Karl and Kathleen Nichter Photography



This blog began in 2009, about a year after we started our photography business. People attending our photo exhibits, or our hikes and workshops, asked for details on where we traveled for photography. As naturalists we usually kept a field journal, so we used that as a basis for Field Notes.
In Summer, 2014 we took a break from the blog because our business, and lives were changing. In January 2015 the blog restarted with an expanded theme. It now contains photography, notes, and articles from all of our travels and all of our photography, not just nature themed. The posts prior to 2014 have been archived.

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Tuesday, February 17, 2015

Photo Gallery: London in late 1980s

Karl and I lived in the Republic of Ireland for three years in the 1980s. As mentioned before, Karl bought me my first professional camera for my birthday the first year there, and started me on my sometimes career. That Nikon FE went everywhere with me, with its manual controls and film canisters.

London weekends became one of our favorite short get-aways. During a cool, rainy day on one of those trips, I took this shot in Hyde Park. Remember, this was transparency film, slides, and Karl scanned this a few years ago as we realized that the slides wouldn't last forever.


The chestnut vendor stood with his lit cigarette, hardly noticing the light rain. As I look at this shot now, I realize that I should have shot from a higher angle, so his inclined head stood out against the grass background rather than the street. Since street photography means not posed, and that angle might have alerted him to my camera, it likely would not have worked at all had I tried it. This remains one of my favorite shots of London as it was in the 1980s.
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