Banger Town

Nikon D90 and AF-S DX Zoom-Nikkor 18-135mm f/3.5-5.6G IF-ED lens.

If I won the lottery - which is improbable for several reasons, not least that I never buy a ticket - I would establish and finance a Campaign to Prevent the State from Promoting False Hope Through Gambling.

When I gaze on this casually photographed and unplanned image, I think of 'Nighthawks' by Edward Hopper, and I don't know why because this is nothing like 'Nighthawks'. However, Steve Bucknell of this website has explained it elsewhere (flickr) thus: It gives a similar sense of late night isolation, ephemerality, bright artificial light and deep contrasting dark. That's why.

Trees photographed using a Nikon D2Xs with a Tamron 17-50mm f/2.8 lens.

Two couples going in opposite directions photographed using a Nikon D2Xs with a Tamron 17-50mm f/2.8 lens.

I come here once a year to record the decline of these doors. Photographed with a Nikon D50 and an AF Nikkor 28-80mm f/3.3-5.6 G lens.

Photographed with a Nikon D50 and an AF Nikkor 28-80mm f/3.3-5.6 G lens. * www.youtube.com/watch?v=gSpW6MePb10 Photographing these swans brought to mind the line 'I told you 'bout the swans that they live in the park' in Cream's 1968 song 'Badge' by Eric Clapton and George Harrison. The writers were struggling to complete the song when an inebriated Ringo Starr arrived and supplied the line about the swans.

Nikon D90 + AF-S DX Zoom-Nikkor 18-135mm f/3.5-5.6G IF-ED lens.

Photographed using a Helios-44 58mm f/2 lens fitted via an adapter to a Canon EOS 30D camera.

Photographed using a Helios-44 58mm f/2 lens fitted via an adapter to a Canon EOS 30D camera.

Fujifilm FinePix S3 Pro + Nikkor 18-70mm f/3.5-4.5 lens.

Canon PowerShot SX120 IS.

Streets are attractive when lined with deciduous trees. However, it means surrendering space which could be used for car parking, or greater housing density. Thus the practice has become less common. Canon EOS 40D and Canon EF 35-105mm f/3.5-4.5 lens. Canon introduced the EF 35-105mm f/3.5-4.5 lens with the first EOS cameras in 1987. It is a slide zoom with an optical configuration very similar to the FD lens of the same description.