de Havilland DH.110 Sea Vixen XJ560
Fujifilm X-T2, Fujinon XF 18-135mm f3.5~5.6 R LM OIS WR at 29mm, 1/340s, f8, ISO 200
Category: Photographer
Single frame… Tonight is ‘Date Night’
Can you guess what I’ve got planned for date night? 😁
Born on this day – Man Ray
‘A creator needs only one enthusiast to justify him’
Man Ray (American visual artist) – August 27, 1890 – November 18, 1976.
Monochrome Monday… Carwood Road, Sheffield
Carwood Road, Sheffield
Nikon F-801s, AF Nikkor 24-50mm f/3.3-4.5 at 24mm + Y48 filter, 1/60s, f11 – Fujifilm Neopan Across II
Developed in Ilford DD-X at 1:4, 9 mins at 20°c.
Digitised using Nikon D5600 & AF-S Micro-NIKKOR 40mm f/2.8 and Nikon ES-2 Film Digitising Adapter with minimal cropping and tweaking in Lightroom Classic CC.
Born on this day – Alfred Stieglitz
‘Photographers must learn not to be ashamed to have their photographs look like photographs.’
Alfred Stieglitz (American photographer and modern art promoter) – January 1, 1864 – July 13, 1946.
Born on this day – Man Ray
‘“I like contradictions. We have never attained the infinite variety and contradictions that exist in nature. Tomorrow I shall contradict myself. That is the one way I have of asserting my liberty, the real liberty one does not find as a member of society.’
Man Ray (American visual artist) – August 27, 1890 – November 18, 1976.
Born on this day – Henri Cartier-Bresson
‘Thinking should be done before and after, not during photographing.’
Henri Cartier-Bresson (French photographer) – August 22, 1908 – August 3, 2004.
Born on this day – Willy Ronis
‘Most of my photographs were taken on the spur of the moment, very quickly, just as they occurred. All attention focuses on the specific instant, almost too good to be true, which can only vanish in the following one.’
Willy Ronis (French photographer) – August 14, 1910 – September 12, 2009.
Born on this day… Jane Bown
‘The best pictures are uninvited. They are suddenly there in front of you. But they are there one minute and gone the next.’
Jane Bown (English photographer) – March 13, 1925 – December 21, 2014.
Born on this day – Ernst Haas
‘My theory of composition? Simple: do not release the shutter until everything in the viewfinder feels just right.’
Ernst Haas (Austrian photojournalist and pioneering colour photographer) – March 2, 1921 – September 12, 1986.
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