{"id":19138,"date":"2017-08-18T05:59:25","date_gmt":"2017-08-18T09:59:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=19138"},"modified":"2017-08-17T06:16:29","modified_gmt":"2017-08-17T10:16:29","slug":"exploring-repurposed-railway-vestiges-in-county-down-8-new-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/exploring-repurposed-railway-vestiges-in-county-down-8-new-photos\/","title":{"rendered":"Exploring Repurposed Railway Vestiges in County Down; 8 new photos."},"content":{"rendered":"

Here\u2019s another instance where I was working with two cameras and two very different photographic media.<\/p>\n

My Lumix LX7 is an easy tool to capture images digitally, while the Leica IIIa I carry requires a bit more work and yields a very different result using traditional 35mm black & white film.<\/p>\n

Newcastle, County Down is a classic sea-side resort on the Irish Sea at Dundrum Bay.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s been many years since the old Belfast & County Down Railway branch line saw activity, yet the station-building survives.<\/p>\n

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Exposed on Kodak Tri-X using a Leica IIIa with 35mm screw mount Nikkor lens. Film processed in Agfa-mix Rodinal Special mixed with water at a ratio of 1 to 31 at 68F for 3 minutes. Negatives scanned with an Epson V500 flatbed scanner.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Colour view exposed digitally using a Lumix LX7. Notice how the Lidl logos jump out at you in the colour views.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Flowers work better in colour than in black & white.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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A sidelight view of the old station building showing old railway fencing. Exposed on Kodak Tri-X using a Leica IIIa with 35mm screw mount Nikkor lens. Film processed in Agfa-mix Rodinal Special mixed with water at a ratio of 1 to 31 at 68F for 3 minutes. Negatives scanned with an Epson V500 flatbed scanner.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

A couple of weeks ago, Honer Travers brought me on a tour of rural County Down and was keen to point out the old Newcastle Station and nearby railway hotel.<\/p>\n

Today, the old station has been repurposed to house a Lidl market, while the old railway hotel remains as a resort hotel (sans railway traffic).<\/p>\n

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Exposed on Kodak Tri-X using a Leica IIIa with 35mm screw mount Nikkor lens. Film processed in Agfa-mix Rodinal Special mixed with water at a ratio of 1 to 31 at 68F for 3 minutes. Negatives scanned with an Epson V500 flatbed scanner.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Does this colour view work better?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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The automobiles are part of the scene. Lumix LX7 view.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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The old station as seen in context with the surrounding buildings and streets.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

My intent was to document these historic structures in their present roles.<\/p>\n

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Here\u2019s another instance where I was working with two cameras and two very different photographic media. My Lumix LX7 is an easy tool to capture images digitally, while the Leica IIIa I carry requires a bit more work and yields a very different result using traditional 35mm black & white film. Newcastle, County Down is … Continue reading Exploring Repurposed Railway Vestiges in County Down; 8 new photos.<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19137,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[10,48],"tags":[3814,4537,4312,26,4311,4314,4310,4313],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Newcastle_Co_Down_B-CDRy_station_P1660745.jpg?fit=1632%2C1224","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-4YG","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19138"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19138"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19138\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19140,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19138\/revisions\/19140"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}