To Do With Cheese

There is a tea room in the Stables Yard at Lacock Abbey where excellent cheese scones and cake is available. Close by is a second-hand bookshop where you can buy something to read whilst you munch. Today I bought a slender volume of eighteen love poems which George Bernard Shaw wrote for Ellen Terry and 'Small World' by David Lodge. The latter was typeset in Plantin which is a good dense Roman face and easier to read than some weedy excuses for typefaces they use routinely to save a dollop or two of ink in the production run. My work compiling an Occasional Gourmet's Guide to Cheese Scones in Sundry Catering Establishments Along the A350 (discussed here a few years ago with the incomparable Steve Bucknell - see www.ipernity.com/doc/341635/48133194) has pretty much ground to a halt. Few vendors of cheese scones seem likely to supplant Lacock in my estimation, and although I have not charted the whole territory, I find the A350 so busy these days that it's better all round to stick with what I know. Nikon D40 and 18-200mm lens.

Street scene near Paxton & Whitfield cheesemonger's in Bath. This is their old shop in John Street. In 2024 they moved to Green Street. All that cheese going across town must have left a few pungent notes behind as it travelled. Nikon D50 and Nikkor 28-80mm f/3.3-5.6 G lens. This kit was cheap bought secondhand, light to carry, versatile for street photography and caused little worry on the might-get-nicked front.

Nikon D2Xs and Tamron 17-50mm f/2.8 SP lens.

I used a Carl Zeiss Jena f/2.8 Tessar lens on a Canon EOS 20D to make this still life.

Photographed with a Canon EOS 30D and a Helios-44 58mm f/2 lens with an extension tube in between.

Nikon D2Xs and Tamron Di II SP AF 17-50mm f/2.8 XR LD Aspherical (IF) lens. Type A16N

Tamron Di II SP AF Zoom 17-50mm f/2.8 XR LD Aspherical (IF) lens on a Nikon D2Xs SLR.

Subject: A Cokin camera strap with a button badge. The strap is so old that I have forgotten how I came by it. The badge was on a birthday card several anniversaries ago. Equipment: Nikon D3s and Micro-Nikkor 55mm f/3.5 AI lens. ISO 12,800. Observation: I started photography with 100 ISO film. The ISO in this digital photograph is seven stops more sensitive to light. Can it be real?

Nikon D3s + Micro-Nikkor 55mm f/3.5 AI lens.