Ken's Wanderings

I've recently added a Leica M3 to the collection and tested it with a B&W and Colour Negative film, these shots are from this series. These women are waiting for the Number 25 and the reflection was in a Number 1A! The girls were eating lunch in the Peace Gardens in Sheffield

Chesterfield - Town Hall - Early Morning Winter Light , originally uploaded by ken_davis . I haven't wandered far for this one or the rest in the set that you will see on flickr. Please visit the rest of the photos and see if you think I've succeeded in using the light.

Tree shadows Ashover Derbyshire April 08 , originally uploaded by ken_davis . This photo is part of the little series taken in Ashover

Geospace has asked members of the Chesterfield Photo Society to update their blogs and suggested that we put some pictures of our trip to York on our blogs. Well as a 'silver-based' photographer I've had to wait 'till I got my films back before posting any photos. So here is a selection. I've tried to be a bit different about the shots I took.

The blog's called Ken's Wanderings and here are 3 examples of these; one from 1967 taken close to where I was brought up and two taken in Sheffield in 2007, hope these show something of what I try to capture in the way things change over time. The Stoke scene has long disappeared and Sheffield has 'upgraded' itself a lot in the last few years although I'm not sure of whether I'm too fond of the Alliance Leicester world!

It's about time I started to post stuff about my wanderings and of course my unmissable musings about life the universe and everything. Some of us went to the NEMPF exhibition today (12/01/08). There were some great wildlife and natural history shots showing good animal behaviour captured at exactly the right second. There were some good 'landscapes' or 'earthscapes' as our friends at Dronfield have started referring to the wider subject of land, city, sea and bit scapes. Lots of the stuff is 'current fashion' and I'm getting a bit fed up of static portraits of folk with lots of body piercing. Worth seeing tho. Should've taken a couple of shots but didn't, hopeless really!