The Limbo Connection's photos with the keyword: time

I did not much like the picture in its original incarnation. The light from the side was disconcerting. So I robbed it of exposure and made it look like a Victorian parlour, or how I imagine a Victorian parlour looked like.

Fujifilm X-E1 with Fujinon 35mm f/1.4 XF R lens.

Inexplicably this makes my mind turn to the time when tea was routinely brewed in a teapot, instead of via a bag in a mug. I have sometimes wondered what became of all those redundant tea cosies. Fujinon 35mm f/1.4 XF R lens.

Fujifilm X-E1 and Fujinon XF 35mm f/1.4 R lens. Shot at 400 ISO with a shutter speed of 1/250th and at aperture f/1.4.

We measured time. We divided it. We made revisions. We engineered instruments of time. We commodified time. Time was bought and sold. We believe time is immutable. Yet we are fascinated by the possibility that it may be elastic. Nikon D2Xs + Vivitar 28mm f/2.8 Close Focus Wide Angle lens. There are several versions of this lens; the serial number of this one is 28430xxx with a filter size of 49mm and marked 'Made in Japan'. That reveals it was made by Komine (Vivitar never actually manufactured any lenses - all the work was contracted out). It was an OK lens, nothing stellar, and I got rid of it. The Nikkor 28mm f/3.5 AI, although slower, is in my opinion much better, but it costs quite a bit more. And better still, I recommend the Nikkor 28mm f/2 AI. Manual of course, but plenty of depth-of-field to work with when using a wide-angle.

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

I am a day behind. April had but 30 days. Analogue mechanics has no knowledge of that strangeness. Maybe we should embrace decimal time as in the French Revolutionary calendar. A Limbo Lockdown Production™.

Westclox had a factory in Dumbarton, Scotland, where this alarm clock was probably made. The business failed to thrive when Quartz clock technology was introduced and the factory closed in 1988. Nikon D2Xs and Vivitar 28mm f/2.8 Close Focus AIS lens. 100 ISO. There are many different 28mm Vivitar-branded lenses in a wide choice of camera mounts. Vivitar never made its own lenses - the company drew up specifications and invited lens manufacturers to bid for the work. This particular lens has a serial number beginning with '28' and from that it is possible to trace its maker to Komine. In the world of third-party lenses this one had a good reputation and a bit of a cult following. Some users likened it to the quality level of a Vivitar series 1 lens. I thought it was quite decent but on the whole I preferred a Nikkor 28mm f/3.5 even though it was slower.

Maud Heath was a wealthy and childless widow who regularly travelled from Bremhill to Chippenham to sell eggs in the market. At Kellaways the road was often flooded, and so Maud left money in her Will to build a causeway. She died in 1474 and the trustees of the fund erected this monument by the causeway in 1698. Recently it has been cleaned and renovated.

In the western liturgical year, Lady Day is the traditional name in some English-speaking countries of the Feast of the Annunciation, which is celebrated on 25 March, and commemorates the visit of the archangel Gabriel to the Virgin Mary, during which he informed her that she would be the mother of Jesus Christ, the Son of God. In England, Lady Day was New Year's Day from 1155 until 1752, when the Gregorian calendar was adopted. Nikon D700 and Tamron SP 35mm f/1.8 Di VC USD lens.

The historian, writer, and politician Alan Clark - the elder son of Lord Clark of Civilisation - lived in Seend during the 1970s. Before moving to the eastern end of the village he lived next door to the Church of the Holy Cross and wrote a history of it. He described the church as 'a fine structure dating from about 1450 and situated on the south side of Seend ridge, with open views across the Lavingtons to the northern edge of Salisbury Plain which forms the skyline some ten miles distant. Visitors enter the churchyard through an elegant wrought iron gate surmounted by a suspended lantern. This was beautifully restored in 1962 in memory of Sylvia Cassels’. Nikon D700 + Nikkor 28mm f/2 AI lens. This is a crop. I ought to have used a lens of longer focal length from the place I took this picture.

I don't know if time has colour but if it does, I feel there is a very good chance that it is brown. Meyer-Optik Gorlitz Orestegor 200mm f/4 Zebra lens on a Canon EOS 40D.

Time slipping away, new dreams born every day Suddenly, these dreams are behind you. Nikon D700 + Micro-Nikkor 55mm f/3.5 AI lens.

I've lost count of the number of attempts I've made to photograph this subject, an C18 brass sundial in the grounds of Lacock Abbey, made by Thomas Wright. Paradoxically, this study made with a cheap screw-thread Carl Zeiss Jena Tessar 50mm f/2.8 lens on a Canon EOS 40D digital camera has given me the greatest satisfaction ... so far.

Nikon D2Xs + Nikkor 200mm f/4 AI lens with Nikon TC-16A teleconverter.

Nikon D2Xs with a Nikkor 50mm f/1.8 AI lens and a Close-Up No. 4T supplementary lens in the filter mount.

C18 brass sundial, made by Thomas Wright. Nikon D2Xs with a Nikkor 50mm f/1.8 AI lens and a Close-Up No. 4T supplementary lens in the filter mount.