To Do With Cheese

Taken with a Fuji X-E1 and Fujinon 35mm f/1.4 lens.

1. Eat it. 2. Photograph it. 3. Raffle it.

35mm Nikkor-O.C f/2 lens on a Nikon D2Xs. ISO 100; f/2, 1/2000th. Things I have learned concerning the photography of snowdrops: Snowdrops grow in clusters. If the front is in focus, the back probably won't be. You need a small aperture to get the necessary depth of field. You can lie out on the ground to get composition and focus right. I didn't. I knelt on a plastic bag and held the camera close to the ground. I pointed the lens towards the snowdrops and set the focus to the distance I guessed was right. I used a fast shutter speed and a wide aperture. This was almost as wrong as it was possible to be. I don't think photographs of snowdrops are very interesting anyway. I only came here for a cup of coffee and a cheese scone.

Close detail of a tin of Huntley and Palmer's assortment of cocktail biscuits. It once - long ago - contained tasty cheese footballs, and other exciting cheesy biscuits flavoured with celery, onion, tomato, and plenty of salt. I used a Canon EOS20D with a Pentacon 50mm f/1.8 lens augmented by three supplementary cheap close-up lenses screwed into the filter recess.

The Poultry Cross in Salisbury, Wilts, is a medieval stone structure which once served as the heart of the city market. It is in a poor state of repair. It is the last remaining cross; originally there were four, each serving a particular type of produce: poultry, meat, cheese, and cloth.