The Limbo Connection's photos with the keyword: butt

Canon EOS 40D + Soligor C/D 28mm f/2.8 + Minolta supplementary close-up lens no.1. The field of view of a 28mm wide-angle lens on a Canon crop sensor camera is 45mm. You get a standard lens experience but with the depth-of-field advantages a wide-angle lens provides. This is a black and white edit of a photograph originally made in colour and which is elsewhere in my stream.

Today's theme is grunge. This is a close-up picture, turned sideways, of my water butt which is very grungy. The word 'butt' has many meanings. In this instance it is a cask containing two hogsheads. The English hogshead was first standardized by an Act of Parliament in 1423. I was butt a child then, butt I recall the subject being spoken of in the marketplace. The word 'hogshead' derives from germanic languages. The English called it 'hogshead' because they preferred the resonance of that word to 'oxhead' which was the original word, arising from the branding of such a measure with the head of an ox. So they didn't hollow out oxheads, or even hogsheads, and fill them with liquids or dry measures. That would have been gross. Even in medieval England they would have drawn the line at that. Or would they ... Fujifilm FinePix S3 Pro + Tamron AF Zoom 55-200mm f/4-5.6 lens and a Minolta Close-Up Lens No.1 screwed into the filter ring.