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This shot is ancient, thirty or more years or more, I found it deteriorating between glass, fungus and dust. The graininess is due to two things, pregla glass and a grainy emulsion called, Perutz an Italian made colourslide film. Pregla Glass? Well that was glass that was sort of stippled, placed on the shiny side of the film, it stopped rainbow rings forming on the inside of the glass, rather like the colours you see with oil on water, they were called Newtons rings. I couldn't be bothered to strip the slide from its mount, so scanned it as is, hence this painterly effect.

  The view is well into winter with the clouds breaking after snow showers, the view is looking due west over to Darwen hill and the tower, the housing in the midground was fairly new then. I live just out of camera over to the right on the lower slopes of the hill. You know Darwen does have its moments.


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The clouds look like popcorn!  This is a beautiful picture.  Perhaps the things you call flaws are actually benefits to the picture?

Come to think of it does look like popcorn, I like the powder blue sky because its a characteristic of that particular film, I spent about an hour spotting the dust out of this picture it was just so well worth it.