The Limbo Connection's photos with the keyword: bolt

This is the year when I bought a Carl Zeiss Jena 50mm f/2.8 lens for a tenner. It led to several further lens acquisitions from the Pentax scew-thread era, and secondhand digital Canon SLR cameras to allow their use with an appropriate adapter. It's pocket-money photography if you buy wisely and/or luckily, and it can be fun. These days, photography is automatic everything. And even the bolt looks decidedly old-tech compared to the keypads now used in modern housing. Photographed with a Carl Zeiss Jena 50mm f/2.8 lens mounted on a Canon EOS 20D via an adapter.

Photographed with a Carl Zeiss Jena 50mm f/2.8 lens mounted on a Canon EOS 20D via an adapter.

Rusty nut, bolt, and washer - no idea why I own them, nor where they came from. I think old nuts and bolts adopt people in the middle of the night and are discovered years later by bewildered tool tidiers. The background is page 70 of Ron Grace's incomparable manual 'Home Repairs' published in 1979 and which cost me 75p in a second-hand store. If ever there were two words that characterised my approach to life in general, they are 'second hand'. Although that might be just one word: 'secondhand' ? I am not sure what the hairy crud is on the dome of the bolt. I gingerly touched it with my finger and it didn't fight back. Perhaps it is in hibernation. I definitely think it is alive and growing. Nikon D2Xs. Micro-Nikkor AI 55mm f/3.5 lens. Nikon PK-13 extension tube. Benbo tripod. f/8; 0.3 sec; 100 ISO.