photos from the past 40 years
This is my contribution to the Tuesday Photo Challenge – Fuzzy.
This challenge made me think of some experiments I did in the 1980s. I was using a high speed film, Scotch Chrome 1000 with various soft focus and diffusion filters.
A Fuschia flower.
A Small Tortoiseshell Butterfly.
Pyrethrum flowers.
This is my contribution to the Tuesday Photo Challenge – Focus.
As I have mentioned in some previous posts, I have been making some changes to the equipment I carry when out and about shooting personal work. I have put together a set of three small, manual focus primes and a small mirrorless camera body.
The kit fits in a small camera bag which weighs next to nothing compared to my normal shoulder bag. It’s a lot easier on the shoulder I injured in early spring.
I’m really enjoying getting back to basics with a kit similar to the gear I used as a photography student all those years ago.
Three shots of flowers on the South Bruce Peninsula taken when testing each of the manual focus primes that make up my back to basics kit.
The first was taken with the 7artisans 35mm f/1.2 lens wide open.
The second shot is taken with a Samyang 12mm f/2 lens wide open.
The third shot was taken with the 7artisans 55mm f/1.4 lens wide open.
This is my contribution to the Tuesday Photo Challenge – Fall.
I had a few ideas for the challenge after photographing some early fall colour at the weekend. In the end I decided to go with a selection of photos of fall colour covering several decades and various locations.
Fall colour on Bickerton Hill, Cheshire, England in the early 1990s.
Fall colour in early snow, Bickerton Hill, Cheshire, England in the late 1980s.
Fall colour behind a slough, Punnichy, Saskatchewan, Canada in the late 1990s.
Fall colour on the Niagara Escarpment, Ontario, Canada a few years ago.
Fall colour in the mist, Hatherton, Cheshire, England in the late 1970s.
A section of fallen tree trunk surrounded by fall colour on the South Bruce Peninsula last year.
This is my contribution to the Tuesday Photo Challenge: City.
The Houses of Parliament and Big Ben through some light mist from the south bank of the River Thames in London, England.
This is my contribution to the Tuesday Photo Challenge – Lock.
A simple photo of a lock on doors securing a bank of electricity meters. The sixth shot taken with a Samyang 12mm f/2 lens I purchased used recently. It’s now part of my retro kit of three manual focus primes.
The camera and three lenses all fit in a tiny Domke F-5XB bag and the whole kit weighs next to nothing. Ideal for resting my injured shoulder. It’s nice if I’m feeling like getting back to basics and shooting like I did as a photography student in the late 1970s.
Quite heavily edited in Snapseed including using the grunge tool before adding a blur and vignette around the edges of the frame. I finished off the edit with a simple white border.
This is my contribution to the Tuesday Photo Challenge – Overhead.
My first thought was looking up at trees followed by birds flying overhead.
Then I thought about some of the sunrises and sunsets where I used a wide angle lens to show of much of the sky as possible.
Clouds over Colpoy’s Bay and the Niagara Escarpment at sunrise.
