Industrial Scenes In Malton

The other day I found myself on Showfield Lane Industrial Estate with ten minutes to kill and some sort of camera thingie in hand.

Gate, Showfield Lane, Malton



Hot Food Bar, Showfield Lane, Malton



Pet World, Showfield Lane, Malton

Mystery Shed, Showfield Lane, Malton

Originally I called this post 'Industrial Grot', but it's unfair, I love these places, sometimes starkly functional, sometimes neglected. Amongst all the modern aluminium industrial units Pet World is a random survivor from the past.

Black and white seems to be the best medium to show these in, normally I would shoot black and white on film, probably Tri-X with a 35mm lens, but today I was carrying a digital SLR. No problem, though, I just pretended I was carrying Tri-X and tried hard to 'see' in black and white. On return to base the images go into Lightroom for conversion into black and white using my home-made pre-sets and then the borders and captions are added in Photoshop.

Simple.