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Film photography and the Soviet Union are not dead. Just downsized.
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« Reply #31 on: August 09, 2012, 08:40:45 AM » |
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Hey, Larry, I've got something like yours:  Not exactly like yours, just similar in that it's incongruous to its surroundings.  I don't even know what this thing is, t'tell the truth. |
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Pete (Corpus Christi, TX) Every professional should remain always in his heart an amateur. - Alfred Eisenstaedt (1898-1995) My Website
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« Reply #32 on: August 09, 2012, 10:10:46 AM » |
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Pete It is Outsider Art. :-)
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Film photography and the Soviet Union are not dead. Just downsized.
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« Reply #33 on: August 09, 2012, 10:57:17 AM » |
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Looks like it might have been some kind of balancing aparatus of some kind.
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Look and think before opening the shutter. The heart and mind are the true lens of the camera.
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« Reply #34 on: August 09, 2012, 11:33:29 AM » |
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Nancy, I'd lean more towards some sort of art, but it's located in such an odd place. Here's a close-up of one end:  And this ruin is not half-a-dozen feet away from it:  |
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« Reply #35 on: August 09, 2012, 11:44:19 AM » |
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« Reply #36 on: August 10, 2012, 01:25:37 PM » |
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« Reply #37 on: August 10, 2012, 03:24:12 PM » |
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« Reply #38 on: August 10, 2012, 06:18:07 PM » |
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I just had thought..someone who i have not heard from for a while is our own Yellow rose of Texas, Lili. I miss her drive by shots.  |
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« Reply #39 on: August 10, 2012, 08:03:38 PM » |
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Americans developed a greater than usual interest in the British royal family starting with Prince William and Princess Kate's wedding in 2011. It was topped by Queen Elizabeth II's Jubilee this summer and continued with sightings of the royals at many of the 2012 Olympics events. Perhaps we Americans may have been infected with a national epidemic of latent royalty envy. Should we have crowned George Washington a king? No! because my revolutionary streak reminds me we do have our own royalty and even a more modest type of pomp and pageantry. I found two old 35mm negatives that captured an American princess, crown and all, peering out of her castle window while reviewing a parade.   Canon A-1, 35-105 Tokina, Plus-X, D76 Stock |
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« Reply #40 on: August 10, 2012, 09:24:53 PM » |
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Santiago, You started the perfect theme to goose lazy guys like me to post some pics. I've been hypnotized by so many Olympic events and have been functioning in a zombie passive state for weeks. Your high quality prime-the-pump examples stimulated an enthusiastic reaction in words and pics. Here's one more photo from another old negative. It was taken in Boston Public Garden (where the swan boats are) during a 1960s art festival. I had a linocut on display. Didn't win a prize, but the Museum of Fine art bought it.  Canon A1, Canon50/1.4, Plus- X, D76 Stock |
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« Reply #41 on: August 11, 2012, 05:10:15 AM » |
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What great pictures! I'm slow to join this party, but here's a picture I took of a small fraction of my extended family two weeks ago. I was on my bicycle en route to get my car which I'd left at the scene of a party the night before. The picture was with my new Kodak Retina 1a.  A slice of a family by Felip1, on Flickr How I got the Retina is another story, but the gist is that I was negotiating the purchase of some expired film in a local camera store when a woman also at the counter turned to me and said, "Expired film! WHAT do you do with that??" I explained I used it, and liked it, and the conversation led to her father's Retina which she'd like to give to someone who'd use it. A few days later I owned it. It turned out that Bernice, on the left in this picture knew her, too. |
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« Reply #42 on: August 11, 2012, 07:58:13 AM » |
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I love it when pictures tell a story, but I really love it when you guys include a story with your pictures.
Les and Philip, very good to hear from you, and excellent shots both of you.
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« Reply #43 on: August 11, 2012, 08:14:50 AM » |
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Those pictures are excellent! Les, that man in dialogue with the sculpture is outstanding. This is the top section of Palacio Salvo, a very characteristic building in downtown Montevideo. Built in 1928, it was briefly the tallest building in South America. Now it hosts offices, living flats and one or two radio stations, attracted by the mast at the top. The building is rumored to be the home of several benign ghosts that take care of the people living there.  This was taken with my old Agfa Clack on GP3 film. The negative was unsharp because of movement, so I decided to post-process it. The technique is simple - find edges, adjust curve / contrast to eliminate unwanted noise in the sky, invert. Unsharping may be needed in some cases. |
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« Reply #44 on: August 11, 2012, 08:10:59 PM » |
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That's cool, Julio. Makes it look like it's lit in neon.
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