old shutter bugger

Yeah, 'sorta'!
We've lived long enough to benefit from some wondrous technology - worth the aches and pains of ageing ...sorta (but t'would be nice to have one without the other, eh :-).

Yep, stuck with the 25 to 400 ASA range of film, fast lenses were essential. I remember push processing TRI-X to 1600 for some hand held indoor available light work. The grain was horrendous...

Seems to me that in the old 'full frame' pre-IBIS film days, fast lenses were more about getting hand holdable shutter speeds in low light than anything else. There was certainly not the same level...

Placed 32^nd in the challenge. Climbing the Arch

Placed 50^th in the challenge. Australian War Memorial Canberra

Placed 14^th in the challenge.

Placed 44^th in the challenge.

Placed 19^th in the challenge.

Placed 54^th in the challenge. Recent shot of my brother - a fond reminder that I didn't get ALL the bad genes :-)

Placed 49^th in the challenge. Fond memories of 'Hanging with Leonardo' (no, not the guy who played in Fargo :-)

Placed 15^th in the challenge. Disqualified from 'Urban Decay' challenge coz it was 'HDR'. It's actually a single exposure with some shadow recovery applied.

Placed 22^nd in the challenge.

Placed 19^th in the challenge.

Placed 2^nd in the challenge.

Placed 87^th in the challenge. ...and personal

Yeah guys, I know I fudged this a bit, but hey, 'montage' is a legitimate artistic technique, is it not :-), and I just like the way all these images go together so well to capture the range in his...