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Monthly Archives: February 2009

Leake Street, London, SE1

Leake Street runs under Waterloo Station. The entrance makes it fairly clear what is in store… Graffers welcome! Photographing graffiti is just a bit too easy since a straightforward representation of the graf usually becomes derivative art for which the photographer inevitably takes some credit. Just look at all the Banksy ‘art’ rips online. It…

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Nokton!

It has arrived! A Cosina Voigtlander 35/1.2 VM Nokton. Yep, f/1.2 – tis the fastest lens I’ve ever owned. It is a Leica M mount so I’ll be using it on the Bessa-T. It is a large diameter lens (there is a lot glass to let enough light through wide open) so it blocks the…

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Gizmo week 3

Some more Gizmo. he is a pleasure to photograph, but getting naughtier… What? Moi? Good to seem him getting interested in the financial situation… The FT is currently his pissoire de jour and he enjoys ripping it to shreds after pissing all over it hehe. Grrrrrrr………….! More photos… Possibly related posts – automagicaly generated: Writing…

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Altazimuth

An Altazimuth or alt-azimuth mount is a simple mount used for moving a telescope, camera, helostatic mirror, or solar panel along two perpendicular axes of motion, one vertical and one horizontal. The vertical movement is known as the altitude, while the horizontal motion is called the azimuth. (Wikipedia) One of the greatest of words anyway!…

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