On BlueSky (and other places) they have a virtual event called "31 Days of Graves", presumably in October due to Halloween on the 31st. A list of topics is circulated in advance and those wishing to join in post a photograph for that theme each day. Some of you will be aware that I have both an academic interest and a photographic one in cemeteries, monuments, tombstones and the like so this was an opportunity to dig through my archives and find photos I have taken. All but one was taken using a Pentax camera, some on film, some digital. They were taken between 2005 and 2025 and come from Sydney, the US, the UK, Paris and Poland. I have collated all the posts into a single album on my Ipernity page: https://www.ipernity.com/doc/krislockyear/album/1381808 rather than make a huge post here (and break the rules with the one non-Pentax photo).

Cheers, Kris.

I've actually used it a lot for real work, mainly creating orthomosaics of excavated trenches using Metashape. But I've had some fun too...!

DJI Mini 4 Pro... flying a UAV is addictive as well as useful (for me as an archaeologist).

I have both and am not parting with either! The K30 has done quite a few miles with me. I'm pretty sure it went on my around-the-world trip some years ago now.

I have a couple of Pentax focus racks from the 1960s. I use them, but they are rather basic in design and showing their age. I keep thinking about investing in a newer model. Mostly I photograph things that don't move, and I use it quite often now for photographing 35mm slides.

PS dead jealous of the 200mm. That lens is hard to find without having to trade in a kidney.

Some super funky IT effects in those, love 'em.

Thanks all.

Recently acquired a silver 77mm Ltd (the original with the green leather pouch). It has taken me a while to get all three Ltds. This is just a quick grabbed shot of our relatively new-to-us rescue cat, Mica (pronounced Mee-kah).



Mica par Kris Lockyear, on ipernity

I buy all my film from AW. For developing though, I found them very slow and always end-up going back to The Darkroom UK. The vast majority of the time, I'll post the film one day and get the scans back via wetransfer the next working day.* The negs/slides arrive a few days later. The advantage of speed comes at a cost. Also, their basic scans are excellent, but lower res than most of their competitors.

*Slide films take a few days longer. Probably because they don't get so many and so run the slide soup less often than colour prints or BW.

The KM is essentially a K1000 with a couple of extra features. It came out before the K1000 which is a stripped down version of the KM. It never gained the "iconic" status of the K1000, however, and as a result are much cheaper to buy second hand. It also has the advantage of only being made for a few years so you don't have to try and work out which version it is!