Woolfox Vestiges

[Toby Webster]

My fascination with the fading vestiges in the landscape of 20th Century conflict endures. The former RAF Woolfox Lodge was once home to the famous Avro Lancaster and its predecessor, the Avro Manchester, Short Stirlings and much later, Bloodhound Missiles. Closed in the mid-sixties, it has been gradually fading back into the landscape ever since, with only a few buildings associated with the Bloodhounds and the derelict wartime Control Tower surviving. The vast site, and much beyond it, has been slated for the construction of a so-called Garden Village, in reality an extensive New Town, so I took an opportunity to try to capture its surviving ambiance on film before it all goes under the bulldozer.











Pentax 645 and HP5 in ID11 except #3, which was made with my old Huawei P20 Pro.

 

[Pex]

Well archived for the future. Saw that u used the Huawei P20 on 1 image dev. Did u know of Huawei P9 plus? Dedicated b&w sensor on that phone. Never used it, only saw a YouTube video about it. Can't say if it is any better than color sensor conversion to b&w but it's kind of rare in any digital camera outside astro photo.

 

[Toby Webster]

Well archived for the future. Saw that u used the Huawei P20 on 1 image dev. Did u know of Huawei P9 plus? Dedicated b&w sensor on that phone. Never used it, only saw a YouTube video about it. Can't say if it is any better than color sensor conversion to b&w but it's kind of rare in any digital camera outside astro photo.

Thank you. The P20/P20 Pro have dedicated 20mp B&W sensors. Huawei had an association with Leica at the time, and heavily marketed the phones on the strength of the cameras. I think the association with Leica finished with the next generation, and Leica now work with Xaiomi. I can't afford a new top-end smartphone, and the old Huawei still produces some excellent B&W images that will happily print to A3, so it's fine for me. I find that the images are pretty comparable with my 645 film system when I do one-to-one comparison shots, provided I rough the digital shots up a bit!

 

[Flack]

If buildings could talk, I like this set Toby.

 

[Glenn]

Nice set.

 

[Pex]

Thank you. The P20/P20 Pro have dedicated 20mp B&W sensors. Huawei had an association with Leica at the time, and heavily marketed the phones on the strength of the cameras. I think the association with Leica finished with the next generation, and Leica now work with Xaiomi. I can't afford a new top-end smartphone, and the old Huawei still produces some excellent B&W images that will happily print to A3, so it's fine for me. I find that the images are pretty comparable with my 645 film system when I do one-to-one comparison shots, provided I rough the digital shots up a bit!

Oh P20 has that too, how cool. I actually own the P30 pro (still Leica on it) but rarely use it due to a newer phone.

 

[Digital Finger]

Bootifully done