The Limbo Connection's photos with the keyword: label

Posted previously in colour. B&W is an improvement, I think. A macro lens can open up photographic possibilities when you're out and about. I imagine some people carry only a macro lens. According to Mike Johnstone, who was a leading light of the independent quarterly ink-on-paper magazine called 'The 37th Frame' for people who are really "into" photography, they are "Great hobby lenses, as macro photographers are among the only happy photo enthusiasts." Nikon D700 + Micro-Nikkor 55mm f/3.5 AI lens.

I like blue jeans. They're tough and practical. Best of all, a wallet in one of the front pockets stays put. No other trousers seem to offer this absolute assurance. Tamron SP 35mm f/1.8 lens on a Nikon D3s at 200 ISO; 1/250th; f/8.

The plasticised label round a jar of instant coffee was removed and pushed inside the empty jar where it unfurled itself until it reached the edges. I put the jar into a bush and photographed it with a Nikon D50 and a 50mm lens. There has been some modest editing in the Apple Photos software.

In a contest of Stone - Scissors - Sticky Label, the Sticky Label will beat the Stone. Nikon D3s + Nikkor 50mm f/1.4 AF-D lens.

I looked this wine up on the internet and read the following evaluation: "Gorgeous nose exhibiting an array of aromas such as peppery mulberry, sour and black cherry, violet and a subtle touch of wild strawberry jam. The palate is full, complex, with a fantastic energy and bursting with ripe dark plums; tannins are impressively silky and freshness is amazing." I did not drink any of this wine and cannot therefore offer any personal opinion beyond the usefulness of the empty bottle as a subject for photography. I nevertheless wonder how fermented grapes can smell like other fruits. I once heard Jilly Goolden compare some wine or other to petrol. I have tasted petrol when draining a rusted out tank on a Morris Marina and if some so-called wine expert thinks any wine tastes like petrol, they have never had a mouthful of unleaded. Canon EOS 40D + Chinon 55mm f/1.4 + Minolta Close-Up supplementary lens no.1. All bought on eBay (except the wine).

An empty bottle originally photographed in 2016, so presumably this was a wine best drunk young. An edit of an earlier version. As I mature (like wine, but maybe not the 2015 Malbec Reserve) I become more complex, more demanding. I take on greater character. I even edit photographs now. As Old Owl has remarked elsewhere, "I'm constantly surprised at the way we can, as we gain experience, look at a photograph we deemed to be a failure and discover a picture worth creating. This is also a damned good reason to never delete so-called failures." I looked this wine up on the internet and read the following evaluation: "Gorgeous nose exhibiting an array of aromas such as peppery mulberry, sour and black cherry, violet and a subtle touch of wild strawberry jam. The palate is full, complex, with a fantastic energy and bursting with ripe dark plums; tannins are impressively silky and freshness is amazing." I did not drink any of this wine and cannot therefore offer any personal opinion beyond the usefulness of the empty bottle as a subject for photography. I nevertheless wonder how fermented grapes can smell like other fruits. I once heard Jilly Goolden compare some wine or other to petrol. Wow! Canon EOS 40D + Chinon 55mm f/1.4 + Minolta close-up lens no.1.

Irrespective of whether I use the 35-70mm on a full frame or a crop sensor camera, I strongly favour the maximum telephoto setting. I might as well just fit an 85mm and shoot with that.

Nikon D3s with Tamron SP 35mm f/1.8 Di VC USD lens. 200 ISO; 1/320th; f/9.

I return to the Tamron SP 35mm f/1.8 lens because its fidelity is so fine. It can also focus close enough to almost qualify as a macro lens. Used here on a Nikon D3s at 200 ISO; 1/250th; f/8. I find this lens to be just as useful - if not more so - on the Nikon D2Xs, and that is because the D2x series was excellent in every way but one: it was poor at ISO levels beyond 400. But put a fast lens with image stabilisation on it and you never need to go into murky ISO levels.

Photograph of unknown girl bought on eBay. Photograph photographed and processed. Processed photograph processed again. And again. Image then put on ipernity. Unrelated end-of-strip negatives superimposed on computer monitor showing photograph on ipernity, then photographed. New photograph processed and then put on ipernity again. I doubt I am finished with it yet. Nikon D700 + Tamron SP 35mm F1.8 Di VC lens.

This label dates from the late 1960s when British Rail provided a service to collect your luggage ahead of your journey and deliver it to your house shortly after you had arrived. The service cost a little extra on your fare, yet it was cheap at the price. Fujifilm FinePix S3 Pro + AF-S Nikkor 35mm f/1.8 G DX lens.

Nikon D2Xs + Tamron 17-50mm f/2.8 lens.

This label dates from the late 1960s when British Rail provided a service to collect your luggage ahead of your journey and deliver it to your house shortly after you had arrived. The service cost a little extra on your fare, yet it was cheap at the price. Fujifilm FinePix S3 Pro + AF-S Nikkor 35mm f/1.8 G DX lens.

Several years ago I bought the jacket in the photograph in a sale for £10. That was surely a portent for what was to follow. In April, 2016, after years of falling sales, mounting debts and cash flow problems, Austin Reed fell into administration. No viable offers were received for the business. 120 stores closed and 1,000 jobs were lost. Austin Reed was founded by tailor Austin Leonard Reed (1873-1954). The company started as a tailoring business in the City of London in 1900, selling off-the-rack suits that could pass as made-to-measure. The retailer once counted prominent and well-to-do men, including Winston Churchill, as customers. Much later, it counted less prominent and less well-to-do men, including The Limbo Connection, as bargain-hunters. The writing was unfortunately on the wall. Nikon D700 and Nikon Series E 75-150mm f/3.5 lens.

Canon EOS 40D + Chinon 55mm f/1.4 + Minolta close-up lens no.1.

Nikon D700 + Micro-Nikkor 55mm f/3.5 AI lens.

Can of oil bought in 1999. Canon EOS 40D + Chinon 55mm f/1.4 lens.