Something a little abstract today – a shot of a dusting of snow atop the tiles on my garage roof.
Olympus OM-1, F.Zuiko 50mm f/1.8 & Ilford HP5+.
Taken on 21 January 2018
Tag: F Zuiko 50mm f/1.8
Slim habitation
A dead tree carved into a curious abode in the woods surrounding Linacre reservoir.
A bit of vignetting added to make it pop a little more.
Olympus OM-1, F.Zuiko 50mm f/1.8 & Ilford HP5+.
Taken on 20 January 2018
Feeling dejected
The week before last, the app on my phone had promised sunny conditions. So, looking forwards to some nice, low winter sunshine, I made plans to go out with my camera at the weekend.
Unfortunately, when the Saturday came, the skies outside showed nary a sign of the sun. I was feeling pretty dejected, and considered just staying home and reading, but in the end decided to go out anyway – the app was now showing “light cloud”, so I decided on a trip to Linacre reservoirs, a location not too far away and which I’d not visited before. If nothing else, the walk would be nice, and I could use the visit to recce shots for better conditions.
When I arrived, the “light cloud” had turned to sleet, which further dampened my spirits, and I sat in the car for five minutes considering whether or not to pay for parking, or to just go home. While I did this, I took the following picture from the car window as I liked the look of the chunky tyre in the mud.
In the end, I paid to park and had a very enjoyable walk, and managed to get several nice photos despite the dull and damp weather.
I think the key sometimes (probably ALL times) is to just enjoy things for what they are, and not to get hung up when they’re not the conditions you hoped for.
Olympus OM-1, F.Zuiko 50mm f/1.8 & Ilford HP5+.
Taken on 20 January 2018
Mystery box
I spotted this curious little box attached to the wall of a reservoir. I’m not sure what might be inside (someone suggested the key to the lock 🙂 ).
Olympus OM-1, F.Zuiko 50mm f/1.8 & Ilford HP5+.
Taken on 20 January 2018
A muddy walk
To be honest, the day I took this shot was not an ideal one for walking, but at the time I left the house it didn’t seem too bad. It wasn’t blizzard conditions or anything, or even heavy rain, just intermittent wintry showers of sleet.
The main problem was that there was a great deal of surface water around which had turned the footpaths into mud. The path in the shot below wasn’t too bad (although I had to walk with my feet straddling the central stream of meltwater for much of its length), but in some places my feet became completely submerged in mud, and one particular steep uphill gully – filled with mud, leaves and water, and closely bordered with prickly holly bushes – made for a bit of an ordeal. I also had an incident where I stopped to talk to a lady walking her dog. The dog was a friendly looking thing and so decided it would rear up on its hind legs and plant its very muddy paws on me, leaving me with a large splotch of wet mud atop my thigh.
It was still a nice walk though.
Olympus OM-1, F.Zuiko 50mm f/1.8 & Ilford HP5+.
Taken on 17 January 2018
When we touch, when we kiss
A fairly mundane subject for today’s photo, but the light falling on it was lovely, so I couldn’t resist the shot.
The title is in reference of the Electric Six song, Danger! High Voltage, in case you were wondering.
Olympus OM-1, F.Zuiko 50mm f/1.8 & Ilford HP5+.
Taken on 31 December 2017
Phone-box portrait
Another set of photos from the wonderfully misty day a few weeks back. A fairly mundane subject but the light and atmospherics work wonders I reckon.
Olympus OM-1, F.Zuiko 50mm f/1.8 & Kodak Tmax 100.
Taken on 21 December 2017
Natural architecture
Spider webs have an odd feature of being both a little creepy (have you ever walked face-first into one in the dark?) and beguilingly elegant (watching a spider construct one of these natural works or architecture is both fascinating and also slightly humbling). Sometimes though, when they’re festooned with dewdrops and bathed in a shaft of early morning sunshine, they’re simply beautiful.
Olympus OM-1, F.Zuiko 50mm f/1.8 & Kodak Tmax 100.
Taken on 21 December 2017
A fence by a wall
The light was wonderful on the day I took this. It made for nice photos of all manner of things.
Olympus OM-1, F.Zuiko 50mm f/1.8 & Kodak Tmax 100.
Taken on 21 December 2017
On suburban streets
After parking the car with the intention of a walk in the countryside, I spotted these houses across the road. I liked the uniformity of shape and the way they receded down the hill.
Olympus OM-1, F.Zuiko 50mm f/1.8 & Kodak Tmax 100.
Taken on 21 December 2017
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