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Background Works

Just testing the Summicron 90/2 which I intend to be using for a series of portraits later this year. It has a reputation for producing excellent bokeh. Certainly some of these backgrounds are interesting. I’ve done very little post-processing Canary Wharf Some views of the bankers across the river Thames Path Mainly down by the…

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In The Frame

I didn’t think I’d get anything from this roll. Handheld with the monster Nikkor 80-200/2.8, Tri-X pushed to 1600, little available light, plus a very strange dev. How wrong I was, I’m really pleased with this. Possibly related posts – automagicaly generated: What took me so long… (0) Thoughtful (0) Shopping In The Market (1)…

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A Church, A Double Murder, A Cat, And A Rant Or Three

St Edmunds Catholic Church A slightly dark vision, snapped from Nell Keenan’s “rose garden”. The rose garden is/was a squalid mess of empty cans, litter, shit, and the usual paraphernalia (I think the church may be demolished now). Poor Nell Keenan, she has a plaque but what a memorial. Architecture… now where do we start?…

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