‘sip in 35mils

so its been a minute since i made a post (jrtaff.wordpress.com if this is an rss feed somewhere else). so i figured i would.
a bit recently i pulled out the 1970′s nikkormat 35mm that i lugged around so gleefully before i was swallowed into the digital world on my last birthday. there is not much else to say on that… i loaded some film and started shooting. this is what happened:
(everything and more can be found at www.flickr.com/photos/jrtaff)

(that should start the holiday spirit off right… late)

this adventure involved a brand new GPS receiver, faded memory, and unexpected ditches.

thorns. big ones.

its the moon. after 4 seconds of having the aperture wide open. but that doesnt explain the ufo.

railroad bridge near my house. this bridge used to actually be there. the moral of this story is: smoking is bad.

sorry for the lame post.
many more pics on flickr. more posts at wordpress.

enjoy

last night was bonfire night. november 4th. there have been fireworks all over the city for the past week or so, and last night reached a crescendo. fireworks everywhere, all the time. there were some at the downs, but the crew i was with couldnt be bothered to go the distance, so we stuck with the suspension bridge. we could watch fireworks all over the city, it was absolutely gorgeous. unfortunately i have no pictures of that. but i do have this picture of the sky, not always the most interesting subject:

And the visual:

–edit note– most of these pictures are really quite large, so just click on them to see them in my flickr, where you can hit “all sizes” to get a better view.

Here is a 360 degree view from one of the first peaks we climbed in the Brecon Beacons. The highest point can be seen to the left, and the reservoir we hiked to is in the valley. Our route was essentially a loop around this picture. Its a 360 degree view, mind you, so the right fits in with the left, check out the flickr site for a full sized picture:

Most of the walk was through sheep pastures, privately owned, but with public right-of-way on the trails, and the right-of-way extends to any property as long as you do no damage in the UK, i was told:

The heights were high and the slopes were steep, this is a drop off of maybe 3-400 metres from one of the first peaks. If you check out the larger image on flickr, you can make out sheep as white dots at the bottom, maybe:

You will definately have to look at the full size image to get the full effect of hte views from the top. This is from Pen y Fyn (i believe) the highest peak in the south of Britain. The winds here were over 30 miles per hour in gusts, but it was simply beautiful:

And the lovely little reservoir. It was a quiet little country scene, there was a small cottage, and a larger industrial building, both boarded up, but the spillway and pumping station were quite charming. The other pictures from here are in the photostream on flickr:

More pictures can of course be found on my Flickr (link in blogroll).