Driffield Steam Fair

Driffield Steam Fair was awesome this year. Amazing weather (no surprises there) but also the hugest (It’s a word) range of engines of different shapes and sizes. In honour of the occasion I lugged around my very heavy and very old Hasselblad with the super heavy telephoto lens and took a bunch of shots. I’m not unhappy with the results.

If you are wondering why the pictures also include a moped, it’s because I used to have one rather like it.

Traction Engine Fun

The weather wasn’t great when I arrived

Last week at the Hardware Meetup Simon mentioned that he had a friend who had a traction engine. Would I be interested in coming along next time they fire it up. I would. So today I went along to meet up with Rob, who had his machine ready to go when I arrived. I took along a couple of cameras (as you do) and tried to take some pictures. Some of them you will never see, because I left in the dark slide (the bit of the camera that protects the film from pesky outside light). However, the digital shots that I took came out OK. I

I also had a go at steering, then driving, then both at the same time. It was awesome. Thanks very much for inviting me folks.

There are some more pictures on Flickr.