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Why Lazy Xenon Ions?


It started with a cheap manual lens on an outdated camera. Less than £100 spent. Something to play around with on the days when the light was bad. 


The lens was a Zonlai, the camera a Sony Nex model. So the project was named Lazy Xenon Ions, an anagram of Sony Nex Zonlai.


Shooting manual was a revelatory experience. A renewed appreciation of photography. The process slows down, decisions about aperture and focal point become more deliberate. 


When the lockdown narrowed the world to the distance of a walk, searching for Lazy Xenon Ions meant finding beauty in the ordinary, giving substance to the mundane and accepting, no, embracing the imperfect.


B. Hartig

Sony Nex 5N & Zonlai 22mm F1.8
Sony Nex 5N & Zonlai 22mm F1.8
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B. Hartig
Surrey
United Kingdom
Email: contact@lazy-xenon-ions.com
Website: www.lazy-xenon-ions.com

Lazy Xenon Ions is currently in Season 2. You can buy the first book on Blurb.