The Limbo Connection's photos with the keyword: memorials

Locksbrook cemetery. Camera: Fujifilm X-E1. Lens: Fujinon 35mm f/1.4 XF R.

The ubiquitous aluminium flower vase manufactured in vast numbers for the businesses devoted to serving the bereaved. With the decline of burial as a method of disposal, they are probably manufactured in much smaller numbers these days. For almost all my years I have viewed these specialist utilitarian objects with great and ever-growing distaste. Camera: Fujifilm X-E1. Lens: Fujinon 35mm f/1.4 XF R.

Camera: Fujifilm X-E1. Lens: Fujinon 35mm f/1.4 XF R.

This was photographed using a Tomioka-made Chinon 55mm f/1.4 lens (circa 1976) on a Fujifilm X-E1 camera (circa 2013) via an M42-Fuji X adapter. Focussing has not proved to be as easy as I had expected but that is more a problem of diminishing eyesight than a criticism of the Fuji engineers. This photograph had the odds set in my favour with the aperture closed down. The 55mm Chinon is my favourite old legacy lens but I shall try out a Helios-44 and a Carl Zeiss Tessar, as well as the bubble bokeh specialist Fujinon 55mm f/2.2 in due course.

Locksbrook is a cemetery on the outskirts of Bath. Now closed for new burials and neglected, it is used chiefly by people walking their dogs. Many memorials are overgrown and collapsed; a few, but not many, are visited and remembered. I was struck powerfully by the futility of erecting memorial stones when after a short time nobody can recall who you were. Many of the great and good are interred here; people of wealth and social standing. Some of the memorials are extravagant and ornate and would have cost a pretty penny. My visit on the first day of October on an overcast wet day underlined the end of the summer and struck a funereal note all of its own. Lens: Fujinon XF 35mm f/1.4 R wide open. Camera: Fujifilm X-E1.

Nikon D2Xs + AF-S Nikkor 18-200mm lens.

Nikon D2Xs + AF-S Nikkor 18-200mm lens.

No baptisms or weddings here. Photographed with a 24mm Nikkor f/2.8 AF on a Nikon D2Xs, a crop sensor camera where 24mm equates to something like 35mm on full frame. 1/250th at f/5.6; 200 ISO.

Photographed with a 24mm Nikkor f/2.8 AF on a Nikon D2Xs, a crop sensor camera where 24mm equates to something like 35mm on full frame. 1/125th at f/5.6; 200 ISO. Converted to black and white.

Nikon D2Xs + Tamron AF 70-210mm f/2.8 SP LD lens made sometime between 1992 and 2003. ISO 800; f/4; 1/400th; focal length 70mm (like 105mm on a full frame instrument). I lugged this heavy zoom lens some distance in the hope of getting some dramatic shots and ended up using the other lens in the bag, a 24mm f/2.8 (like a 35mm on full frame) for most of the photographs which survived the cull afterwards. Something to be learnt I think.

Photographed with a 24mm Nikkor f/2.8 AF on a Nikon D2Xs, a crop sensor camera where 24mm equates to something like 35mm on full frame. 1/80th at f/5.6; 200 ISO. Converted to black and white for an ethereal effect.

Photographed with a 24mm Nikkor f/2.8 AF on a Nikon D2Xs, a crop sensor camera where 24mm equates to something like 35mm on full frame. 1/125th at f/2.8; 3200 ISO.

Photographed with a 24mm Nikkor f/2.8 AF on a Nikon D2Xs, a crop sensor camera where 24mm equates to something like 35mm on full frame. 1/125th at f/4; 400 ISO. I think the red berries are from a rowan tree.

Pressing 'z' improves the experience of seeing how a shaft of sunlight picks out detail. Nikon D2Xs at 100 ISO. Tamron 35mm f/1.8 lens at f/8. 1/160th.

A fresh edit of an old photograph, revealing greater detail and clarity. Photographed with a AF-S DX Zoom-Nikkor 18-135mm f/3.5-5.6G IF-ED lens on a Nikon D90. A surprisingly capable lens and very sharp, but not that well built and slow as it approached telephoto.

September, 2015: Viewed from a country churchyard. Nikon D2Xs + Nikkor 200mm f/4 AI-S lens + Nikon TC-16A teleconverter.