This is my entry for this weeks ‘Dan’s Thursday Doors’. It’s the front door to ‘The Old Coxswain’s Cottage’ in Weymouth, Dorset, UK. Its quite an impressive door with a port hole and anchor knocker. I tried looking up some information on the building but couldn’t find very much, other than its a Grade II listed building. We spotted it whilst we were wandering around the harbour in Weymouth a couple of years ago.
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It’s been a quiet time, for me, stock wise although the start of year is always a quiet time for my sales. I’m still trying to upload new images regularly. Most of my stock images come through street photography. However, the grey blanket of cloud we’ve had covering the UK for most of February hasn’t been conducive to going out anywhere special with the camera. The light has been useless.
Continue readingThis weeks theme is from the blog Stupidity Hole and he wants us to submit pictures of HANDS. So here are a few pics from me. I’ve processed them with an old version of Silver Efex which I’ve hardly ever used. I’ll be spending some time exploring it now as I like the results I’ve been able to achieve with it.
This weeks Lens-Artist Challenge is set by Leya – Only One Picture. One that you find important, meaningful to you, maybe sending a message – and then explain why you picked just that picture.
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Back in March 2020 the covid lockdown hit the UK. I was still working then but we were sent away from the office, with laptops, and told we would be working from home from that point onwards. We were also restricted to only going outdoors for one hour a day (for excersize), we had to stay local and keep away from anyone else. That left me with a problem, what am I going to photograph?
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This is my entry for this weeks ‘Dan’s Thursday Doors’. It’s a nondescript door that, on its own, doesn’t warrant a second look but lots of famous musicians have walked through this stage entrance.
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I’ve enjoyed using my vintage lenses with my Fujifilm X-T cameras over the last few weeks. It’s been really good to slow down, using manual focusing, and I like the colour rendering and sharp images my Auto Takamar 35mm F2.3 lens has produced (it’s a 50mm lens on my crop sensor Fuji cameras). The other vintage lens I’ve been using is my Pentacon 135mm F2.8 – known as the bokeh monster, with good reason.
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Last weekend I submitted a few images for the weekly Lens-Artist Challenge, Colour vs Black and White. I rarely convert my images to BW as I’m mostly shooting for stock. I leave it to others to convert my images if they want a BW version. They can’t convert it the other way.
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Here’s my submission for this weeks Thursday Doors photo challenge. I spotted this note tacked to the front door of a house in the Horfield area of Bristol, UK. It’s quite common to see comical notes like this around our streets. I really like the huge tacks they’ve used to hammer the message home (see what I did there).
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