The Limbo Connection's photos

Buckfastleigh station on the South Devon Railway.

The Morris Eight was restyled in 1938. I saw this one in a field adjoining Wilton Windmill when I visited in 2011. I've angled the picture to suggest the car is going downhill because that was the only way it could attain a speed of 60 mph. Logically the haystack is also going downhill, but that is an optical illusion. The laws of physics don't always apply in neolithic Wiltshire. For information, Wilton Windmill is not in, nor particularly close to, the borough of Wilton near Salisbury. You'd do better looking for it near Marlborough.

Where Forecaster Mystere coat by Valstar in Trevira (1969) abruptly meets Coty Light and Lovely (1961). It isn't obvious from this clumsy double exposure, but the advertising of the 1960s was powerful and imaginative in contrast to the feeble diet provided now.

An old photograph which I have attempted to improve by turning it upside down and undertaking some judicious editing. I used an old Micro-Nikkor 55mm f/3.5 lens on a Nikon D2Xs. It is light in weight and uncommonly sharp, even in this age of excellence in optical instruments. Its widest aperture is only f/3.5 and with the D2Xs being hopeless beyond 400 ISO, good light or flash is necessary. Since I hate using flash, I seldom use the lens. That is a pity.

Bath bus station, August, 2014, photographed using a Nikon D2Xs with a Tamron SP AF 17-50mm f/2.8 lens.

Looking back; Oh, way back - So long ago now - I would say Without a moment's hesit Ation That I have been fascinated With bus stops for Oh, a long long time. With buses, Less so.

Nikon D50 + 55mm f/3.5 Micro lens.

I thought my cataloguing of photographs was fairly good. Then I discovered this photograph which I had included in a never-launched website but which seems not to be amongst the usual source of my pictures from this period (at least 10 years ago). I recall asking the waitress in the cafe if I might be allowed to take her picture and she very sportingly obliged. I wonder what she's doing now. Technical Note: The only method I could find to make the web picture back into a Jpeg was to photograph it from the computer screen. There must be better ways which are as yet beyond my knowledge.

Nikon D2Xs with a Tamron SP AF 17-50mm f/2.8 at 50mm. L to R: Man with a brochure; girl with a hat; woman with a sad face; man with a guitar (perhaps).

Number 11 is fast, good control, reads situation well, deals with interference and gets cross.

Someone thought it was worth doing. And if it gave them pleasure, of course it was. Yet I have a faint memory that this kind of floor mosaic was de rigueur some years ago, and copied copiously to the point of becoming trite. All these years later it seems scarce, like an old Mini, once ubiquitous, now rare.

Double exposure.

Peter Pan Foundations, Shepherd Street, Mayfair, London. 1966 'She' magazine advertisement. With some adaptations, including small ads from an 'Evening Standard' of similar vintage.

To the Left: An advertisement discovered in a 'She' magazine published during 1966, made subject to selective enlargement and other processing indignities. To the Right: Another selective enlargement, this one being of the top of an old pair of stepladders frequently used for painting and decorating.