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Following a chat with Chris Bennett about how to achieve high contrast images and chasing out the light, I thought I’d share some of the practice run shots. Nice to have a concept clear up in the mind.

Otherworldly colours and textures keep me fascinated with one of my other passions maintaining a reef tank and documenting the development.

Continuing my fascination with Blackpool and the promenade, a recent jaunt to dapple in blue hour and later as nighttime shared the illuminations space. Taken on a Sigma SD15 and Fuji XE1.

I have a nostalgia for the promenade and illuminations display in Blackpool- the vibrant intensity and whimsy jarred with daily life in a down on its luck town. I’m in year 3 I think of collecting photos of this annual event, one day hoping to make something from it. My muse this recent night...

A few shots from a drone practicing session with a friend. Can’t say I’m a fan of the drones, but I appreciate the fun of capturing them - AF lens was useful.

Continuing to enjoy the D2Hs and Sigma 105 macro combo, I went and checked out a fairly local cacti and succulent show today- the flowers are spectacular and the show contestants demonstrate how rewarding horticultural pursuits are.

Like the errant cat of the village making the rounds I’ve been absent from the forum whilst life’s presented me with challenges and a summer that evaporated like the horizon in a heatwave. I can’t quite put my finger on why, but I found myself returning to my old, battered Nikon D2H lately...

Morecambe Bay and some incredible lighting with a Super Takumar 28mm.

Simply amazing to see one of my favourite birds hunt and feed on a sunny day. Simple pleasures. Shot with the Tamron 500mm SP mirror lens and a lot of luck!

Time has been running away from me post festive season 2024 and I’ve remained grateful for my photography hobby keeping me relaxed around life’s pressures. My nearest and dearest have both started shooting Fuji systems, albeit with adapted manual glass we collectively own- and well, I didn’t...

I really did wonder what kind of magic was being sold with these spuds as this queue is always snaking across the square.

A site I'm now intimately familiar with for family outings, a lovely sunny day and playing around with monochrome shooting.

Taken with a Pentax KS-1 and Tamron 500SP mirror. A relaxing breather in the local butterfly house gives some rewarding chances for portraits.

Lake shores and wooded surroundings always give me a sense that a location can be magnetic in monochrome.

Just a handful of shots capturing a couple of features I've overlooked in the past

I'm going to preface this with a friendly note that I'll remove the post if it's not appropriate, but I thought I'd share a bitter tasting experience I've just come across on eBay. Advertised my Nikon F2 and 50 1.4 lens, got an offer which I accepted. Noticed when I came to post that the...

I chanced upon this little one whilst walking home, seemed near the end of life so I planned to place them in my garden on the buddleia. A chance to record some close up details of a month wasn't about to go amis. This was a touch dramatic, yet I felt reflected the texture and strange...

Not often I chance upon some spontaneous duality. Pentax KS-1 and Senheil Munchen Cassarit 50mm f.2.8.

I guess scepticism can indeed lead to luck, which is partly the reason for the thread title. The other is the disparity in form of two recent acquisitions following a lucky antiques store find. A Pentacon 300 f.4 and a Steinhell Munchen Cassarit 50 f.2.8 preset followed me home, the...