IWM Duxford
A few weeks ago I met up with some friends and took a trip back to Imperial War Museum Duxford. A former RAF and USAF base during the Second World War, it is now what I believe to be the UK’s largest museum, it takes up the entire airfield, over multiple hangers, and there is even a land warfare hall housing all manner of land vehicles from tanks to armoured cars and artillery.
I took along my Nikon F3, and a roll of Lomo 800, this is my first time using this film so was interested to see how it came out, the lighting across the hangers varied from fluorescent, tungsten and natural daylight. Almost all of the photos I took were using the Voigtlander 40mm f2, which has become my favourite lens to use on my Nikon cameras.
During the winter months this museum is only open from 10-4pm, which is really enough time to see everything there is on offer, and we watched a discussion on the Lancaster and got to have a look inside which lost us an hour or so, despite that we still had a good look around and got to try the film in varying conditions.
My favourite place there for taking photos is the original hangers, they have the big green shutter doors and lattice in the roof that allows natural daylight to come through, my favourite image being the one of the Hawker Hurricane at the top of this post, I love the exposed innards of the plane and the lighting in that photograph.
The Picture above of the English Electric Canberra is also one of my favourites, this plane looks like Gerry Anderson was asked to design it, it looks like something straight out of Thunderbirds, especially in silver!
anyway I hope you enjoy the photos!
