“Hugh and Elizabeth" Black and White Version

There are very few old fashioned “proper” shops these days. Hugh is the second generation to run his family hardware shop, which his family took over in 1929. Here is pictured with his daughter looking through some of the old stock in the back of the shop Its a shop were computers haven't yet been invented, orders and sales are written in a ledger and you can still buy hardware measured in imperial not metric. To quote a fellow villager:

"We were down the back of the shop when we moved to the village looking for screws for a very old Singer sewing machine and I noticed that some of the boxes holding the screws and nails were marked in shillings and pence!"

The Shop That Time Forgot flickr set

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Three Swallow chicks sat on my neighbours roof waiting to be fed by their parents.

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A local shepherd moves a flock of this years lambs to fresh pasture.

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Brian, the subject of this portrait is a amateur artist. He'd asked me to take a reference photograph of a still life which he wanted to paint at a later date.

Afterward I got him to sit in his favourite arm chair and holding his pipe (he is the last of the pipe smokers) look as though he was watching the evening television. It was actually taken aroudn 1pm in the afternoon, the room was darkened by closing the curtains.

I lit Brain from the side using a single Nikon SB800 flashgun to mimic the lamp. I taped a 1/2 CTO filter to the sb800 and zoomed it to 105mm to create the narrowest beam of light.

Camera: D200
Lighting: SB800 with 1/2 CTO Filter

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A close up of Alan at his workbench.

Aperture: F8
"Film Speed": ISO 400
Nikon D200

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Please note, Flickr seems to soften my images on upload, this image was pin sharp in photoshop.
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