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Dartmoor with a new lens

1/10/2011

 
It had been a while since I'd last been on a river, so when I saw heavy rain forecast I kept an eye on the radar and set about seeing who else might be up for some paddling. A group of us headed to Dartmoor with our fingers crossed, hoping that the heavy rain would have brought the rivers up; and whilst the heaviest of the rain seemed to have drifted too far north, we still found the Upper Dart and Erme gorge at reasonable levels. We ticked off a quick run of the Upper Dart, and moved on to the Erme gorge which provided more excitement than any of our group had been expecting!
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Andy in the sun at Euthanasia, Upper Dart.Sony A500, Minolta MD 135mm f/2.8, 135mm f/2.8 1/2500s ISO 200
Before Christmas I saw an old Minolta MD 135mm f/2.8 lens on ebay for just £12.50 and decided it was probably worth a punt. A cheap adapter fits it to the MA mount on my Sony body, and I've got a cheap prime lens (albeit one that can't auto focus). Having looked at the photos, I'm pretty happy with the results, just need to practise my manual focusing with a shallow depth of field...
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Rob at the start of the Erme Gorge. Sony A500, Minolta 135mm MD f/2.8, 135mm f/4 1/640s ISO 400.
I'm keeping an eye on the forecast for this weekend, fingers crossed the predicted rain comes in again.

New blog and website

1/10/2011

 
It's taken me a while to put this together, but I think it's just about working now. The idea behind this site is to give me somewhere to keep my photos and make it easy to share them with others. This blog will recount my photographic exploits and hopefully provide an insight into what I get up to.

For now, here's one of my favourite photos from 2010.
Taken just below the 'Bockschlitz' on the Ardez gorge section of the River Inn, Switzerland.Sony A500, Minolta 35-105mm f/3.5-4.5, 35mm f/4.5 1/4000s

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