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Tag: Somerset
Ashton Windmill – Somerset.
Ashton Windmill – Somerset.
Bridleway.
A rather nice walk, although it can be muddy on a wet day.
A Kissing gate.
This gate (a short cut from where my daughter lives) leads to the Black Horse pub (see thumbnail image below) whose building dates from the 14th century.
The Black Horse pub – Clapton in Gordano.
Some very nice beer can be had at this pub.
Ivy against tree.
Ivy against tree trunk.
Woodland pond.
Memories of warmer weather in Somerset.
Pinhole image of a bridge in Bath – Somerset: I think.
A bridge in Bath – Somerset, I think.
Image scanned then adjusted for noise & contrast in P.S/CS6.
The problem with going through old files and negatives is finding forgotten and unidentifiable images. That is exactly what this is, all the negative page said was ‘Pinhole experiments’ with 35mm camera and body cap, it had several badly exposed and/or very blurred images but this one was the best.
I remember reading about the possibility of using a body cap drilled for a pinhole lens, but cannot find the modified cap since moving.
I do remember using the Nikon F4/Nikon F2Sb after making the lens from a drilled body cap which I then fitted with a disc made from very thin aluminium with a precisely centred hole. The ‘f’ stop was around f:200, calculated by using the following.
f-stop = focal length / aperture diameter
Figures estimated by using a ruler and dividers, was about 0.25 mm and the distance of the pinhole to film plane about 50 mm.
f-stop = 50 mm / 0.25 mm = 200.
For those who wondered what the symbol of a circle bisected by a line was on their SLR, it denotes the point of focus for images at infinity; the film plane.
The disc was sanded, cleaned in Isopropyl alcohol then glued onto the lens cap and all painted with matt black paint.
Why I have never carried on with these experiments I have no idea and the memory jog only came after looking at pinhole images posted on Kevin Allan’s excellent blog filmphotography.blog/2019/09/25/ondu-pinholes-hexham-abbey/ Well worth visiting for his images and articles about cameras, materials & techniques.
Ferns.
Ferns.
Pump room – Bath.
From my negative files: Nikon 35Ti on Ilford HP5 plus @ 320asa
The Pump room – Bath: The novelist Jane Austen mentions both Bath and the Pump room in her novels Northanger Abbey and Persuasion.
Known for providing a rather (for me) obnoxious warm mineral water, that has been renowned for its restorative powers since before Roman times.
Siver Birch plantation.
Silver Birch plantation.
Tree & scrubland.
Tree with tussock grass: Somerset.
Winter tree No2 – Somerset.
Winter tree No2 – Somerset.
I cheated with this one, flipped it horizontally because I preferred the big tree on the left & the road curving in from the right.
Winter tree – Somerset.
Another winter tree.
It may still look rather cold, but it was not all fog & rain. In fact most of the day was very nice for the time of year.
Not sure exactly where this was, we had been travelling back and fore trying to catch the murmuration of starlings.
Black Down hills Somerset No2.
Black Down hills Somerset No2.
Clapton in Gordano Somerset.
Part of the village of Clapton in Gordano Somerset, on a rather cold and damp morning.
Lone tree – Black Down hills Somerset.
Black Down, the highest point in the Mendip Hills Somerset.
According to that well-known online Encyclopedia, which agrees with a book I have: the name Black Down comes from the Saxon word ‘Blac’ or ‘Bloec’ meaning bleak or dark and ‘Dun’ meaning down or fort. There are several Bronze Age round barrow earth covered burial tombs & a nearby Iron Age hill fort in the area.
David A Lockwood 