Thursday 31 March 2016

Mesnes Park with a new (old) manual lens!

I was in Mesnes Park in Wigan by 9am, complete with my Fuji X-E2 camera and a recently purchased Meyer-Optik Gorlitz Lydith 30mm manual lens, made around 1960!

I love using old manual lenses on my cameras, it makes me do the work, rather than just pointing and clicking!!

Here are the results, and I have to say that this lens is one of the smoothest and sharpest I've yet discovered!!!


















Sunday 20 March 2016

Long Wall Wood Walk

The Winstanley Estate, long abandoned by the Bankes family, is known as Long Wall Wood where its boundary reaches public land.
Parts of the old wall still exist, though neglected and 'borrowed' in many places!

Olympus Stylus 1.

The Old Wall

Rainbow Fungus

Four Eyes Watching

Straight Silver Birch

Pond Reflection 
By The Stream
Arrow Reflection


Fern Wall






Thursday 17 March 2016

An Hour Before Sunset on Ashurst's Beacon

Why?

I travelled to the Beacon to take clear sky images late in the afternoon, but was freezing cold by the time I left, which was an hour before Sunset.

I'll make another trip to capture the sunset without having to wait two hours!


Fuji X-T1. 10-24mm and 35mm Fuji lenses.


Beacon Sun

Across the Lancashire Plain

Beacon Approach

Beacon To The Moon

Bright Beacon Gorse

Beacon Sunburst

Beacon Twilight


Sunday 13 March 2016

Sunny New Brighton

Josie and I appear to be doing a tour of the North West beaches at the moment, we headed through the Kingsway Tunnel under the Mersey and out onto the Wirral for today's trip.

Fuji X-E2, 10-24mm Fuji lens.












Tuesday 8 March 2016

Sunny Blackpool

Josie and I took advantage of a beautiful sunny March day and decided to walk the Blackpool Promenade from its beginning at Squires Gate all the way to The Tower, a distance of almost 3.5 miles! It is flat and smooth all the way.

After a coffee break, we cheated, and in a first for both of us, caught the tram back to the terminus!!

We took some images along the way, particularly of the big bright blue sky!!

Fuji X-E2, 18mm Fuji lens.



LONELY

TOWARDS THE TOWER

BLUE ON BLUE

BLUE PORTHOLES

SPARKLING SPHERE

RED TOWER

CENTRAL PIER VIEW

CURVES EVERYWHERE

LIFEBELT POP

JOSIE AND THE BIG ONE

A BRACING SEASIDE VIEW

RUSTY SPIKES

THE BIG ONE

VANISHING POINTS