Food for Thought

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

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

Joyce Barnaby was the name of a character in the television drama 'Midsomer Murders'. Her husband was the big-cheese detective who solved all the murders. The presentation of their domestic life was solidly anodyne, except for the closing scene of the episode entitled 'Country Matters' which was a surprise after a diet of unrelenting potatoes. Viewing these potatoes caused me to recall how dull the home life of Mr and Mrs Barnaby had been presented.

Photographed using a Nikon D2Xs with a Tamron Di II SP AF 17-50mm f/2.8 XR LD Aspherical (IF) lens.

I am fortunate in being able to have a breakfast, election morning or not.

I used the Nikkor 28-80mm f/3.3-5.6 G lens on a Nikon D90 to make this photograph. It's cheap and plentiful on the secondhand market. Optically it is quite good but the quality of construction is not the best. It's also slow, especially at telephoto settings. It will focus as close as 14 inches. It weighs less than seven ounces. I have used Lightroom to improve the photograph. The D90 and the 28-80mm lens were sold some time ago. A fast prime lens will always out-perform a consumer zoom like the 28-80mm. This picture absolutely needed editing assistance: it lacked clarity and contrast and the edges were blurry from being shot at maximum focal length of 80mm and maximum aperture of f/5.6. Just to guarantee softness I shot at 1/50th. I would like to think that I have learned something in the six years since I took the photograph but the rate of attrition suggests otherwise.

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

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