Luminous Landscape Forum
The Art of Photography => User Critiques => Topic started by: tokengirl on August 02, 2010, 09:37:02 pm
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That's how big the smallest free-standing post office in America is.
(http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4142/4851455847_b1f4588738_b.jpg)
I have driven by this little post office so many times on my way to and from Everglades City to go fishing. I had thought about photographing it many times, but could never really imagine an approach. Forget it, I thought, there are probably enough pictures of it already.
And then I built a pinhole camera, the "Un-Leica 67", as I like to call it. Finally, I had the right tool for what seemed like an impossible task of capturing the smallness and vintage of The Little Post Office That Could. It's been a post office since 1953, when the "real" post office burned to the ground. I think it was used as a storage shed before being commandeered by the USPS.
I think I will print this photo postcard-sized, and mail it to myself from that post office. Full circle.
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Delightful!
And excellent use of "appropriate technology."
Eric
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Claire
This is a lovely print. I thought as soon as I looked at it that it must be pinhole. I really like the idea of mailing a postcard of this shot from the post office. How about a whole series of different PO shots on the pinhole, each one mailed to yourself, and then frame each one in its stamped and franked form? The ultimate limited edition!
John
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That's how big the smallest free-standing post office in America is.
Great mood! Please, please: try a gentle sepia tone conversion with it!
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Great mood! Please, please: try a gentle sepia tone conversion with it!
I think that's an excellent suggestion.
Eric
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Great shot. The vignetting works well here. Not sure I agree with adding a sepia tone. I like it the way it is.