Bradford Eye

David's Gallery - Bradford and beyond through a 1975 Russian MTO 1000mm f10.5 Mirror lens and a 1976 Tamron 200mm 500mm f6.9 Zoom.

The clue's in the title. David has a Nikon D80 which he occasionally bolts a Russian mirror lens on to, photographing in and around the Bradford area with the odd trip to his homeland of Scotland (Leith). He showed me some pictures he recently took on one of his many visits there which were taken, with the mirror lens, across the Firth of Forth. The pictures show a small coastal town/village with a mountain as a backdrop, but with the great deal of compression that this lens affords it makes the mountain more dominant. Anyway, it's not Bradford so it does not qualify - shame really, unless I find a way around it, or some enterprising resident of Leith chooses to launch a LeithEye website, then those pictures will have to be put on the backburner.

Anyway onwards with what we have. A large lens with the equivalent digital focal length of approximately 1600mm, or 3200mm if you count the 2x Komura teleconverter that David recently used to photograph the moon. Might not be in Bradford but it counts as it was taken from Bradford. David took those pictures from his home, a Victorian house set on a plateau overlooking the city, from where indeed he took a number of the early pictures in his gallery. Ideas are something you need when you're photographing fresh stock for a gallery and David has a number of these up his sleeve. Bradford is well known for its hills and affords some very dramatic vistas across and around the city, with postcodes extending to Settle in North Yorkshire. Well, I can't see David running out of images for this most unusual of photographic galleries. So think of this man, like myself not young in years, lugging a 6KG lens plus Nikon D80 and a heavy Manfrotto 55 tripod with a Manfrotto 329 head attached, and say to yourself "why can't I get out my expensive digital SLR which I don't use a lot, and take some local pictures instead of leaving it for holidays and special occasions?". Yes, you're right. We all need a little inspiration and you've just been reading it. Keep up the good work David!

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