Print (Arc de Triomphe)

Print (Arc de Triomphe)

Image by lambertwm
Wanted to print this photo and put it in a 60x80cm standard frame. Sounded simple.

Then discovered that the closest format offered by www.profotonet.nl/ is actually 50x70cm. Neither of these has the desired 3:2 aspect ratio, of course (WHY?!).

Then realized the photo isn't even exactly 3:2 because I cropped off a little bit from the bottom (for artistic reasons). Then spent two hours figuring out resolutions and dimensions and the widths of the white borders in Photoshop in order to make this work and have a passe-partout that has a little bit more space at the bottom than at the top.

End of story; I was a bit nervous when I entered the shop to have the photo framed, but in the end it turned out perfect. The sizes of the passe-partout turned out to be perfect: 9cm at the bottom and 8cm for all other sides.

Another interesting lesson was to see the difference between the on-screen and the on-paper version of the photo, which has a subtle (?) split-toning on-screen but which turned out quite pronounced on paper. Fortunately, I discovered this while doing a few test prints in advance, so I was able to tone it down for the final print.

PS:
Check this out: a very similar photo made by Cas Oorthuys in 1948, amazing how little has changed, really:
www.nederlandsfotomuseum.nl/index.php?option=com_nfm_coll...

Bolton East Junction

Image by Ingy The Wingy
British Railways English Electric Type 4 1Co-Co1 class 40 diesel-electric locomotive number 97405 of Crewe Diesel TMD propels a rake of ballast hopper wagons from Bolton East Junction towards Bolton station. Sunday 8th December 1985

Bolton East Junction signal box was located between the Up Main and Up Passenger Loop lines, and was a Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway Standard design which opened in 1902 fitted with a 145 lever Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway Tappet frame. The frame was reduced in size sometime before closure came on 8th December 1985 when signalling of Bolton station passed to Bolton power signal box, the Presco Buildings 'Portacabin' building to the left of the signal box

Bolton East Junction signal box's up main starting signal carried on a three doll balanced bracket with a tubular main stem is the last remaining signal

Lever Street footbridge crosses the tracks behind the signal boxes

Burnley Central Station

Image by Ingy The Wingy
Burnley Central Station signal box located alongside the Up Main line between Burnley Central station and Burnley Viaduct (behind the signal box). Saturday 21st April 1984

Burnley E.L. No1 signal box was a Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway Standard design which opened on 7th December 1900 fitted with a 30 lever Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway Tappet frame, replacing an earlier box located slightly nearer the viaduct. The signal box was renamed Burnley Bank Top South in first few years of the 20th century and in 1931 it was further renamed Burnley Bank Top Station after the frame was extended to 36 levers allowing the closure of Burnley Bank Top North box. On 2nd October 1944 the box was renamed again, this time to Burnley Central Station. By the time closure came on 7th December 1986 in connection with the singling of the Gannow Junction to Colne line the frame had been reduced to 24 levers. The box and frame surviving into the early 1990s before disappearing (for preservation at Brewood Hall in Staffordshire?)

Note the word Central on the 1931 London Midland and Scottish Railway nameboard is the smaller sized post-1935 lettering fitted after the box was renamed in 1944

The disconnected track at the left hand side of the picture is the remains of the Up Bay line

Blackrod Junction

Image by Ingy The Wingy
Blackrod Junction signal box located by the Down Main line to the north of Blackrod station controlling the junction for the Horwich branch. Sunday 20th October 1985

Blackrod Junction signal box is a Gloucester Wagon Company Standard design built for the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway. The box was opened on ? (quoted as in 1879 and in 1881) and the original frame was replaced by a 37 lever Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway Tappet frame in 1890

The box carries a British Railways London Midland Region maroon enamel nameplate and has replacement windows in the end of the box. The 2x2 pane operating floor windows do not have the curved framing at the head, as can just be made out on the windows at the front and below them is a row of fixed single pane windows which are a non standard size. Also missing is the roof finial

10 signal located in the six-foot is a London Midland and Scottish Railway 1941 type standard dwarf signal

Burnley Central Station

Image by Ingy The Wingy
Burnley Central Station signal box located alongside the Up Main line between Burnley Central station and Burnley Viaduct (behind the signal box). Monday 30th May 1983

Burnley E.L. No1 signal box was a Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway Standard design which opened on 7th December 1900 fitted with a 30 lever Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway Tappet frame, replacing an earlier box located slightly nearer the viaduct. The signal box was renamed Burnley Bank Top South in first few years of the 20th century and in 1931 it was further renamed Burnley Bank Top Station after the frame was extended to 36 levers allowing the closure of Burnley Bank Top North box. On 2nd October 1944 the box was renamed again, this time to Burnley Central Station. By the time closure came on 7th December 1986 in connection with the singling of the Gannow Junction to Colne line the frame had been reduced to 24 levers. The box and frame surviving into the early 1990s before disappearing (for preservation at Brewood Hall in Staffordshire?)

Note the word Central on the 1931 London Midland and Scottish Railway nameboard is the smaller sized post-1935 lettering fitted after the box was renamed in 1944