This weeks challenge is set by Ann- Christine and she challenges us to upload images from our last outing with the camera. For me that was last Tuesday when we drove to the Cotswolds, Gloucestershire, UK for a hike.
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Tina over at Travels and Trifles has led this week’s Lens-Artist’s challenge. I’ll echo everyone else and say how this was a really tough challenge. It would have been easier to duck out completely but I thought ‘No, I’m going to do it’. I’m posting late because we’ve been away.
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This week Ritva hosts the lens artist challenge – Portraits, and the opportunity to capture the essence and personality of your subjects.
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I took this today in Weston-s-Mare. Much as I like doors, this artwork has made these dull, plain doors more interesting. Having said that, the doors add something as well. I wish I could have included more but there was a car parked in the way. Posted for Dan’s Thursday Doors
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After a disappointing month for sales in January, things picked up in February and I returned to my rough average of about 10-15 sales per month. On a negative note, I also had a problem with a Alamy’s exclusivity rules and they fined me $150.
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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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