Domestic Scenes

The setting sun sending fat shafts of bright light through the kitchen window illuminating the semi-saintly stainless steel teapot and kettle as they bask in the success of their day's work. Photographed with an old screw-thread Cosina Cosinon 135mm f/2.8 lens on a Fuji X-E1. The lens was £10 on eBay. Something to celebrate every time I use it.

Bear was photographed using a Nikon D40 with a Nikkor-O.C 35mm f/2 lens. Cropped and processed in Lightroom. Bear is still sulking. It is most out of character.

This is it now. I deleted the photograph of a photograph, so it exists here and nowhere else. I figured I had the photograph anyway. Why would I want a photograph of a photograph? Except that it's lovely. You can't have too much of lovely. But apparently (see above), I did.

Nikkor 50mm f/1.4 AF-D lens.

Peeling new potatoes I think of you, Your bottom in the air Provocatively.

Shirts photographed with a Canon EOS 30D with a Meyer-Optik Gorlitz Orestegor 200mm f/4 Zebra lens mounted via a cheap EOS-M42 adapter. Subsequent processing in Adobe Lightroom.

Tamron 35mm f/1.8 lens.

Canon EOS 30D and Chinon 55mm f/1.4 lens.

Shot using a Nikon D40 with a Nikkor AI 50mm f/2 lens made sometime between March 1977 and January 1979.

Nikon D2Xs + Nikkor 50mm f/1.4 AI-S lens. Processed in Lightroom. A Limbo Lockdown Production™. A while ago I bought a Nikkor-S.C 50mm f/1.4 lens (made circa 1973) from a bloke on eBay. The results were very attractive but the focussing mechanism was stiff and unlikely to mend itself, so I returned it with a tart comment. Had he set the selling price at a lower level commensurate with the eventual repair costs I would have had no complaint. I noticed he later sold it to another mug without reducing the price or amending the description. I hankered after the optical quality of the lens however, and bought the later AI-S version from a trader whom I trust. The optical characteristics are not as engaging as the old S.C version, but it's close.

Nikon D3s + Tamron AF 70-210mm f/2.8 SP LD 67D lens. Shutter priority. 135mm; f/2.8; 1/500th; 400 ISO. Cropped. Enhanced in Lightroom.

I like the light falling on these very ordinary objects for much of the day. Here I was using a 50mm f/1.4 Nikkor on a teleconverter giving a focal length of 80mm. As it was on an APS-C camera the field of view was akin to 120mm. I was always attracted to telephoto experiences.

Available light. Canon EOS 40D at 1600 ISO. Chinon 55mm f/1.4 lens at f/3.3. 1/250th.

Photographed with a Canon EOS 40D + Canon 35-105mm f/3.5-4.5 EF lens. This is a very good lens, although sadly my copy is temperamental and won't function at all in manual focus mode. It has had a long and hard life, yet can still turn in a virtuoso performance. Sadly the number of missed opportunities, where it seizes up, have led to it being designated a paperweight.

Shot using a Nikon D40 with a Nikkor AI 50mm f/2 lens made sometime between March 1977 and January 1979.

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

Carl Zeiss Tessar 50mm f/2.8. I dare say pretty much any standard 50mm lens could have provided this result, yet I think it is a triumph for an old simple Tessar. Another oddity is that the Tessar - at least this particular version - feels like a perfect marriage with a Canon EOS 30D.