Two chairs – colour.

Nikon Df with Nikkor 35-70 Ai f3.5 zoom.

A colour version of the previous ‘two chairs’ image, before I got a bit carried away with Nik Silver Efex. If you don’t play, it’s not fun.

Seed head.

Moon above trees.

Moon above trees

Mission chapel of Coneysthorpe: Nth Yorkshire.

The small mission chapel of Coneysthorpe: erected in 1835, a building of stone, with a small turret that contains one bell.

Forgotten Chair – Coneysthorpe Nth Yorkshire.

Forgotten Chair – Coneysthorpe village Nth Yorkshire.
Part of the Castle Howard Estate.

Remember the summer – A flower.

Nikon Df with Nikkor 55mm f2.8 Ais micro lens.

Memories of last summer.

Tree root with moss.

Nikon Df with 43-86 Ai zoom lens.
Reaching out for other trees: not so strange as it may sound, there is research going on that seems to confirm that trees actually do communicate with each other.
See this link from the Smithsonian: Do Trees Talk to Each Other?

A cold but bright morning.

Nikon Df with Nikkor 35-70 f3.5 Ai zoom lens.

Another short walk while the sun was out and before the last of the
snow turned into sludge.
This is about 5 minutes walk from our house and my aim is at least one image a month, that way I should capture all the seasons of the year. So far I’ve managed Fog, rain, snow and even some sun, although that can be a rare commodity at this time of year.

Tree Stump & moss No2.

Tree Stump & moss.

Nikon Df with Nikkor 35-70 Ai f3.5 zoom lens. This lens dates from the early 1970’s and takes 72mm filters – changed to 62mm when the Ais version was released and continued in production until 1987. My lens has ones of those nice metal screw in lens caps, much nicer that the now ubiquitous plastic things.

Tree stump with moss.

Nikon Df with Nikkor 35-70 f3.5 Ai zoom lens.

A picnic area near Driffield on a very cold day: but with that special light that only comes when there is snow in the air.

Log.

Nikon Df with Nikkor 43-86 f3.5 AI zoom.

Old Tree.

Nikon Df with Ai Zoom Nikkor 25-50mm f/4 lens.

I love these old Nikkor Non-Ai & Ai lenses: unfortunately since the advent of mirrorless cameras, the price has gone up a lot. There are some bargains, but careful consideration of the condition & most importantly! lack of lens fungus needs to be taken into account. Even a small amount untreated, will migrate to any other lenses/camera you have in your bag. If your storage conditions are not good, high humidity & darkness will promote growth.

Pond in The Keld – Driffield.

Nikon Df with Ai Zoom Nikkor 25-50mm f/4 lens.
Pond in The Keld – Driffield.

Bird nesting box.

Nikon Df with Ai Zoom Nikkor 25-50mm f/4 lens.
A bird nesting box, spotted on my walk yesterday.

Logs – Driffield.

Nikon Df with Ai Zoom Nikkor 25-50mm f/4 lens.

A late afternoon walk in what I believe is known as ‘The Keld’ a pleasant walk through a wooded area with a number of ponds.

Dead Leaves.

Nikon Df with Nikkor Ai 25-50 f4 zoom lens,

Fog today.

Its been foggy all day, although not as cold. I complained the other day that an early morning walk missed the fog, a late afternoon one was not to be missed.

Another Flower.

The much maligned Nikkor 43-86 AI zoom on a Nikon Df.

Testing a Nikon Df at night – Muttrah.

@ 10.000 ISO ! f4.0

I have been testing a Nikon Df with its D4 sensor: these images were taken with the Nikkor 50mm f1.8AF G lens set @ f5.6.
All hand held at Iso 3200 apart from the water feature which was 10000 Iso (that is the correct number of zeros !) other than a little noise reduction & a small amount of sharpening, nothing else was done.
Raw NEF images converted to Tiff Adobe RGB then Jpeg s.RGB but no colour correction; the white balance was set on Auto 1.
All taken last night and never again, far more people than I like when out with my camera.

I don’t think I could do this using a film camera without many trials & tribulations.