A simple white cross on a dark background (actually it was green): the door of a nearby church. I liked the minimal composition, which seems to give a sense of peace and tranquility.
Cross
Hair
My wife in the late 1970s/early 1980s. I guess I must have been going through an ‘artsy’ phase at that time.
Taken, I believe, with a Canon AE-1, which I bought second hand (and in lousy condition as I recall). I don’t think I ever had a prime lens for this camera. Instead I had two zooms: an FD 35-70mm f3.5-4.5 and an FD 70-210mm f4. The camera gave up the ghost a long time ago (I replaced it with one in better condition when I started collecting cameras), but I still have the lenses. I’ve used the 35-70mm on my Nex 5N as recently as August 2014.
Broken windows
This was taken almost a year ago (January 29, 2016) in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, Sleepy Hollow, NY. I liked the varied tones and it’s almost abstract feel. Although I wasn’t conscious of it at the time, I was probably influenced by seeing similar (but much better) photographs by (I suspect) Minor White and/or Brett Weston.
For fans of Downton Abbey
An exterior shot of the grand property that later became ‘Downton Abbey’. Its owner’s help in discovering the tomb of Tutankhamun with archaeologist Howard Carter in Egypt in 1922 that he was best known for.
This is what the real Downton Abbey i.e. Hiclere Castle in Hampshire, UK looked like in 1895. I particularly liked the interior shots. For example:
The drawing room at Highclere Castle. Robert Ansell, a specialist at Lawrences, said: ‘These fascinating images of Highclere Castle offer a rare glimpse into the life of the 5th Earl of Carnarvon and his circle’.
Rare photographs of the ‘real’ Downton Abbey in Hampshire and its owners the fifth Earl of Carnarvon, and his wife Almina Herbert, from 1895, have been unearthed.
Reindeer?
Taken during the News Year’s party we attended. The owner of the house was an avid hunter and there were hunt memorabilia everywhere including a huge Elk head above he mantel (for those who remember Fawlty Towers think Moose). I believe there was also a room upstairs with a number of animal heads on the walls, but I didn’t actually see it.
These two were inside a globe on the mantel (below the Elk head). It could have been a snow globe, but I didn’t want to pick it up and shake it to find out. To be honest I’m not even sure that these are reindeer or some other member of the deer family. They look a bit too tall and elegant to be reindeer – I seem to recall that reindeer are stockier and have shorter legs but what do I know.
As mentioned in an earlier post, the only camera I had with me was the one on my iphone 5s. Clearly it’s not a brilliant picture, but sometimes it’s good to experiment.