PFM's Picture a Week 2024
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Tony Lockhart
Avoiding Stress, at Every Opportunity
Taking photos of a little egret while two bitterns were booming was just lovely this morning at Minsmere
Gromit
Plasticine Dog
A pleasant walk out in the countryside near home this morning...
Corner of an English field by Boxertrixter, on Flickr
Pentax K-5iis/FA 28-105
Corner of an English field by Boxertrixter, on FlickrPentax K-5iis/FA 28-105
Tony Lockhart
Avoiding Stress, at Every Opportunity
A fish photo, with a bird in too
Edited on my phone so a few annoying blemishes that I will tweak when I get home but a beautiful dead flower that looks a 'bit' like this....
Fallen Jade Vine Flowers by idomy best, on Flickr
Fallen Jade Vine Flowers by idomy best, on Flickr
Mr Perceptive
Perceptive Member
Storyhouse Mono, Chester by David Yeoman, on Flickr
Godstall Lane, Chester by David Yeoman, on Flickr
Q3
mentalp
pfm Member
Another from October 86
Loretto by Pete, on Flickr
that had been my room in 1979 - its occupant at the time hated the boarding school experience as much as I had.
In your final year you got a "bedsit" - not much to it, a bed, a desk and a cupboard, but the first time in maybe eight years you got to sleep on your own - no lock of course. In your penultimate year you had a study, the first space of your own but still slept in a dorm.
Loretto by Pete, on Flickrthat had been my room in 1979 - its occupant at the time hated the boarding school experience as much as I had.
In your final year you got a "bedsit" - not much to it, a bed, a desk and a cupboard, but the first time in maybe eight years you got to sleep on your own - no lock of course. In your penultimate year you had a study, the first space of your own but still slept in a dorm.
eternumviti
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That takes me back.
mentalp
pfm Member
Loretto by Pete, on FlickrI can't remember how I arranged to do this series - I think it must have been through my old Art teacher, there was no sort of vetting or rules imposed. The major change since '79 had been the introduction of girls to the sixth form and I think their boarding house might have been out of bounds. Otherwise I could come and go as I pleased for the week I spent on this. I don't think I had thought through an approach to take.
The above reminds me of a day in 1977. At the end of the Summer term it had been a thing to drink on the last nights. Someone had been caught bringing alcohol into school the previous day and it was announced that there would be an amnesty for anyone that handed in any alcohol by 6 that evening after that the penalty would be expulsion. Instead bottles and cans appeared from under floorboards and other hiding places and were consumed, by mid-afternoon half the school were smashed.
there's an album of the school shots here
I can't remember how I arranged to do this series - I think it must have been through my old Art teacher, there was no sort of vetting or rules imposed. The major change since '79 had been the introduction of girls to the sixth form and I think their boarding house might have been out of bounds. Otherwise I could come and go as I pleased for the week I spent on this. I don't think I had thought through an approach to take.
The above reminds me of a day in 1977. At the end of the Summer term it had been a thing to drink on the last nights. Someone had been caught bringing alcohol into school the previous day and it was announced that there would be an amnesty for anyone that handed in any alcohol by 6 that evening after that the penalty would be expulsion. Instead bottles and cans appeared from under floorboards and other hiding places and were consumed, by mid-afternoon half the school were smashed.
there's an album of the school shots here
I enjoyed the album very much, it's a great photojournalist record of that time, cheers for the link.
eternumviti
Insufficient privileges to reply.
I can't remember how I arranged to do this series - I think it must have been through my old Art teacher, there was no sort of vetting or rules imposed. The major change since '79 had been the introduction of girls to the sixth form and I think their boarding house might have been out of bounds. Otherwise I could come and go as I pleased for the week I spent on this. I don't think I had thought through an approach to take.
The above reminds me of a day in 1977. At the end of the Summer term it had been a thing to drink on the last nights. Someone had been caught bringing alcohol into school the previous day and it was announced that there would be an amnesty for anyone that handed in any alcohol by 6 that evening after that the penalty would be expulsion. Instead bottles and cans appeared from under floorboards and other hiding places and were consumed, by mid-afternoon half the school were smashed.
there's an album of the school shots here
I love the flikr series, I wish I'd done something like that, but I hadn't quite yet been bitten by the photography bug, I was still living some kind of a fantasy about becoming a 'proper' artist. The photos are fantastic, and hideously familiar. Those kids must all in their late 50s and 60s now, which is weird.
Rockmeister
pfm Member
bingo
Whaleblue
Southbound
First light, Torridon by Mark Littlejohn, on Flickr
A first play with the Leica SL3 and the 75mm f2 lens
Wow, really great images. Perhaps especially First Light… I am now wondering how much is the Leica effect? I’d like to think limited! Anyway, love these.
The light was pretty spectacular for a few minutes. The Nikon would have done just as as well. But that's why I chose to wander down there at that time of day. It was worth a 4.30am alarm just for that one shot.