Jayjayjjetplane
@jayjayjjetplane.bsky.social
Photographer, I take pictures of where I live & walk around a lot 📸
A left-handed Leftie, I love reading sci-fi / fantasy, I write an occasional blog & I adore poached eggs on toast.
💜Aston Villa F.C.💙
A left-handed Leftie, I love reading sci-fi / fantasy, I write an occasional blog & I adore poached eggs on toast.
💜Aston Villa F.C.💙
My photos were taken last winter, making the most of the available light around shops & cafes in the city. At night, you need to be mindful of safety. I tend to stick to busy, well-lit areas, usually with a friend or two for company and inspiration 😄📸
#streetphotography
#Birmingham
#streetphotography
#Birmingham
November 22, 2025 at 4:38 PM
My photos were taken last winter, making the most of the available light around shops & cafes in the city. At night, you need to be mindful of safety. I tend to stick to busy, well-lit areas, usually with a friend or two for company and inspiration 😄📸
#streetphotography
#Birmingham
#streetphotography
#Birmingham
Dark Streets of Birmingham.
There's something special about taking photos at night. Lights glow, surfaces glitter & shadows surge ominously.
I really look forward to getting out on the streets at this time of year (continues ➡️➡️)
#streetphotography #birmingham
There's something special about taking photos at night. Lights glow, surfaces glitter & shadows surge ominously.
I really look forward to getting out on the streets at this time of year (continues ➡️➡️)
#streetphotography #birmingham
November 22, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Dark Streets of Birmingham.
There's something special about taking photos at night. Lights glow, surfaces glitter & shadows surge ominously.
I really look forward to getting out on the streets at this time of year (continues ➡️➡️)
#streetphotography #birmingham
There's something special about taking photos at night. Lights glow, surfaces glitter & shadows surge ominously.
I really look forward to getting out on the streets at this time of year (continues ➡️➡️)
#streetphotography #birmingham
Something about churches just go right through me
November 15, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Something about churches just go right through me
Austin, remains.
It's 20 years since MG Rover went under. The Longbridge factory, known locally as 'The Austin', was a vast site sprawling over Cofton Hill.
Two decades later, the Austin is mostly gone, replaced by housing & retirement duplexes. A few buildings remain here & there, if you look 👀
It's 20 years since MG Rover went under. The Longbridge factory, known locally as 'The Austin', was a vast site sprawling over Cofton Hill.
Two decades later, the Austin is mostly gone, replaced by housing & retirement duplexes. A few buildings remain here & there, if you look 👀
November 13, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Austin, remains.
It's 20 years since MG Rover went under. The Longbridge factory, known locally as 'The Austin', was a vast site sprawling over Cofton Hill.
Two decades later, the Austin is mostly gone, replaced by housing & retirement duplexes. A few buildings remain here & there, if you look 👀
It's 20 years since MG Rover went under. The Longbridge factory, known locally as 'The Austin', was a vast site sprawling over Cofton Hill.
Two decades later, the Austin is mostly gone, replaced by housing & retirement duplexes. A few buildings remain here & there, if you look 👀
I made these images with a 250mm f5.6 mirror reflex lens. In the glittering autumn sunshine, out of focus areas
shimmer with donut shaped highlights, which I adore 🤩 It's not the easiest lens to focus, so it pays to take your time. But if you nail it, it's totally worth the extra effort 👌🏻🙂📸
#lumixs5
shimmer with donut shaped highlights, which I adore 🤩 It's not the easiest lens to focus, so it pays to take your time. But if you nail it, it's totally worth the extra effort 👌🏻🙂📸
#lumixs5
November 10, 2025 at 7:06 PM
I made these images with a 250mm f5.6 mirror reflex lens. In the glittering autumn sunshine, out of focus areas
shimmer with donut shaped highlights, which I adore 🤩 It's not the easiest lens to focus, so it pays to take your time. But if you nail it, it's totally worth the extra effort 👌🏻🙂📸
#lumixs5
shimmer with donut shaped highlights, which I adore 🤩 It's not the easiest lens to focus, so it pays to take your time. But if you nail it, it's totally worth the extra effort 👌🏻🙂📸
#lumixs5
Autumn on Clent (with my ridiculous lens) 😋
The Clent Hills in Autumn is a magical place for a walk. The rolling landscape, gorgeous leaf colours & glorious light all combine to soothe the soul.
I'm fortunate to have a daughter who's happy to indulge my love for walking... continues ➡️➡️➡️
The Clent Hills in Autumn is a magical place for a walk. The rolling landscape, gorgeous leaf colours & glorious light all combine to soothe the soul.
I'm fortunate to have a daughter who's happy to indulge my love for walking... continues ➡️➡️➡️
November 10, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Autumn on Clent (with my ridiculous lens) 😋
The Clent Hills in Autumn is a magical place for a walk. The rolling landscape, gorgeous leaf colours & glorious light all combine to soothe the soul.
I'm fortunate to have a daughter who's happy to indulge my love for walking... continues ➡️➡️➡️
The Clent Hills in Autumn is a magical place for a walk. The rolling landscape, gorgeous leaf colours & glorious light all combine to soothe the soul.
I'm fortunate to have a daughter who's happy to indulge my love for walking... continues ➡️➡️➡️
Parked on Campus.
On my way home last night I spotted this snazzy little motor (with uber-cool pop up lights) parked up on Campus. No idea what the car is (if you do, let me know in the comments) but I'm pretty chuffed with how the black & white edit turned out 🤩
University of Birmingham, 2025.
On my way home last night I spotted this snazzy little motor (with uber-cool pop up lights) parked up on Campus. No idea what the car is (if you do, let me know in the comments) but I'm pretty chuffed with how the black & white edit turned out 🤩
University of Birmingham, 2025.
November 6, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Parked on Campus.
On my way home last night I spotted this snazzy little motor (with uber-cool pop up lights) parked up on Campus. No idea what the car is (if you do, let me know in the comments) but I'm pretty chuffed with how the black & white edit turned out 🤩
University of Birmingham, 2025.
On my way home last night I spotted this snazzy little motor (with uber-cool pop up lights) parked up on Campus. No idea what the car is (if you do, let me know in the comments) but I'm pretty chuffed with how the black & white edit turned out 🤩
University of Birmingham, 2025.
Soulful Glass
Cleaning my camera lenses revealed an intriguing fact. Most of my lenses are analogue, manually focused glass.
Analogue lenses don't have that clinical sharpness that's typical of autofocus glass. I guess I prefer images to be softer, more soulfully rendered 🙂
#streetphotography
Cleaning my camera lenses revealed an intriguing fact. Most of my lenses are analogue, manually focused glass.
Analogue lenses don't have that clinical sharpness that's typical of autofocus glass. I guess I prefer images to be softer, more soulfully rendered 🙂
#streetphotography
October 31, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Soulful Glass
Cleaning my camera lenses revealed an intriguing fact. Most of my lenses are analogue, manually focused glass.
Analogue lenses don't have that clinical sharpness that's typical of autofocus glass. I guess I prefer images to be softer, more soulfully rendered 🙂
#streetphotography
Cleaning my camera lenses revealed an intriguing fact. Most of my lenses are analogue, manually focused glass.
Analogue lenses don't have that clinical sharpness that's typical of autofocus glass. I guess I prefer images to be softer, more soulfully rendered 🙂
#streetphotography
In between the heavy showers, the clouds scuttled away and 'the light' was just lovely, low, golden & warm. It angled between buildings, lighting up faces & landing in random pools on the pavement.
The images here are from our walk, with my usual focus on people in the City. Thanks for looking 🤩
The images here are from our walk, with my usual focus on people in the City. Thanks for looking 🤩
October 26, 2025 at 1:42 PM
In between the heavy showers, the clouds scuttled away and 'the light' was just lovely, low, golden & warm. It angled between buildings, lighting up faces & landing in random pools on the pavement.
The images here are from our walk, with my usual focus on people in the City. Thanks for looking 🤩
The images here are from our walk, with my usual focus on people in the City. Thanks for looking 🤩
Brum Illuminations.
Yesterday I met up for a long overdue catchup with some photography friends. The prevailing rain forced us to seek shelter & coffee ☕️ But we were soon lured back out by the dazzling autumn sunlight.
Photographers often get misty eyed talking about 'the light' (continues ➡️)
Yesterday I met up for a long overdue catchup with some photography friends. The prevailing rain forced us to seek shelter & coffee ☕️ But we were soon lured back out by the dazzling autumn sunlight.
Photographers often get misty eyed talking about 'the light' (continues ➡️)
October 26, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Brum Illuminations.
Yesterday I met up for a long overdue catchup with some photography friends. The prevailing rain forced us to seek shelter & coffee ☕️ But we were soon lured back out by the dazzling autumn sunlight.
Photographers often get misty eyed talking about 'the light' (continues ➡️)
Yesterday I met up for a long overdue catchup with some photography friends. The prevailing rain forced us to seek shelter & coffee ☕️ But we were soon lured back out by the dazzling autumn sunlight.
Photographers often get misty eyed talking about 'the light' (continues ➡️)
London in the rain.
Went to London with the most excellent @yo.nayson yesterday. It rained. A lot!
Despite this, we had a bostin time snapping around. In camera I used Lumix's Leica-inspired black & white film sim. The images are gritty but rather reflect the inclement conditions!
London, 2025.
Went to London with the most excellent @yo.nayson yesterday. It rained. A lot!
Despite this, we had a bostin time snapping around. In camera I used Lumix's Leica-inspired black & white film sim. The images are gritty but rather reflect the inclement conditions!
London, 2025.
October 21, 2025 at 6:39 PM
London in the rain.
Went to London with the most excellent @yo.nayson yesterday. It rained. A lot!
Despite this, we had a bostin time snapping around. In camera I used Lumix's Leica-inspired black & white film sim. The images are gritty but rather reflect the inclement conditions!
London, 2025.
Went to London with the most excellent @yo.nayson yesterday. It rained. A lot!
Despite this, we had a bostin time snapping around. In camera I used Lumix's Leica-inspired black & white film sim. The images are gritty but rather reflect the inclement conditions!
London, 2025.
Villa winning away at Spursy, how good does that feel? Two brilliant goals and a team playing with intelligence, grit and even a little bit of swagger towards the end. Fabulous performance from Unai Emery's Lions and so pleased for Emi Buendia.
#avfc
#avfc
October 19, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Villa winning away at Spursy, how good does that feel? Two brilliant goals and a team playing with intelligence, grit and even a little bit of swagger towards the end. Fabulous performance from Unai Emery's Lions and so pleased for Emi Buendia.
#avfc
#avfc
Birmingham Fog
A quartet of images from an amble about the city yesterday morning. As per usual, I lost myself in the fog 🤩
A quartet of images from an amble about the city yesterday morning. As per usual, I lost myself in the fog 🤩
October 13, 2025 at 7:17 AM
Birmingham Fog
A quartet of images from an amble about the city yesterday morning. As per usual, I lost myself in the fog 🤩
A quartet of images from an amble about the city yesterday morning. As per usual, I lost myself in the fog 🤩
Tunnel Visions.
One of my many little obsessions is tunnels & pedestrian underpasses. There's a lot of them in Brum, so many in fact that I once spent a year documenting all that remain from the 1960s. Later on, I was lucky enough to have this project published 🤩.
One of my many little obsessions is tunnels & pedestrian underpasses. There's a lot of them in Brum, so many in fact that I once spent a year documenting all that remain from the 1960s. Later on, I was lucky enough to have this project published 🤩.
October 4, 2025 at 11:28 AM
Tunnel Visions.
One of my many little obsessions is tunnels & pedestrian underpasses. There's a lot of them in Brum, so many in fact that I once spent a year documenting all that remain from the 1960s. Later on, I was lucky enough to have this project published 🤩.
One of my many little obsessions is tunnels & pedestrian underpasses. There's a lot of them in Brum, so many in fact that I once spent a year documenting all that remain from the 1960s. Later on, I was lucky enough to have this project published 🤩.
They let any old riff raff in these days 🤪
September 25, 2025 at 6:05 PM
They let any old riff raff in these days 🤪
My Ridiculous lens (ii)
My new/used 250mm f5.6 mirror reflex lens is ridiculous. It's difficult to compose & focus accurately; contrast is low & details are often mushy.
And yet.
This lens is extraordinary. The images it makes walk a thin line between artfulness & insanity.
I love it dearly 🤩
My new/used 250mm f5.6 mirror reflex lens is ridiculous. It's difficult to compose & focus accurately; contrast is low & details are often mushy.
And yet.
This lens is extraordinary. The images it makes walk a thin line between artfulness & insanity.
I love it dearly 🤩
September 22, 2025 at 2:14 PM
My Ridiculous lens (ii)
My new/used 250mm f5.6 mirror reflex lens is ridiculous. It's difficult to compose & focus accurately; contrast is low & details are often mushy.
And yet.
This lens is extraordinary. The images it makes walk a thin line between artfulness & insanity.
I love it dearly 🤩
My new/used 250mm f5.6 mirror reflex lens is ridiculous. It's difficult to compose & focus accurately; contrast is low & details are often mushy.
And yet.
This lens is extraordinary. The images it makes walk a thin line between artfulness & insanity.
I love it dearly 🤩
My Ridiculous lens.
I recently bought a very odd lens. It's a manual focus 250mm f5.6 reflex lens.
Once I figured out how to reliably compose & focus this beast, the out of focus areas sang & danced like crazy. Sharpness is soft & it's not great quality.
And yet, for all its faults, I love it! 🤩
I recently bought a very odd lens. It's a manual focus 250mm f5.6 reflex lens.
Once I figured out how to reliably compose & focus this beast, the out of focus areas sang & danced like crazy. Sharpness is soft & it's not great quality.
And yet, for all its faults, I love it! 🤩
September 14, 2025 at 9:50 PM
My Ridiculous lens.
I recently bought a very odd lens. It's a manual focus 250mm f5.6 reflex lens.
Once I figured out how to reliably compose & focus this beast, the out of focus areas sang & danced like crazy. Sharpness is soft & it's not great quality.
And yet, for all its faults, I love it! 🤩
I recently bought a very odd lens. It's a manual focus 250mm f5.6 reflex lens.
Once I figured out how to reliably compose & focus this beast, the out of focus areas sang & danced like crazy. Sharpness is soft & it's not great quality.
And yet, for all its faults, I love it! 🤩
St Anne's Kite Fest
A cracking day out at the St Anne's Kite Festival. The Fylde coast has been wet & windy of late, but the Sky Gods must have been feeling benevolent because the sun came out for the kite flyers. As did much of Lancashire as families flocked to the beach ⛱️
A cracking day out at the St Anne's Kite Festival. The Fylde coast has been wet & windy of late, but the Sky Gods must have been feeling benevolent because the sun came out for the kite flyers. As did much of Lancashire as families flocked to the beach ⛱️
August 30, 2025 at 5:57 PM
St Anne's Kite Fest
A cracking day out at the St Anne's Kite Festival. The Fylde coast has been wet & windy of late, but the Sky Gods must have been feeling benevolent because the sun came out for the kite flyers. As did much of Lancashire as families flocked to the beach ⛱️
A cracking day out at the St Anne's Kite Festival. The Fylde coast has been wet & windy of late, but the Sky Gods must have been feeling benevolent because the sun came out for the kite flyers. As did much of Lancashire as families flocked to the beach ⛱️
Glut
Whilst catching up on some gardening jobs I noticed our pear tree (a £1 Aldi bargain bin buy from years ago) had a few pears on it...
13 kilos (28 lbs) worth in fact 😬
So, the question is, WTAF to do with this weighty bounty?!? We have similar glut of plums & apples! Anyone for chutney?
Whilst catching up on some gardening jobs I noticed our pear tree (a £1 Aldi bargain bin buy from years ago) had a few pears on it...
13 kilos (28 lbs) worth in fact 😬
So, the question is, WTAF to do with this weighty bounty?!? We have similar glut of plums & apples! Anyone for chutney?
August 22, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Glut
Whilst catching up on some gardening jobs I noticed our pear tree (a £1 Aldi bargain bin buy from years ago) had a few pears on it...
13 kilos (28 lbs) worth in fact 😬
So, the question is, WTAF to do with this weighty bounty?!? We have similar glut of plums & apples! Anyone for chutney?
Whilst catching up on some gardening jobs I noticed our pear tree (a £1 Aldi bargain bin buy from years ago) had a few pears on it...
13 kilos (28 lbs) worth in fact 😬
So, the question is, WTAF to do with this weighty bounty?!? We have similar glut of plums & apples! Anyone for chutney?
Proof that Jo was indeed, in the fanzone (being held in place by Phil)
August 16, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Proof that Jo was indeed, in the fanzone (being held in place by Phil)
Xpan-imental
I recently discovered that my camera has the ability to shoot in 65x24, the so-called Xpan panoramic mode.
The visual constraints of this crop, wide & narrow, are really interesting. Its limited yet oddly liberating format really inspires creative compositions 🙂📸
Brum, August 2025.
I recently discovered that my camera has the ability to shoot in 65x24, the so-called Xpan panoramic mode.
The visual constraints of this crop, wide & narrow, are really interesting. Its limited yet oddly liberating format really inspires creative compositions 🙂📸
Brum, August 2025.
August 10, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Xpan-imental
I recently discovered that my camera has the ability to shoot in 65x24, the so-called Xpan panoramic mode.
The visual constraints of this crop, wide & narrow, are really interesting. Its limited yet oddly liberating format really inspires creative compositions 🙂📸
Brum, August 2025.
I recently discovered that my camera has the ability to shoot in 65x24, the so-called Xpan panoramic mode.
The visual constraints of this crop, wide & narrow, are really interesting. Its limited yet oddly liberating format really inspires creative compositions 🙂📸
Brum, August 2025.
The Night before.
"The Sky shone so bright,
Sunset sparkles across the Sea
Next day, You were gone."
Norfolk, England, 2022.
To Dad, RIP 🙏🏻
"The Sky shone so bright,
Sunset sparkles across the Sea
Next day, You were gone."
Norfolk, England, 2022.
To Dad, RIP 🙏🏻
August 7, 2025 at 9:56 PM
The Night before.
"The Sky shone so bright,
Sunset sparkles across the Sea
Next day, You were gone."
Norfolk, England, 2022.
To Dad, RIP 🙏🏻
"The Sky shone so bright,
Sunset sparkles across the Sea
Next day, You were gone."
Norfolk, England, 2022.
To Dad, RIP 🙏🏻
Street impressions.
Ernst Haas once said, "You see what you think, you see what you feel, you are what you see."
I love impressionist art, influencing my photography over the years. Making images of street scenes through vinyl curtains is a lovely way of rendering my impressionist eye 👀🙂
Ernst Haas once said, "You see what you think, you see what you feel, you are what you see."
I love impressionist art, influencing my photography over the years. Making images of street scenes through vinyl curtains is a lovely way of rendering my impressionist eye 👀🙂
August 5, 2025 at 8:32 AM
Street impressions.
Ernst Haas once said, "You see what you think, you see what you feel, you are what you see."
I love impressionist art, influencing my photography over the years. Making images of street scenes through vinyl curtains is a lovely way of rendering my impressionist eye 👀🙂
Ernst Haas once said, "You see what you think, you see what you feel, you are what you see."
I love impressionist art, influencing my photography over the years. Making images of street scenes through vinyl curtains is a lovely way of rendering my impressionist eye 👀🙂