The Limbo Connection's photos with the keyword: crop

Originally only a fairly low-resolution colour photograph, this has now become a tiny file through an extensive crop and conversion to black-and-white. Vestigial, it represents only what might have been. But it nevertheless looks improved if you press 'z' on your keyboard (and 'esc' when you want to go back). Nikon D50 + Nikkor 70-300mm f/4-5.6 AF-G lens.

A sense of déjà vu; a stillness; another place, another time perhaps. Something to do with À La Recherche du Temps Perdu (In Search of Lost Time). I suppose it is inevitable that as you experience more things, your memory of those experiences expands, but not always in an exact way. More a condensed version of what your senses recorded. Nikon D50 and Nikkor 28-80mm f/3.3-5.6 G lens. f/8.

Reading is the largest settlement in, and the county town of, the Royal County of Berkshire. The confluence of the Kennet and the Thames is in Reading. Reading is the principal regional and commercial centre of the Thames Valley. The population of Reading is 174,200, although the number in the greater urban area which not only comprises the borough but also analogous districts outside the borough boundary is 233,000.

This is a new edit of a picture previously posted here. I've cropped out some of the foreground to accentuate the young cyclist taking a short cut across the park, and getting a bit bogged down for his pains. The mist was doing a good job of shrouding the trees but I've made it even denser by, inter alia, making the photograph more grainy. That also emphasises the presence of the cyclist a bit more. I must prefer it to the original edit, because I am posting it afresh. Editing is a whole sub-genre of photography, I find, and it has taken on more prominence for me since Covid changed my habits so profoundly. I notice that the focal length of the lens gave a full-frame equivalent field of view of 60mm; and cropping it a bit more simply serves to confirm my preference for shooting moderate telephoto. Nikon D40 + Nikkor 18-70mm f/3.5-4.5 AF DX lens.

I was photographing Pulteney Bridge when this person unexpectedly emerged from the coffee shop, This is a tiny selection from the original photograph rendered in subdued monochrome tones. Photographed in 2010 using a Nikon D50 and 18-135mm f/3.5-5.6 G lens.

Shot with a Nikon D2Xs and a Nikkor 50mm f/1.8 lens on a TC-16A teleconverter (field of view like 120mm on a full-frame camera). ISO 640; aperture priority set at f/11. The small aperture resulted in a shutter speed of 1/30th; this has given a blur caused by the movement of the girls as they passed. Although a tight composition in the first place, I have cropped it further for effect and presented it in black-and-white because the colours were fighting with one another. The whole picture is entirely accidental. I should have used a lens with a wider angle. the shutter speed ought to have been at least 1/125th, possibly 1/250th. But then it wouldn't have resulted in this picture. Life is full of chance.

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.

The lower levels of this wall have been repointed and furthermore the brick is more recent and a bad match. I cropped most of it out because it was so unattractive. I need to revisit with a macro lens before any more "improvement" and "restoration" takes place. It is curious how older brick has been laid above newer. Reclaimed, presumably. Yet it could have been done so much better. A wall need not be strictly utilitarian. Nikon D700 + Nikkor 28mm f/2 AI lens.