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Zippy plays with Mama's head while Viva is trying to eat -
Watch Viva's kittens continue to grow and develop in Looking for Love: Part 5
These were taken using a Pentax 85mm f/2.2 Soft focus lens. It was designed to have a ton of under-corrected spherical aberration. As such, it's depth of field is extremely deep, even wide open (if you don't understand how this can be, ask and I'll try to explain, or point you to someone who has already said it well). I find if I focus close and let the back edge of what is in focus barely touch the subject, the background _finally_ drops away. Messing with the aperture, of course, adds another dimension of possibilities.
The real reason I wanted to write something in these comments/descriptions is that this Pentax lens came mounted with a Nikon F-mount bayonet. It's the only Pentax K-mount lens I've so far seen remounted this way. I don't know if Pentax made a series of Nikon F-mount (never heard of it before) or if this was just a very good job done in a shop somewhere.
From the spring of 2000, every April the park of the Castle of Pralormo hosts Messer Tulip with the spectacular flowering of thousands of tulips and daffodils.
A partire dalla primavera 2000, ogni aprile il parco del Castello di Pralormo ospita Messer Tulipano con la spettacolare fioritura di migliaia di tulipani e narcisi.
Just a quick fun pic.
(click on the image to enlarge it and then click it again to see the picture as it is meant to be seen)
Now used as student accommodation (and its pretty plush inside - a far cry from when I went to uni!), I think this building used to be one of the RAF messes when Cranfield was an active station. Don't think the disabled parking space is original..
I'll have to find a tiny napkin dispenser for them.
Check out the "Full Size" mess.
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I have an old Pentax Spotmatic that I refurbished and have been shooting some with recently. This photo and the handfull of images previous with a similar look were taken with a 5d while holding the physically smaller Asahi 50mm 1.4 in front of the lensless 5d.
I have been toying with the idea for a little while now and you can get some tilt-shift like images out of this as well as wild macro shots and all sorts of strange light leak/ weird exposures because so much light comes through as you shoot depending on how you are holding it in front of the camera.
Anyways, I hope to mess around with this more in the future with more subjects and see how much control I can get over it.