The Limbo Connection's photos with the keyword: River Avon

Next to Pulteney Bridge, Bath - back of Argyle Street.

This is the Bristol Avon above Chippenham. There are several rivers called the Avon.

Nikon D2Xs + Tamron SP AF 17-50mm f/2.8 XR lens.

The population of Kellaways is very small. It's the sort of place where well-to-do folks live in quite large houses, and there aren't even that many of them. But at this site, accessed by walking along the river bank, there is a weir with a good sturdy large house behind it on the opposite side of the river. I've seen it before from the roadside and admired it. I think this is the site of the old mill, presumably a cloth mill since this area became wealthy on the wool trade. The occupants of the big house must have the sound of crashing water in their ears all the time. I don't know if that is restful or not. Anyway, I took a rare excursion into shutter-priority mode to get the water looking like a white mass. I did not have a tripod but I think I got away with it. Nikon D2Xs and Nikkor AF-S 70-300mm lens at 110mm (like 165mm for the same result with a full frame camera). 100 ISO; f/18; 1/15th.

Nikon D2Xs + Nikkor 85mm f/1.8 AF-D lens. 100 ISO; 1/200th; f/9.

Nikon D2Xs + Nikkor 85mm f/1.8 AF-D lens. 100 ISO; 1/125th; f/6.3.

Photographed with a Tamron AF 70-210mm f/2.8 SP LD lens on a Nikon D700. This lens was in production from 1992 to 2003. Aperture priority; 800 ISO; f/11; 1/200th; lens at 70mm.

Photographed with a Tamron AF 70-210mm f/2.8 SP LD lens on a Nikon D700. This lens was in production from 1992 to 2003. Aperture priority; 800 ISO; f/11; 1/160th; lens at 70mm.

Photographed from the bridge over the Avon with a Nikon D2Xs and a AF Nikkor 24mm f/2.8 lens.

Nikon D2Xs + Tamron AF Zoom 55-200mm f/4-5.6 Di II LD Macro lens.

I took this photograph of the River Avon at Chippenham, Wiltshire, with the old Nestles factory on the opposite bank, during October, 2015. I used a Canon EOS 40D with a Soligor C/D Wide-Auto f/2.8 28mm M42 lens on an adapter. When you use vintage optics you have to be prepared to do a bit of post-processing, most particulalrly by adding contrast. But perversely I have reduced contrast for this second version, and increased exposure here and there. I quite like the composition, yet I feel the elements within it are vying for prominence. Nevertheless, I like drawing an imaginary diagonal from the life belt to the red door.

There are several rivers called 'Avon'. The name derives from an old Welsh word 'abona'. 'Abona' means 'river', It probably didn't matter that there were several rivers called by the same name because people tended to stay in the same area in the old days. This particular river Avon is the Bristol Avon above Chippenham, Wiltshire. The photograph was taken with a Nikon D2Xs and a manual focus Nikkor 50mm f/1.8 AI lens made sometime between January, 1978 and October, 1982.

Nikon D50 + Tamron AF Zoom 55-200mm f/4-5.6 lens. The foreground was picked out with the aid of a Minolta Close-Up Lens No.1 screwed into the filter ring.

Bath, Somerset: a wet day at the start of August. Nikon D50 + Tamron AF Zoom 55-200mm f/4-5.6 lens.

The river Avon at Tytherton Kellaways, Wiltshire.

There are several rivers named 'Avon'. The name is derived from the Welsh word for river, 'afon'. The river in this picture is the Bristol, or Lower, Avon. Canon EOS 40D + Soligor C/D Wide-Auto f/2.8 28mm