear as my Severn Valley Railway shots here are some of the Snowdon Mountain Railway. Built in the 1890s and using Swiss locomotives it is the UK's only passenger carrying rack and pinion railway. Three of the original steam locomotives are still...

What I especially like about these sort of threads is that they give me an excuse to delve in my archive. This is the Severn Valley Railway, a long established heritage railway here in the UK, on a cold and wet day in the late seventies. Plenty of opportunities to indulge in billowing steam and...

Oh dear, Gerard. Trains, eh? I feel quite a few contributions to this thread coming on. To start with here's a privately owned narrow gauge line situated not far from us. Rejoicing in the name Bredgar & Wormshill Light Railway it features an eclectic collection of rolling stock from various...

It's taken a few days to hunt down and scan the negative of this very special tree. This hornbeam was all that remained of Deville Wood after the Battle of the Somme in 1916. Taken 25 years ago on Kodak Gold 200 with a Canon EOS 500n and 28-80 kit lens. I am assured that the tree is still...

Good call, Gerard. Especially as I haven't posted anything for a while. First up, seven on film. All with a Minolta SRT101b or XD-7 and variety of Rokkor lenses, mostly with a yellow filter. And then a couple of digitals with a Canon 20D set to monochrome mode although I can't...

An interesting little camera, Charlotte. I've got one myself but have yet to tape up its cracks (!) and run a film through it. I won't preempt your review, which I look forward to, but the reason behind Kodak's introduction of the Baby Brownie is quite fascinating. Yours looks in great...

Goof stuff, Gianluca. I particularly like the first five. The similar geometry of the composition binds them together into a coherent series in their own right.