A short visit to Luss, a conservation village on the banks of Loch Lomond, on a miserable wet day in May, 2024. The village is a popular destination for tourists from all over the world, due to its beauty, its quaintness and of course, its association with the ITV drama series, ‘Take the High Road.’ On the day we visited it was swarming with people, strolling through the streets, taking the boat tour of the loch, and visiting the various tourist outlets and eating in the cafes.
All sorts of people can be found along the glorious length of Sauchiehall Street in Glasgow. A recent stroll along the street in the rain, with the Fujifilm X-T5 and a 35mm f/1.8 lens produce little in the way of decent images, but I thought life in the rain might be best illustrated by these two images…
This elderly gentleman, handing out his leaflets in the pouring rain, while engaging in conversation with a passerby, – studiously avoided by others! A littler further up the street these workers under the ‘life’ sign were having lunch al fresco…
Continue reading Glasgow LifeA brilliantly sunlit Saturday morning, a walk by the River Bann with family, and a Fujifilm X-T5 Camera, and coffee afterwards.
A perfect combination!
The Fisherman’s Walk, Portglenone, Co.Antrim
Continue reading The Fisherman’s WalkDandelion Clock
“A children’s amusement in which the number of puffs needed to blow the filamentous achenes from a dandelion is supposed to tell the time.”
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Photographed under studio lighting with the Fujifilm X-T5 fitted with a 50mm Nikon lens, F=50mm, f/11 @ 1/125th sec on ISO400. RAW image processed in Photoshop.
A simple image of a solitary tree along the side of Ballycowan Road, Ballymena.
Photographed with the Fujifilm X-T5 camera and a Nikon manual focus lens. Acros film simulation.
The Dundonald bus steadily makes its way along the Newtownards Road on a warm and sunny springtime day, stopping to allow more passengers to board.
Photographed with the Fujifilm X-T5 camera fitted with a Nikon 50mm lens.
The murals on the overpass at the end of the Sydenham ByPass, and adjacent to and viewed from Middlepath Street.
Photographed with a Fujifilm X-T5, simultaneously in Acros black and white film simulation, and in RAW. The RAW image was processed in colour, and in Photoshop overlaid with the monochrome image; a mask applied, and the mural colours revealed with the brush.
I’d intended it to be in monochrome only, but the result was drab, – and that street corner is brightened greatly by the colour on the walls, – so I went for a compromise, – a monochrome image with a splash of colour. In the early digital era, that technique was frowned upon as ‘cliched!’ But sometimes it just works.
Fujifilm X-T5, with 50mm with Nikon manual focus lens, f/5.6 @ 1.125th sec on ISO500
Carnanee Road, Templepatrick, Co.Antrim, sunset, on the 1st Day of British Summer Time, 31st March 2024, 8.17pm
Photographed with the Fujifilm X-T5 camera and a vintage Nikon 35-70 manual focus lens.
So, there was me, taking a stroll through the beautiful city centre of Lisburn (there’s a joke – boarded up shops and empty buildings – the place looks decrepit, a shadow of its former self). I got up to Castle Street, where once stood the Co-Op supermarket, and the big NIE electricity showroom, and Frederick Thomas Prams and Nursery Goods, and I noticed that amid the dereliction, there were ridiculous balls of some sort strung across the street. I decided to make an image – this is it – mediocre enough, like Lisburn itself.
All that makes it interesting is what happened next.
Continue reading Lisburn, Co.Antrim, – and a strange encounter…I’ve been messing around with a Nikon 50mm f/1.4 manual focus lens, attached to the Fujifilm X-T5, using an adapter made by K&F Koncept. The depth of field is amazing.
This shot of a cutlery drawer demonstrates the bokeh possible with a lens like this, and of course with Fuji’s ‘focus-peaking’ feature, manual focus is a doddle!
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