serge07 wrote:
Colin, I suspect so specially the ticket prices, perhaps a tad higher than the usual 27 GBP.
I watched the ceremony this morning and the weather could have been much nicer.
Serge
A ticket that money couldn't buy.
Had the weather been better I would have been outside replacing a couple of fence posts in my garden but because it rained all day I ended watch the majority of it. I was loooking forwad to the aircraft fly-by but that was severely curtailed.
Serge, That chair has changed a great deal over the years. In 1972 I queued up to have a turn sitting in it, and was surprised how shabby it had become. It was dark amber colored, no canopy, and the wood was in need of repair. BTW it was very uncomfortable.
Jim
serge07 wrote:
Hi, everyone:
Ken, good to see you and great captures and colors.
Ray, excellent misty photographs, the last is beautiful.
Harry, nice colors and darn good timing.
Glen, great landscape scenes.
Given the ceremony in London today, a couple from Westminster Abbey.
Irish Goodbye, no connection to today's coronation, just happened to find this frame and liked it. Baltimore waterfront. Nikon F801s, 2.8cm f3.5 H, Ilford XP2 Super 400.
Here are a few more infrared photos from Bald Mountain (Fuji X-T2 and 35-200 f/3.5 A-is). I'm learning how to make the false colour images look close to regular visible spectrum colours, but they still have varying degrees of IR glow to them that I like, along with some only mildly weird colours.
James Markus wrote:
Serge, That chair has changed a great deal over the years. In 1972 I queued up to have a turn sitting in it, and was surprised how shabby it had become. It was dark amber colored, no canopy, and the wood was in need of repair. BTW it was very uncomfortable.
Jim
James, you must be a VIP.
I could not tell from the distance and behind the protective glass the details of its construction. It would not be my pick of the litter for comfort either.
Serge, No VIP here. The chair has been a tourist attraction for centuries with "school boys" & people carving initials into etc. In 1972 there was no barrier - not even ropes around it. I saw the line of people taking turns sitting in it and joined in. The only other queue I remember from that trip was to make paper rubbings of the Rosetta stone at the British Museum. A very long line which, unfortunately, the museum ran out of sheets of paper (about 30" x 42") to make the rubbings about 10 people in front of me. For that they had an attendant to make sure no one actually touched the stone - just lay paper over it and rub what looked like 3-4" graphite (chalk like sticks) over the paper. I see now that it is in a plastic box.
Jim
serge07 wrote:
James, you must be a VIP.
I could not tell from the distance and behind the protective glass the details of its construction. It would not be my pick of the litter for comfort either.
The latest lens I have bought is the 200/4. I bought two actually...a 200/4 non Ai K and a 200/4 scallop barrel that had a factory Ai conversion ring. Switched the rings and resold the scallop. Got a great deal on the ring because I didn't lose very much on the resell. So Ive had the lens for a couple of months now and finally took it out shooting today. Its sharp contrasty saturated and veil and flare resistant just like it should be. It seems to lend itself to a sort of up close fill the frame type shot of a single subject and shots made from a little distance that are able to take advantage of the compression and flatness of the long focal length. Its going to be fun learning the lens and how to use it I think.
James Markus wrote:
Serge, No VIP here. The chair has been a tourist attraction for centuries with "school boys" & people carving initials into etc. In 1972 there was no barrier - not even ropes around it. I saw the line of people taking turns sitting in it and joined in. The only other queue I remember from that trip was to make paper rubbings of the Rosetta stone at the British Museum. A very long line which, unfortunately, the museum ran out of sheets of paper (about 30" x 42") to make the rubbings about 10 people in front of me. For that they had an attendant to make sure no one actually touched the stone - just lay paper over it and rub what looked like 3-4" graphite (chalk like sticks) over the paper. I see now that it is in a plastic box.
Jim
James, I did not know these historical pieces were once so accessible, times have certainly changed. It was not until recently that photography was allowed inside Westminster Abbey much less place a hand on anything.
Paper rubbings of the Rosetta Stone, that is amazing. I would not have ever thought such a thing would be remotely possible.
Thanks for sharing your experiences, it is a very interesting and educational read.
James, I enjoy how you just nonchalantly mention sitting in the Coronation Chair and getting up close and personal with the Rosetta Stone. What other experiences lie in that head and heart?
