Recent content by Pete Askew

Mind, the two figures in the window seem to have seen you coming and have turned their backs! ;)

Nicely rendered, and I prefer this to the B&W shot. The colours help differentiate the ‘statues’ from the background better and you’ve caught ‘his’ eye nicely too.

That old scalloped-ring 105 is one of my all-time favourite lenses. :)

And just to prove the point, this most certainly wasn’t sitting under the bookcase at the bottom of the stairs for the last 6 months!

Absolutely, and that worked just like that for me! ;)

Most definitely. Nice shots too.

The colour rendering and delicate tones are really nice here, Aldous.

Now that made me laugh, Gianluca. Brilliantly done (and well spotted).

Thank you, Gianluca. Those house plant pixies do like their comforts it seems! ;)

Thanks, Ralph. Needs a bit algae and light corrosion still. The weathered clap-board will be fun. :)

A while back some friends gave me a laser-cut kit to build a balsa-wood tree house for an indoor plant. I think they got the idea because I do build miniatures (I’ll share some others at some point) and ‘restored’ an old doll’s house for a friend last year. Anyway, the kit was pretty simple...

Mine is sadly no longer so sparse as when this was taken. It is all Nikon F though. Later this year it should all move to new display case though. I do have a D1, a D2 and several variants of the D3 (still in use) too. They are nowhere near as interesting though and I have never found a...

There isn’t one I’m afraid... https://realphotographersforum.com/threads/why-the-f.8097/ These cabinet are now bursting at the seams! https://realphotographersforum.com/threads/nikon-f-collection-and-rangefinders.18505/#post-142341

Yes, but not for a fair while.

Not too difficult I would think. It seems to be mostly brass tubing and self-tapping screws. There might be the odd supporting plate too. Fiddly, but not especially tricky.