Took some doing with a 120mm manual focus lens... a lot of toing and froing. I bounced the flash off the ceiling which seems to have worked. It won't win the Taylor Wessing but it fulfilled the "selfie" challenge day.

Cheers, Kris.

It is a problem with Chrome (and its derivatives) and its security settings. Use Firefox and everything will be fine. You can edit Chrome's security settings to allow pictures from Ipernity to work, but it takes some hacking around to find the appropriate place because Google keeps moving it.

Personally, I really like the least abstract of these, which is No. 1. It has lovely colours and patterns but also some context.

Best wishes, Kris.

For February's "Single in..." challenge on the US Fora I decided to use my K120. I bought this a few years back as part of my K-primes collection, but looking back through my archive it appears that I had rarely used it. I was using it on my K-3iii, whereas previously I had used it on film.

I was not all that inspired in February. Not the lens' fault, just wet weather, busy at work and not many outings away from my usual haunts to try it out. Stopped down a little, and when I managed to nail the focus, the lens was very sharp as one would expect from the K-series. Wide open it is a little soft but in a pleasant way. I read somewhere that the lens was intended as a longer-than-usual portrait lens, so this would make sense, although more so on 35mm or "full frame" rather than APS-C. (How anyone knows this I have no idea.) It is certainly a lens which deserves to be used more often. I also spoilt a few days by knocking the dial when I turned the camera on and inadvertently setting the focal length to 1120mm...

In March I am using my K50/1.4 and April I'm going for my 28mm shift!

Here are a few of the images from the month, even if I wasn't very inspired. The whole album can be seen here.



Feb 1st: Heal's par Kris Lockyear, on ipernity



Feb 4th: Jackie par Kris Lockyear, on ipernity



Feb 7th: 4K par Kris Lockyear, on ipernity



Feb 6th: Datchworth par Kris Lockyear, on ipernity



Feb 9: ME Super par Kris Lockyear, on ipernity



Feb 10: more street lights par Kris Lockyear, on ipernity



Selfie for February par Kris Lockyear, on ipernity

They sure do. All lovely, but No 6 is really stunning.

Thanks Gareth. Not that it makes a jot of difference, but it is a bit of wall!

Some gorgeous shots there that remind me of my younger days. Must be more than 35 years ago that I was visiting those sites. Hard to pick a favourite although those rough seas do add something dramatic to them.

That looks pretty spectacular to me!

Lots of super images there. I especially like the odd one out, No. 18.

Glad all OK, and pleasure doing business with you. Have fun.

K.