Where the Worcester and Birmingham Canal meets the Birmingham Canal Main Line at Gas Street Basin in Birmingham city centre.
Jan. 2, 2024
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Nice effect with great colors!
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Do get some Peaky Blinders vibes with that Canal😉
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A great location for photography - as is most of the BCN. I cherish a set of several hundred 6x6 negatives shot using a Mamiya C330 which I shot in the late ‘70s for a book which was never published owing to the premature death of the author.
I must say that your treatment doesn’t appeal to me personally, perhaps because of a lack of either contrast or saturation - I’d much prefer to see it in monochrome (which seems to me to be the overall feel of these canals). Have you been to Delph Locks on the Stourbridge Canal - I think you’d like it!
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If you had taken that shot in the 1970s, apart from the canals themselves, it would have looked very different. The bridge was not there. It has been constructed more recently for the benefit of visitors to all the pubs and restaurants in the region (using ironwork salvaged from elsewhere on the canal network). The derelict buildings (mainly old warehouses) along the canal have been rebuilt as pubs, restaurants, apartments, etc.
By the way, here is the same shot in black and white:
I like both, but I prefer the colour version.
