Daily Challenge Vision 2020 Thread the First - January 1- 10

[drd1135]

I went looking and found the story of William E. Wilcher, the last man hanged in Lexington:

Descendants re-enact the last hanging of Lexington

LEXINGTON — The last man hanged in Lexington was reportedly a mean drunk who after Sunday dinner knocked on the door of a friend and shot him in cold blood

www.roanoke.com

 

[MoonMind]

Okay, after yesterday's hiatus (or stupor, rather), I went out with a whole of four cameras. As a compensation for my total lack of enthusiasm and ability yesterday, you're getting for images, one from each camera, in this thread.

Panasonic GF1 with 20mm f/1.7 - this month's champ:

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Ricoh GR III - gotta love what that camera does at close to medium distances ... (I'm getting there!):

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Panasonic FZ1000 - sometimes, you just need 400mm-e:

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Sony A6000 with 7Artisans 35mm f/1.2 - love that quirky combo:

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(Just for those who haven't noticed, my keenness was rather tongue-in-cheek - carrying multiple cameras isn't that unusual for me, and specifically the FZ1000 is allowed to tag along quite often because it comes in useful time and again.)

M.

 

[Burkey]

Bad weather today. Managed to get a quick image on the front porch.
. . . David

 

[Lightmancer]

Sorry I'm late in joining the party. I have been shooting with my new (to me) Fuji XF10. GR it ain't but it has it's own charms.

One of them isn't this...

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...which I read after upgrading my 'phone...

After much fettling I managed to get the two devices to play nice together.

Why bother? Because my plan has been to treat Vision 2020 as an exercise in travelling light.

The best laid plans...

Anyway, I got there, so on with the story. I lived in Weybridge for the first ten years of my life. I recall standing in the High Street, holding my mother's hand as she pointed out John Lennon's psychedelic Rolls Royce, parked outside Timothy Whites.

I haven't been back for decades, but I had the opportunity to have a stroll around the town earlier this week. This photo essay is the result.

I love the barely restrained passive-aggressive nature of this sign:

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...and the neatly-executed consequences of failing to obey:

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I went to find my old infants school, but sadly it has gone, replaced by:

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...all that is left is:

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So I went to find the newsagents shop where, rumour has it, I read my first word - "Frigidaire". Apparently I was waiting for an ice cream and the word was at eye-level. It fascinates me that the shop, but not the function, has changed:

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Next, to the pub where, years later, I ordered my first pint:

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It's still there but now, sadly, part of a big, impersonal chain.

Just around the corner lies the building that used to be Weybridge telephone exchange. My mum was a supervisor there during the war; she once had to discipline a night telephonist. His crime was to answer calls by saying "Rubber knees!" instead of "Number please?". His name was Norman Wisdom...

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I used the "near infrared" setting for this one.

Thank you for indulging me.

 

[Lightmancer]

Bill you must be pleased by the response?

Definitely! Bowled over, in fact

 

[Burkey]

Finally got out for a bit when the snow slowed down.
. . . David

 

[Hageneth]

The day was lousy and I felt the same so only went 20 yds for this. Me thinks they could do with a bit of sunshine and warmth (like me)

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[rayvonn]

The HDR is ok still when you need it to be. For this urban one, I was walking down, just waiting, waiting for the bloke to turn his head, then 'snap'. No differences between the 2 GR's in that regard. What's scary is the guy had no idea I'd just taken this picture, which of course creates another moral issue, but you can't argue that it's not the best camera for capturing any instant moment.

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[pictogramax]

DAY 5 - I got lucky hunting only by the very end of the day; the light was low and the ISO was high, but the mood is somewhere in between, mostly due to the illogical chair.
Shot with Minolta MD 50mm f1.4 lens mounted via speedbooster on Sony A6000; 25 frames stitched in total:

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[Bobby T]

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BTS
AD200 Pro-Glow 34" collapsible beauty dish with double diffusion and grid
Evolv 200 Pro-Glow 10x24 strip box diffused with grid
Evolv200's with red or blue gel and grids
Messy house

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[mnhoj]

From last night.
Jake. In sweats and fluffy slippers. Still jamming'.

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Loving Bobby's BTSs. Extremely helpful imo.
I didn't shoot one so I constructed one.

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[Bobby T]

@mnhoj Very cool. I love BTS.

 

[agentlossing]

Took, a walk, but didn't find a whole lot for day 5. VSCO edit.

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[tilman]

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Deer Lake by tilman paulin, on Flickr

 

[drd1135]

DAY 5 - I got lucky hunting only by the very end of the day; the light was low and ISO was high, but the mood is somewhere in between, mostly due to the illogical chair.
Shot with Minolta MD 50mm f1.4 lens mounted via speedbooster on Sony A6000; 25 frames stitched in total:
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That’s a good name for a photography book:
“The Light was Low and the ISO was High”.

 

[Bobby T]

That’s a good name for a photography book:
“The Light was Low and the ISO was High”.

Or a country song about depressing photographers

 

[agentlossing]

Or a country song about depressing photographers

I can hear Brandon Flowers from The Killers singing this song actually.

 

[mnhoj]

Found and dusted off an old lens I picked up a while back. Vintage yellowing 55mm Takumar. Performs pretty well imo but in this day and age of modern nifty 50s it doesn't surprise me that I forgot all about it.
Blueberries.

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[donlaw]

Day 5, my birthday. I found a faded cracked grave marker in an old graveyard.

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[pictogramax]

Happy birthday!