11 | February | 2014 | Nigel Borrington

I have come down from the Mountain, Poem by : Donald J Bennett

Comeragh Mountains, County Waterford
Irish landscape Photography : Nigel Borrington

I have come down from the mountain

By : Donald J Bennett

I have come down from the mountain
The mountain of my youthful days
I have stumbled along the rock strewn path
The path of life that leads downward towards my final days
The long journey has rendered me bruised and battered
But I have found a trove of treasure along the way
The love of my family, and my friends are the treasures
These are the treasures that I hold so dear each and every day

This Morning I shared a post talking about an old lens ( A Tamrom 24mm f2.5 lens) I have owned for many years, the images here are taken very recently using this lens.

Down from the Mountain a Gallery

February 11, 2014 | Categories: Gallery, irish woodlands, Landscape | Tags: Comeragh Mountains, Donald J Bennett, irish landscape, Irish photography, Landscape, Mountains, Nigel Borrington, poems, poetry, Tamron 24mm f2.5, Waterford | 3 Comments

Two canal locks and one old Tamron 24mm lens.

Tamron Adaptall 24mm f2.5 lens

Two Locks one lens many years of enjoyment

For some 40 years I have been taking Landscape photographs in both the UK and Ireland, one of the very first lenses I purchased when I first got a Nikon 35mm film SLR, was this 24mm F2.5 Tamron, wide angle Lens, purchased in 1987.

The images below are from a visit I made to Top side lock, near Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire in the south of England a wonderful old lock with a lock keepers house. The second image is from Ballyellin lower lock on the river Barrow, County Carlow , Ireland, taken in January this year.

Sometime keeping a hold onto equipment that you like using and that work very well, is far more important that searching for the new. Endlessly upgrading equipment has become the norm, we live in an age of none stop upgrades yet now and again it is still possible to keep a hold of the old and trusted things.

This lens works very well and in many cases even better now that its used with a digital camera body.

It is a manual focus lens yet because it contains all the focus and aperture details on the lens barrel it is very easy to use, you can set it up for what is known as Hyper-focus and shoot all day like this.

I just love using this lens and get a real kick from the fact it still works so well.

Tarmon 24mm f2.5, Nikon Manual exposure SLR film camera