Thursday, 9 July 2009

Town fun day

Town Fun Day
The theme was “I love my Town” and many joined in the fun.



The assistants of a clothes shop put on a show in the window.


Sunday, 14 June 2009

Snail Portraits



Wednesday, 10 June 2009

Selective Focus

Lubitel Toy camera lens





Thursday, 28 May 2009

Film scans

Cheap (Very cheap S/H) flat bed photo scanners made by Epson can give good results at web size. They can offer a fun alternative of shooting with your old film cameras and bring new life to any old negatives you have.
These examples were scanned with a very cheap Epson 2480, available S/H for about £10-20. I would not recommend this option if you want good prints.

A really old one. I took this in 1969 with my Pentax SL (which I still have and it works perfectly) It is one of my oldest negatives as I lost many over the years

Taken last year with a Vivitar rangefinder

The following 2 are shots from last year taken with my Olympus XA2
A shot from last year with the simple Olympus XA1
Pentax ME super with 16mm fisheye lens
Another oldie taken with a Fuji HD.
I still shoot film for fun. At present I have a film in my Pentax Spotmatic and Olympus XA. I am also using a toy Vivitar Ultra wide & slim, but a digital camera is my first choice for most of my present day photography.

Monday, 25 May 2009

General walk about shots

These shots were with my shift focus Lubitel lens which gives control of the plane of focus



Back to a normal lens
Another Lubitel lens shot
Hard to resist shots of the chicks
And the parent
These shots are with Manual focus lenses. I use manual focus for the majority of my shots.
I would like to recommend a forum to anybody who wishes to know more about MF lenses or share their own experience.
We are desperate to encourage new members who take photos with MF on DSLRs and enjoy seeing the work of others http://forum.manualfocus.org/index.php

Wednesday, 13 May 2009

General Shots

A few general shots from a days out.





Monday, 11 May 2009

Marlborough Church.Tower views

The church tower clock workings

The Belfry.
The main bells were removed because they all swung the same way and would have brought the tower down.

The endless stairs


Marlborough College
An afternoon of cricket
The church has some fine Stained glass windows