BUSWORLD PHOTOGRAPHY

I AM CHRISTOPHER LEACH THE ARTIST. I started this blog so that I can share with everyone my vast collection of transport photographs showing a personal and nostalgic view of the industry with images that span some 45 years taking in the U.K and some of Europe. I have no darkroom and so rather than being the perfectionist after tidying them up I upload the images warts and all, and even those that won't scan squarely or are scratched. In a way it adds age and character. You are all free to download these for your personal use but please remember I still own them and you are not just free to use them without prior permission for any knd of publishing. Click on images to enlarge them and if you want to see more leave your comments or visit my website for the mother-site with galleries including those Buses & Girls: PICTUREWORLD

Friday 22 August 2008

Roselyn: A regular Plymouth visitor for many a year


Much has changed in the Plymouth bus scene over the last few years but one gentle reminder of it's at one time many regular excursion visitors probably as much for locals shopping was Roselyn Coaches of Cornwall whose same familiar smart duo-green Van-Hool bodied Volvo was still turning up at Bretonside Bus Station last Summer and wearing that 237 AJB registration number I remember it aquired from the coach that did the run before it quite a few years ago. L.J & B.W Ede of Par had eight AEC Regents in 1986 in it's fleet of Seventeen and six of these came from the Government's Aere at Harwell in 1980. Also owned then was C571 HCV which might even be this beauty as they don't rust down there and especially older Van-Hool's. Taking pictures against the sun can be fun but with all that contrast and difficult shadows they work much better in black and white where one has more licence to be quite arty and creative. However I try to be different taking chances and this is how we have to see things too, and I like to think a strong lively composition made this sun-saturated scene work well.

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