The Limbo Connection's photos with the keyword: framed

On a sunny day when they had visitors - and they had many visitors, or so it seems to me in hindsight - someone would suggest going outside and taking a photograph. And if she had not already anticipated the visit, she would tell him to go upstairs and put on a collar and tie. Minutes passed. Suggestions concerning the best place to stand were discussed. And then we heard his tread on the stairs, and he emerged in a state now deemed appropriate for his image to be recorded. With no particular emotion he would acquiesce in her instructions as to where to stand. And then, with two or three photographs taken - seldom more - they would return to the living room. The moment of excitement was over.

Is it: (a) an AI lash-up of three different photographs? (b) a photograph made in poor lighting of another photograph behind a glass frame? (c) a discovery in a junk shop of a photograph bearing the following inscription on the reverse: "John Betjeman Collection Serial 23a First and Last Loves"? (d) all three?

During June, 2017, I visited Lacock Abbey to try out a few old M42 screw-mount lenses on a Canon EOS 40D DSLR. I got some nice pictures of bees and insects feasting on the flowers in the garden, and an especially satisfactory result photographing a lavender bush using a Cosinon 135mm telephoto in the abbey yard - the place where Fox Talbot did his photo of a fellow up a ladder. Later I took a walk around the inside of the big house built on top of the abbey, just to prolong the visit really. And from an upstairs window I observed a party of girls arriving under the supervision of a harrassed-looking teacher-type of woman. They were probably there for the Harry Potter experience in the cloisters, because that was where they were about to enter. I had a Chinon 55mm f/1.4 on the camera and clearly no time to change it, so I shot a few speculative shots of the melee beneath the upstairs window. I might have done better with a longer focal length, but as it turned out one of these pictures included this girl swerving in a right angle to enter the cloisters. She had the perfect expression of a young person in high spirits on a summer outing, bringing back all sorts of buried memories of joy and freedom.

A trip to Avebury. The weather forecast was for blustery winds with just an odd chance of a shower. I got a few pictures and then ... I got drenched. The cheese scone was worth the trip however. Nikon D700 + Tamron 70-210mm f/2.8 LD SP lens.