The Limbo Connection's photos with the keyword: smoking

It's a Thursday morning on a fine day in early October, a bit before half past ten. Opinion is divided over whether there's any need for a coat; this man is firmly in the 'keep the breeze out' side. There's a handy bench near where someone is selling flowers, and he sits down on it for a smoke. Perhaps he's waiting for a companion to finish their errands; perhaps he simply feels a bit fatigued. It's 2012, over ten years ago now, before Covid and the worst effects of austerity. Although there are still pubs in the locality (not so many since though) he has chosen not to go for a swift half. The beer in this town has never been its strongest attraction. Perhaps he reckons it's not worth the asking price, or he doesn't bother with drink, or he prefers his own company. Some pub customers have a habit of being objectionable even this early in the morning. He keeps a canvas bag close to him; many chaps might prefer not to have custody of a bag, but the older you become the less you care, and a bag is indisputably handy for odds and ends you need to get for the daily grind. There's a bus stop not far away. He could be waiting for the next service and there is time to spare. I bet he could tell a few stories, but would he want to? Probably best not to interrupt. He might want time to think.

Posted eight years to the day since briefly making the acquaintance of these co-operative ladies enjoying refreshment and a smoke outside the Red Lion at Avebury. A lot of water under the bridge since that day. I converted the photograph to black and white after cropping and sharpening it up a bit. It didn't need much post processing, being taken with the Nikon D2Xs at 100 ISO, a setting where it reigns supreme (I wish I remembered this fact more often). Shot at f/7 using a 50mm f/1.4 lens with a shutter speed of 1/200th.

Outside the 'Red Lion' at Avebury, Wiltshire. Nikon D2Xs + AF Nikkor 24mm f/2.8 lens.

Much of what we use in daily life is made up of tube-like configurations. Clothing, for example, is more or less a series of connected tubes. How many tubes can you see in the picture?

Photographed using a Canon EOS 20D with a Carl Zeiss Jena 50mm f/2.8 Tessar lens. According to Wikipedia, Superkings are primarily marketed towards the working-class female smoker, and the brand is the ninth most popular cigarette in the UK with 3.3% of the market.

Freshford railway station was opened in 1857. It used to have a pretty flower garden but Network Rail sent men armed with strimmers to attack it. So I present a picture of a pretty passenger instead.