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I've been very busy the past two weeks, but I missed playing with textures. And since today I received my new Sigma 24-70 2.8, I had to try it out...
I must confess I love doing still life, because you can go crazy with the textures, the possibilities are limitless.
Textures by Kim Klassen, Lenabem and Clive Sax
The area around Bardon Mill still has a number of semaphore signals. These are operated from Bardon Mill Signal Box. The box is not normally manned with all running signals pulled off for through working.
With the speed limit sign failing to guess the class of locomotive approaching, 67016 trundles towards Carlisle with an 0Z10 route familiarisation run, prior to the traditional autumn ECML diversions which will be taking place on a couple of weekends during November.
Hard to believe that these two German classics are separated by 19 years. The elder of the two, the IIIa, was manufactured in 1939, The IIIg is from 1958.
Yes, there was a war in between. Even taking that into account, it's surprising how small the changes are. There are many of changes, all of them rather insignificant.
Both cameras have a fastest exposure time of 1/1000 seconds. Both have a separate dial for long exposure times, long meaning everything above 1/20 s (IIIa) or i/30 s (IIIg) and up to 1 s.
Both require the first 10 cm of the film leader to be trimmed with a scissor. And both require unmounting the bottom to load the film, which has to be fumbled onto a metal spool. That used to bother me, at first. I doesn't any more, I'm used to it now. No point in grumbling about such things. If you don't like it, a Leica isn't the right camera for you. No problem with that - there are plenty of other cameras.
No thread-mount Leica really is a rangefinder camera. The finder is physically separate from the range measurement. You peer into the little viewport that's more to the left, which gives a magnified image of the scene, focus, and then switch other other viewport to do the image compo. With the IIIa, the two viewports are about 3 cm apart. With the IIIg they're right next to one another (this can be rather tricky if you use them alternatingly).
Yes, that is ante-diluvian. It was obsolete in 1939 and it certainly was obsolete in 1958. No question about it. I mostly don't even use the range-measurement. I guess the distance and use hyperfocal DOF for focusing.
Zeiss-Ikon offered a real viewfinder in 1936 on Contax II that Leica introduced only with the M3 in 1954. In terms of ergonomics, the Contax ran rings around the Leicas. Apart from the rangefinder with a much longer baseline, the Contax offered a back-opening body, and a bayonet for fast lens exchange.
But hey, the reason why people use Leicas is the reason why I use Leicas. Because they are so well engineered that they just go on working, every single bit of them, decade after decade after decade.
Both of these two ladies make a wonderful, round ker-lick sound on shutter release. The sound of a well-made mechanical device. And both feel good in your hand, really good. The almost 80 year old IIIa even more than her younger sibling. Two good reasons for me to go on taking pictures with them.
The IIIg has a larger viewfinder and shows a parallax-corrected frame for a 50 mm or 90 mm focal length. The IIIa doesn't offer that feature, and its finder is rather arbitrary anyway. It's calculated for a 50 mm lens, but I use her with a 35 mm Summaron, so what I want to be in the frame mostly is in the frame, erratic finder notwithstanding.
The IIIg has a self-timer. It works fine, but I never use it. The IIIg also offers an M-sync for a bulb flash unit. I never looked into how to sync the flash because I only do available light.
On a walk around Mona Vale gardens in Christchurch September 4, 2015 on a very cold windy day with Flying another Flickr friend.
Mona Vale, with its homestead formerly known as Karewa, is a public park of 4 ha in the Christchurch suburb of Fendalton. The homestead and gate house are both listed as heritage buildings with the New Zealand Historic Places Trust (NZHPT). The fernery and the rose garden, and pavilion with the setting of the park along the Avon River, add to the attractiveness of the property. It is one of the major tourist attractions of Christchurch.
For More Info and photos: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mona_Vale,_Christchurch
But which is the less travelled?
Class 720 electric multiple unit No. 720537 arrives at the south Essex outpost of Southminster with 2J34, the 14:16 service from Wickford on Tuesday 14th May 2024.
The quotation "Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—I took the one less traveled by" is from the poem entitled "The Road Not Taken" by Robert Frost (1874-1963).
I'll mention in passing that English progressive rock band Pendragon gave the title Two Roads to part IV of their multi-part track The Wishing Well, which appears on the 2005 album Believe.
bringing water from below to above. One, self replicating.
The other ceases to duplicate the moment thoughts about it disappear.
What are we to make of the difference between things that manifest without thought, and those that manifest only with thought?
One could answer: "Thought itself is a thoughtless manifestation, i.e., thought grows into existence through no effort of its own."
To put it more clearly, a mind that thinks, grows into existence before it can think.
Would this be right?
Warsaw's retro 102N #5 and 13N #795, both serving the retro tram line 36 during the last weekend in the season.
Photo by Piotrek/Toprus
Two snow leopard cubs interacting together. Sadly the quality is quite bad because of the thick windows...
I created this image with my wide angle Fujinon XF 10-24 lens, but it minimized the size of this peak a little too much. So I simply cropped it during editing. Two Trees Trail, Riverside, CA
Lesley and I had arranged to meet and have some photos and then go for lunch. Unfortunately Lesley had to call of from lunch due to family commitments ( more about lunch later). So we made the most of our short time together with as many photos as we could manage.
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