The Limbo Connection's photos

Your name in a telephone directory. Beautiful young women being photographed for a living. It is all temporary. It all changes.

What's behind your curtains? Have you checked?

Shot with a Nikon D2Xs and a Tamron 35mm f/1.8 lens. 400 ISO; 1/250th; f/1.8.

They built a new road. The old one was too narrow and bendy. A bit of land got cut off.

I was up early and noticed it was misty, but not so bad that a short drive would be dangerous. There was a copse in Lacock which I had long wanted to photograph when it was foggy. However, Lacock had been locked down because some big film or other was being made and Brad Pitt or somebody was having to be protected from his fans. The security guard, a man of few words and a threatening demeanour, took his duties most seriously and shouted loud enough to wake Brad, or whoever, in his caravan somewhere out of sight but probably within earshot of the loudmouth fellow. I found out by trial and error where his protection zone ended, and photographed a few things in the unprotected part. He had probably been up all night and not seen a soul until I turned up. I must have made his day. He didn't make mine, but on the plus side, I did get this picture which I might otherwise have missed.

I have exhibited this before, but not previously without cropping it smaller. Now I can see how attractive and historically sympathetic the National Trust car park gate actually is, I must post afresh. It was shot with the equivalent of 300mm focal length. That's why Silbury Hill looks so close and imposing. It's not really like that when viewed with the naked eye. Nikon D2Xs + Nikkor 55-200mm f/4-5.6G.

A heavily processed photograph made at Lacock Abbey on a misty winter morning. I used a Carl Zeiss Jena Tessar 50mm f/2.8 lens on a Canon EOS 20D. The lens was £12 on eBay sometime in 2013. The perspicacious Ken Rockwell observed some years ago that “when you use a $30 adapter to use an $8 lens on a $2,000 camera, you wind up with an $8 camera.” Vividly he made the point that buying a modern decent lens will produce better quality photographs, all other things being equal. The Tessar lens is an old and simple optical design. Even when the Practika MTL 5 camera was being sold new around 1976, the East German Tessar was the cheaper option to the Pentacon 50mm f/1.8 lens, which many will claim to be the superior choice. I have used the Pentacon, and enjoyed it, but repeatedly I have returned to the Tessar. I'm really not sure why. There’s more to it than simply being a cheapskate. And Ken Rockwell’s assertion is right, if your objective is to make perfect pictures. But I don’t think that actually is my objective, certainly not in all cases.

Fashion shoot with a Nikon D2Xs and a Tamron 17-50mm f/2.8 lens. 10 months of age.

Now it came to pass that I walked from the elevated section of Maud Heath's causeway at Kellaways towards Langley Burrell. And as I approached Brunel's twin-arched bridge under his railway I espied a vacant sun dress upon the stonework leading to the bridge. Of the occupant there was no sign. She appeared to have wriggled free or simply fallen out. I checked inside to be sure. I learned only that her name was 'Primark'. I left the dress where it was in case she was hiding in the undergrowth. However, the possibility that the sundress had been thrown from the window of a passing train overhead could not be excluded. All this is perfectly true.

Silbury Hill is a part of the complex of Neolithic monuments around Avebury in Wiltshire (which includes the West Kennet long barrow and the Sanctuary). It was built around 2,600 - 2,400 BC, which is later than the other sites in the area. To design, organise, and construct this mound shows the technical skill of the age and reveals strong and prolonged control over labour and resources. At 129 ft high, Silbury Hill is the tallest prehistoric man-made mound in Europe and one of the largest in the world. There is nothing inside it other than chalk, clay, rubble and soil, and there is no big hole to account for the materials used in construction. It would have taken 500 labourers 15 years to complete. The flattened top is 100ft in diameter. The area immediately surrounding the monument is lower than the level of the land around it. The presence of natural springs indicate a moat or reservoir. In fact, the mound sits in a dip in the landscape; it would have been an unusual choice for a strategic defensive site. Perhaps the site itself was important to the builders. Nikon D2Xs and AF-S DX VR Zoom-Nikkor 55-200mm f/4-5.6G lens.

Near Steeple Ashton church. Nikon D2Xs + Nikkor 200mm f/4 AI-S + Nikon TC-16A

Camera: Fujifilm X-E1. Lens: Fujinon 35mm f/1.4 XF R.

Nikon D40 and 18-70mm lens.

Nikon D40 + AF-S Nikkor 18-70mm f/3.5 - 4.5 G DX lens. 400 ISO; f/8; 1/250th.

Nikon D40 + AF-S Nikkor 18-70mm f/3.5 - 4.5 G DX lens. 400 ISO; f/7; 1/200th.

The valley of the Lym is just over five kilometres long and it falls 200 metres from source to the sea in Lyme Bay.

Nikon D2Xs and Tokina AT-X 50-135mm f/2.8 PRO DX AF lens.

Nikon D2Xs and Tokina AT-X 50-135mm f/2.8 PRO DX AF lens.