The Limbo Connection's photos with the keyword: John Hedgecoe

In ipernity groups, if you are the member with the second-greatest number of photographs and the top dog is expelled for smoking behind the bike sheds, you get bumped up to administrator like it or not. Like nearly all organisations, ipernity is hierarchical and defiance is ultimately useless. This has happened to me twice and each time only a handful of people were left in membership of the group and not all of them had posted any pix for ages. This is the problem with creating groups: eventually old age, attrition, being skint, losing interest, becoming mired in Highland Toffee, amnesia, illness, kidnapping by aliens, you name it, the result is a group existing more or less in name only. So: using my newly-acquired powers I have given my latest group, the 50mm group, a new banner, and thus energised all the ordinary members (two people from Australia) will get posting, and hundreds of new people who use 50mm lenses will emerge and enlist. Yeah, that’s what’s gonna happen.

Photographed with a Canon EOS 40D (since sold) and a Chinon 55mm f/1.4 screw-thread lens from the 1970s era of M42 cameras and lenses. Mounted on the Canon by way of a cheap lens adapter. It was OK in colour but it looks more authentic in black-and-white.

I have taken a liberty by making a double exposure of an image made by John Hedgecoe for the cover of an issue of 'Queen' magazine, circa 1968, which was reproduced in "Photographs '69 - The International Annual of Advertising Photography". I used a Fujifilm FinePix S3 Pro + an AF-S Nikkor 35mm f/1.8 G DX lens for this picture.

The model was one of the late John Hedgecoe's and features on the dust jacket of his 'New Manual of Photography'. The glass dish once contained a Gü pudding. Canon EOS 40D + Nikkor-S 35mm f/2.8 lens.