I haven't participated in the Macro Mondays weekly challenges for 6 months or more so I thought I'd get back in the saddle. The pictured screw is approximately a half inch long.

Sony A7ii - vintage Zeiss Planar T* 50/1.4 lens - shot using a single 20mm extension tube and at f/4.

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Candid shot taken inside the Painted Hall at the Old Royal Naval College in Greenwich, London

Apologies to all for being AWOL on Flickr of late. I sometimes find it difficult to keep up and then I get so far behind I can't face it. I'm sure I'm not the only one. I will attempt to do a little catching up over the next few days.

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Liberty is this context has nothing to do with freedom. It was the last name of the founder of the London department store that bears his name - Arthur Lasenby Liberty - and it was established in 1875, primarily as a seller of luxury goods and fabrics and it still exists today with that reputation intact.

From the history page of the Liberty website:
Liberty's collection of ornaments, fabric and objets d'art from around the world proved irresistible to a society intoxicated at the time by Japan and the East and Liberty effected social change in interior design and dress, so much so that the Art Nouveau period in Italy is called 'Liberty Style'.

This shot is of an overhead walkway that connects two buildings of the store and can be found on Kingly Street, just off Regent Street.

Tags:   light architecture Liberty London Olympus OMD-EM1 Mk2 Carl Zeiss Jena Planar T* 50mm f/1.4

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A few weeks back I posted a picture of the "Taking Lens" on my old Yashica C TLR camera which dates back to the late 50s. I mentioned that I was planning on going into London and shooting a roll or two with a friend of mine who owns a slightly more desirable Mamiya TLR.

My first roll of film with the Yash TLR, which I shot earlier this summer, was not a great success so I was determined to get something marginally more interesting on this outing. At least from that first roll I knew the camera worked.

This is a shot, or should i say two shots for it is actually a double exposure, from my fourth roll of film through that camera, my third roll of the day and the first time I put a colour film through it. It proves two things I think, one, the camera is capable of taking pleasing pictures, and second, that I still haven't mastered the technique. You see with a TLR you have to stay focussed on what you are doing or else you WILL screw up. There is a disconnect between cocking the shutter and winding the film on - i.e. if you forget to wind the film on you are still able to cock the shutter and shoot another shot. And if you haven't wound the film on you will be shooting on top of the last image you took. Sounds like it should be an easy thing to remember but trust me if you aren't used to it it is incredibly easy to screw up as the camera gives you no clues as to whether you've wound the film on or not.

So anyway, happy accidents as they say. Sometimes those screw ups can actually produce something quite interesting IMHO.

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A few months back I posted a picture of the Seven Sisters, a coastal rock formation on the south coast of England, which is near a town called Seaford. If you look for pictures of the Seven Sisters you will usually see these coastguard cottages included in the composition but shot from the opposite side as the pov you see here and looking towards the Seven Sisters coastline. This looks back at the cottages from the beach on a windy day with a high tide pushing the waves onto shore. It is a spectacularly scenic location and one I will return to next summer.

Shot with a Carl Zeiss Distagon 28mm f/2.8 vintage lens on my Olympus OMD-EM1 Mk2 camera.

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