Hmmm, another bicycle shot. Maybe I'm getting obsessive...

And those pavements need cleaning...

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Just a photo

The classic view of the Niedordorf side of the Limmat, including the Grossmunster, taken from the Lindenhof

How far can I make one set of photos stretch?

Ok, maybe you can have too much of a good thing... I said my trip to the Rigi provided many photo opportunities, but I guess from this weeks posts it looks like it provided only one, albeit I shifted about a bit.

All these photos were taken with the Pentax K7 by the way, which as a system camera makes life a lot easier than my big Canon if you have to climb 1000 meters

Walking at the weekend in the foothills of the alps of NE Switzerland. Changing atmospheric conditions (and snow of course) provided plenty of opportunities for getting the camera out.

Some images taken in the evening around Bellevue.

After Ham at London Daily Photo mentioned the lighting in the previous post, I decided to post the "original". It is on balance a better portrait, because it is more faithful.

I always think that dramatic sky photos are a bit of a facile cop-out. A bit lazy. What could be more available to photographers than the sky. You don't need to know where to find it. On the other hand, they have one defining quality - they are all going to be 100% unique. Nobody can stand in the same place as me at the same time with the same camera/lens configuration. Of course, that is true of a lot of photos, but there is something slightly different about skies. It's a bit like sand sculptures or drawings traced on a beach. This way the camera can cheat the ephemeral nature of some things. Or can it? A photograph of the sky is not the sky.... and the sky is not black and white (at least this one wasn't - people in Scotland might disagree). And of course, I twiddled the dramatic-sky knobs on the computer

Every now and again I decide to sell my digital gear and go back entirely to film. In between times I decide to sell my old film gear. When the latter occurs, I usual take out some of the old gear to see if I think maybe it's worth keeping. Normally this leads back to option 1 and so on.

Yesterday I went into town with my Zuiko 28mm f2 fastened to the Canon 5D. It was a day of regular dappled sunlight, so I set everything to manual, prefocused and just used the shutter button.

I imagined that this and the preceding photo show a pair of women and their daughters. I was reminded of watching sparrows earlier in the year teaching their young to forage. This is similar - they disappeared en masse into Grieder.

The result of the "experiment"? Well these photos are not really a test of the lens - if used carefully, for landscape work for example, it puts the Canon 16-35 f2.8L to shame - although comparing a zoom with a prime is nonsense in the first place.

These photos though are just an exercise in a particular approach to shooting - some were carefully framed - others shot from the hip. I could probably have produced a similar set using the iPhone, although the business of framing a shot would be more hit and miss.

Any closer to rationalising my photo equipment? No.