The Limbo Connection's photos with the keyword: shop window

Pure chance. Using an old Canon EF 35-135mm f/4-5.6 USM lens from the early days of the EOS system when film reigned supreme. On an EOS 40D it behaves like a 50-200mm (to be precise, 56-216mm), a standard lens with great telephoto capability. It was at full stretch here.

Do you remember Player’s No. 6? Nikon D2Xs and AF-S Nikkor 18-200mm lens.

Scan of a print from Minolta AF days.

Junction of James Street West with Westgate Buildings, Bath, Somerset. This area of the city lacks the prime position enjoyed by the big retailers and is a bit shabby. This is the shop window of Sally Salon Services and is brightened up by a large poster in the shop window. Think of the glamour and style that the photographer and the model strived to convey in the studio and contrast it with a run-down street in a depressed local economy under pressure from on-line suppliers and taxes on shops. Nikon D300s + Tamron 17-50mm f/2.8 lens.

City of Bath; Nikon D300s + Tamron 17-50mm f/2.8 lens. I like looking in LCE's windows for the good laugh they provide with their optimistic pricing structure. With the aggressive presence of increasing numbers of on-line traders in secondhand equipment, the days of LCE must be numbered. Especially if they fail to wipe the condensation from the inside of their windows within the first three hours of trading - this was the view shortly before midday.

When I gaze on this casually photographed and unplanned image, I think of 'Nighthawks' by Edward Hopper, and I don't know why because this is nothing like 'Nighthawks'. However, Steve Bucknell of this website has explained it elsewhere (flickr) thus: It gives a similar sense of late night isolation, ephemerality, bright artificial light and deep contrasting dark. That's why.

Shop window photographed using a Nikon D2Xs and Tokina 50-135mm f/2.8 lens.