Not quite what I was after ... I went for a run (including much walking, as it was the first in ages, and I wanted to be sensible, particularly after doing a mischief to my leg a week ago), and as I was coming home, saw the sun as a huuuuuge baleful red disk close to the horizon. As soon as I got home, being unable to get a good angle from our place (trees and such) I grabbed the camera, jumped in the car, and went a minute or so up the road to this spot. In just that time the sun had become yellow and substantially higher.

Still was good though.




Kimunor 135/3.5; K-30

Yesterday in the morning there had been a beautiful frost everywhere, on almost every possible surface. Today, I was hoping for the same so I got up early for a walk on a nearby grassland. Well, there was barely any frost but still, it was a nice morning. SMC-DA21.

A slight lull in the rain this morning allowed a few shots in the garden. K1 with Super Takumar 55/2

The privet berries remain an inspiration with the Vivitar 28mm F2 Close focussing (Komine):

Wet and windy day today so I decided to try a bit of table-top camera porn instead. As I am using the "K" 50mm f/4 macro, my K2DMD seemed an appropriate model.


Nov 02 K2DMD par Kris Lockyear, on ipernity

OK, day two with the M 135, focus is nearer but in pic 2 I am still focusing ahead of the subject. One thing I need to remember is to keep my shutter speed a little higher than was necessary with the 35mm. I think this is going to be a good learning curve.

Before heading down to the smithy in Port Elliot, my knife making mentor and I attended a local knife show. This guy had just won an award.

K28/2.0 on the K-1 Mark II. Focussed who knows where, and shutter speed too low, but I still quite like it - even with the encroaching clipboard carrier on the right edge


Sharpness is a bourgeois concept

and



K-3 with Voigtlander Ultron 40mm f2 SL II

Vivitar Series 1 19-35mm f/3.5.

The sunset was nice but not much in the way of clouds. But looking away from the sun provided the shot for the day. This is a four shot panorama.


645Z with Pentax 645 75mm F2.8.

Arrived at work to a smashed glass door, oh well at least it gave me a chance for a shot
Q 01

One more for the anchor lift serie. This time wide open.

K1ii M50/2 ISO100 f2 1/350:



For landscape wide open was too soft, but one stop down and it's acceptable:

Detail from 1937 Cadillac. SMC-A 50mm f1.7

Super-takumar 35/2 wide open on k-1