The Limbo Connection's photos with the keyword: Corsham

Summer. Cool beans. Fuji X-E1 and Fujinon 35mm f/1.4 lens.

Fuji X-E1 and Fujinon 35mm f/1.4 lens.

Abstract. Asymmetric. Aerodynamic.

Come into the perfumed garden Maud. Fuji X-E1 and Fujinon 35mm f/1.4 lens.

We all need a framework. Fuji X-E1 and Fujinon 35mm f/1.4 lens.

Neonicotinoids are among the most widely used insecticides in crop protection. Because they affect the central nervous system of insects, neonicotinoids kill a wide variety of both target and non-target insects. Neonicotinoids contaminate wetlands, streams, and rivers, and due to their widespread use, pollinating insects are chronically exposed to them. Neonicotinoids are very bad news for bees, and because our food supply depends on the work bees do, they are very bad news for us too. Fuji X-E1 and Fujinon 35mm f/1.4 lens.

The bird was cooperative yet easily bored. To keep his interest I made him diagonal. Fuji X-E1 and Fujinon 35mm f/1.4 lens.

I return to this intermittently. As a composition, I am satisfied with it. As a photograph, it is dreadful. The exposure was never good, and the shadows and highlights are having a fight. I have deployed all the post processing tricks I know to get it to this, and still I am frustrated. It was only ever a JPG; maybe I could have done better had it been captured in RAW. Lens: Nikkor 50mm f/1.4 AF-D.

Two people walking in step photographed through the classical porch added incongruously to the front of the Georgian building in Corsham housing the Methuen Arms hotel. I used a Carl Zeiss Jena 50mm f/2.8 lens on a Canon EOS 20D. This lens is a Tessar design of just four elements and was a lower cost option to a Pentacon equivalent on a Praktica camera in the 1970s. It was slower of course; f/2.8 compared to the Pentacon's f/1.8. Yet in good light the Carl Zeiss was every bit as good, better maybe. Certainly a sharp lens, and capable of closer focussing than many other standard lenses. I bought mine second hand for £12. I doubt if a lens in good working order and engraved with 'Carl Zeiss' could be found cheaper.

Nikon D700 + Tamron SP 35mm F1.8 Di VC USD lens.

Nikon D700 + Tamron SP 35mm F1.8 Di VC USD lens.

Nikon D700 + Tamron SP 35mm F1.8 Di VC USD lens.

Nikon D700 + Tamron SP 35mm F1.8 Di VC USD lens.

Nikon D700 + Tamron SP 35mm F1.8 Di VC USD lens.

Nikon D700 + Tamron 35mm f/1.8 lens.

Corsham, Wiltshire, an obstacle course of A boards designed to inconvenience and injure the unwary or short-sighted. I like this photograph because I perceive similarities between the model depicted on the A-board and the smiling woman in the background, namely gender, generation, hairstyle, and perhaps even facial features. I don't know if she saw me raise my camera and sportingly posed or if I am being fanciful and just got lucky. I very much like the juxtaposition, whatever the explanation. Photographed with an AF Nikkor 50mm f/1.4D lens on a Nikon D2Xs set at 100 ISO. 1/125th at f/6. Edited in Lightroom.

Corsham, Wiltshire, an obstacle course of A boards designed to inconvenience and injure the unwary or short-sighted. I like this photograph because I perceive similarities between the model depicted on the A-board and the smiling woman in the background, namely gender, generation, hairstyle, blue/purple hue, and perhaps even facial features. I don't know if she saw me raise my camera and sportingly posed or if I am being fanciful and just got lucky. I very much like the juxtaposition, whatever the explanation. Photographed with an AF Nikkor 50mm f/1.4D lens on a Nikon D2Xs set at 100 ISO. 1/125th at f/6. Edited in Lightroom.