John Sheldon's photos

Picture taken with SMC Pentax-DA 35mm f2.4 prime lens.

The yellow of daffodils is bright even on a dullish day. SMC Pentax DA 35mm f2.4 prime lens.

Close focus check on new (pre-loved) SMC Pentax-DA 50mm f1.8 prime lens. Little or no green/purple fringing on the (unedited) bright parts - encouraging.

Trial picture with 'Plastic Fantastic' SMC Pentax-DA 35mm f2.4 prime lens. JPEG from unedited DNG via SilkyPix. Simnel Cakes were originally associated with 'Mothers'Day' in the UK but for a long time now have been a part of Easter.

The two 'Plastic Fantastic' modern Pentax prime lenses are added to my existing collection of: Takumar-A 28mm f2.8, SMC Pentax-A 50mm f1.7 and SMC Pentax-A 100mm f2.8 'vintage' prime lenses.

First trial picture with new (pre-loved) 'Plastic Fantastic' SMC Pentax-DA 35mm f2.4 prime lens.

Pediment with statues of three classical gods, at Lyme Park in Cheshire, England. The myth makers had lots to say about them, much of it unpleasant. At the top is Poseidon (Neptune) the ‘earth shaker’ who took the sea as his domain when drawing lots against Zeus and Hades who took the sky and the underworld respectively. Poseidon turned against Odysseus for blinding his son (the Cyclops) and was active in preventing Odysseus’ return home after the Trojan Wars. The female god to the right is Artemis (Diana) the sister of Apollo. She famously punished the mortal Acteon for accidentally seeing her bathing by turning him into a stag and setting his own hounds loose on him (with fatal results). She also caused Agamemnon to sacrifice his daughter before allowing the winds to blow favourably for his 1000 ships to sail to Illium (Troy). To the left is Pan (Faunus). Mostly associated with nature and the rural world, he helped the Athenians at the Battle of Marathon by instilling panic (Pan-ic) into the Persian invaders. This statue seems to have been sculpturally photo-shopped. According to Homeric Hymns, he was born fully formed with horns, beard, puck nose, tail, goat’s legs and was covered with hair.

At Lyme Park in Cheshire, England. Lyme Park is an English Stately Home now owned by the National Trust and open to the public. It was used in a 1995 filming of Jane Austen's novel Pride and Prejudice in which it became 'Pemberley'. Pentax-A 100mm f2.8 vintage prime lens.

At Lyme Park in Cheshire, England. Pentax-A 50mm f1.7 vintage prime lens.