The Limbo Connection's photos with the keyword: columns

Two people walking in step photographed through the classical porch added incongruously to the front of the Georgian building in Corsham housing the Methuen Arms hotel. I used a Carl Zeiss Jena 50mm f/2.8 lens on a Canon EOS 20D. This lens is a Tessar design of just four elements and was a lower cost option to a Pentacon equivalent on a Praktica camera in the 1970s. It was slower of course; f/2.8 compared to the Pentacon's f/1.8. Yet in good light the Carl Zeiss was every bit as good, better maybe. Certainly a sharp lens, and capable of closer focussing than many other standard lenses. I bought mine second hand for £12. I doubt if a lens in good working order and engraved with 'Carl Zeiss' could be found cheaper.

Increasingly I am attracted to a crop of 10" x 8".

Nikon D40 with a Tamron 35mm f/1.8 lens. Field of view equivalent to a 50mm lens on a full frame camera.

I used an AF-S DX Zoom-Nikkor 18-135mm f/3.5-5.6G lens on a Nikon D50 to take this scene. The lens was at 35mm which would be 50mm on full frame. Despite its versatility, I got rid of this lens because I thought there were better alternatives. Given how little it weighed I rather missed it, but the distortion on a picture like this was bad and took some cleaning up in post processing. I probably overdid the post processing a bit in cropping, accentuating the shadows and reducing the saturation, but as I liked the result I have posted it nonetheless. 1/500th at f/11. I forgot the D50 had been set at 1600 ISO but it seemed to behave itself whatever ISO was selected.

The structure was moved to its present location in Sydney Gardens, Bath, in 1913-14 from the Crystal Palace at which it was part of the Empire Exhibition in 1911.

A Grade II Listed Building. The official record details as follows: 'Garden temple. Early C20. Limestone ashlar, stone slate roof with coped verges. Four Composite columns to plain frieze and moulded pediment with female mask and garlands. Restored by the National Trust, 1980s. One of a number of garden features laid out by Sir George Hastings in c1900 and developed by Lady Cecilie Goff during 1920s and 1930s. (Country Life, 1st January 1943)' Nikon D700 in manual set at ISO 400. AF Zoom-Nikkor 35-70mm f/2.8 lens at 70mm, f/8, 1/200th.

Lacock Abbey cloisters. Nikon D700 + Nikkor 20mm f/3.5 AI-S lens. F/11.

Temple of Minerva in Sydney Gardens, Bath.

Fujifilm FinePix S3 Pro and Tokina SD 50-135mm f/2.8 DX AT-X Pro lens.

These Tuscan (or possibly Doric) columns were once chimneys. Not all of Lacock Abbey is really old; a 'new' hall was built in 1755 by the Squire, John Ivory Talbot. The unwanted chimneys were salvaged for this project and a mason called Benjamin Carter carved a sphinx to go on top.

Canon EOS 30D and Canon EF-S18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 lens.

Early morning light and shade, August. The Abbey church yard framed by the unfluted Ionic columns of the North Colonnade in Stall Street.. Tamron Di II SP AF Zoom 17-50mm f/2.8 XR LD Aspherical (IF) lens on a Nikon D2Xs SLR.