The Limbo Connection's photos

An old photograph from long ago. Probably the last picture I shall post on ipernity. My subscription is due shortly and with regret I shall not renew. The unsatisfactory experience of using the site over the last few months, and the realisation that in the short term it is beyond repair, have led to this decision. I have tidied my part of the site by making many deletions so that any vestige which remains for however long it lingers will be the best I can do. I wish you all well. For me, this is the end.

The 'ROYAL MAIL' legend first appeared on letter boxes in the early 1990s; prior to this letter boxes had the words 'POST OFFICE' cast onto them. The change was prompted by the separation of Post Office Counters Limited and Royal Mail as independent companies. Nikon D50 and AF-S DX Nikkor 35mm f/1.8G lens.

With thanks to the cheerful sitter for agreeing to let me take her picture whilst she waited for a train. Nikon D90 with a Sigma 15-30mm F3.5-4.5 EX DG lens.

These wonderful people not only agreed to my request to take their photograph but also permitted me repeated exposures as I struggled with an unfamiliar focal length (35mm; I still don't get on with 35mm). Their portrait appears afresh following a re-edit designed to give a warmer look whilst toning down the red colours.

Good warm summer light. F/8 on an AF-S DX Nikkor 18-200mm f/3.5-5.6 G lens. Nikon D80.

Street scene near Paxton & Whitfield cheesemonger's in Bath. This is their old shop in John Street. In 2024 they moved to Green Street. All that cheese going across town must have left a few pungent notes behind as it travelled. Nikon D50 and Nikkor 28-80mm f/3.3-5.6 G lens. This kit was cheap bought secondhand, light to carry, versatile for street photography and caused little worry on the might-get-nicked front.

Reading is the largest settlement in, and the county town of, the Royal County of Berkshire. The confluence of the Kennet and the Thames is in Reading. Reading is the principal regional and commercial centre of the Thames Valley. The population of Reading is 174,200, although the number in the greater urban area which not only comprises the borough but also analogous districts outside the borough boundary is 233,000.

For about 60 years this was a footpath which provided a shortcut from the town to a housing estate. There was a prohibition order banning cycling on this path and the railings served to emphasise the serious intent. I don't know if there was ever a prosecution; many times I saw cyclists ignoring the ban with impunity. Then recently the railings were removed and the path widened. The prohibition order was revoked and lines were painted on the new tarmac delineating where cyclists should cycle and walkers should walk. It all seemed a bit pointless really. Fujifilm X-E1 & Fujinon 35mm f/1.4 XF R lens set at f/1.4.

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.

The plastic A/M slider has broken off my venerable Chinon 55mm f/1.4 lens dating from circa 1976 (a £10 upgrade when bought with a Chinon CX). To mark this milestone in its decline I have edited an earlier photograph made with this lens presumably wide open. I ought to take contemporaneous notes but it seems a nerdy thing to be doing for a cool guy like me. Non-contemporaneous notes (the cool type of notes): The photograph was taken through a gap in a hedge (green bits). Beyond the hedge was (and still is) a busy four-lane road (blurred bits). Beyond that again is an old wool mill, imposing and built of stone (white bits). There is an inexplicable red bit. My best guess is that it was a red lorry. The leaves in their final days leave me feeling melancholy. If I were not a photographer, I should scarcely have registered their existence.

Photographed using a Chinon 55mm f/1.4 lens fitted via an EOS-M42 adapter to a Canon EOS 30D camera.

The de Clarke monument in Locksbrook Cemetery, Lower Weston, Bath. It is a bronze sarcophagus with an angel over a base of Pennant stone sculpted by Edward Onslow Ford and completed in 1900. The monument was erected to Mary (d. 1895), wife of Lieut.-Gen The Hon Sir Andrew Clarke. Sir Andrew died in 1902. It is probably the finest tomb in Locksbrook, and is a Grade II listed building. I used a Chinon 55mm f/1.4 lens for this photograph. Camera: Fujifilm X-E1.

Lens: Nikkor 50mm f/1.4 AI-S.

Nikon D700 + AF Zoom-Nikkor 70-210mm f/4 at 90mm.

Cropped and greatly processed for an 'arty' appearance, this is a tiny file which could be a disappointment when printed at any size. It probably looks at its best on a computer screen. Canon EOS 40D + Chinon 55mm f1.4 lens.

Two people walking in step photographed through the classical porch added incongruously to the front of the Georgian building in Corsham housing the Methuen Arms hotel. I used a Carl Zeiss Jena 50mm f/2.8 lens on a Canon EOS 20D. This lens is a Tessar design of just four elements and was a lower cost option to a Pentacon equivalent on a Praktica camera in the 1970s. It was slower of course; f/2.8 compared to the Pentacon's f/1.8. Yet in good light the Carl Zeiss was every bit as good, better maybe. Certainly a sharp lens, and capable of closer focussing than many other standard lenses. I bought mine second hand for £12. I doubt if a lens in good working order and engraved with 'Carl Zeiss' could be found cheaper.

Photographed with a Chinon 55mm f/1.4 lens mounted on a Canon EOS 30D via an EOS-M42 adapter. The macro effect was achieved with the addition of a Minolta Close Up No. 1 supplementary lens screwed into the 55mm filter mount.

I met a fellow photographer in the garden of Hauser & Wirth in Somerset. She kindly agreed to have her picture taken. It's wonderful when this happens. Nikon D40 with a Tamron 35mm f/1.8 lens. Field of view equivalent to a 50mm lens on a full frame camera. 400 ISO; aperture priority set at f/5. Shutter 1/320th.