Author: Richard

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Boultham Park, Lincoln

Railway Poplar that is a 160 years old, backlit by the sun in Boultham Park, Lincoln. Stong shadows can be seen cast forward towards the view with the sun peaking into the image through the trees.

Last months picture of the month was of a poplar tree. This is a 160 year old tree and one of the oldest poplar’s in the UK.

Boultham Park in Lincoln is a popular park with an indoor and outdoors bowling green. Swings and slides etc for the children, a bandstand and a large lake.

This used to be the Ellison Estate but was turned into a park for the use of the people of Lincoln. You can read about its history here.

A swan on the lake at Boultham Park with its wings outstretched. Seagulls can be seen out of focus in the background.

I spend the morning walking around the park taking pictures. I had my Nikon Zf and a Voigtländer M to Z Adapter. Attached to the adapter was my Leica Elmar-M 24mm f/3.8. Despite what you might think with its slow aperture of f/3.8, it really is a stunning lens. Many people think the wide angle range starts at 24mm, while 28mm, 35mm and 50mm are more street photography lens then true wide angles.

I visit this park quite often as I have family nearby. You will find me wondering round with either a large telephoto shooting the wildlife on the lake, or I might just have a wide angle, attached to either my Leica or Nikon Zf.

A pair of Swans on the lake at Boultham Park looking left. Its misty and the image lacks colour but looks somewhat dreamy.

These two wildlife shots were taken a few years ago with a D200 and an 70-200mm f/2.8.

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Whitby Photos – Church Cross

The old cross at Whitby in the foreground. There is a wooden fence in front of it and the church on the hill by the Abbey can be seen in the background.

Whitby Cross.

After last Monday’s Whitby post, I went through some very old photographs taken with my Nikon D200. Not exactly fine art but it’s a reminder of a great holiday. I find a few others from that trip and post them over the course of the next month.

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Rumours of Leica being sold again

Fashion shot of model wearing a black dress against a grey background. She is looking stage left with her left hand to her face.
Leica M8 with Summilux-M 50mm

Dr. Andreas Kaufmann bought and saved Leica, to help finance the expansion and conversion into a luxury brand as well as a camera manufacturer for many professional photographers, he sold about 45% to an investment company. Every few years rumours appear that the investment company are going to sell, and these rumours are about again. This time Zeiss they say is interested in buying.

We will see.

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Outdoor shoots

Model stood in wheat field, she is topless and just wearing a skirt. Her hands are covering her breasts.

Working outside is something I enjoy. Its not something I do often and its always a bit risky with the weather in the British Isles.

Now we are in the middle of winter my thoughts on these cold days do start to dream of warmer days and what I may want to do when the warmer weather does arrive.

Lincolnshire is a rural county and its not too hard to find a friendly farmer with a remove field to take photographers like the one above.