NECKLESS

Neckless, Leicester.

I’ve just been up into the archive (read loft) to have a look for a pic which I will post in a while. When rummaging around I came across¬†a favourite pic of mine, and one I had forgotten about..and one that reinforces the old snappers rule that you should have a camera on you at all times.

In this case it was an old Nikon F2 with a 35mm f2 lens wedged on the front. I was on my lunch break from working as a staffer at the Leicester Muckrake (oops..sorry..Mercury…) As usual with that camera I had to guess the exposure as there was no meter, but that was no problem because I had used the same film in all my cameras for donkeys years..tri-x, at 400asa.

I only wrote all that about kit because I know lots of you are obsessed with cameras…has anyone ever asked a journo what pen they use?¬† Anyway…I digress…This old dear was rummaging about for something in her shopping bag. Her head seemed¬†to disappear…it was there, honest…and no, there is no photoshoppery…hadn’t been invented, and I’ve got the bleedin’ neg if you don’t believe me…After I first printed the pic I realised she was outside a jewellers, so the neckless / necklace title it was.

Hope it makes you smile, ’tis a hard thing to do with a still image.