The Limbo Connection's photos

The Sekonic L-8 exposure meter was imported in large numbers to the UK by Hanimex (Hannes Import Export). They were built in Australia, although the design work was, I think, Japanese. I photographed it with a Nikkor Type C 55mm f/3.5 Micro-PC Auto mounted on an M2 extension tube and then put on a Nikon D50. This is the only safe method of using the Nikkor Type C 55mm f/3.5 Micro-PC Auto on a D50, or indeed any digital Nikon fitted with screw-drive AF. Putting the lens directly onto the camera will cause damage.

I am comparing prime lenses and although all primes are generally good, some are noticeably better than others. The 35mm DX Nikkor is a lens which almost always delivers a picture of fidelity and saturation.

Michael Forsyth believes that Laura Place is ‘one of the most impressive of all Neoclassical urban set pieces in Britain’. It consists of four blocks of houses around an irregular quadrangle at the end of Pulteney Bridge and was built by Thomas Baldwin and John Eveleigh between 1788 and 1794. The quadrangle is named after Henrietta Laura Pulteney, daughter of Sir William Johnstone Pulteney and Frances Johnstone Pulteney. The fountain at the center of the quadrangle was not part of the original plan; it was added in the late 19th century. After completion of the main street in 1877 local residents petitioned and successfully raised significant funds to build a grand column. However, as construction of the column started, the residents realised that the addition would tower over the area (it would be half as high again than the houses), and so they then petitioned for it to be cancelled. After some negotiations, the column was pulled down and the much smaller fountain added instead.

8.15 am on 16 August 2010. A sunny morning in Sydney Gardens, Bath. FGW have re-engined these sets to extend their life. The new MTU engines are much quieter than the original Paxman screamers, and moving off from standstill is not the ear-splitting excitement of yore. They nevertheless remain a wonderful sight.

Nikon D2Xs + Nikon 75-150mm f/3.5 Series E lens.

Nikon 75-150mm Series E f/3.5 Zoom on a Nikon D50.

Nikon D2Xs + Nikon 75-150mm f/3.5 Series E lens.

Pheasants were introduced to the UK by the Romans. They feed on a diet of seeds, berries and insects. They tend to prefer a habitat of wooded agricultural lowland. Male pheasants often fight to defend their territory and mates.

Nikon D50 with an 18-135mm lens.

If you pour yourself out for the hungry and satisfy the desire of the afflicted, then shall your light rise in the darkness and your gloom be as the noonday.

At Caen Hill, Devizes, a flight of 29 locks was built to lift the Kennet and Avon canal 237 feet over a distance of two miles from the Avon Valley to the Vale of Pewsey. It is one of the major engineering feats of the canal era: the gradient is 1 in 44. The middle section, where this photograph was taken, comprises 16 locks in a straight line. It was the last section of the canal to be built and was completed in 1810. For 30 or 40 years, the canal flourished, but the coming of the railways eclipsed its usefulness and it fell into a state of neglect. I used an AF Nikkor 180mm f/2.8 lens on a Fuji S3 Pro camera. 400 ISO; 1/350th; f/4.8.

Near to St Peter's Church, a beautiful green-ness captivated me. Nikon D2Xs with a Nikkor AF 50mm f/1.4 D lens. 200 ISO, 1/45th; f/3.3.

I used an AF Nikkor 35-70mm f/2.8 lens on a Nikon D50 for this picture, emphasising detail roundness and depth-of-field. Focal length about 50mm; ISO 200; shutter 1/100th; f/5.