The Limbo Connection's photos with the keyword: Ashton Mill

Who knows their story? Photographed with a Tomioka-made Chinon 55mm f/1.4 lens on a Canon EOS 30D via an M42 - EF adapter.

Thanks to the J&P Service Centre for letting me take some pictures of their operation. I just happened to be in the area and didn't really expect to be made welcome.

The plastic A/M slider has broken off my venerable Chinon 55mm f/1.4 lens dating from circa 1976 (a £10 upgrade when bought with a Chinon CX). To mark this milestone in its decline I have edited an earlier photograph made with this lens presumably wide open. I ought to take contemporaneous notes but it seems a nerdy thing to be doing for a cool guy like me. Non-contemporaneous notes (the cool type of notes); The photograph was taken through a gap in a hedge (green bits). Beyond the hedge was (and still is) a busy four-lane road (blurred bits). Beyond that again is an old wool mill, imposing and built of stone (white bits). There is an inexplicable red bit. My best guess is that it was a red lorry. The leaves in their final days leave me feeling melancholy. If I were not a photographer, I should scarcely have registered their existence.

Canon EOS 30D with a Carl Zeiss Jena 50mm f/2.8 Tessar.

Shot with a Chinon 55mm f/1.4 lens.

Nikon D90 + AF-S DX Zoom-Nikkor 18-135mm f/3.5-5.6G lens.

Nikon D90 + AF-S DX Nikkor 35mm f/1.8G lens.

Nikon D2Xs and AF-S Nikkor 18-200mm lens.

Canon EF 35-105mm f/3.5-4.5 lens on a Canon EOS 30D camera. ISO 400; f/10; 1/200th; lens at 35mm (field of view equivalent 56mm).

Canon EOS 30D + Chinon 55mm f/1.4 lens.

Photographed with a Chinon 55mm f/1.4 lens on a Canon EOS 30D camera.

Graffiti on the side of Ashton Mill. It is repeated on a nearby bridge. It was photographed with a Chinon 55mm f/1.4 lens on a Canon EOS 30D camera.

Wet and windy afternoon with a Chinon 55mm f/1.4 lens on a Canon EOS 30D camera. All manual, including exposure.

Wet and windy afternoon with a Chinon 55mm f/1.4 lens on a Canon EOS 30D camera. All manual, including exposure.

Carl Zeiss Jena 50mm f/2.8 lens on a Canon EOS 30D. An all-manual experience. I had but a single focal length to work with on this occasion: 50mm on the 30D provides a field of view equivalent to 80mm on full frame or 35mm film camera. Had I had a standard zoom lens attached instead I would have used a wider aspect. There is something to be said for the challenge of one prime lens.

Photography and graffiti are hobbies with some similarities. I have published an article on ipernity expounding this belief. Graffito has enlivened this photograph. Without the embellishment of the drainpipe, the picture would be mundane. Carl Zeiss Jena 50mm f/2.8 lens on a Canon EOS 30D. An all-manual experience.