The Limbo Connection's photos with the keyword: Nikkor 20mm f/2.8 AF-D

This is the plinth supported by the pillars which once were chimneys on top of which Benjamin Carter's sphinx surveys the visitors. They file past with scarcely a glance.

Lacock Abbey, Wiltshire. In 1755 Squire John Ivory Talbot had the new hall built and some old chimneys were moved into the grounds as a garden ornament. The Squire got a mason called Benjamin Carter to carve him a sphinx to go atop his renovated Tuscan columns (formerly his chimneys). There is a myth that when there is a full moon at midnight, the sphinx jumps down from her resting place and walks across the park to drink from the river. Nikon D700 with a 20mm f/2.8 Nikkor lens.

Nikon D700 with a Nikkor 20mm f/2.8 AF-D lens.

Press 'z' and enlarge the picture. Stare into the aperture for a few minutes. Your mind will become clear. Your worries will diminish. Have a nice day. Nikon D700 with a Nikkor 20mm f/2.8 AF-D lens.

Nikon D700 with a Nikkor 20mm f/2.8 AF-D lens. The lens doesn't distort noticeably in normal use - I did that with Lightroom for amusement. Nonetheless, this provides a better view of Venus and Adonis (after Cornelis van Haarlem) by Isaac Seeman (fl.1739 – London 1751) in the Dining Room of Lacock Abbey. Oil on canvas. Approx. 79 x 57 inches. 1746. This painting shows Venus trying to stop her lover Adonis from embarking on a hunting trip. She coquettishly raises her leg to tempt him back, as Cupid hovers above. Venus's fears were fulfilled when Adonis was slain by a boar. Where the earth was stained with his blood, anemones sprouted. The prominence of the parrot, which is painted with a surprising naturalism and which does not appear in the story, is unclear. Perhaps a well-to-do person who originally commissioned the work stipulated that their parrot had to be added to the original. At least it makes it immediately clear that this is a copy.

Nikon D700 with a Nikkor 20mm f/2.8 AF-D lens.

Nikon D700 with a Nikkor 20mm f/2.8 AF-D lens.

Nikon D700 and Nikkor 20mm f/2.8 AF-D lens.

A tribute to the attitude of the late Garry Winogrand.

Time goes by - years, sometimes - and I see the faults which could have been corrected. Often it is too late to correct. The moment has passed; the circumstances are different. But here: a conversion to black and white, a twizzle with the sliders in post processing. If sliders can be twizzled, which I doubt.

Cum on feel the noize. Nikon D2Xs and Nikkor 20mm f/2.8 AF-D lens. The D2Xs was introduced in 2006. I bought mine secondhand in 2011. It looked nearly new yet had 40,000 shutter actuations. It no longer looks as though it's just out of the box; more like it's just out of the boxing ring. This is image number 81,207.