Steps No3.

From my Oman files.

Steps No2.

From my Oman files.

Steps No1.

More alternative visualisations/previously un-scanned negatives or processed files from Oman, starting with this one, made in 2010.

Being stopped from travel and almost locked away for more than a year, I’ve not had much enthusiasm or even opportunity for photography. So going through my negatives/slides and digital files has kept me from going ‘Doolally’, for those not familiar with this word: it means ‘lose one’s mind’, derived from the boredom felt at a British Army transit camp in Maharashtra India, established in 1861.

Storm damage.

Storm damage – it must have made a lot of noise when it came down.

Open doors No.6.

Open doors No.6 – from my Oman files.

Open doors No5.

What’s left of the plaster and stone work on this ruin,
would indicate a rather spectacular entrance at some point in time.
From my Oman files.

Open doors No4.

From my Oman files.

Open doors No3.

From my Oman negative files.

Open doors – No2.

Being watched (this cat was not in the least bit worried that I was there, able to use both my Nikon F2sb and Bronica S2a) although he did move his head when the Bronica shutter tripped; for those that don’t know this camera, it’s loud!
From my Oman negative files – 1980’s Kodak Tri-X

Punishment stocks – City of York.

Nikon F4 / Nikkor 50mm f1.8 D with Nikon diffusion filter on T-Max 400 (original*)
from my freezer.

The stocks were used as a punishment for crimes of public disorder (drunkenness for example) throughout the 16th and 17th centuries. Their use declined in the 18th century, but probably last used in the UK at the market town of Newcastle Emlyn west Wales in 1872.
The criminal being locked in by legs & hands or hands & head: they were then subjected to ridicule by the local population who threw rotting fruit and in some cases stones at them.

* 1987: so this film is over 30 years old.

Open doors.

From my Oman negative files – pushed T-Max 400.

Window with bars – N07.

From my Oman files: I found one with mostly straight walls! it’s a problem with these historic forts, there is not always much room, forcing me to use a wider angle lens than I would normally like. It tends to exaggerate the builders imperfections along with those of the lens.

Window with bars – N06.

Window with bars – N06.
From my Oman files.

Window with bars – N05.

Window with bars – No4.

Window with bars – No4.
From my Oman files.

Window with bars – No3.

Window with bars – No3.
From my Oman files.

Window with bars – No2.

Window with bars No2.
From my Oman negative files.

Window with bars.

Derelict window with bars.
From my Oman files.

Mist on the Jebel.

Mist on the Jebel – from my Oman files.
For those interested, this was made with my Nikon F4, Nikkor 20mm f2.8 D and Tri-X (old style) in D76 1+1.
For some reason I kept these details in my darkroom log book, probably because it was old film from my freezer.