The Limbo Connection's photos with the keyword: 1970

To get UK residents ready for the change to decimal currency in 1971, things were marked in both old and new money for some months prior to 15th February. This photograph of a railway ticket issued in January 1970 placed on top of the front cover of a 'Nova' magazine of slightly later date was made during May, 2014 with a Micro-Nikkor 55mm f/3.5 AI lens on a Nikon D50 camera. It always looked a bit 'dirty' because of reflection and degradation, and so I used the Paintbrush programme to improve the colour and contrast.

A simple collage comprising a bus ticket issued during 1970 which I discovered in a secondhand book where it had been doing service as a bookmark; and part of a page from a 'Nova' magazine of the same period.

One last throw of the dice with ipernity, the website that is too good to survive in a world which prefers Piccadilly Circus to Kurt Schwitters. This crude collage was made from two separate photographs which appeared side by side in my photo stream on flickr. Both date from 1970. The bus ticket I found in a book from a charity shop. The black and white photograph of a girl was part of a stylish advertisement for a scent called Masumi by Coty. I saw it in an old Nova magazine. I simply photographed the computer screen to unite the two pictures, and processed the result in Lightroom. Nikon D2Xs and Tamron SP AF 17-50mm f/2.8 XR Di II LD Aspherical (IF) Model A16N.

Masumi de Coty was in an advertisement in a magazine from 1970. The advert was much bigger than this detail, and it lacked a contemporaneous bus ticket. In my view, that was an unpardonable omission on the part of the Coty people, and I am glad to have had the opportunity to put matters right.

Canon EOS 40D + Chinon 55mm f/1.4 lens + short extension tube.

Detail from a 1970 advertisement with the addition of a bus ticket from the same period which I discovered in a secondhand book. I used a Canon EOS 30D with a Canon EF35-105mm f/3.5-4.5 lens.

A photograph of a part of a Masumi de Coty advertisement from 1970 made with a Nikon D2Xs + a Nikkor 28mm f/3.5 AI lens. Masumi was launched in 1967. Reformulated and repackaged, it was relaunched in 1976. One reviewer thought it was directed at the Yoga generation. I am none the wiser. Maybe it meant something in 1976 when the long hot summer in Britain might have necessitated a squirt or two of perfume. In 1994 Coty discontinued it. But apparently it is still made and on sale in Poland. Perhaps it is like the Fiat 124 which enjoyed a renaissance as the Lada and earned loads of money for the USSR.

Masumi de Coty Ad + bus ticket for journey costing half a crown on 29 October, both from 1970.

The cardigan is named after James Brudenell, 7th Earl of Cardigan, a British Army Major General who led the Charge of the Light Brigade at the Battle of Balaclava during the Crimean War.

Detail from an advertisement in a 'Nova' magazine from 1970. 55mm Micro-Nikkor f/3.5 on a Nikon D50.

A scan of part of a page in 'Nova' magazine of November, 1970, which featured various celebrities, toffs, actors, and snobs who liked to dress in clothing by Yves St Laurent. Ros Drinkwater was a Scottish born actress whose best known role was as Steve Temple, the wife of writer/detective Paul Temple, in the television series based on the character created by Francis Durbridge. She later moved into photojournalism. Lady Clare Rendlesham was fashion editor of British Vogue and Queen in the swinging 60s and championed all the style setters: Mary Quant; Susan Small and Jean Muir. With Percy Savage she was involved in establishing London's first YSL store in New Bond Street. According to 'The Sunday Telegraph' in May 2008, one of Lord Snowdon's most passionate extramarital affairs in the late 1960s was with Lady Jacqueline Rufus-Isaacs, the daughter of the 3rd Marquess of Reading and 'one of the most vivacious party-goers of her generation'.