Not posted any photographs for some months – no inspiration.
But wishing everyone a Happy Xmas and peaceful New year.
Not posted any photographs for some months – no inspiration.
But wishing everyone a Happy Xmas and peaceful New year.
Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. Continue reading “Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II.”
I have been doing tests with a newly acquired JJC ES-2 clone of the Nikon ES-2 film digitiser.
. Click above image for Amazon link.
It works very well and comes with a LED light attachment which the Nikon version does not have.
The setup I used was:
Nikon D800, PK11(a), PK13, Nikkor 55mm F2.8 AIs micro and the slide/film copier.
It is a lot cheaper than the Nikon equivalent (seems made of engineering plastic like the Nikon one) and includes the LED light attachment along with 5 lens adapters.
Trials and Tribulations:
First off, thank you everyone for your concern. I’m ok, just a little
shaken up, but l’ll be ok.
For those of you who don’t know what happened, I was robbed this afternoon at the petrol station. I gathered myself together, my hands were still shaking, I was dizzy and I honestly
think I was in shock. My money was gone. I called the police, they were fantastic and called for medical assistance as my blood pressure was through the roof. The police asked me if I knew who did it, and I told them “Yes, it was pump number 2.”
Could not resist posting this: for all those who are shocked at the price of fuel.
Cannot attribute it because there was no indication on the forum I saw it on.
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From Wiki:
Simard asserts that healthy forests centre on a matriarch tree that acts as a nexus of nutrient distribution that shares these nutrients among other trees of the same or different ages and species that are chemically and physically linked together by an expansive mycorrhizal network. Simard faced ridicule during her younger years; however her research became “critical to addressing problems in the timber industry” that led to reforms in sustainable forestry.
Maybe a somewhat controversial thought on this last day of 2021.
From the Encyclopædia Britannica:-
Dictatorship.
A form of government in which one person or a small group possesses absolute power without effective constitutional limitations. The term dictatorship comes from the Latin title dictator, which in the Roman Republic designated a temporary magistrate who was granted extraordinary powers in order to deal with state crises
Modern dictators, however, resemble ancient tyrants rather than ancient dictators. Ancient philosophers’ descriptions of the tyrannies of Greece and Sicily go far toward characterizing modern dictatorships. Dictators usually resort to force or fraud to gain despotic political power, which they maintain through the use of intimidation, terror, and the suppression of basic civil liberties. They may also employ techniques of mass propaganda in order to sustain their public support.
Let us hope 2022 can revert back to what passed for normal two years ago.
Padley Mill on Kodacolor VR 200 film made between 1982 & 86
The back of the mill can be seen through the trees and the stream in the foreground fed a small dam (behind the trees on the left of the image) which maintained flow through the mill race.
This was a corn mill from the mid-eighteen century; also used as a saw mill and wire-drawing mill.
Water Mill drive converter wheel.
Going through old negatives, I found a sheet from the early 1980s of Padley Mill and Padley woods in the Peak District National Park: Derbyshire.
Kodacolor VR200 film which was made between 1982 to 86, this helped me date them at more than 35 years old.
I have been scanning and converting some into B&W.