I have studio work to do. It’s April now, so the accounts are on the horizon & I’ll need to be getting all my receipts in order soon. I’ve also got some project work to be getting on with. However, the sun is out and I have some new lenses, so let’s get our priorities straight…

I should make it clear that I’m not writing a lens review, the internet is full of them. This session was more about me working with the lenses and learning what their strengths & weaknesses are. Spoiler - the only weakness that these lenses have is my ability to manually focus them, which was kind of why I wanted a decent practice session. It’s not really about just changing the glass, it’s a whole new way of working that I haven’t really used since the early 2000’s.

The Shed is an odd place. I have a regular route that I ride on my bike. It’s a 20 mile loop around the nearby villages & serves, through Summer, as my morning ride. I must have ridden it maybe 50 times? I have never seen this shed before. Not only that, but when I checked Google Maps satellite view, it doesn’t appear to be there either. It would appear that the local deer know it’s there though, as well as some of the local youth, who seem to harbour strong opinions on school and also Marijuana & needed somewhere to get their thoughts down in writing.

It’s obviously not an episode of the X-Files. The shed disappears under the cover of a thick canopy of foliage and behind a full roadside hedge over the Spring & Summer (Which is when Google obviously did their fly over). It was only a rare early bit of sunshine last week that caused me to be out riding before the year’s new leaves appeared, that allowed me to see it. Serendipitously when I had a couple of new lenses to try.

The following work represents maybe an hour in the life of the shed in what looks like the twilight of it’s life.

For those with an interest, the lenses were:

Voigtlander 35mm f1.5 Nokton II

Voigtlander 21mm f1.8 Ultron ASPH