The Old Forge (Thursday 9th August 2018)

I've been waiting for the driveway dock leaves, growing in front of the coal shed door, to become rusty and crinkly but they seem to have considerable staying power. Meanwhile, another dock, inconveniently growing on the front yard path (but too beautiful to pull up), has gone the way I want.

On Wednesday my red K-50 Pentax came back from the repairers with new mechanical and shutter/mirror assemblies, together with a cleaned and serviced telephoto zoom lens (a hair had worked its way into the barrel and wrapped around the front elements somehow) and a large bill. I tested it the next day by photographing this blip.

Unlike my Sigma telephoto, the Pentax lens does not have a macro facility, so I had to stand well back from these leaves and red valerian to get this close-up. Using Aperture Priority stopped down for depth of field I forgot to re-check the shutter speed in this darker patch so this turned out to be a rather slow 1/20th at 117mm (35mm equivalent).

L.
10.8.2018 (1136 hr)

Blip #2720 (#2470 + 250 archived blips taken 27.8.60-18.3.10)
Consecutive Blip #004
Blips/Extras In 2018 #162/265 + #62/100 Extras)
Day #3060 (598 gaps from 26.3.10)
LOTD #1863 (#1704 + 159 in archived blips)

Flora series
Front Yard series
Old Forge series
Diary Blip series


Taken with Pentax K-50 (Red) and Pentax HD P-DA 55-300mm F4-5.8 ED WR lens

Lozarhythm Of The Day:
Siouxsie And The Banshees - The Passenger (recorded August 1986, Abbey Rd Studios)
We all know Iggy Pop's original of The Passenger because Radio 6 Music play it virtually every day, but it was covered by Siouxsie and the Banshees on their 1987 album Through The Looking Glass and released as a single. It is heard at the very end of the film I, Tonya about figure skater Tonya Harding, that I watched on this evening.

One year ago:
Wootton Bassett (Great willowherb)