John Sheldon's photos

A 'take a picture of anything' to experiment with a particular camera setting, which became an exercise in black and white conversion techniques.

This partially completed guitar is not my work; making this would be far beyond my abilities. The guitar is not a 'kit' - it is one of a series being made using individually acquired raw materials.

This partially completed guitar is not my work; making this would be far beyond my abilities. The guitar is not a 'kit' - it is one of a series being made using individually acquired raw materials.

Takumar-A 28mm f2.8 lens. Mormo maura - A large-winged, sombre-coloured moth, which is distributed locally throughout much of Britain, and common in places. It hides by day in old buildings and sheds, and frequents damp localities as well as waste ground and gardens.

Lunch, based on a Greek recipe, I believe. 50mm Pentax 'plastic fantastic' lens.

Takumar-A 28mm f2.8 vintage lens. A typical but old fashioned British gas meter. The authorities and power companies are pressurising people to have these replaced by 'Smart meters' which enable them to read you meter (and unilaterally change you tariff I believe) remotely.

In 2015 I built a computer for photo processing. It is still in use (for PC games) 8 years later. Over the years, it has had a new graphics card, an internet adapter, upgraded memory and an extra fan; also it needed a replacement PSU (power supply unit); and now in order to replace Windows 8.1 with Windows 11 it has had a new motherboard (main board), a new CPU (central processing unit) and the SSD (solid state drive) has been replaced with a bigger PCIe style SSD; oh, and the memory has been doubled again. However, it is good to know that the computer is still in use after all this time. (I have in mind here the Wikipedia article called ‘Ship of Thesius’. The concept is also known popularly in the UK as ‘Trigger’s broom’). Takumar-A 28mm f2.8 vintage lens.

A souvenir from Sorrento in the Bay of Naples, Italy. The red Cornicello is a very old symbol of good luck, believed to have the ability to ward off the 'evil eye'. There seem to be variant acceptable spellings of 'Cornicello'. The map is of the excavations at Pompeii. Vintage prime lens: Takumar-A 28mm f2.8.

In the grounds of Villa Fiorentino, Sorrento, Italy.