The Limbo Connection's photos

Fujifilm X-E1 with Fujinon 35mm f/1.4 XF R lens.

Nikon D700 & Micro-Nikkor 55mm f/3.5 AI lens.

All art is the result of observation. Often we see yet do nothing. Sometimes we do not notice at all. Ideas are fragile. They quickly vaporise if they are not preserved and developed. The universe is full of broken fragments of ideas. Nikon D700 and Micro-Nikkor 55mm f/3.5 AI lens.

Nikon D700 and Tamron SP 35mm F1.8 lens. Cropped and processed in pursuit of the 1950s Kodak look. I expect Fuji does that more convincingly in one of its film simulation modes.

A railway for liturgists and linguists, eccentrics and ecclesiasts, prebendaries and pretenders, cultists and charlatans, fishermen and fakes, politicians and policemen, nicemen and nitpickers, chosen people and cheesemongers, chief executives and chimp trainers, drug dealers and drag artists, housewives and hillbillies, circus acrobats and fercus aristocrats, atheists and athletes, fantasists and photographers, milliners and mole catchers, hitmen and tit men, linoleum lovers and limbo dancers, and particularly for *Italo-Byzantine liturgists and dark wood dilettantes. Cranmore Railway Station waiting room, East Somerset Railway, using a Nikon D700 with a Nikkor 20mm f/3.5 AI-S lens.

It's only in the winter, when the framework is bare, that you realise how authentic this is in comparison to the more common garden canes people use to grow their scarlet runners. But not everybody has the luxury of choice. Nikon D700 and Nikkor 35-70mm f/2.8 AF-D lens.

William Sharington bought Lacock Abbey from the Crown following the Dissolution of the Monasteries. The house was built over the old cloisters and its main rooms are on the first floor. In the spot you can see in the foreground stood the chapel used for worship by the nuns. Sharington had it demolished to provide building material for his planned alterations. 1/400th at f/13. Nikon D700 and Nikkor 35-70mm f/2.8 AF-D lens.

Nikon D700 and Nikkor 35-70mm f/2.8 AF-D lens.

Nikon D700 and Nikkor 35-70mm f/2.8 AF-D lens.

Nikon D700 and Nikkor 35-70mm f/2.8 AF-D lens.

Nikon D700 and Nikkor 35-70mm f/2.8 AF-D lens.

Nikon D700 and Nikkor 35-70mm f/2.8 AF-D lens.

Nikon D700 and Nikkor 35-70mm f/2.8 AF-D lens.

Nikon D700 and Nikkor 35-70mm f/2.8 AF-D lens.

NatWest bank, 7 High Street, Wells, Somerset. Nikon D700 and AF Zoom-Nikkor 70-210mm f/4 lens.

The Nikon 35-70mm f/2.8 is only a 2 x zoom. Successors gained more wide-angle capability without losing the constant f/2.8. They incidentally cost a lot more and increased in physical dimensions and weight. The picture of the red check table cloth was made at 35mm focal length and f/2.8 aperture.

I wanted to see what it looked like photographed. The blue wedge on the left is a collapsible ironing board. Nikon D700 and Nikkor 35-70mm f/2.8 AF-D lens. F/2.8, 1/125th, 4000 ISO. As happens so often with the 35-70mm, in my hands it is basically a 70mm f/2.8 lens. That's my favoured focal length.