The Limbo Connection's photos

Nikon D2Xs + Tamron SP 35mm F1.8 Di VC USD lens. f/4; 1/40th. 200 ISO.

It is New Year's Day. Let us consider the future and reflect on the past. The subject is a Nikon FG-20 and a Soligor C/D Zoom Macro 80-200mm f4.5 lens Photographed with an AF Nikkor 50mm f/1.4D lens on a Nikon D2Xs set at 100 ISO. I resolve to make much greater use of 50mm prime lenses. I have sold the FG-20 and the Soligor zoom lens.

Nikon D700 + Nikkor 20mm f/3.5 AI-S lens. I made several photographs of this ordinary little BR table in my attempt to travel back in time. Hence the number '2' in the title. 400 ISO; f/3.5; 1/125th.

Nikon D700 + Nikkor 20mm f/3.5 AI-S lens. The reference in the title to a platform ticket is poetic licence. You don't need a platform ticket to look at what's going on at the East Somerset Railway.

Nikon D2Xs with a Nikkor 28mm f/3.5 AI lens.

The Bride.

A photograph of a Nikon FG-20 with a Soligor 80-200mm f/4.5 zoom lens, hanging from a peg with a raincoat, alongside some dandelion clocks which I also photographed because dandelions are majestic and indomitable. All art is the result of observation. Often we see yet do nothing. Sometimes we do not notice at all. Ideas are fragile. They quickly vaporise if they are not preserved and developed. The universe is full of broken fragments of ideas.

A girl. A smile. A camera. Click. Later: A black-and-white print (No name, no details). Much later: The black-and-white print On eBay. Sold. (No name, no details). The girl - Who knows? Note: I bought the original photograph on eBay. It was printed on Kodak Velox paper, a very slow printing paper producing a blue-black image suitable for contact printing. As the original print measures 3.25 x 4.25 inches it is reasonable to suppose the negative came from 118 type roll film such as a Box Brownie might need, or a Kodak Model 3 or a Hawk-Eye. All this helps to date the photograph, but the best indicator is on the reverse which has a repeat motif of ‘Kodak/Velox/Paper' in three lines. That dates it to sometime in the 1950s or 1960s, unless the developer was using old stock. Kodak discontinued that paper in 1968. Kodak advertised Velox as ‘the only photographic paper made exclusively for amateur negatives’. The imperfections on this particular print indicate it was not made by a laboratory striving to maintain a business reputation. Collections of photographs which once meant something to somebody are a staple of house clearances. They are bought in auctions and sold online.

Lacock Abbey cloisters. Fujifilm FinePix S3 Pro with a Tamron 17-50 mm f/2.8 lens.

This is an accidental photograph. I tripped the shutter by holding the camera clumsily. Later, I straightened it up in Lightroom and fiddled with the sliders here and there. Nikon D700 + Nikkor 20mm f/3.5 AI-S lens.

Croquet is a serious game. Other games are spoiled by the dominion of money. Croquet is pure, and intense on a different level. Nikon D700 + AF Zoom-Nikkor 70-210mm f/4 lens at 125mm. Relatively few of this constant-aperture lens were made: it was expensive and sales were slow. Nikon replaced it with a cheaper variable-aperture 70-210mm with a push-pull trombone action lens.

I like the composition where they are together but apart in that moment, and the solitude and the light of the early morning in Lyme Regis adds atmosphere. However, metering into the sea can be problematic and the sky was no help. I've overlaid a grad filter in the processing to counter those deficiencies. In some situations you tend not to get much opportunity to use a grad at the moment of exposure.

Nikon D2Xs + Tokina SD 50-135mm f/2.8 DX AT-X Pro lens.

1969.

Photographed using a Nikon D2Xs with a Tamron 17-50mm f/2.8 lens.

Nikon D50 + 18-135mm Nikkor.

A sunny afternoon spent in The Courts Garden at Holt, Wiltshire, using a Nikon D2Xs with three vintage Nikkor AI lenses: a 55mm Micro-Nikkor f/3.5; a 28mm f/3.5; and a 200mm f/4.

Nothing much to do with Pythagoras, but that triangle in the foreground is compelling, notwithstanding that it's a bit ragged on the longest side. Anyway, for reference: The square of the hypotenuse (the side opposite the right angle) is equal to the sum of the squares of the other two sides. Canon EOS 40D + Canon EF 35-135mm f/4-5.6 lens.