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I leapt out of bed at 7am today and set off for nearby Connaught Waters loaded up with camera and tripod. According to my dear wife, that makes me a "madman". I often think about taking early morning photo excursions, but rarely get round to organising one.
I had the place to myself until around 8am when a few dog-walkers showed up. It's officially winter in London now. The leaves have dropped and there is a thin layer of ice on the lake.
For the techies: This is an HDR made of three shots. All taken at f/22, with shutter speeds of 1.5 seconds, 5 seconds and 20 seconds. Also curves applied in Photoshop to dandy up the contrast and colours a bit.
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techies: nikon d40 with 18-55mm nikkor lens + 52mm macro-filter on tripod.
Stars orbiting high above Llyn Idwal and the summit of Pen yr Ole wen.
Techy bits:
Body: Sony A7S
Lens: Irix 15mm F2.2 (with adapter)
Sky = 200 images 30sec / 6400iso / F3.2
Foreground detail = 1 image 30sec / 12500iso / F3.2
Image stacked and blended in PS (including removing all planes from the sky) before final edit in LR.
Detroit Science Center | Midtown | Detroit, MI
Continuing my "study" of Midtown Detroit architecture, I'm 5 shots in and haven't made it off the first building yet. This one is again from the Detroit Science Center, one of the most interesting structures in the city. It's also a great place to visit. I think I have one more to go to wrap up this structure.
For the techies:
Sony a850 ("the fat boy")
Carl Zeiss 24-70mm f/2.8 lens
B+W ND filter ND110/3.0 (10-stop neutral density)
(see EXIF for the rest)
P.S. - Good news for fellow X-Pro1 users if you haven't heard; a firmware update is out today that fixes aperture chatter. I'll install it before I go shooting later today and post something on the experience later. The problem never should have come up in the first place for such a potentially awesome camera, but it's really cool that Fuji quickly righted the ship on that one...
Small lochan in Rannoch Moor, Scotland, situated at the side of the A82 between Bridge of Orchy and Glencoe. Snow-capped Black Mount to the rear of the lochan.
Techy part - 9-image stitched panorama.
97/365. if somebody told you I was just your average ordinary guy, not a care in the world... somebody lied ~ Spiderman (2002)
Another selfy where I get to fit right into the neighborhood. I couldn't just get a spiderman mask and put it down after a day... so I went out and got another.
So today I received my Manfrotto 6' retractable portable light stand which is totally awesome because it fits in my standard sized backpack. This is fantastic! It allows me to take a full strobist setup on-the-go carrying a stand, umbrella, speedlight, tripod, and my camera. The only thing that really weighs me down now is my stubby.
Happy Tuesday everyone. Let's make it thru the rest of the week now. Techies read on...
strobist and camera info: see here.
With secret agents, you can always expect some super techy gadgets. The MadPea Holo-Tech Table is no exception. A sleek, stylish table, at first glance, becomes illuminated, holographic decor with just a touch. The ominous rotating 3D skull seems to levitate in thin air!
This is just one of the prizes for Week 5 of the FREE Agents of Mystery Interactive Hunt. Get it now by trading in your criminal-catching medals. Find Prizes and HUDs at the MadPea Main Store or AoM HQ! maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/MadPea/59/141/33
Entering the station with the Cleethorpes express, usually an IMM loco. Wish I'd known about this location earlier! 2nd January 1965.
Techy stuff: 35mm Agfa slide scan. (Replaced with a better version 27-9-12).
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For Color Version of this composition during sunset click Here. Also includes description of this day's photo shoot. :-)
Enjoy :-)
For the Techies :-)
Canon 5D Mark II
Exposure: 500sec
Aperture: f/11.0
Focal Length: 16 mm
ISO Speed: 50 (to get as even an exposure as possible)
Lens: Canon EF16-35mm f2.8L II
Tripod Gitzo G 026
Head Gitzo G1178M
Filters:
1)Standard B+W UV that never leave my lens
2) Hi-Tech 1.2 Solid ND
3) Lee .9 soft edge ND grad
Thank you to all who stopped by to look at my other photos and comment and favorite them. It is much appreciated.
Luke technic figure format. The Return Of The Jedi while on the planet Endor.
Poncho from SW Legacy figure, Hand made helmet using a technic helmet as a base with polymer clay, camuflaje tape and vinyl paint for the green part.
For the techy people - used a JCB crane to suspend a 10000 watt spot with a 40ft umbrella to focus the light on the top of the tree - just after midnight
Just having a play in photoshop
One can always use more yellow cyberpunk. So then, L to R:
1-2. Thug brothers with no cyber element to them whatsoever, although first impressions can be misleading (ok, that has me covered now).
3-4. Blond sisters, for there are few combos cooler than gun+sword. I swear that's not Uma Thurman with a Covid-19 mask!
5. A cyborg with a pair of nightsticks. Because I too had to make a fig with that helmet backwards.
At the back: some techy bits. Made to look techy!
Comments welcome.
Cavendish Mews is a smart set of flats in Mayfair where flapper and modern woman, the Honourable Lettice Chetwynd has set up home after coming of age and gaining her allowance. To supplement her already generous allowance, and to break away from dependence upon her family, Lettice has established herself as a society interior designer, so her flat is decorated with a mixture of elegant antique Georgian pieces and modern Art Deco furnishings, using it as a showroom for what she can offer to her well heeled clients.
Lettice is sitting at her Hepplewhite desk next to the fire in her drawing room. On her desk sit two brightly coloured interior designs she has created for her new client, American film actress Wanetta Ward, using her watercolours and pencils. Whilst she works away, her old childhood chum, Gerald, also a member of the aristocracy who has tried to gain some independence from his family by designing gowns from a shop in Grosvenor Street, is sitting in one of her Art Deco tub arm chairs contentedly sewing beads onto his and Lettice’s friend, Margot de Virre’s, wedding dress bodice. Both have cups of tea from the pot Lettice’s maid, Edith, keeps replenishing.
“You sound displeased, Lettuce Leaf,” Gerald responds to a disgruntled huff from Lettice, drawing out his thread as he speaks. “What’s the matter?”
“Calling me that name doesn’t help, Gerald,” she mutters crossly. “I keep telling you, we aren’t children anymore. I hated it then, so imagine how much I detest it now?”
“Oh! We are techy tonight!” Gerald remarks without looking up as he pushes his needle back into the centre of a crystal bead. He pauses and looks up. “I’m sorry.” He pouts dramatically. “Friends again?”
Lettice looks over at him disgruntledly, but at the sight of her friend’s rather comical expression of remorse, she sighs, smiles and then laughs tiredly. “Yes Gerald.”
“So,” he looks over at the desktop littered with Lettice’s paints and jugs of murky water with brushes sticking out of them. “What’s wrong then?”
“It’s these designs!” She flicks her hands irritably at the offending pieces of paper and gives them a contemptuous look. “I’m not happy with them. Miss Ward says yellow is her favourite colour, yet I can’t quite manage yellow walls with blue furnishings.” She holds up a design of a music room with grand piano in yellow with blue accents.
“Oh,” Gerald’s eyes open widely as he nods. “Yes, I do begin to see what you mean. Well, it’s dramatic, I’ll say that.”
“It’s vulgar, is what it is.” She picks up her paint brush again, although is dumbfounded as to what to do to improve the image, other than to screw it up and start again, as she stares at the yellow wash spread across the page like a huge bruise.
“Well, she is an actress, darling.” Gerald remarks, going back to his sewing. “And part of the American mi…”
“Oh, don’t you start on the mediocre middle-classes again!” she interrupts, wagging her brush at him threateningly. “I scolded Margot when we were shopping at Selfridges last week. She sounded just like you.”
“Oh, bully for Margot!” Gerald smiles contentedly, taking up another bead, casting in onto his thread and plunging it into the fabric of the bodice. “I really must congratulate her next time I see her.”
“You’re a bad influence on her, with your overt snobbery.”
“It is true,” Gerald sighs. “But I can’t help it. It’s just part of my charm.” He bats his eyelashes across at his friend and smiles. “Anyway, you are the one who called Miss Ward gauche, so shouldn’t her home reflect a little of that gaudy, showy moving picture actress personality of hers?”
“Not if I’m designing it, Gerald. I have a reputation of exceptionally good taste to uphold.” She looks at her second design of a dining room, also with yellow walls. “Miss Ward be damned! Anyway Gerald, you of all people shouldn’t complain about the middle classes.”
Gerald sighs and drops the beaded bodice into his lap, whilst still keeping a firm hold of his needle. “That too is true, my darling. If it were not for Mrs. Hatchett and her coterie, well...”
“See,” Lettice smiles. “Did I not say that she would be the making of your couture house?”
“Hardly!” he retorts, giving her a shocked look.
“What? Aren’t she and her friends putting in countless orders for day dresses, tea gowns and evening frocks?”
“Oh they are!” he remarks. “But,” He exhales disappointedly. “Up-and-coming middle-class mediocrity Mrs Hatchett and her friends’ outfits are hardly going to make the pages of the Tattler or Vogue, are they? And even their money can’t make Grosvenor Street pay for itself. A day dress suitable for a Surrey village fête is hardly going to cost what a stunning piece of couture,” He holds up the exquisitely embroidered fabric. “For the London Season will. Why else do you suppose I’m sitting here embroidering Margot’s bodice in your Mayfair drawing room and not at home in Soho?”
“I assume because you enjoy my company.” Lettice teases with a smile.
“Oh I do darling,” Gerald says in earnest. “But I also love the fact that here I don’t have to pay the electricity bill.” He glances up at the glittering chandelier above them casting prisms across the white painted ceiling with its Art Deco cornicing.
“Nor the grocer’s bill,” Lettice smirks with a friendly chuckle, indicating to the plates on the black japanned coffee table containing the remnants of one of Edith’s chocolate cakes.
“Nor the wine merchant’s bill. The largesse of one’s friends is always welcome.”
Lettice looks back sadly at her friend. “Have you asked your father about an increase to your allowance, or perhaps an advance?” she asks hopefully.
“It isn’t as easy as that. I’m not you, Lettice.”
“I’ll have you know Gerald, that I get constant lectures from Pater about designing for my own class if I must insist on designing anything, and Mater just wants me to throw it all away and marry some dull member of the peerage, live in the country and have a dozen children.”
“A dozen?”
“Well at least three, like Lally.”
“Your sister is expecting again?”
“Yes, due in February, and Mummy is always comparing me to my propagating older sister, lording it over me that ‘Lally is married’, unlike me, and ‘Lally has children’, unlike me! She’s convinced my life is unfulfilled. I’m a girl, and I’m the youngest child and…”
“And you have your father wrapped around your little finger.” Gerald counters with a knowing look.
“Well,” Lettice blushes. “I can’t deny that I do seem to have some influence over the Pater.”
“Whereas I am just the second son: the spare.”
“Well thankfully you aren’t the heir, Gerald.” Lettice gives him a knowing look. “Otherwise, you would have to fulfil your duty to carry on the family line with some poor little debutante who must never know that her husband…”
“Is sexually inverted.” Gerald finishes Lettice’s sentence discreetly, stabbing the fabric with his needle. “Yes, I know that doesn’t help my cause in father’s eyes, any more than my wish to sew frocks for ladies.”
“At least you don’t wear them, revel in that fact and have photographic proof, unlike dear Cecil* does.”
“Nonetheless, being the second son, a fashion designer and a deviant,” Gerald blushes, looking towards the dining room, making sure that Lettice’s maid, Edith, isn’t listening at the green baize door. “I’m a disappointment, through and through. And my obvious shortfalls do not endear me to Father.”
“You asked him then?” Lettice asks with defeat. When Gerald nods in assent she adds, “Not even an advance?”
“Not a bean.”
“That’s so unfair.”
“My father isn’t your father, Lettice.”
“What do you mean?”
“Well, we might be neighbours, but your father owns most of the neighbourhood. Your father is the Viscount of Wrexham with a fine estate, which Leslie has helped to modernise, thank goodness.” He raises his eyes to the ceiling. “Whilst my father is just Sir Bruton, a baron – an obstinate and old fashioned one, and an impecunious one at that – with a leaky roofed manor house on a plot of land that is getting smaller as he slowly sells it off. The golden pre-war days are gone, yet Father won’t face up to facts.”
“Poor Gerald,” Lettice says, standing up and putting a comforting hand on her friend’s shoulder. Looking down at the beautifully beaded bodice in Gerald’s lap she continues, “Well, let’s hope that Margot’s wedding dress heralds better times for you as well as her and Dickie. At least this gown will appear in the Tattler, if nowhere else, and that means good business for you. That’s a beautiful pattern you are embroidering.”
“Thank you darling.” Gerald smiles as he looks down at his own work. Suddenly he sits up in his seat. “That’s it!”
“What’s it, Gerald?” Lettice looks up from her paintings in concern.
“Patterns!” He looks at her excitedly. “Did you not say Miss Ward was also interested in bold patterns?”
“Yes Gerald. What of it?”
“And did I not see you when I was here last week, flicking through some wallpaper samples?” He clambers up from his seat, carefully putting the beaded bodice aside.
“You did Gerald.” Lettice looks at him questioningly.
“The combination of blue and yellow is jarring when yellow is the main colour.” He gesticulates around him dramatically. “What if you swap it around? I’m sure there was a strong Prussian blue wallpaper amongst the samples: one that had a bold pattern highlighted in gold.”
“You’re right Gerald!” Lettice agrees excitedly. “It was a fan pattern! Of course! I’ve been looking at this the wrong way around! Paper the walls rather than paint them! What a dullard I am!” She grabs up her brush and dunks it into the jug of murky water.
“No! No! Don’t change your pictures!” Gerald gasps, anxiously hurrying around to Lettice’s desk and staying her elegant hand. “Use them. Show Miss Ward how jarring yellow is, and then pull out the paper. Show her how luxurious it is, and you’ll easily be able to convince her that it’s the right choice.”
“It is a bold pattern…”
“Yet an elegant one.”
“And it’s certainly glamorous.”
“And fans are very oriental, darling.” Gerald bats his eyelashes coquettishly as he pretends to hide behind an imaginary fan.”
“Oh Gerald!” Lettice giggles. “What would I do without you?”
“You’d never be able to decorate Miss Ward’s flat, that’s certain!” he smiles at his friend’s glittering eyes and gentle grin as she contemplates the possibilities he has helped instil in her mind.
*Cecil Beaton was a British fashion, portrait and war photographer, diarist, painter, and interior designer, as well as an Oscar winning stage and costume designer for films and the theatre. Although he had relationships with women including actress Greta Garbo, he was a well-known homosexual.
For anyone who follows my photostream, you will know that I collect and photograph 1:12 size miniatures, so although it may not necessarily look like it, but this cluttered desk is actually covered in 1:12 size artisan miniatures and the desk itself is too. All are from my collection of miniatures.
Fun things to look for in this tableau include:
Lettice’s Hepplewhite drop-drawer bureau and chair are beautifully and artfully made by J.B.M. miniatures. Both the bureau and chair are made of black japanned wood which have been hand painted with chinoiserie designs, even down the arms of the chair and inside the bureau. The chair set has a rattan seat, which has also been hand woven.
On the top of the Hepplewhite bureau stand three real miniature photos in frames including an Edwardian silver frame, a Victorian brass frame and an Art Deco blue Bakelite and glass frame. The latter comes from Doreen Jenkins’ Small Wonders Miniatures in England, whilst the other two come from Melody Jane Dolls’ House, also in England. The photos themselves are all real photos, produced to high standards in 1:12 size on photographic paper by Little Things Dollhouse Miniatures in Lancashire.
The watercolour paint set, brushes, and Limoges style jugs (two of a set of three) also come from Melody Jane Dolls’ House. So too do the pencils, which are one millimetre wide and two centimetres long.
Also on the desk, are some 1:12 artisan miniature ink bottles, a roller, a blotter, a letter opener and letter rack, all made by the Little Green Workshop in England who specialise in high end, high quality miniatures. The ink bottles are made from tiny faceted crystal beads and have sterling silver bottoms and lids. The ink blotter, sitting behind the paint box and next to the jug’s handle is sterling silver too and has a blotter made of real black felt, cut meticulously to size to fit snugly inside the frame. The letter opener and roller are also sterling silver. The letter rack which contains some 1:12 size correspondence, is brass. Like the other pieces, it is also made by the Little Green Workshop.
Lettice’s two interior design paintings are 1920s designs. They are sourced from reference material particular to Art Deco interior design in Britain in the 1920s.
The fireplace appearing just to the right of the photograph is a 1:12 miniature resin Art Deco fireplace on which stands an Art Deco metal clock hand painted with wonderful detail by British miniature artisan Victoria Fasken.
The geometric Art Deco wallpaper is beautiful hand impressed paper given to me by a friend, which inspired the whole “Cavendish Mews – Lettice Chetwynd” series.
colour version of a recent upload.. sums up how i'm feeling today.. payday, heaps of things to do before my holiday next week and no wages showing in my account thanks to the natwest techy issues!... I wonder have they tried switching the system off then on again?
HUMPH!
"You'll remember me when the west wind moves
Upon the fields of barley
You'll forget the sun in his jealous sky
As we walk in fields of gold"
Sting
Now the techy stuff
Used a Lee 0.9 GND filter for this shot. Otherwise near impossible to hold back the sky while keeping the barley nice and bright and golden.
SB900 at camera left thru soft box, Yn465 at subject right shot bare, another Yn465 at camera right thru and umbrella
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Ladies and gentlemen,
allow me to introduce the Elmoscope anamorphic for camera and projector, compression ratio x1.5. is what it says on the lens.
this is a tiny little anamorphic adapter made for 8mm movie cameras waaaay back in the day. not sure exactly when.
first the geeky techy stuff then what little history i know.
the elmoscope was mounted using redstan's clamps, on a contax mount carl zeiss 50mm f1.4.
minimum focus is just under 3ft, which is more or less what this shot was at. i missed focus but if you look at Brandi's ring you'll see that it's nice and sharp.
i was being anally raped by a sharp pointy rock and i think this was at f2, hence my missed focus.
this was taken on a Lumix GH2 and is straight out of camera except for unsqueezing.
it was sometime in the early evening, i had had a ham sandwich for lunch and was wearing old ass adidas sneakers with split soles,... i dont know what other parameters do i need to consider?
brief history time,... from what I've heard, Elmo was a high-end movie projector company. their lenses were outsourced to Kowa for the bigger ass x2 glass that most of you anamorphic nuts will be familiar with.
Elmo being high end, I've been told that they had a very high rejection rate, meaning elmo branded Kowas are, quality control wise, at least on par with if not better than Bell and Howell branded ones. Here in Japan Elmoscope II's go for more than B&H branded ones so read into that what you will.
This 8mm x1.5 however is from a much earlier time and I honestly dont know if their rejection rate would have been the same or not.
so far, it's usable at f1.4 but hard as hell to focus and a bit soft. sharp at f2 onwards.
unlike the newer Kowas and elmoscopes it still has that nice vintage feel that i love and this is through the pretty clean contax zeiss glass.
my shigascope might have to gather some dust for a while :)
i will update as I shoot and learn more :)
The studs fit nicely into the secondary grooves next to the axle holes on the end of the technic beam. I don't know what this would be useful for, but maybe you can be more creative as to how to use this.
Feel free to use this creation however you want, just be sure to give me proper credit for it.
... or Ketton & Collyweston as the station was known when I first travelled on this route in 1966. On a glorious Summer's evening some 20 years later, that of 10th September 1986, Chris captured 31423 heading west with the 16.10 Cambridge - Birmingham New Street service. At this time, 31423 always one of the more mediocre members of this class had undergone a transformation and was putting up some very strong performances.
Down side was - as was nearly always the case with 'good' Class 31s, this made them more prone to blowing up with high water temperature and the like ! On this particular date, 31423 managed to return from Birmingham as far as Peterborough where it was removed with the load regulator sticking, a common fault with 31s.
May be Mr Cross will explain how that happened - think it might have been something to do with low governor oil, but I'm probably hopelessly wrong !
A few weeks after this picture was taken, 31423/4/5 were transferred away from March depot on 28th September to, initially Cricklewood and then Bescot.
Chris adds the other techy bits :
Nikon F with 105mm Nikkor and Kodak64 film.
Photo copyright : Chris Burton
I just had to take her nose and fix it (again) because it had a very poor strength, and kept falling apart while being on display.
So I added another pair of techic beams to support the nose, that is now straight and doesn't curve down. I also did minor tweaks here and there to improve the look. I really hope it's the last time I needed to rebuild her...
Sir Walter Scott approaches Stonachlachar pier.
10 years after shooting my previous photo (uploaded here), I returned to the same spot with a better camera for resolution, lens quality and colour depth, in the hope of getting a similar but higher quality shot. I managed to take an image that is almost identical, the water wasn't so mirror-like, but in many ways so similar that I decided not to use it and show this more colourful one from the series instead.
I was aghast at what has been done to this wonderful steamship since my previous trips. There is a white boxy appendage in front of the bridge that totally destroys the character of this ship. I guess it is an accessible shelter from the inclement weather we so often experience here in Scotland, but aesthetically it is criminal (IMHO).
Never-the-less, on a lovely day it is still a pleasant place to be and a sail on the old ship is still worth doing, although you'd be better to sail from the Trossachs Pier as the tours start from there and there is better parking
For the techies- The original 100+ year old Matthew Paul & Co triple expansion steam engine is still in operation, but since my previous photo-tour the fuel has been switched from coal to bio-fuel for the two Cochran Wee Chieftain boilers that power the ship.
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The staccato beat of Duchess of Hamilton echoes round the fells as the train rounds the curves beneath Wild Boar Fell.
Best seen large (kel L and F11).
Techy stuff: OM-2, 135mm lens, Kodachrome, slide scan Epson V700.
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What happens when your vertical alignment is out on your Leica M8? You can either send it to Solms, get an experienced RF techie to do it or you DIY. I opted for the latter for the sake of time and the fact that some RF techies didn't want to touch it. So, I bought a the Zhou vertical tool (http://cgi.ebay.com/Vertical-Line-Focus-Adj-Tool-F-Leica-M4-2-M4p-M6-M7-MP-/170399164715?pt=Film_Cameras&hash=item27ac94e92b#ht_2091wt_940) and fixed it myself. According to the description of the tool, it doesn't cater for the M8/M9, but it does actually work with the M8 (and I assume the M9).
Although I look a bit spack-handed with DIY in the YouTube videos, but I've fixed the Epson R-D1S alignments myself so I thought the M8 couldn't be much harder. The only tough part was getting the Leica badge off, which was a bit of a toughie. What you have to do is to repeatedly push it clockwise then anti-clockwise until the glue underneath it gives way. I would advise using a plastic object (something that won't scratch) to push under the left side of the "L" and then under the right side of the tail of the "L". Finally, it will slide off, revealing bits inside. It's a bit dark inside, but shine a bright light and you can make out where the hole is. This is a special tool that fits into the slot. Some would recommend using acetone (nail polish remover) to loosen the glue up a bit so you can make the amendments.
P.S. If you are not confident in doing it, then I would strongly recommend taking it to someone who knows what they are doing. One really needs to be quite delicate with it as it's easy f*ck it up. I did it because I am chi sin.
Here's that little surprise on the head end of that eastbound Amtrak train flying through LaGrange, IL. It's the D&H PA 16, now a PA4, after being rebuilt by Morrison-Knudsen. After all that work on her, you'd think they could have cleaned the windshield. This was pre Internet, pre Smart Phone, pre techy everything, so I have no idea how I caught this. Quite possibly it was my greatest asset, dumb luck....
I had gone for a walk alone and came across this wonderful park. The benches looked appealing to me. I liked their shapes and I liked the way they were scattered across the park. There was not a single person in this park other than me and thats probably the best thing I liked about this place.
Shot at Guildford, UK.
Explored!!
A statue made up of computer cercite boards at the front gate of BCS computer City, Agargaon, Dhaka, Bangladesh
The return working of the Southampton-Edinburgh boat train crosses flooded water meadows near Twyford. The rain had only just stopped.... five minutes later the sun was shining. English weather, eh? Both 47s had failed the previous day when heading south, hence the addition of two 37s. Triple heading remains rare in the UK!
Techy stuff: Locos in sequence:
37409 Lord Hinton
37601 Class 37-'Fifty'
47841
47818 (on the rear)
Once the domain of the less fortunate, these old SF alleyways have been taken over by young and affluent techies who spend their break hours smoking and texting on their cell phones. Sequestered in the old buildings are modern software firms that have moved in, forcing the rents up and displacing the original population. It's nice work if you can get it.
Interestingly, the alleyways don't look any cleaner.
San Francisco CA
The styling of the Deltics always appealed to me - and the distinctive sound they made, their soft tones uniquely carrying with the wind for miles.
In this winter's view D9016 Gordon Highlander is departing Leeds Central past the signal box in 1965 with a West Riding express for King's Cross. Unusually, the roller blind had failed and was, wrongly, displaying the code for a Newcastle express so oil lamps were displayed over each buffer, the old steam code for an Express Passenger. (This was actually 1E10, the 12.14pm Leeds Central-KX).
Best seen large on black.
Techy stuff: 35mm Agfa slide scan. (Replaced with a better version 27-9-12).
© Copyright Steve Banks, no unauthorised use.
Shot in a Ludlow street near the town's market. Ludlow may seen like a quaint place with plenty of Michelin star restaurants, but it does have it's victims.
From a techy view I had to straighten the converging angles which took a little longer with my duff hands.
The Weir Bridge in my hometown of Ballina Co.Mayo taken yesterday evening.For the techies this is a three exposure high dynamic range image (-2, 0, + 2 ) blended together with LR Enfuse.
techies: nikon d40 with nikkor f1.8 50mm lens and a +2 macro-filter at f4
i found this super-duper cool location here in maastricht after work on friday. it's this old run-down wasteland with a few empty warehouses and factory buildings which are completely covered in graffiti. Spent about an hour shooting there on friday and revisited the place on saturday morning