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Little Post-VE-Day Solo Photo Shoot this morning. Took a short road trip to the site of a WW2 German Decoy Airfield, complete with a dummy Messerschmitt.
First time in one of my living history kit since March last year. Snapped some photos with my Leica M-E and the little Vollenda 48 I recently acquired.

Private of the 17th Combat Engineer Battalion, exploring a German airfield after the surrender.
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Taking a page out of Miguel's book:

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Gratuitously playing around with a ever-enjoyable combo, the Nikon D750 with the old 28-105mm f/3.5-4.5 AF-D, a lens that produces much nicer images than it has any sensible right to ... This lens is so good that I'm considering getting a second one (they go for very little money) without scratches on the front element ...

My hallway mirror is too badly lit (it only serves to check if you're looking into it fully clothed and upright), so the one in the bathroom had to do ...

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Taking a page out of Miguel's book:

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Gratuitously playing around with a ever-enjoyable combo, the Nikon D750 with the old 28-105mm f/3.5-4.5 AF-D, a lens that produces much nicer images than it has any sensible right to ... This lens is so good that I'm considering getting a second one (they go for very little money) without scratches on the front element ...

My hallway mirror is too badly lit (it only serves to check if you're looking into it fully clothed and upright), so the one in the bathroom had to do ...

M.
Eric Clapton.
 
Taking a page out of Miguel's book:

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Gratuitously playing around with a ever-enjoyable combo, the Nikon D750 with the old 28-105mm f/3.5-4.5 AF-D, a lens that produces much nicer images than it has any sensible right to ... This lens is so good that I'm considering getting a second one (they go for very little money) without scratches on the front element ...

My hallway mirror is too badly lit (it only serves to check if you're looking into it fully clothed and upright), so the one in the bathroom had to do ...

M.
Those mirrors where someone looks at you and claims to be your humble self ... especially in the early morning are at times disturbing.
With all the traces life has carved into it in the long run over seventy years. But I better have laugh lines than worry lines.
Sepia is a little more forgiving with these traces. More of the man behind the lens is seen in the left pupil.
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First a bit of background. We have a lot of red kites in this area. With a wingspan of around 6 feet that’s about the biggest bird you’ll see in southern England and we sometimes see ten or more circling around over us (courtesy of John Paul Getty II, who introduced them on his estate in the Chilterns in the 1980s.) Red kites are supposed to eat rodents and carrion, but people around here sometimes put out scraps of meat in their gardens to encourage them to swoop down and it does make quite a spectacle when several huge birds come down into a town garden. As a result, the kites are now becoming a bit of a nuisance. They’ve learnt how to make off with a nice sausage or burger by swooping down onto picnics and barbecues, and a few people have been scratched in the confusion and a few children have been terrified.

We knew about this, but it still came as a hell of a surprise a couple of weeks ago when we were cooking something on our fire bowl in the garden and a damn great red kite dived down out of nowhere and almost onto the grill. I think he got a face full of smoke and didn’t much fancy our huevos rancheros when he got up close, but it was real wake up call for us.

Hence the photo below, which was somewhat staged for some friends of ours who found the last episode amusing. The full title of the picture is “ready for you this time, ya great feathery bas----d”

Apologies for the legs. No red kites were harmed in the making of this image.

-R

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