Frocks

Caught on brambles alongside a little-used footpath. Perhaps it became a refugee from some nearby washing line when a gale blew. I looked inside to check it was not occupied and discovered a 'Primark' label, hence the unusual precision in the title. Nikon D2Xs and Nikkor AF-S 70-300mm lens at 105mm. 400 ISO; f/6; 1/80th.

Fujifilm X-E1 with a 28mm Soligor C/D Wide-Auto f/2.8 lens.

I used a 55-200mm f/4-5.6 G VR zoom lens on a Nikon D90.

Her dress needs to be shortened, or the hem will be ragged and dirty in no time. Perhaps she does not care. Nikon D90, Nikon 55-200mm lens.

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.

Nikon D2Xs and Tamron 35mm f/1.8 lens.

The occupant was elsewhere when her dress was discovered and photographed.

The new dress, as yet uncompleted, was shot as a JPG, at 1/320th and f/4 with ISO set at 800, using a Nikon D700, with a Nikkor-H Auto 85mm f/1.8 lens. For many years I searched sporadically for a Nikkor-H 85mm f/1.8 lens which had been factory-adapted to the new Nikon AI system introduced in 1977. The company never offered the lens in the AI range because they had a more compact f/2 lens ready to go. Opinions vary over which was the better lens, but there is strong affection for the original. At long last I found one for sale; cosmetically beaten up but still functional, as you might expect of a Nikkor lens of the 1964-77 period.

Lacock Abbey, Wiltshire. Nikon D700. Nikkor 70-210mm f/4-5.6 AF lens at 145mm and f/8.