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Further delightful image from the Isle of Winter Sunshine.
What you don't see in the pic, is the two-hundred metre walk to the restaurant through the flooding streets and pavements. As I clambered out of the car, trying to erect the umbrella at the same time, I realised I'd parked over an iron manhole cover. I went with the risk.
As everybody knows, it never rains here, never snows and is perpetually warm and sunny. I know: I used to shoot the brochures.
Retribution?
Rob C
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I think I'd be tempted to skip lunch!
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Gimme a break, guys. If you can still see the car in front of you, it's umbrella time. It's when the car disappears behind a veil of water you have to give lunch a second thought, swimming lessons first.
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Gimme a break, guys. If you can still see the car in front of you, it's umbrella time. It's when the car disappears behind a veil of water you have to give lunch a second thought, swimming lessons first.
That was one scary part of driving a left-hooker through wet UK motorways: you sat in the driving seat on the left of your car and passed heavy trucks on their right, the spray blinding you more efficiently than any finger in the eye ever could.
Should have said: lunch was actually rather good: thick lentil soup with tiny slices of sausage and potato, followed by fried baby octopus with ratatouille. I never take desert anymore - too much sugar, but I always have that omission balanced by a café solo with sugar. Not too bad for ten euros.
Rob C
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I didn't give the driving on the left consideration with that statement..it's bad enough to have to drive through semi trailer spray with it on the right side.
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I didn't give the driving on the left consideration with that statement..it's bad enough to have to drive through semi trailer spray with it on the right side.
Before the motorway was built, part of the main route from the French/Spanish borders down to Barcelona used to be a road with three lanes, the central one open to overtaking in both directions. It was the most scary event of any driving trip I ever took, especially in the wet, because not only was vision dreadful, but roads long dry become greasy when rain falls on top, and that's just like ice! Plus, unlike northern people, Mediterranean dwellers are just not used to driving in slippery conditions and they generally tailgate at any speed. There's a certain thrill in seeing several sets of headlights coming towards you, side by side, through a soaked windscreen: quite artistic (pace Patricia!). And when you know you can't even slow down without getting rammed from the rear... you wish you'd elected to fly instead.
Rob C
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Certainly not three laned, but welcome to Atlanta on any given day.
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Further delightful image from the Isle of Winter Sunshine.
Wonderful picture.
I'm amazed the car interior / steering wheel / dash seem sharp and in focus, and the outside car even appears to be in relatively decent focus. It would have been a dark day, so even with an uwa focal length, it would seem like you'd need some extra DOF from stopping down, and I suppose a rather high ISO.
This is one of many images where I find myself wondering about the EXIF. Is it available, or is this LuLa forum newbie missing how to access EXIF? Ah, now I notice that a cell phone was involved. That explains quite a bit.
My 2¢ of things to consider:
- To me, the light triangle on the left is distracting. You wouldn't want to crop it out in order to keep the street light. Perhaps clone it out?
- Try to make the tail-lights have some "glow", perhaps almost a colorized effect on this nearly b/w image. However, that might not be trivial to do convinciingly. Easy to suggest, not necessarily easy to accomplish. I have my doubts I could do such a glow with my limited p.p. skills, at least in a reasonable amount of time.
- Consider having your descriptive words after the picture. Or minimize? To me, the description was not only a distraction, but in some ways detracted from the image.
- For example, I originally assumed the cars were moving ... and I thought ... "How in the heck did he make that image?". When you commented that you had stopped the car, that took just a bit away from my sense of amazement.
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1. Wonderful picture.
I'm amazed the car interior / steering wheel / dash seem sharp and in focus, and the outside car even appears to be in relatively decent focus. It would have been a dark day, so even with an uwa focal length, it would seem like you'd need some extra DOF from stopping down, and I suppose a rather high ISO.
This is one of many images where I find myself wondering about the EXIF. Is it available, or is this LuLa forum newbie missing how to access EXIF? Ah, now I notice that a cell phone was involved. That explains quite a bit.
2. My 2¢ of things to consider:
- To me, the light triangle on the left is distracting. You wouldn't want to crop it out in order to keep the street light. Perhaps clone it out?
- Try to make the tail-lights have some "glow", perhaps almost a colorized effect on this nearly b/w image. However, that might not be trivial to do convinciingly. Easy to suggest, not necessarily easy to accomplish. I have my doubts I could do such a glow with my limited p.p. skills, at least in a reasonable amount of time.
- Consider having your descriptive words after the picture. Or minimize? To me, the description was not only a distraction, but in some ways detracted from the image.
- For example, I originally assumed the cars were moving ... and I thought ... "How in the heck did he make that image?". When you commented that you had stopped the car, that took just a bit away from my sense of amazement.
1. Thanks for the kind remark.
2. Being new, you probably haven’t read the original post in Without Prejudice 1 which I append:
“I've knocked the idea around a few times, may be worth trying to see if it sticks.
Basically, I thought it might be nice to have a spot where we can hang pix that aren't looking for 'critique', that exist just for the hell of it, and seemed to be a good idea at the time they were sketched.
I kick it off with a self portrait shot in the office by looking out of the door.
Rob C”
No harm done – just something to bear in mind.
;-)
Rob
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It didn't rain today, so I took some snaps with the cellphone again. As I seldom use it to make calls - I seldom make any calls as I rather e-mail - I might have bought a little shiny camera instead; I'm sure it pulls the girls.
;-)
Rob C
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2. Being new, you probably haven’t read the original post in Without Prejudice 1 which I append:
Guilty as charged ::)
I did think it was an odd OP "subject", and also that the 4 or 5 replies didn't offer anything particularly close to C&C. My thinking was something like:,
"Well, this guy is looking for feedback, and hasn't gotten anything but friendly banter so far, so perhaps my 2¢ would 'get the ball rolling'. "
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As I mentioned elsewhere on LuLa, this day has been one blessed with air coming up from the Sahara, air laden with bits of the eponymous desert itself.
Bad enough the mess created on my clean little car last night, this pre-Easter testing of a flourishing of sails against the yellow-laden sky seemed so sad and pointless that I decided to photograph it with the help of my portable telephone (write that thirty years ago and they'd put you in a 'secure' home).
The flashing of colour is driven by the hope of milking many tourists from the end of this month until forever, or at least the end of September. The people in the wetsuits probably won't be here later on. At any rate, they make a welcome change from the cycling men-in-lycra who strutt their gender in the few bars now open. They certainly walk the walk in those fashionable shoes. It wouldn't be so bad if they just sat in the bars; the trouble is when they take to the road: they have no idea that the white line at the kerb is supposed to keep them away from the space reserved for motor vehicles. Several get killed every year; in some countries it's wild animals, here it's mainly cats and cyclists.
Nature finds its balance.
Rob C
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Basically, I thought it might be nice to have a spot where we can hang pix that aren't looking for 'critique', that exist just for the hell of it, and seemed to be a good idea at the time they were sketched.
Interesting ...
My wife's hobby is drawing/painting, and she is quite good at it. She is an active participant on www.wetcanvas.com. She's mentioned there are two separate "User Critiques"-like sub-forums. I believe one allows "constructive criticism". The other allows "constructive encouragement only".
My impression is that your "Without Prejudice" thread(s) would be more or less the equivalent of the "constructive encouragement only" sub-forum. I suppose that "deafening silence" from members not making replies would provide a gentle form of "constructive criticism".
Mea culpa ... the guy in the mirror thinks he wants plenty of constructive criticism, but so far hasn't posted any images. Hmmm?
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This way please
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... I suppose that "deafening silence" from members not making replies would provide a gentle form of "constructive criticism".
Nope.
That would be true (up to a point, of course) for the regular User Critique forum. This thread's original intent was to avoid precisely that type of interpretation (or any other interpretation which would fit into: "here is what I think you should do/have done instead").
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Nope.
That would be true (up to a point, of course) for the regular User Critique forum. This thread's original intent was to avoid precisely that type of interpretation (or any other interpretation which would fit into: "here is what I think you should do/have done instead").
That's exactly it!
There's no problem with comments here, just so long as they don't amount to 'advice' which becomes a pain in the ass. Trouble is, that's the sort of comment that most folks seem to find easy to make. Anyone can make comments about how absolutely anyone else has ever shot any image and how it could have been shot in a better way, and they do; it's just nice to have somewhere removed from that.
Rob C
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Rob's "Hole in One" and Pieter's "This Way Please" are two more that I like much better than "Rhein II."
As for how to improve them,.... ;D :D ::)
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Rob's "Hole in One" and Pieter's "This Way Please" are two more that I like much better than "Rhein II."
As for how to improve them,.... ;D :D ::)
Now that's fair, unbiased comment! ;-)
In order to improve them, the pix, I have to think you refer to marketability, in which case I suggest we need to organize the outside world a little more to our advantage. I think my daughter left the Godfather DVDs behind last time she came to visit; I shall look again there for hints.
Rob C
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I was going back through some images I've recently shot and ran across this, I guess it would be called a "Redneck Christmas Creche."
(http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8512/8534676970_d3497b02f7_o.jpg)
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More to date:
(http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8507/8534677080_554781d6ce_o.jpg)
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A few closer to home. Went on two outings with the club to get some "architecture" shots. So I helped teach what visual design is all about. And when you practice what you have learned you can see subjects as elements within a picture space and hopefully arrange them beyond the standard view. And by the way, does anyone know what has happened to the original "Without prejudice?"
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(http://johnroias.smugmug.com/Other/Port-Hope-and-Cobourg/i-vJNc79q/0/M/Dec%2013-12%20City%20Hall-TO%20111%20copybw-grainy1400px-M.jpg) (http://johnroias.smugmug.com/Other/Port-Hope-and-Cobourg/21767534_BPMqWQ#!i=2393101738&k=vJNc79q&lb=1&s=A)
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(http://johnroias.smugmug.com/Other/Port-Hope-and-Cobourg/i-Nzf9Zzf/0/M/March%204-13%20Humber%20V%20church%20145%20smugcopy-M.jpg) (http://johnroias.smugmug.com/Other/Port-Hope-and-Cobourg/21767534_BPMqWQ#!i=2396677149&k=Nzf9Zzf&lb=1&s=A)
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(http://johnroias.smugmug.com/Other/Port-Hope-and-Cobourg/i-WMrBXRS/0/M/March%204-13%20Humber%20V%20church%20230%20smugcopy-M.jpg) (http://johnroias.smugmug.com/Other/Port-Hope-and-Cobourg/21767534_BPMqWQ#!i=2396678109&k=WMrBXRS&lb=1&s=A)
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Hi John,
The original is still here. Chris started another to prevent a database problem.
The original "Professional Works" thread in Mediium Format forum reached page 220 and would only display a blank page. Chris went back a page or two
and started a new thread which overlapped the old one.
Since "Without Prejudice" enjoyed much the same popularity and was growing in leaps and bound, Chris created 2 to ensure continuity.
Rich
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Atavistic reaction, of course.
Rob C
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Play Ball
(http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8107/8538549278_1ff629d58a_o.jpg)
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Re Play Ball: Great shot Chris. Not many people think of portraying reality this way.
John R
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A week or so ago I was sitting in the car wondering whether to risk the monsoon and go for lunch; today, the first signs of spring come out to tease one.. but I don't trust them! They always prove false.
;-)
Rob C
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Helluva tease, Rob!
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Helluva tease, Rob!
It sure is. And I just finished shoveling out some 15" of wet, heavy snow (the forecast at one point predicted 4-8"). Spring? Winter is just settling in here.
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It sure is. And I just finished shoveling out some 15" of wet, heavy snow (the forecast at one point predicted 4-8"). Spring? Winter is just settling in here.
You mean the type the media dubbed "heart-attack snow?" Careful there, man! ;)
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You mean the type the media dubbed "heart-attack snow?" Careful there, man! ;)
Yup!
I just spent the morning in the ER with what turned out to be a kidney stone (more painful than hand-holding an 11x14" Deardorff), and I had to shovel out one car so my wife could drive to the pharmacy to get my pain meds. A fun day in all.
No heart attack yet, and the pain meds do work.
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Helluva tease, Rob!
That's for sure!
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Yup!
I just spent the morning in the ER with what turned out to be a kidney stone (more painful than hand-holding an 11x14" Deardorff), and I had to shovel out one car so my wife could drive to the pharmacy to get my pain meds. A fun day in all.
No heart attack yet, and the pain meds do work.
And that's no joke!
We used to burn up to three tons of wood in a bad year just to keep the apartment dry and the living area warm. After the first heart attack the cardio said no wheelbarrow work, which meant that the ton that was delivered each time could no longer be carted by myself from where it got dumped in the carpark, some seventy-five paces away from the corner of the garden where the wood was kept neatly stacked (I had been a boy scout…). Consequently, I had to pay the delivery guy to do that for me, and it ended up costing €400 a pop. €1200 a year on wood is quite expensive, considering one also has to pay for sky-high electricity for all the other heating, lighting, cooking and tv and computers etc. etc.
The best option, all things considered, is to have frequent check-ups before you have any symptoms. I wish I’d heeded my own advice, but it does prove that you often have to make your own mistakes.
Rob C
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I get a checkup twice a year. My cardio has me doing the dreaded treadmill twice a year as well even though I am totally asymptomatic of any heart disease. But, me thinks when reading stories such as yours, perhaps the preventive medicine is the best route afterall.
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I get a checkup twice a year. My cardio has me doing the dreaded treadmill twice a year as well even though I am totally asymptomatic of any heart disease. But, me thinks when reading stories such as yours, perhaps the preventive medicine is the best route afterall.
Yes, going for check-ups does help, but there's much that you can do for yourself before medics have to step in with advice: FWIW I'd say cut out cheese, processed delicatessen meats, booze, pastries containing suet, cigarettes (which nobody sane should even consider these days!), colas and absolutely all animal fats.
For a while, you'll believe that everything you could possibly enjoy is bad for you; and you are probably right!
But better to live modestly and enjoy your time without being victim to your own excesses, when so many of them can be avoided with but a modicum of willpower.
;-)
Rob C
P.S. As I was leaving hospital after the first event, I was told that sex was definitely good for one... what they didn't mention was that some of the meds you end up taking for the rest of your life think otherwise.
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(http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8386/8515108109_882c846a1f_b.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/87368247@N00/8515108109/)
PLOH, SF (http://www.flickr.com/photos/87368247@N00/8515108109/) by tanngrisnir3 (http://www.flickr.com/people/87368247@N00/), on Flickr
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I need to either copy-write [should have been "copyright"] it or learn to keep my thumb out of the lens.
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I need to either copy-write it or learn to keep my thumb out of the lens.
I've looked and looked, but I see no thumb signature. Not even an X!
;-)
Rob C
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I've looked and looked, but I see no thumb signature. Not even an X!
;-)
Rob C
I doctored the lower left corner to cover up an orange thumb. I then came up with the unnecessary comment conflating thumb prints and copyrights. Then I improved the doctored corner a good bit, but neglected to drop the bullshit comment. Thanks for not seeing it.
Bruce
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Yes, going for check-ups does help, but there's much that you can do for yourself before medics have to step in with advice: FWIW I'd say cut out cheese, processed delicatessen meats, booze, pastries containing suet, cigarettes (which nobody sane should even consider these days!), colas and absolutely all animal fats.
For a while, you'll believe that everything you could possibly enjoy is bad for you; and you are probably right!
But better to live modestly and enjoy your time without being victim to your own excesses, when so many of them can be avoided with but a modicum of willpower.
;-)
Rob C
P.S. As I was leaving hospital after the first event, I was told that sex was definitely good for one... what they didn't mention was that some of the meds you end up taking for the rest of your life think otherwise.
And for all that's what its worth, my best friend, who never smoked, ran three miles every day, ate the best diet I think I 've ever known anyone to eat, dropped dead in his kitchen making a fruit & yogurt smoothie (he was 58). Even with his healthy ways, he was blocked more than 95% in every major aortic artery. Way more than 65% of all cardiac disease is genetic. My great aunt died at age 92 while trying to ride her tricycle up a steep hill. She did die of cardiac failure. She smoked a pack of chesterfield's (unfiltered) about every two days and never missed a hot toddy at night. She always ate whatever she wanted and exercized sparingly except for the trike which she used weekly to go to the corner grocer. She and her sisters, all of whom lived well into their 90's had good genes as does my mother who is still cranking right along at 88. And so it goes.
As to the pills you take to not cack from a heart attack also stopping other physical pleasures...that's what they make the little blue pills for.
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Re Play Ball: Great shot Chris. Not many people think of portraying reality this way.
John R
Thanks, John. I like this one for the same reason.
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And for all that's what its worth, my best friend, who never smoked, ran three miles every day, ate the best diet I think I 've ever known anyone to eat, dropped dead in his kitchen making a fruit & yogurt smoothie (he was 58). Even with his healthy ways, he was blocked more than 95% in every major aortic artery. Way more than 65% of all cardiac disease is genetic. My great aunt died at age 92 while trying to ride her tricycle up a steep hill. She did die of cardiac failure. She smoked a pack of chesterfield's (unfiltered) about every two days and never missed a hot toddy at night. She always ate whatever she wanted and exercized sparingly except for the trike which she used weekly to go to the corner grocer. She and her sisters, all of whom lived well into their 90's had good genes as does my mother who is still cranking right along at 88. And so it goes.
As to the pills you take to not cack from a heart attack also stopping other physical pleasures...that's what they make the little blue pills for.
Exceptions to every rule, indeed, but I still don't like the idea of skydiving!
Regarding blue pills: living alone now it's academic; if not living alone, from the selfish perspective I can think of few greater disincentives towards copulative delight than needing to benefit from them. Alternatively, from any partner's perspective, what a blow to think your mate has to be doped in order to find you exciting enough to light his candle!
Maybe there is something to skydiving after all!
;-)
Rob C
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Indeed! ;D
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Another piece of sheer magic!
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I'm finally losing it: I see a woman's torso.
But then I am suffering from 'flu right now. My wife would have called it a cold.
Rob C
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West Span of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge in fog.
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The air looks suspended and balanced as well as the bridge.
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...pleasant dreams
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Enfold..
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A few closer to home. Went on two outings with the club to get some "architecture" shots. So I helped teach what visual design is all about. And when you practice what you have learned you can see subjects as elements within a picture space and hopefully arrange them beyond the standard view.
I love the first one, John.
Jeremy
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Enfold..
Patricia, I saw your first, color, version late last night, too tired to respond how much I like it, how much it is "my" type of photograph, leaving it for the next day. I see now that you replaced it with a b&w version (or perhaps even a different photograph). For me, it creates a completely different impression, and is one of those cases where color is so much better. Amy chance to see it again?
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Patricia,
I love "Unwake."
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Patricia, I saw your first, color, version late last night,... Any chance to see it again?
Slobodan, was in the process last night of packing a four day trekking back pack for a hike along a coastal area of Maine. I reserve a room at the end of the hike for laptop,xHD and a folder or two of things I've been thinking about. Was sipping a warm beverage before turning in, and sat with this for a while ...things have a way of settling down and emerging when I return to one this way. The bw bookplate is a way of seeing it for future seeing...and why I posted it here..just thought it might hold some thought triggers for others. I find myself wondering of late if it is really fair of me to inflict this on members here...My sense of discretion seems to evaporate at the edge of sleep.
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I have to disagree with Slobodan on this one but likely for completely different reasons. the B&W look to me more like an aerial view of of a great rift in the earth's crust whereas the color version, for what it is, is to me a nice composition with nice colors. I think this depends on which one you see first.
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I find myself wondering of late if it is really fair of me to inflict this on members here.
It's not an infliction, it is teaching for some of us. I appreciate it!
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This is one of those fun shots we all tend to make. Sometimes it's just because it makes us smile, other times, just because. After I made the original, while it was a pretty spiffy image, I got to playing a bit with the image and came to this end. I took a print of both to the owner of the lift box company yesterday afternoon and he liked them so much, he hired me to shoot an inventory of all his machines, I presume for insurance reasons. Kind of neat to have you cake and get to eat it, too.
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Easter, so just in case any tourist gets too confident, a little cloud blooms above the sea...
;-)
Rob C
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Easter, so just in case any tourist gets too confident, a little cloud blooms above the sea...
;-)
Rob C
Here, it's almost snowing… :D
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Here, it's almost snowing… :D
Well, at least then you can almost ski; I 'almost' skied on snow several times and also on the ocean with as little expertise or style. Guess I was never designed to be athletic: too concerned about staying in one piece and never did appreciate fishy enemas or pointy icicles.
Rob C
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Well, at least then you can almost ski; I 'almost' skied on snow several times and also on the ocean with as little expertise or style. Guess I was never designed to be athletic: too concerned about staying in one piece and never did appreciate fishy enemas or pointy icicles.
Rob C
Well, finally we got sleet and then rain… So no alpine style ski and for ski on the lake, water is too cold… By then way, I vote for pointy icicles :D
Taken last week… I guess that you don't get snow too often in your region, sometimes I'm envious!
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Hey, that's a nice snow shot!
We get snow sometimes, usually over about 600 metres, and that always means closed mountain roads. Trouble is, where people are not accustomed to snow/ice on the roads, they don't realise just how out of control it can make your vehicle become. Its just the same with rain: if it comes after a long summer drought, the oil and road grease that suddenly gets wet is lethal, and the tailgaters are something to wonder at - if you aren't on the same bit of road.
But, rain, hail, snow or ice, nothing is as frightening as the cyclists-in-lycra: they have no idea at all about white lines, roundabouts and borders. I am sure they are all on drugs from the moment they board their flights out here. Pity we can't send them all to Cyprus instead.
Rob C
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One for Walter.
As the skies got darker, Hassy just got lighter!
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Rob C
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Fascinating shot Rob!
Very Euro approach in my opinion.
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One for Walter.
Terrific shot!
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Pretty much my only "serious" image last year, not really in the mood of shooting anything right now...
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Pretty much my only "serious" image last year, not really in the mood of shooting anything right now...
Too bad... this looks promising.
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Slobodan! I see you've dug out of all the snow. ;D
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Too bad... this looks promising.
You know, I was often too eager to get "something good", resulting in wild snapping of pretty much trivial stuff :) Its about gaining distance from that mindless shooting, about looking. So the break is quite good for me :)
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Slobodan! I see you've dug out of all the snow. ;D
And replaced it with ice! ;)
Ice formations on Lake Superior, Minnesota, early morning, three days ago:
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What a difference a continent makes!
Whilst in the States Slobodan struggles with icy survival, here in southern Europe, cradle of civilization, the world accelerates at unprecedented pace: yesterday brought you the new pocket Hasselblad 500 Series, with today marking the unveiling of the even newer Leica Matchbox Color, its unique selling feature being that you can be pretending to strike a light whilst actually sneaking a shot. Really hot.
Rob C
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Hi Rob, You've been putting some great cell shots on here. Wish I could see them a bit larger. How about making your max dimension 8 inches when you post 'em?
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Hi Rob, You've been putting some great cell shots on here. Wish I could see them a bit larger. How about making your max dimension 8 inches when you post 'em?
Hi Russ,
Thanks for the kind remark!
Maybe, though, that's why I keep 'em maxed at 600 pixels: could break up if I go larger, but I don't know for sure because I seldom see them large. Also, I find that I have to reduce them to around that same published size when I work on them: if I go larger I seem to lose the ability to keep the shapes controlled in my head, and have to scan a bit... Hope it's not tunnel vision creeping in on top of everything else!
Thanks again -
Rob C
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Okay, now for the Secret Agent Spy Camera adaptor that fits inside one of the beads hanging at the back of the bandana: the trick is that you make the exposure as you're walking away. Who would think!
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Rob C
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Hi Rob, You've been putting some great cell shots on here. Wish I could see them a bit larger. How about making your max dimension 8 inches when you post 'em?
I second the motion.
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I second the motion.
It's a friggin' conspiracy!
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Rob C
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It's a friggin' conspiracy!
;-)
Rob C
At least we're not asking you to get one of those humongous MF (i.e., Moster Fotomachines) to give us 20 meter by 50 meter panoramas.
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At least we're not asking you to get one of those humongous MF (i.e., Moster Fotomachines) to give us 20 meter by 50 meter panoramas.
:D
Lesson #1 from School of Hard Knocks: He who giveth an inch shall lose a ...
On to something completely different: I watched the opening scenes from No Country for Old Men last night - I always seemed to have missed them before (I didn't stay up to watch much of the rest because I'd caught that on several earlier attempts) - and I have to say, the early dawn shots are spectacular, especially in how they avoid all of that stlls photography obsession with maximum detail in shadows, etc. One shot in particular, of some broken-down posts with wires, blew the top of my head open. It was also amazing how pure black silhouettes of mountains can be so dramatic. Sometimes, huge DR isn't everyone's best friend. Trouble is, it's a discipline that seems to require a lot of early morning starts... can't cheat by using sunsets because the air ain't clean and you lose the effect of starkness. Leica M6 and Velvia 50, anyone?
I've remarked before that cinematographers often have a far more exciting take on landscape than any regular landscape shooter's work with which I'm familiar. There's a greater sense of dynamics, a williingness to use OTT framing ideas that seem to be anathema to stills people. As I mentioned, especially noticed last night was the use of absolute blacks, which currently cause great anxiety amongst some posters here on LuLa this weather.
Go to the movies - even if you stay at home!
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Rob C
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Sometimes, huge DR isn't everyone's best friend.
Rob C
The limitations of film were it's very magic. Frankly most HDR and huge Dr render very anonymous pictures.
Peter
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Well, for better of for worse, this is the first effort with the new-old 2/35mm AIS Nikkor wide open at f2. As I said, for better or for worse. Not sure if that's hellish fall-off or just the subject... oh well, 'painterly' covers a lot of sins.
;-)
Rob C
P.S. This is strange: all the shots made with the cellphone open on clicking as enlarged images in the original space below the post. This new camera shot, for some reason I don't grasp, doesn't do that: it opens up in a separate window... could that be because it's a bit larger than normal for me? If so, it's back to 600 pixels over the picture!
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also you must make sure you have the text sized at 100% for the photo to display correctly-
text size= picture zoom for you hard of hearing types
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and finally, without noticing, I've become a fan of cellphone vs Nikon
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also you must make sure you have the text sized at 100% for the photo to display correctly-
text size= picture zoom for you hard of hearing types
The text is at 100% - I just deleted the pic and then put it back, but nothing has changed. I'll go back into PS and see what it tells me...
Rob C
P.S. Everything at 100% but solves nothing.
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This is strange: all the shots made with the cellphone open on clicking as enlarged images in the original space below the post. This new camera shot, for some reason I don't grasp, doesn't do that: it opens up in a separate window... could that be because it's a bit larger than normal for me? If so, it's back to 600 pixels over the picture!
Yes from some pixelsize on it opens in a separate window, thats normal. I really like looking at your images by the way, and also the thread, its refreshing :)
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Yes from some pixelsize on it opens in a separate window, thats normal. I really like looking at your images by the way, and also the thread, its refreshing :)
Oh - I didn't know that size would affect the way an image is shown other than just the visible enlargement; I'll bear that in mind!
Glad you enjoy the pix; I think the thread is quite useful, too, if only because it saves a lot of argument.
;-)
Rob C
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You've got it, Rob. Now, start sizing these fine pictures 6 inches on the long side and they'll open in separate windows so we really can get a look at them.
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Been spending quite a bit of time in the sea lately, yesterday for the third time in as many weeks a wave broke over the camera- this time it was a bad one and the remote socket filled with water, causing the socket to short circuit. It happens now and again. Anyway, this photo was taken by the camera while I was manhandling the tripod to get it out of the water.
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Been spending quite a bit of time in the sea lately, yesterday for the third time in as many weeks a wave broke over the camera- this time it was a bad one and the remote socket filled with water, causing the socket to short circuit. It happens now and again. Anyway, this photo was taken by the camera while I was manhandling the tripod to get it out of the water.
Which now puts an end to this nonsense that it isn't the camera that makes the pictures!
;-)
Rob C
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I love that photo, Riaan! Must have been expensive, though.
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Haha Rob, maybe I need to try this more often..
Eric, the camera seems to have survived the ordeal, if it dies it's one of those things. Stuff ( and rogue waves) happen.
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I love that photo, Riaan! Must have been expensive, though.
Indeed, let form and light play!
JMR
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Been spending quite a bit of time in the sea lately, yesterday for the third time in as many weeks a wave broke over the camera- this time it was a bad one and the remote socket filled with water, causing the socket to short circuit. It happens now and again. Anyway, this photo was taken by the camera while I was manhandling the tripod to get it out of the water.
..wich reminds me that sometimes I got excellent pictures by accidental snaps, not even looking through the finder. Sometimes too much thought can kill an image and often it is exactly the error, the unintended, wich leads to something beautiful and unexpected.
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Colour my world: that is the song that came to mind when I finally got to see and edit these.
JMR
(http://johnroias.smugmug.com/Other/Pictorials/i-MNDNsdF/0/M/April%207-13%20Allen%20Gardens%20118%20smugcopy-M.jpg) (http://johnroias.smugmug.com/Other/Pictorials/6157147_wZQ4vV#!i=2447720972&k=MNDNsdF&lb=1&s=A)
(http://johnroias.smugmug.com/Other/Pictorials/i-VLS4L8R/0/M/April%207-13%20Allen%20Gardens%20182%20smugcopy-M.jpg) (http://johnroias.smugmug.com/Other/Pictorials/6157147_wZQ4vV#!i=2447721001&k=VLS4L8R&lb=1&s=A)
(http://johnroias.smugmug.com/Other/Pictorials/i-MrKbXtg/0/M/April%207-13%20Allen%20Gardens%20129%20smugcopy-M.jpg) (http://johnroias.smugmug.com/Other/Pictorials/6157147_wZQ4vV#!i=2447721000&k=MrKbXtg&lb=1&s=A)
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The one in the middle is beautiful - love that blue!
For me, sharpness of a blur doesn't usually work, but in that blue one it works very nicely.
Rob C
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They're all nice, but I agree with Rob.
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Been spending quite a bit of time in the sea lately, yesterday for the third time in as many weeks a wave broke over the camera- this time it was a bad one and the remote socket filled with water, causing the socket to short circuit. It happens now and again. Anyway, this photo was taken by the camera while I was manhandling the tripod to get it out of the water.
Note to myself: Never buy used equipment from Riaan van Wyk.
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The one in the middle is beautiful - love that blue!
For me, sharpness of a blur doesn't usually work, but in that blue one it works very nicely.
Rob C
Thanks for the feedback, Rob and Eric. I didn't realize they were that sharp. A friend taught me a new way to sharpen images, so I tried it. But I see, perhaps he meant for projection purposes. I will have to revisit these, as I don't usually sharpen most of my motion technique images, except where appropriate.
JMR
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Note to myself: Never buy used equipment from Riaan van Wyk.
I wouldn't either! But then again, my stuff is old, I'd feel ashamed to even offer it for sale.
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Colour my world: that is the song that came to mind when I finally got to see and edit these.
JMR
(http://johnroias.smugmug.com/Other/Pictorials/i-MNDNsdF/0/M/April%207-13%20Allen%20Gardens%20118%20smugcopy-M.jpg) (http://johnroias.smugmug.com/Other/Pictorials/6157147_wZQ4vV#!i=2447720972&k=MNDNsdF&lb=1&s=A)
(http://johnroias.smugmug.com/Other/Pictorials/i-VLS4L8R/0/M/April%207-13%20Allen%20Gardens%20182%20smugcopy-M.jpg) (http://johnroias.smugmug.com/Other/Pictorials/6157147_wZQ4vV#!i=2447721001&k=VLS4L8R&lb=1&s=A)
(http://johnroias.smugmug.com/Other/Pictorials/i-MrKbXtg/0/M/April%207-13%20Allen%20Gardens%20129%20smugcopy-M.jpg) (http://johnroias.smugmug.com/Other/Pictorials/6157147_wZQ4vV#!i=2447721000&k=MrKbXtg&lb=1&s=A)
Very nice as per usual John. I was in the garden this past weekend shooting butterflies and wondered about shooting something like this- you have given me the inspiration to at least try!
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I wouldn't either! But then again, my stuff is old, I'd feel ashamed to even offer it for sale.
Smetime late in the pre-digital era I realized that not one of the six or so cameras I then owned had been in manufacture for at least thirty years.
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Smetime late in the pre-digital era I realized that not one of the six or so cameras I then owned had been in manufacture for at least thirty years.
Were you the happier man prior to, or post that Damascene moment?
Rob C
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I'm not normally one for photographing 'Street', nor architecture, but this is an attempt to conflate the two - taken earlier today on a visit to Bath
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Were you the happier man prior to, or post that Damascene moment?
Rob C
At the time I think I was happy that my cameras could last that long and still shoot well. Then I went over to the Dark Side (i.e., D*g*tal), and soon realized that by the time one figured out how to use a new camera, it was already obsolete in the eyes of the Pixel Peepers.
Now I'm quite pleased with my Canon 5DII and my Canon S95, and I don't miss the 8x10 view camera, or even the 4x5 at all. I still sometimes lust after the Mamiya 6 (my last real film camera) or even my Kodak Retina 3C, but I have no desire to go back to sloshing films or prints in toxic chemicals.
Eric
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Ch Bill: I love your Archi-Street shot!
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Transamerica Pyramid in fog, 2.14.13
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Spooky image, Doug; are you sure this shouldn't have been posted in the 'Cars' thread? Have to admit, though, I can see a Pontiac absolutely nowhere, so I might be mistake about that.
;-)
Rob C
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Spooky image, Doug; are you sure this shouldn't have been posted in the 'Cars' thread? Have to admit, though, I can see a Pontiac absolutely nowhere, so I might be mistake about that.
Given the "noir" feel of the image, I'd say it's more likely there's a Packard or a Pierce-Arrow hiding in that fog. ;)
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Sa Pobla main square; you hear as much Arabic as Spanish these days. I wonder what the trees think when they leaf through the years... repetition of history, no doubt.
Rob C
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Are the trees that old?
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Are the trees that old?
They didn't say...
Secretive planes - you know what they're like: lie about anything.
;-)
Rob C
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Smetime late in the pre-digital era I realized that not one of the six or so cameras I then owned had been in manufacture for at least thirty years.
Now THAT is old. Eric by "old" I meant that my stuff is about six years young, in the digital age they are dinosaurs and open to comments like " shucks are those still around?" and " you know there are cameras with two million percent better DR and ISO capabillities etc waffle waffle.."
The cameras are appliances to me, wish I could contribute in the other thread about character but I have no knowledge or experience with cameras that could instill the sense of pride that I see everyone writes about. I could write lots about a 1947 Series 2A Willys Jeep, '76 Landcruisers but nothing about a recent model Toyota Corolla.
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Now THAT is old. Eric by "old" I meant that my stuff is about six years young, in the digital age they are dinosaurs and open to comments like " shucks are those still around?" and " you know there are cameras with two million percent better DR and ISO capabillities etc waffle waffle.."
The cameras are appliances to me, wish I could contribute in the other thread about character but I have no knowledge or experience with cameras that could instill the sense of pride that I see everyone writes about. I could write lots about a 1947 Series 2A Willys Jeep, '76 Landcruisers but nothing about a recent model Toyota Corolla.
And you survived? Well, obviously you did. Did you fit a total roll-bar?
Rob C
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And you survived? Well, obviously you did. Did you fit a total roll-bar?
Rob C
Roll bar?? What is that? If you wanted "protection," from bugs that is, you would flip up the the flimsy windscreen.
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This really is an office in a New South Wales country town:
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v618/Sheetshooter/VileVile600.jpg) (http://smg.photobucket.com/user/Sheetshooter/media/VileVile600.jpg.html)
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Words fail me!
If ever there was a need for a name-change this must be it.
On the other hand, could it be brilliant, unforgettable marketing?
Rob C
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Word on the street: flavour of the month.
;-)
Rob C
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Espalier fruit trees in a walled garden
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Espalier fruit trees in a walled garden
You do this style well.
Rob C
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Rob - thanks for the comment. Good to know I do something well!
Could you elaborate on what you mean by 'this style' - I think it's of a kind with something I posted in the Trees thread (reposted here for comparison with the espaliers photo), that is a semi-abstract, picking out patterns etc, but I'm aware you might have something else in mind
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Rob - thanks for the comment. Good to know I do something well!
Could you elaborate on what you mean by 'this style' - I think it's of a kind with something I posted in the Trees thread (reposted here for comparison with the espaliers photo), that is a semi-abstract, picking out patterns etc, but I'm aware you might have something else in mind
That's exactly what I did mean, Bill; for me it's what lifts landscape from mere shot of beautiful view. It adds something by taking away. I suppose it's a sort of extreme cropping of the existing environment, a cutting away of the extraneous and concentration on the essence of whatever by making it something other than what it basically is.
I better be careful here: easy in this context to slide dangerously close to that word c********y, and that would never do!
;-)
Rob C
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c********y? You say the nicest/nastiest/most interesting/boring things (delete according to whatever c********y actually means - I've no idea)
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c********y? You say the nicest/nastiest/most interesting/boring things (delete according to whatever c********y actually means - I've no idea)
The dreaded C word (for Rob)? Creativity?
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A couple for Rob,
Note the aspect ratio and guess the rest.
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The dreaded C word (for Rob)? Creativity?
I claim the protection of the 5th Amendment.
(I think.)
Rob C
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PS Rob: It doesn't hold a candle to its bigger siblings.
Cheers,
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A couple for Rob,
Note the aspect ratio and guess the rest.
I love it!
Well done, Walter. I have been roaming the local wilderness this afternoon with my 2x3 format trying the mental trick of ignoring the extra third. I may have had some fortune (good) in that respect, but it awaits a later date for discovery.
Congrats on the baby! And no bathwater this time. Promise?
Rob C
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PS Rob: It doesn't hold a candle to its bigger siblings.
Cheers,
Don't you fucking dare!
;-)
Rob C
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The day started well: I took the milk carton from the fridge and poured myself the right quantity to make the flakes edible, and then thought about filling the orange juice glass in order to wash down the first set of pills of the day.
On reopening the fridge I noted that the orange juice was finished, so I opened another fresh carton and poured a meaure into the glass. I now had milk in the flakes and milk in the glass. I then took another fresh carton, opened that, poured the milk from the glasss into the flakes, swirled it under the tap, and then poured myself some orange juice for the pills.
The fridge now contains two opened cartons of milk and one opened one of orange juice. God help me tomorrow morning. I trust that the jar of marmalade and the one of local honey will not seek to play a rôle in this saga of approaching new youthfulness.
With that in mind, I went out for lunch and a walk. It was bloody freezing again: sunny but windy as hell. On going back home I realised that the only thing to do was take myself back out with a different jacket and the D700 with its new/old 2/35mm appendage. Which I did. I was thinking Hasselblad 500 CM the while, and this is a memento from a moment when I forgot.
Have you noticed how pleasant it is to listen to Van Morrison's Down the Road whilst you work at the computer?
Rob C
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Of course I won't Rob,
But it has been a wonderful opportunity to get things in perspective again. I had been considering ditching a lot of the LF kit - but not now.
Will all your opened containers mean that all the fluids contained therein will form congealed skins in unison?
W
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Last week it was rainy and we even got some snow. I decided to stay inside in a nearby abbey…
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Of course I won't Rob,
But it has been a wonderful opportunity to get things in perspective again. I had been considering ditching a lot of the LF kit - but not now.
Will all your opened containers mean that all the fluids contained therein will form congealed skins in unison?W
Today it all went well in the breakfast kitchen, then I wrote you a lengthy reply to this post and the machine blew it into space. I keep on telling myself that I must not use the LuLa typing space provided, but that I should write in Word and then cut'n'paste, but in the heat of the moment I forget.
What can I say?
Rob C
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http://youtu.be/hDDqDWYAzCQ
Elsewhere on the pages of LuLa a discussion of the relative values of different language, and whether emotion does or does not translate quite as intended. I think it does.
Anyway, another 2/35mm adventure into the land of the 'should carry a tripod in order to focus the damned thing' country. It's one thing shooting at zillionths of a second, but quite another keeping the blood pumping through the veins without moving the rest of the edifice. I mean, the camera stays focussed, but I can't.
Oh well, summer's coming, they say.
Rob C
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A tiny step into the mysteries of social mobility persuaded the faux Swedish lady to set her eyes on this.
Pity the owners of this property: they are blighted by ancient right of way and even the poor giant, black mutt has to live at the end of a short chain. In the years I've known him (he must be Mk3 or Mk4) his life consists of sleeping it all away. A guard dog without the ability to guard.
How terribly sad.
Rob C
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As I forgot to switch on the electric blanket and it's turned damned cold again today, I might as well play about on the typist's chair until the bed becomes hospìtable, and do something to pass the couple of hours. I thought a little warning note on the use of Velvia might not be out of place.
Shot some many years ago, probably on the F4s, with my 3.5/35mm PC Nikkor, on Velvia which, combined with a polariser, was just too much of a good thing... Impossible to rescue in colour, it turned into something strikingly odd in black/white. I quite like it, in spite of its obvious limitations. I originally scanned this to see how the lens would look examined on a monitor rather than via a loupe; I opted to pass, and to buy a 2/35mm straight instead. Perhaps I should have gone for the PC. Maybe not.
Regardless, I still think that scanned, properly exposed colour tranny makes more effective b/white than digital; Kodachrome proved that to my personal satisfaction. Unfortunately, I don't have more than a couple of strips of b/white negs left with which to make further tests to see how that would have turned out.
Apparently the Tour d'Armagnac was a former prison.
Rob C
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Quite wonderful Rob.
Oh, and if your electric blanket takes a couple of hours to get the bed hospitable, perhaps you should try plugging it in.
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Quite wonderful Rob.
Oh, and if your electric blanket takes a couple of hours to get the bed hospitable, perhaps you should try plugging it in.
Thank you, Walter.
I do wish - as too does Keith, apparently - that Nikon would finally make great, dependable wide shifters... it would be lovely to be able to use up the time left me wandering about until either I or the money runs out, visiting interesting places without programme. Of course, I'm joking: if either runs out then there would be no printing opportunity, even if actual paper printing isn't on the cards, but I'd at least like to see what I got up there on the monitor! That wasn't necessarily the case with models - the shoot was the buzz.
I am now convinced more than ever that doing the kind of shot above is pointless unless one can correct for verticals; I'm not much bothered by infinite DOF - never was - accepting the blur as part of the look/nature of the process, even a possible advantage at times, but I must confess a dislike for upwards or downwards convergence of buildings! As much as I didn't enjoy LF cameras, I guess certain plusses rubbed off.
Rob C
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Rob,
I hear you. I can appreciate the work of others who handle convergence and divergence in their stride but I have to confess the utmost difficulty untethering myself from Renaissance perspective. Long live the view camera!!
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Just before I saw the old Beemer I came across this other sight: a once-loved craft and the (presumed) end of a love affair.
In the first shot the boat was up on the hard in the Yacht Club; in the lower shot it lies in a much cheaper slot outwith...
Crisis? What crisis? At least my memory works - in part.
Rob C
http://youtu.be/1wHHkrcr0eI
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Another from the 2/35mm Nikkor AIS.
I know just how those little blighters feel, stuck on a lump of cement.
Rob C
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Awoke to this this morning; decided with minimal internal conflict that I wasn't going to make my own lunch today, so I rang the restaurant to book a table for one, and there was no reply. Either the tourist season is so bad it's not worth opening on Sundays or they have my number on record and don't want to sacrifice a table for one, but anyway, I'm not staying home!
It's been much like this all week; lucky I shot my fake 'blad when I did!
;-)
Rob C
P.S. It was open, and I enjoyed my meal. Pouring, so no walk, but you have to sacrifce something in life.
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Some more Polarized Velvia in France. F4s and 3.5/35mm PC.
aka How to make a dodgy technique yet more dodgy.
Rob C
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Another Velvia in France; this time via 2.8/24mm AIS Nikkor stuck through a tight railing on a little bridge.
On which happy note, I'm off to my bed with a sore gut. Perhaps I should have stayed home for lunch.
Rob C
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Passing thought.
Rob C
I like her...
http://youtu.be/w29BaEk0sC0
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Summer might be back.
Rob C
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Another square one from the protype Hasselfake D700 that I'm wont to cart about on those rare occasions when I forget what a weight all that stuff turns out to be two minutes after I get out of the car.
http://youtu.be/qO18k215gpk
Rob C
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You'd think they'd get a sign-writer who could spell Lifebuoy and Extinguisher, wouldn't you. I mean, REALYY!
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You'd think they'd get a sign-writer who could spell Lifebuoy and Extinguisher, wouldn't you. I mean, REALYY!
It's done on purpose to confuse the tourists: they wait until it's too late and either the boat catches fire, or sinks, or both. On the other hand, I suppose they may just be getting ready in case of a wave of protesters setting themselves alight this summer.
Extinguish them with a blow job in red, I suppose. Reminds me of a movie.
Rob C
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Taken today in well known High Park in Toronto, which is teeming with people because the Cherry trees are in blossom. So too are the Willows, and lovely they are!
JMR
(http://johnroias.smugmug.com/Other/High-Park-Toronto/i-Q85k74R/0/M/May%206-2013%20High%20Park%20123-M.jpg) (http://johnroias.smugmug.com/Other/High-Park-Toronto/26096993_pVXW6d#!i=2496767064&k=Q85k74R&lb=1&s=A)
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Marine finishes; my wood varnishing never turns out like this, regardless of coats... May as well give up ;-(
Rob C
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Rob,
Perfect that technique and apply it to the bedroom ceiling as an alternative to the "mirrors on the ceiling; pink champagne on ice" of that hotel in Californ-i-a.
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Rob,
Perfect that technique and apply it to the bedroom ceiling as an alternative to the "mirrors on the ceiling; pink champagne on ice" of that hotel in Californ-i-a.
Small problem Walter: what would I have to watch? (The tv lives in the sitting room.)
It's my least used room - probably ties with the kitchen in that respect. In fact, the most used one is the office where I spend the hours gazing through the LaCie. With my ears on, sad songs alternating with upbeat boogieish ones in my head, I pass the while away in distant lands while a hospital in Larose, Louisiana offers me early scans 'just in case' as the night wears along. Alternatively, I suppose I could give in to the offers of a wonderful deal from the car vendors... just like Chuck's "c'mon try it you can buy it you can pay me next week" adventures.
The sun has quite some heat in it now; the car is covered in dust and a single, white bird crap. A year ago that would have led to an instant wash for it. The kitchen is an assault course: some of the units have been emptied, washed, and one varnished; the rest are awaiting my second wind after this lot gets done... I never knew I had so much stuff hidden away; I just dumpoed a large plastic bag filled with many other empty plastic bags - I always thought they would come in useful. I hope I don't think of getting up tonight and going for a drink of anything: I'd break my neck in there. It scares me witless imagining the process if I actually get to sell the place. Probably kill me, sort of defeating the point of the exercise. Have you noticed how the space that you have is never enought to hold the shit that you have? And the less you buy, the more the problem seems to increase. There's definitely opportunity for academic research there. No, not in the kitchen, in the oddity of the phenomenon.
Rob C
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Another Hasselfake shot from last Sunday - nobody knew there was a gig until three hours before... worse than photography as a way of life!
Rob C
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Some agricultural thoughts. Okay, just the dissolution of the hand of Man in the landscape.
(Or simply some rotted wood, with salvation in the promise of fresh weeds.)
Rob C
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A struggle for life, I suppose; isn't it always thus, regardless of how much you win?
Rob C
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Life is inherently fatal, Rob... AND it's sexually transmitted! :o
Mike.
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Life is inherently fatal, Rob... AND it's sexually transmitted! :o
Mike.
I realise you say this mostly in jest, but isn't that truth just so sad?
I was stunned to hear about Angelina J on the news today; made me think of my own wife who lost her life to C around 4.5 years ago and I wondered whether Angelina's solution was any solution at all. In the cases of breast cancer that I've known about personally, it may start in a breast but doesn't necessarily cross over to the other but does have the ability to appear in different, unexpected areas. Seems very unpredictable and isn't even confined to a single type of tumour. In my wife's case, the three oncologists she had over the four years of it were unable to tell if it was hereditary or not; the best they could offer was that if it were, then it would probably have manifested itself at a younger age - say during the twenties. So little is known... I sort of find myself thinking that prevention à la Angelina is understandable but perhaps not any answer: you die anyway, of something, and perhaps leading a full life, even if shorter, is preferrable to a longer one less satisfying. You can't run the race twice, so will never know.
How the hell can any man be cruel to a woman?
Rob C
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(http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7318/8734515099_9f606b1c6c_b.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/87368247@N00/8734515099/)
Face on Hawthorne, Burned Out House (http://www.flickr.com/photos/87368247@N00/8734515099/) by tanngrisnir3 (http://www.flickr.com/people/87368247@N00/), on Flickr
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Shot a couple of weeks ago or so, thought summer had arrived (at last!), but today it's dripping down and cold again. Snow today and yesterday in parts of Spain...
It can't last - can it?
Rob C
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Miserable day; gloom, and undercooked slice of breaded pork at lunch which I didn't realise was undercooked on one corner until about 4/5ths the way through. I detest risks with pork and fowl...
Anyway, simply to cheer myself up, I decided to forget the usual walk and go home just in case I felt sick. I didn't (feel sick), so instead, I took apart the camera and glued on the 500mm cat and took it walkies instead.
Together we braved the threat of rain and then bam! it came when I was happily trying to shoot some mad souls skimming across the slate-grey ocean. However, just before I surrendered to the superior force, I snatched this one of El Águila, which in some lights, is appropriately named. Usually, that's early in the afternoon on a summer's day with the sun shining on the left side.
What can you do? You take what you can get. Especially when you live on location.
;-)
Rob C
P.S. Wot! No doughnuts? I hear someone protest.
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Beautiful! Well worth the effort.
Mike.
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Yes I put the leafs on the rock =)
(http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8280/8747387890_31ac3833ac_b.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/lexrasta/8747387890/)
Mt Buller (http://www.flickr.com/photos/lexrasta/8747387890/) by Daniel Dahlmann (http://www.flickr.com/people/lexrasta/), on Flickr
Cheers
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Beautiful! Well worth the effort.
Mike.
Thanks - been a while since I used the Cat; decided that all that money 'invested' (a personal in-joke!) in lenses really had to be justified by competing with the moths.
Problem is, taking these bulky objects out means a bag, a tripod etc. etc. and the fun aspect rapidly diminishes as one goes along the not so merry way. Worse is the bad weather, because that means taking the camera off the 'pod and then popping it back on again instead of just carrying the whole thing as a single piece of thing.
Thanks again -
Rob C
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Here is a scene that wants mowing.
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(http://richowens.smugmug.com/Other/Scottish-Games/i-pKMrsJ2/0/L/DSC_8983-L.jpg)
Soap seller
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Okay, I like 6x6.
Unfortunately, this is 24mmx36mm and not even film...
Film would have given me the tones; this can't. I think I hate it more each day: a trading away of quality for convenience.
;-(
Rob C
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I like your version better than mine on the right cheek, but it makes it overall a bit more gloomy than I wanted it.
She's actually blonde -ish)...
;-)
Rob C
P.S. Where I find digital works least well (in this instance) is on the skin under the mouth: makes me think of porridge instead of skin.
P.P.S. I'd rather folks would ask before using images; though within a general critique section, this thread/one isn't actually so.
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This is likely not what you were looking for, but as you say, it was convenient.
P.S. I will presume approval is consent and that her left check is the right one. [See the fallowing]
No, approval of a change of look is approval of an idea of how something might look; it is NOT approval of copying a work, especially one that carries an effing big COPYRIGHT declaration.
Please remove your infringement of my copyright.
Rob C
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Thank you, Bruce.
Rob C
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got a second look at these 2 oldies
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Warhol was only partly right - here's to the next fifteen minutes.
Doughnuts redux. Garnished with sand.
Rob C
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Rob.
I LOVE THIS IMAGE!
Peter
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Rob,
WOW You deserve a whole 24 hours for this one.
Rich
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Thanks, folks; the series only happened because one of our erstwhile contributors from Germany, Chris Feldhaim, came calling and we went up the mountains to Lluch. I'd never gone to the monastery there before - just driven past it en route elsewhere further away... The place was quite interesting, so I returned later and shot some trees and stuff.
Rob C
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Excellent "stuff," Rob!
Eric M.
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Warhol was only partly right - here's to the next fifteen minutes.
Doughnuts redux. Garnished with sand.
Rob C
bitchin' quite!
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Thanks again, folks, time to make another coffee (from a jar) and face the day.
;-)
Rob C
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Last Sunday I took some pictures of mountains in West Grosina Valley, exactly from the Sperella Valley, above the Casera (Valtelline Valley).
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Nice tree, RobC.
Muntanela: all good, #2 especially.
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A very early D200 shot. For some reason Nikon Capture NX2 doesn't want to let me find any of my old NEFs folders, and I only have access to the one most recently used; very frustrating indeed. Fortunately this was also filed as a Photoshop file and out of the NX2's grip! However, I can't tell which optic was on the camera; I'd guess either the 24mm or 50mm.
Anyway, shot from the terrace one day as we were sitting having a pre-luncheon G&T. Strangely, I actually remember doing the shot. Those were the days.
Rob C
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For those with a little bit of memory for both film (Mickey Rourke) and music (Julie London).
http://youtu.be/jggh5bQAJaY
Rob C
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The newest trend in photography, a rear-view mirror on your camera. I want one :D
(http://pegelli.smugmug.com/Events/Dyxum-Wroclaw-May-2013/i-vW2jXCv/0/O/PEG_A850_09416_20130504-L.jpg) (http://pegelli.smugmug.com/Events/Dyxum-Wroclaw-May-2013/29313147_pRhjjp#!i=2533705154&k=vW2jXCv&lb=1&s=A)
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You are joking, but that is how I often shoot as well... prevents smudges on the screen.
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welcome
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colors
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Peekaboo
(http://pegelli.smugmug.com/Events/Dyxum-Wroclaw-May-2013/i-GJ95jPh/0/O/PEG_A850_09332_20130503-L.jpg) (http://pegelli.smugmug.com/Events/Dyxum-Wroclaw-May-2013/29313147_pRhjjp#!i=2500312175&k=GJ95jPh&lb=1&s=A)
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Artichoke Flower
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Peekaboo
Cute. Well spotted.
Jeremy
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cat approved
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Wroclaw, Poland
City of Churches, Gnomes and Witches
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A very early fight with a D200.
Rob C
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http://youtu.be/7GnsNlYk8I4
Rob C
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I like the witty title, but I simply adore the sculpture.
I have long considered doing POV nudes - just that my little studio is not big enough and the budget does not run to renting or hiring.
Thanks Rob: most inspiring.
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... I have long considered doing POV nudes - just that my little studio is not big enough and the budget does not run to renting or hiring...
You mean you would need a crane to drop your models in?
P.S. Sorry, Walter, my friend, just couldn't resist :)
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Well, Slobodan, I was thinking more of using short focal length lenses to attain similar lines of force as are evident in Rob's bronze, and that requires more interesting shoot-off than just the supports for the seamless. But since you mention it, Saturday's model I shot weighs 135 kilos and a crane might not be so far out of the question.
Cheers mate,
W
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Would have preferred it aganst the sea, but it's hard to move either boat or bike - owning neither!
Rob C
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Hillside, Olema California
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abstracts
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Voodoo.
Who do?
He do.
He do what?
He reminds me of the man.
What man?
The man with the power.
What power?
The power of the voodoo.
Who do?
He do.
Rob C
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A nice one, Rob!
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A nice one, Rob!
+1
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abstracts
Really dig the lower one!
Rob C
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Voodoo.
Who do?
He do.
He do what?
He reminds me of the man.
What man?
The man with the power.
What power?
The power of the voodoo.
Who do?
He do.
Rob C
Love the image!
And loved the movie, too... http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0051745/
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Love the image!
And loved the movie, too... http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0051745/
You see the perils of getting involved with photography? Nothing is ever normal again. Perhaps that's just as well.
;-)
Rob C
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Would have preferred it aganst the sea, but it's hard to move either boat or bike - owning neither!
Rob C
I was thinking; what if you simply asked the owner.
Might end up being the sunbathing topless dame on the front deck. She wouldn't bother getting dressed for moving the bike a few yards, and as she flicks her leg over the seat and moves the bike, you try not to stare in any particular direction so as to make yourself look less like the dirty old fool you are.
"Is this spot okay?", she asks, as she throws you a smile.
"Yes, that's perfect!", you answer.
"Want me to stay on the bike?", she continuous.
"Oh yes, please do stay on the bike!"
and you take a snap, and then move around a bit to take a couple more shots to at least look like you know what you're doing. Yes, you almost feel like a professional again.
At home you quickly upload your images and find 5 pictures of an empty bike parked in front of a boat...
Thanks for sharing anyway.
;-)
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I was thinking; what if you simply asked the owner.
Might end up being the sunbathing topless dame on the front deck. She wouldn't bother getting dressed for moving the bike a few yards, and as she flicks her leg over the seat and moves the bike, you try not to stare in any particular direction so as to make yourself look less like the dirty old fool you are.
"Is this spot okay?", she asks, as she throws you a smile.
"Yes, that's perfect!", you answer.
"Want me to stay on the bike?", she continuous.
"Oh yes, please do stay on the bike!"
and you take a snap, and then move around a bit to take a couple more shots to at least look like you know what you're doing. Yes, you almost feel like a professional again.
At home you quickly upload your images and find 5 pictures of an empty bike parked in front of a boat... Thanks for sharing anyway.
;-)
You thought it couldn't get any worse?
Today I found friggin' peppers!
Rob C
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You thought it couldn't get any worse?
Today I found friggin' peppers!
Rob C
Oh please, I'm still recuperating from the garlic...
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A spot of play in suburbia:
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A Miami facade as a Sydney step... This is surreal. Definitely an art nouveau.
;-)
Rob C
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Very nice!
A Victory for Victor :)
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Thank you chaps,
Despite a Victory for Victor - he may well become Victor the Vanquished with some haste while Nikolaus Karpf's Linhof Lingers and Karl Koch's Sinar Stands Steady.
Cheers,
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Thank you chaps,
Despite a Victory for Victor - he may well become Victor the Vanquished with some haste while Nikolaus Karpf's Linhof Lingers and Karl Koch's Sinar Stands Steady.
Cheers,
Were photography tennis, I'd say: YOU CAN NOT BE SERIOUS!!!!!
Say I misinterpreted what you just wrote - please?
Or, just wrap it all up safely and post it to Mallorca but don't expect a cheque by return!
Rob C
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when a compact superzoom was almost good enough
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when a compact superzoom was almost good enough
I never was into Latin American music very much; have one Astrud Gilberto LP on Verve, and that's enough for this rock 'n' roller's collection. It sounds terribly nice, though...
But your cover shot's more interesting!
;-)
Rob C
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http://youtu.be/VWZkRNEULi4
Rob C
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Such hard work!
Trogging up the Ganges, down the Mississippi, along the Yellow and over the Red. Why do I do this?
Rob C
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A couple from Sunday's walk in Langdale, English Lake District
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A winter Sunday afternoon in the park ....
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And a duckless detail:
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You read my mind... I had just said to myself that I'd like to know what is "nesting"" upper right in the first...then scrolled down and you'd already provided part f the answer...feels almost like stork territory... I would really enjoy seeing your work from time to time...I'd like to know more about how you "see"... so these two are much appreciated.... maybe you'd offer more now and again?
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Why do I do this?
Rob C
...to lure the innocent. (ok, maybe not completely innocent). You know how much I am enjoying your recent "details", but there is something more here which I have been unable to pin down yet... keep it going Rob!
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Why do I do this?
Rob C
...to lure the innocent. (ok, maybe not completely innocent). You know how much I am enjoying your recent "details", but there is something more here which I have been unable to pin down yet... keep it going Rob!
Patricia,
I'm currently reading Keith Richards' semi-autobiographical book Life.
Unfortunately, I'm not a musician, and when he starts to explain chord changes, how one attracts the other and the reasons for five-string tuning, I look for another coffee because the birds are flying way over the top of my head. But, importantly, when he chats about writing songs and playing the music, he says that it seems as if the thing's doing it by itself. With that I can identify completely. It mirrors (oh those damned mirrors again!) my own experience with photography: the picture comes to me, and I am not really convinced that I'm playing much of a rôle other than that of carrying the camera about like bait. I am fully aware that this can sound horridly pretentious, but I honestly do think it's how things work out for some of us. Even in pro life I used to fly on faith, and faith brought me through. I never questioned myself nor the how - I just did it.
Photography is basically so goddam simple an endeavour that it just has to be something else that makes it click or otherwise.
Rob C
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Babyface :D
(http://pegelli.smugmug.com/Other/201306/i-G697dDn/0/O/PEG_Nex6_01306_20130616-L.jpg) (http://pegelli.smugmug.com/Other/201306/30070029_LVsXTd#!i=2584299263&k=G697dDn&lb=1&s=A)
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Nicely done
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Nicely done
+1.
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Now, with some skillful repositioning of the baby face in post... but then you would have to move the image to the "Ethics" thread. ;)
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Now, with some skillful repositioning of the baby face in post... but then you would have to move the image to the "Ethics" thread. ;)
That would be cool: lIke the guy's got another short arm (no offence) with which to pick his nose?
Rob C
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Lake Calosso, last sunday. East Grosina Valley, Valtelline Valley.
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B Ranch, Point Reyes National Seashore
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Your b ranch photo impresses me with its continuity, inclusion, and balance near and far.
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Swimming.
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Swimming.
What you need is a job that pays for a toples model; you already have the graphic ideas.
;-)
Rob C
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What you need is a job that pays for a toples model; you already have the graphic ideas.
;-)
Rob C
I'm working on it Rob. Maybe one day, sigh.
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(http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2879/9241989083_a9599f8d7c_b.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/lexrasta/9241989083/)
Mansfield (http://www.flickr.com/photos/lexrasta/9241989083/) by Daniel Dahlmann (http://www.flickr.com/people/lexrasta/), on Flickr
Mansfield Victoria
Cheers Daniel
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http://www.flickr.com/photos/kencameron1949/9245235056/lightbox/
Anyone else got a rockstar sculpture?
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I see that the seagulls have deposited their opinion of it. ;)
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An Inverted Tree
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(http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7337/9378572396_e9578911c0_b.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/87368247@N00/9378572396/)
Derelict Train Station, Keeler, CA (http://www.flickr.com/photos/87368247@N00/9378572396/) by tanngrisnir3 (http://www.flickr.com/people/87368247@N00/), on Flickr
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57 channels, and nothing's on...
Well done, BTW.
This is what happens when people can't watch the show they want:
(http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2426/3716527523_7c7e80612b_o.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/wolfnowl/3716527523/)
57 Channels and Nothing's On (http://www.flickr.com/photos/wolfnowl/3716527523/) by wolfnowl (http://www.flickr.com/people/wolfnowl/), on Flickr
Mike.
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More death .... and maybe a bit of hope for some
W
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Walter, are these from a 4x5?
Rob C
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'Can'dy Warhol:
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Walter, are these from a 4x5?
Rob C
Yes Rob. Ilford HP4+.
Too funny Slobodan.
W
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My dog vincent
(http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3757/9455023527_739097d176_b.jpg)
(http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2869/9457805522_00a6495189_b.jpg)
Cheers
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A Saturday road-trip to a northern city (Newcastle) on a gloriously sunny winter's day.
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Walter,
I hadn't actually realised how similar Australia and the US appear to be - on the surface, at least! Or is it photographic 'treatment' and vision that make it seem so?
I vaguely recall some seaside pools in Scotland - Ayr or Prestwick, I think - that had that sort of artD-ish look to them: of a style, but not quite there in the architectural execution. I think them all gone, transmuted into carparks.
When I first came to live here in Spain, back in '81, there was a plethora of local books based on the then vanishing local architecture; it struck me that if the girls ended, then perhaps that might prove of interest as substitute. In the event, most of the places remain out of reach in estates or have been converted into rural agrihotels, or otherwise whacked about into something faux. Too late.
Michael Kenna did some interesting work in old lace factories in France (if memory betrays me not), and that, too, is photography of a certain charm - for me, at least. But you really have to be young, and fit. If I roam too far - impossible in the mornings - too much to do (such as type) before I can go out, then I worry about lunch and where to find it.
Days run ever shorter.
Rob C
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A visual pun?
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A visual pun?
;D
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A visual pun?
Cute!
Mike.
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A visual pun?
Excellent. I need a grin first thing in the morning.
Jeremy
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A visual pun?
Object lesson: never rely on autofocus!
;-)
Rob C
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waiting for a treat
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waiting for a treat
I hope that's not your bed!
;-)
Rob C
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Frustrated by yesterday's failure to snap that
attractive fabulous young lady on high moral grounds - my high grounds; she was below me, as explained yesterday - I had the cellpixer to hand and ready for the next dynamic, decisive moment should lightning (dammit Fred, now I'm confused!) strike twice. Alas, not a sign of either damsel or boat, not that I would swear that I'd recognize the boat again.
Anyway, distraught as I was, emotions tearing my soul apart, I wandered further along to a quiet corner to grieve in solitude, when I suddenly felt upon my shoulders the collective hand of all of those New Mexican heroes and heroines pushing, coaxing me into photographic action. What could I do - to resist would have been ungracious, so I made this little exposure in hommage to those who have gone before.
If there's a moral here, I guess it's that you shouldn't put your faith in shadows.
;-(
Rob C
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Brilliant, Rob, simply brilliant! Writing and pic, both. One of LuLa gems!
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Brilliant, Rob, simply brilliant! Writing and pic, both. One of LuLa gems!
Thanks, Slobodan; just when I'd sworn never to bother using a cellphone camera again.
Rob C
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I hope that's not your bed!
;-)
Rob C
the white top is a table and the dog is under it
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On the forest floor. The mind boggled a little, as it was a remote and uncomfortable spot.
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On the forest floor. The mind boggled a little, as it was a remote and uncomfortable spot.
Ken, you should treat your ladies to a little comfort. Then it would be their minds doing the boggling. Don't you have a car, at least?
;-)
Rob C
P.S. You can tell I part-watched American Graffiti again last night, can't you? That music... wish I'd met Mel of the diner. Or better yet, the blonde in the T'bird.
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Ken, you should treat your ladies to a little comfort.
Rob, please. I would have put the packet in my pocket rather than dumping it on the forest floor. And in fact there were several, so placing the whole scenario even further into fantasy land.
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Rob, please. I would have put the packet in my pocket rather than dumping it on the forest floor. And in fact there were several, so placing the whole scenario even further into fantasy land.
How times change; where the free spirits that sowed wild oats?
I told you all the 60s were a magical time. But no, you are mostly all in deepest denial...
;-(
Rob C
P.S. I understand that Richard Branson's Virgin conglomerate also makes these interesting accessories; how surreal.
http://youtu.be/mArIdQjaaU8
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This is a more comfortable place for these activities, a graffito over the door says : "Una bella scopata con Marina 12.09.2004". (A good f... with Marina). I saw it during the editing, like David Hemmings in "Blow up"... (si parvissima licet... I know, I know, it doesn't licet)
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Ma dove mai? No vedo niente di lei, la bella Marina...
At least, in all the good Fellinis and Antonionis they were mainly molto belle. I tried the Blow Up technique, but still not a sign of the errant griffito - maybe it's on the outside, under a bush beside a fence? Or in London, and you got a little confused? Marina might have that power - unless the guy lied, she had something blew his mind...
;-)
Ciao -
Rob C
P.S. She certainly blew mine: I really wanted to ask you what had happened to the seat of the rig outside. Perhaps she took it with her?
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... tried the Blow Up technique, but still not a sign of the errant griffito...
Don't you worry, Rob, here it is:
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A portrait of a mate of mine. A few beers in, at a music festival in west Wales. BTW, he isn't a country & western fan or anything. It's just a hat.
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Don't you worry, Rob, here it is:
You could interpret that? I can hardly read a word, even with the glasses on.
Actually, the entire photographic empire is grinding to a halt. For months I have had to go to the PS computer and connect it to the 'phone line in order to access the Weebly connection and read/edit my website because the other, Internet-intended machine that I use (this one) will no longer let me access my site to work on it. However, as of yesterday, though I can get access (on the PS machine), it freezes the moment I start to attempt any work. I've had a notice come up telling me about a problem with a graphic card, but as the damned thing is frozen, all I can do is pull the plug, not even switch off safely.
My natural hatred for electronic machines is surging. It's almost enough for me to call it a day altogether and leave that world. Trouble is, there are no alternatives left... cooking doesn't seem an attractive replacement, though I suppose I could do more housework instead... or tell the medics to go screw and rediscover gin & tonic!
Rob C
P.S. Turns out worse than I'd imagined: the freeze I mentioned happened as I was working on the Cellpix page - I see that I have now lost much of it on the website. You see what I mean?
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Don't you worry, Rob, here it is:
;)
I have to tell the truth: I did not notice the graffito, even during the editing. I was interested in other graffiti on the right, much more naive and Heidi style: "Cecini Valentina aiutante pastorella", "Doriana Cecini pastorella". It was my sister who noticed the dionysiac grapphito over the door...
Here a photo (this is a tone mapping of several shots, the first photo was a manual blending of two exposures) and a crop of the Heidi grapphiti.
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You could interpret that? I can hardly read a word, even with the glasses on.
P.S. She certainly blew mine: I really wanted to ask you what had happened to the seat of the rig outside. Perhaps she took it with her?
You can look at this 100% crop.
There wasn't a seat outside but probably here I don't understand your (to me) difficult english (and humour) :)
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You can look at this 100% crop.
There wasn't a seat outside but probably here I don't understand your (to me) difficult english (and humour) :)
I know, I know, but the harness thing (which is probably worn on someone's poor back - they'll pay in their 50s onwards) looks as big as a chair and had there been a base to it, wouldn't have looked out of place in a race-tuned Testarossa with a mesh on the window. I've been out of my own culture too long - nothing really fits me anymore, least of all my own cultural model...
Flying Dutchman Syndrome.
;-(
Ciao -
Rob C
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Elephant
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I know, I know, but the harness thing (which is probably worn on someone's poor back - they'll pay in their 50s onwards) looks as big as a chair and had there been a base to it, wouldn't have looked out of place in a race-tuned Testarossa with a mesh on the window. I've been out of my own culture too long - nothing really fits me anymore, least of all my own cultural model...
Flying Dutchman Syndrome.
;-(
Ciao -
Rob C
With "the harness thing" do you mean the rucksack with the snowshoes? It is my rucksack, it isn't big (37 l) is light (1. 47 kg) and is extremly comfortable (but there are too many long straps)
The snowshoes are also very light
I am 58 years old and...yes my back is in a bad condition, but it is not due to the rucksack (this or other).
Ciao vecchio Rob :)
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Spelling matters.
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With "the harness thing" do you mean the rucksack with the snowshoes? It is my rucksack, it isn't big (37 l) is light (1. 47 kg) and is extremly comfortable (but there are too many long straps)
The snowshoes are also very light
I am 58 years old and...yes my back is in a bad condition, but it is not due to the rucksack (this or other).
Ciao vecchio Rob :)
Some days are worse than others, which, by definition, almost indicates that some might be good! The sight of a grey beard in the mirror, very first thing every morning, makes me feel vecchio beyond my actual years, which are quite daunting at the best of times. The only thing worse would be a white one (beard).
My first experience of bad backs came when I was about twenty: I leaped up into the air and attempted to do one of those silly heel-clicking things that folks did on tv; it didn’t work. Another time, I was using a tall drill that required one to reach upwards to pull down on a lever that brought the drill down to the work. I felt a hell of a pain in the small of my back… on both occasions the doctor’s advice was to sleep on the floor. Some sympathetic doctor!
However, I am also developing the walk of a question mark. I put that down to too many years of carrying camera cases and tripods as well as the habit, derived from the fashion experience, of shooting from rather low levels, which means you are constantly stooped down over a low tripod or bending/squatting when hand-holding the damned machines, neither option being comfortable nor natural.
Photography really can be bad for one.
Ciao –
Rob C
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... The sight of a grey beard in the mirror, very first thing every morning, makes me feel ...
Thats why I shave in the dark.
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Thats why I shave in the dark.
Gottit! That's why you changed the image of yourself.
I bought a replacement electric razor a couple of years ago - still have to use them on parts of the artwork - and despite having asked the dealer if it worked off mains too, turned out that it depended totally on the rechargeable battery, required about nine hours of wall-time, and died with a whimper after approximately twenty minutes of use (added total time between pops - I never take twenty minutes a time. Makes you wonder about totally electrical cars, doesn't it?).
But still, your technique has a certain, undeniable Van Goghian (Van Goghsian?) charm.
;-)
Rob C
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Passing fancy.
Rob C
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Passing fancy.
Rob C
That's a treat!
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Critter, don't know which one
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Critter, don't know which one
Looks a bit elephant seal to me.
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That's a treat!
Thanks - no treats this morning.
I sprang out of bed at 7am - well, not exactly 'sprang' but anyway, eat the flakes and darted off (exaggerating again) to the garage where the car was due a service. As there were no other customers present there, no wonder at 8am, I hung around and chatted to the mechanic as he worked. When he lifted the hood, he said oh, rats! I said no, snails, because I'd found half-a-dozen of them some weeks ago diistributed over the battery, fried. No, he said, rats; look at the muddy footprints. He was right! The little buggers have also chewed a couple of cables which I have subsequently bound up with black electrical tape. I hope they don't enjoy that. Anyway, he suggested I buy some sachets of rat poison and put them under the hood...
All in a day's entertainment - and who said I know nothing about farm life? You can't avoid it.
;-)
Rob C
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Critter, don't know which one
Man, that is a genuine Hasselfake!
Rob C
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Amazing; just posted another b/white and see that it has gone blurred! I suppose it means that I can't delay the new computer much longer...
Must investigate.
Rob C
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Thanks - no treats this morning.
I sprang out of bed at 7am - well, not exactly 'sprang' but anyway, eat the flakes and darted off (exaggerating again) to the garage where the car was due a service. As there were no other customers present there, no wonder at 8am, I hung around and chatted to the mechanic as he worked. When he lifted the hood, he said oh, rats! I said no, snails, because I'd found half-a-dozen of them some weeks ago dirtibuted over the battery, fried. No, he said, rats; look at the muddy footprints. He was right! The little buggers have also chewed a couple of cables which I have subsequently bound up with black electrical tape. I hope they don't enjoy that. Anyway, he suggested I buy some sachets of rat poison and put them under the hood...
All in a day's entertainment - and who said I know nothing about farm life? You can't avoid it.
;-)
Rob C
I've never heard that rats are chewing on cables. We have a lot of trouble with martens and you can only get rid of them by a wire mesh under your motor compartment.
Harald
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I've never heard that rats are chewing on cables. We have a lot of trouble with martens and you can only get rid of them by a wire mesh under your motor compartment.
Harald
No, these are fully paid-up rats: I eventually found the characteristic droppings.
It's a question of which is worse: the rats or the birds. The birds poop straight acid - probably powerful enough to put into your battery. What they do to the car's paint isn't pretty, but there's nothing to be done. We also have pigeons, and can't do anything about then either. They go up on the roof and drop their droppings down the side of the building and into the various gutters, where they clog the outlets and cause flooding. We can't poison them because that's too dangerous to other wildlife; can't have them shot because it's illegal to use even an airgun in a built-up area. So the damned birds win without a battle. And then we have to pay every spring to have a couple of men go up there and clean everything up, and that doesn't take into consideration the damage that the build-up of water does to the ceiling of the staircase; I can't count the number of times that the plaster has collapsed and we've had to get the painters back in...
I did buy some fireworks once and go up into the penthouse from where I could throw lit bangers onto the roof, but in the end it was I who was the more discomfited from both the noise and the risk; not a Guy Fawkes figure at the best of times.
Though we have a hill covered in pines about a hundred yards away, and an abandoned farm on the other side of the hedge that's turning into a pine forest (the farm, not the hedge), I haven't seen any martens, nor do I know if they live on Mallorca. I did once see something at the foot of the hedge that looked like a very large and hairy brownish cat one evening, but it ran away so quickly I didn't have time to recover from the shock and take note of what the hell it really was. I hate the very idea of rabies.
Rob C
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It's infectious. From the Hasselfake to the new now - witness the XPanfake.
It'll never catch on.
;-)
Rob C
http://youtu.be/Hs_63UhrpBo
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With love to David Hamilton, who inspired a generation or two.
I shall never forget Dreams of Young Girls which I pushed the local library to get for me because I couldn't afford it myself - anymore than I could Haskins' Cowboy Kate which I did manage to buy years later when it was reprinted... Why is youth so often wasted on the impecunious?
Now, if the Haskin heirs would only find a publisher for the best of them all: Five Girls.
Rob C
http://youtu.be/tHthljTEkRw
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With love to David Hamilton, who inspired a generation or two.
Rob C
David inspired many in the painting world also. Myself included. Thank you david.
Peter
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With love to David Hamilton, who inspired a generation or two.
I shall never forget Dreams of Young Girls which I pushed the local library to get for me because I couldn't afford it myself - anymore than I could Haskins' Cowboy Kate which I did manage to buy years later when it was reprinted... Why is youth so often wasted on the impecunious?
Now, if the Haskin heirs would only find a publisher for the best of them all: Five Girls.
Rob C
http://youtu.be/tHthljTEkRw
Your local library really had purchased a Hamilton? I just imagine how the staff of our library would react on that request in the 70's.
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Your local library really had purchased a Hamilton? I just imagine how the staff of our library would react on that request in the 70's.
I don't think so; as far as I know, all the libraries were connected and sent stuff around the country to meet special requests.
I think we (Britain) were far more open-minded in the 60s/70s than we are, generally, today, not because of any basic changes in people, but huge ones in political correctness that is, in my view, one of worst things to have befallen womankind next to the feminist movement, that caused so many to lose much of the power that they already had - pretty much from the cradle.
Not all women fell for it, and those that did not managed to survive and prosper perfectly well, and certainly not any worse than they would have in any case.
Where I think much needs to be done is in the fight against male violence towards women. But then, isn't that an example of cowardice more than anything else? Perhaps the Italians have it about right: hurt my child and I hurt you. Whoever the eff you are. Maybe that attitude moderates life somewhat? I'm all for it. Especially now with two granddaughters.
Ciao,
Rob C
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I don't think so; as far as I know, all the libraries were connected and sent stuff around the country to meet special requests.
I think we (Britain) were far more open-minded in the 60s/70s than we are, generally, today, not because of any basic changes in people, but huge ones in political correctness that is, in my view, one of worst things to have befallen womankind next to the feminist movement, that caused so many to lose much of the power that they already had - pretty much from the cradle.
Not all women fell for it, and those that did not managed to survive and prosper perfectly well, and certainly not any worse than they would have in any case.
Where I think much needs to be done is in the fight against male violence towards women. But then, isn't that an example of cowardice more than anything else? Perhaps the Italians have it about right: hurt my child and I hurt you. Whoever the eff you are. Maybe that attitude moderates life somewhat? I'm all for it. Especially now with two granddaughters.
Ciao,
Rob C
I'm convinced that our exaggerated political correctness has already established a very particular dictatorship long ago. Regarding "hurt my child and I hurt you": This is not a matter of nationality. Did you spy on me when I had a serious talk to my sons in law when they asked me for my consent to marry my daughters?
Harald
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That made me laugh; when my girlfriend and I decided we might as well go all formal and ask her parents for their blessings, their reactions were really funny: rather than look concerned or even falsely surprised, her father remarked that after six years of dating, it was about time!
Mostly, we all got on very well and they did a lot to help us both all their lives.
Fond memories of another Golden Age. Time's such a mother.
Rob C
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No idea if this post is in any way connected with my previous one, but the mood follows me here.
The shot's a favourite of my tenor sax-playing Cuban friend Nico's; I'm not sure why. I hope for something exotic therein that I can't see.
Rob C
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Just returned from Tuolumne Meadows last Sunday, coming down the 395, and the smoke from the Rim Fire was thick and EVERYWHERE on the east side. I think it's the reason the mountains in the background, more specifically Lone Pine Peak, has such odd color. I made no color adjustments, and my wife's shots, from a Canon 6D, had the exact same effect.
(http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7315/9732067884_150abd5d2a_b.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/87368247@N00/9732067884/)
Lone Pine Peak, Lubken Road (http://www.flickr.com/photos/87368247@N00/9732067884/) by tanngrisnir3 (http://www.flickr.com/people/87368247@N00/), on Flickr
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I've never heard that rats are chewing on cables.
Harald
They sharpen their front teeth that way. Rats can kill a car's wiring in a heartbeat.
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from this evening
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Also from last evening. I'm not into moon photography but this is probably the biggest one that I photographed, must have been closer to Earth than usual.
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Somewhat closer to Earth, but there you go.
;-)
Rob C
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Rob, your image hits a sweet spot for me and invites me to post some "abstract" images in turn.
JMR
(http://johnroias.smugmug.com/Oakville/i-4TmNm4s/0/M/Sept%208-2013%20Oakville-RBG%20227%20copysmug-M.jpg) (http://johnroias.smugmug.com/Oakville/i-4TmNm4s/A)
(http://johnroias.smugmug.com/Oakville/i-q2MGJdm/0/M/Sept%208-2013%20Oakville-RBG%20228%20copysmug-M.jpg) (http://johnroias.smugmug.com/Oakville/i-q2MGJdm/A)
(http://johnroias.smugmug.com/Oakville/i-JhcZMKw/0/M/Aug%2025-%202013%20Oakville%20Park%20409%20smugcopy-M.jpg) (http://johnroias.smugmug.com/Oakville/i-JhcZMKw/A)
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Network
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This camera mount is for vertical panos.
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Something my mother found in an old shop many years ago.
Dipstick Diptych without doors?
Rob C
P.S. Ooops! Posted the wrong version! Now fixed.
Wrong. Right version now, but as happened before with a shot of a girl over in the MF section, the thing has gone soft in the wrong places in translation to LuLa. The print/copy is no longer crisp. I despair.
Checked the file again, and it is crisp, with the induced grain on the right image very clearly defined, as is all the lettering on the 'sharp' image and the caption. I have to enlarge these thumbnails by clicking on them, and then waiting for them to open in a separate window - maybe that's the bumpy part of the LuLa track?
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Somewhat closer to Earth, but there you go.
;-)
Rob C
Lovely Rob..
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Lovely Rob..
Thank you, Riaan, it's nice playing around with oldish images when there are few new ones being made...
I seem to be cursed with a problem posting pictures here: though the files are crisp where and when I want them to be, they degrade quite badly when I have to open the thumbnails here. This didn't happen a while ago, but now, I see that even the captions reproduce soft... it makes it sort of pointless posting anything. Maybe it's being done to me on purpose - a 'soft' hint!
;-)
Rob C
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... I see that even the captions reproduce soft... it makes it sort of pointless posting anything. Maybe it's being done to me on purpose - a 'soft' hint!
Or, perhaps not so subtle hint it's time for another ophthalmologist visit? ;)
Another hint: I see what you posted clear and sharp.
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Rob,
Might be a browser issue. Did yours update recently ?
Try downloading the image file and opening directly. You can also look at the image handling in the browser settings. Or try a different browser.
Frank
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Or, perhaps not so subtle hint it's time for another ophthalmologist visit? ;)
Another hint: I see what you posted clear and sharp.
I see them clearly too. Maybe time for a new monitor or PC as well as the ophthalmologist visit?
Any of those will give you an opportunity to start spending some of that vast wealth you have no doubt put aside as a professional photographer --- (sigh!)
I love your snaps, Rob, both old and new.
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Thanks for the concern about eyes - I'm currently waiting for three hospital appointments: one for the eyes and two cardio-related; they were all due this month, and usually the hospital rings me up offering dates. This year, nothing. I went to the hospìtal in person a couple of months ago to see what was going down and they looked me up, told me I was on the list, that they'd ring. Zilch. I went back this week and it was a repeat. Trouble is, the heart things require a blood test, which also requires an appointment and then maybe ten days for results... one needs the space between appointments.
I think that the reality is that Spain's economic meltdown is hitting everything so hard they can't pay staff. Irony is, we used to have private insurance, but the last time my wife had to go to hospital (emergency) she was so pleased with the State offering, which we used that time because it was closer to us than the private places, that we cancelled. The fact that it was taking €3600 p.a. out of our pensions did affect our thinking too! Anyway, that was five years ago, and the State has been super until now, and the private sector would never accept me again should I want to rejoin; Ann's many cancer ops must have cost them a bomb, never mind my two heart adventures...
I’m relieved that you all see the images as sharp where they should be sharp, and that means the captions too, where I notice softness most strongly. As I wrote, I see the files as perfectly crisp on my monitor from both the PS computer where they are made, and also on the Internet computer from whence they travel to LuLa. They get to the Internet computer via their resting place on an external hard drive. So, both computers show them as they should look on the shared LaCie.
Actually, part of the glaucoma treatment – well, all of it really – consists of a drop in each eye each morning to cut pressure.
I required reading glasses from the age of 44, but since starting the drops I no longer require reading glasses for books or monitor, but in exchange, my distance sight is now mucked up somewhat. So apart from pressure, the drops must affect the muscular control too. Just what every snapper needs!
During the past visits to the hospital they have always told me that there is absolutely nothing else amiss with either eye. I was also told not to bother with buying distance glasses as there was only a +1½ fault in one eye. That ain’t what I think I experience!
;-)
Rob C
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What i have been told by my eye doc (who is also reluctant to give me driving glasses) is that once you start that with the distance vision, the eyes start getting worse and worse. So maybe they are thinking the same -hold until you flunk the driving test.
Frank
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What i have been told by my eye doc (who is also reluctant to give me driving glasses) is that once you start that with the distance vision, the eyes start getting worse and worse. So maybe they are thinking the same -hold until you flunk the driving test.
Frank
I felt the same reluctance about wearing reading specs too; much of the time I did without, and that caused my eyes to feel locked at the reading range, and they'd take a while to get back to function at normal distances. It used to happen if I was waiting for my wife to do her shopping as I sat in the car, outside the shop, and reading a newspaper.
I thought that varifocals might do the trick, but my daghter uses them, and I suspect her sight has become worse since she started with them. However, she thinks they are great...
On the whole, I think your doc is correct: focus is by muscles, and if you don't let them work for themselves, they will eventually atrophy, just like my arm and chest ones.
What a business is growing old!
Rob C
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An exercise in Sphericity:
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Vey unusual image.
How did you power the tube without frying the model?
Rob C
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I would say a neon tube was involved. Just a guess.
Peter
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How did you power the tube without frying the model?
Rob C
They are fully enclosed fluoros, totally safe to handle. I was put onto them some years ago by our old automotive friend James C.
W
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They are fully enclosed fluoros, totally safe to handle. I was put onto them some years ago by our old automotive friend James C.
W
Interesting; are they products just confined to photographic uses, or can they be bought in normal electrical outlets? I'm not wanting to buy, just curious to know if they represent yet another 21st Century fox that's slipped under my cranky radar. I believe that were I to wander into one of those Apple stores by mistake, I would find myself surrounded by objects whose purposes would leave me absolutely in the dark. Perversely, I find some comfort in that!
Rob C
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It looks like a Light Sabre to me, so I think you need to buy one at a Star Wars shop. :D
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are they products just confined to photographic uses, or can they be bought in normal electrical outlets? Rob C
Rob,
They are not in general lighting shops but they are from a supplier specialising in window displays and interior design. They are entirely self-contained with only a lead to be plugged in. The ballast and stuff is all in the cap at one end,
Here is another from a while ago which also incorporates a domestic long-life bulb.
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Rob,
They are not in general lighting shops but they are from a supplier specialising in window displays and interior design. They are entirely self-contained with only a lead to be plugged in. The ballast and stuff is all in the cap at one end,
Here is another from a while ago which also incorporates a domestic long-life bulb.
Well!
I'm glad I inadvertently coaxed that one out of you!
Beautiful shapes and tones.
Rob C
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A less exciting shape
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I went to Algonquin Park, but it was rather sunny so I decided to experiment a bit. These two, among others, is what I came up with.
JMR
(http://johnroias.smugmug.com/Algonquin-Park/i-TWN4R5P/1/M/Sept%2024-2013%20Ottawa-Algonquin%20trip%20270%20smugcopy-M.jpg) (http://johnroias.smugmug.com/Algonquin-Park/i-TWN4R5P/A)
(http://johnroias.smugmug.com/Algonquin-Park/i-wfcS5LF/0/M/Sept%2024-2013%20Ottawa-Algonquin%20trip%20269%20smugcopy-M.jpg) (http://johnroias.smugmug.com/Algonquin-Park/i-wfcS5LF/A)
(http://johnroias.smugmug.com/Algonquin-Park/i-27pMTjM/0/M/Sept%2024-2013%20Ottawa-Algonquin%20trip%20082%20smugcopy-M.jpg) (http://johnroias.smugmug.com/Algonquin-Park/i-27pMTjM/A)
(http://johnroias.smugmug.com/Algonquin-Park/i-7jSVtX2/0/M/Sept%2024-2013%20Ottawa-Algonquin%20trip%20615%20smugcopy-M.jpg) (http://johnroias.smugmug.com/Algonquin-Park/i-7jSVtX2/A)
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I went to Algonquin Park, but it was rather sunny so I decided to experiment a bit. These two, among others, is what I came up with.
JMR
Interesting, but the watermarks are really annoying and distract from the pictures.
Harald
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Interesting, but the watermarks are really annoying and distract from the pictures.
Harald
True, but I have enough trouble, so they will not go away any time soon. I am adding one more. Thanks for the comments.
JMR
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Good tree trunks in the third.
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Good tree trunks in the third.
If you like tree trunks, you should like my 4th addition. Many thanks for the comments.
JMR (John R)
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A building
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An abandoned old pump house
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Posed plants.
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several years ago
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An abandoned old pump house
Lovely Bill.
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Lake Como and the apse of S. Maria del Tiglio (St. Mary of the Linden Tree), Gravedona, but there were only plane trees...
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I love the fence Armand — very much a man after my own heart.
Muntanela that is a wonderfully sensitive rendition of a lovely motif.
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Why don't people still build houses with turrets?
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Just started playing with my new Holga Pinhole lens. Mark Dubovoy should try one of these - very simple.
Graeme
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Why don't people still build houses with turrets?
When they build today, if they build anything at all, it's for money, not defensive purposes: the bandits now live in penthouses in the city.
Here's todays little adventure with the Coke.
;-)
Rob C
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Another cracker for the suite.
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Nice one, Rob.
Good to see you back.
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Another cracker for the suite.
Hi Walter,
I did the colour vision test that was posted somewhere here recently and had a fairly dim score; I think it's convinced me to concentrate on b/white!
On the other hand, I see from other posts that there's the possibility that the calibrated monitor may be the problem, and there's no need to mention the glaucoma, either! As long as the driving licence medical test doesn't get blown, isn't affected, that's cool enough for me today!
Rob C
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Nice one, Rob.
Good to see you back.
Thank you, Eric.
I've sort of accidently stumbled onto doing a series with a Coke bottle; no Fatty A. complex (nor opportunity, come to think of it) that I know about, just the result of another shot that happened by chance one morning in the sitting room.
I had been looking at a website the evening before and liked some delicate model pix by a French snapper who'd been contra-jouring away somewhere, and the backlighting and curtains in my room just sparked the memory; having no model I opted for a substitute and liked what I found. Must be a Debbie Harry memory there, too.
I show the first little shoot.
http://youtu.be/Jxpe1oSp_sg
Rob C
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Autumn impression from my cellphone. Unedited.
(http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3733/10498412434_d3c58ef197_s.jpg) (http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3733/10498412434_d3c58ef197_c.jpg)
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Coke seems to be good for you, Rob! Nice images!
Eric
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Rob, that middle coke photograph...the way you caught the light - wow, beautiful.
Sharon
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Rob, that middle coke photograph...the way you caught the light - wow, beautiful.
Sharon
Thank you, Sharon; the b/whites were shot with an old 2/35 manual Nikkor and the close-up with an also manual 2.8/105 Micro Nikkor.
It all shows me that a lot of subject matter can be found right beneath our nose, just as long as we don't confuse professional work with fun work, though I was quite lucky much of the time in being able to combine the two. Frankly, it was the subject matter - locations and girls - that led to my hunting out the clients that I did, first in fashion and then with calendars: needed the one (clients) to fund the other (and feed the family, of course)!
Rob C
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If you can't take a good photograph within 100 m from your flat ypu can't take good photographs at all ...
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Coke seems to be good for you, Rob! Nice images!
Eric
Just one word, superb!
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Just one word, superb!
Merci! It's nice when Lady Luck smiles!
;-)
Rob C
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Merci! It's nice when Lady Luck smiles!
;-)
Rob C
Yes it is, but that has nothing to do with how you turn out those beautiful images--of a Coke bottle for God's sake. I thought so when saw the first and then that triptych--lovely!
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Yes it is, but that has nothing to do with how you turn out those beautiful images--of a Coke bottle for God's sake. I thought so when saw the first and then that triptych--lovely!
Suddenly, (Last Summer?) my bandana got too tight.
Thanks!
Rob C
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I felt like messing around today ....
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Taken through a Coke bottle bottom, in co-operation with Rob?
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Taken through a Coke bottle bottom, in co-operation with Rob?
Not exactly, but the underlying Panaorama was taken when i was on Mallorca.
I was meeting Rob these days.
But he didn't have a Coke on his D700, just an ordinary lens.
I'm curious what he will have on his D700 when I see him after Christmas ...
:D
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If you put Coke on your camera, doesn't the acid eat away at the coatings? ???
A Nin Jiom cough syrup bottle - playing with the light...
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If you put Coke on your camera, doesn't the acid eat away at the coatings? ???
A Nin Jiom cough syrup bottle - playing with the light...
Beware! Pix reveal your habits!
Except they can be wrong conclusions: I don't drink Coke, and the bottle came from a local bar, the waitress saying she wanted it back. I said sure, but didn't supply a 'when'.
Oy vey, already; pressure on artists!
Rob C
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Don't think I flew this one past you here -
From a drive through France with my wife. I do remember clearly that I'd parked as far up on the grass at the side of the country lane as I could; it didn't stop an irate madame from honking at me! God knows where she came from - I'd thought the area empty.
Scanned from, I think, Velvia 50 through a Nikon F4s with, again a memory guess - the old 105 Nikkor I used to have before I went mad and sold everything. Which I've slowly found myself having to buy all over again. Yep, that male menopause does exist; it'll catch you too. Take my advice: sell nothing!
Rob C
P.S. I seem to be getting into soft uploading again - maybe it's my computer. This shot really looks soft, and it's not.
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Okay, but an irate Madam makes me wonder what was going on up there, especially if she thought you weren't likely to be a customer. ;D
Doesn't look soft on my screen.
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Okay, but an irate Madam makes me wonder what was going on up there, especially if she thought you weren't likely to be a customer. ;D
Doesn't look soft on my screen.
But I explained: I was travelling with my wife! No need for furtive.
The parking was for the village shot. The (M)madame was in another car, which was how she was able to honk - not a foie gras moment.
I'm glad it's okay on your screen - I managed to coax a half-hour out of the computer and maybe that's what worried me about the file I used to post. The time cometh.
Thanks for checking it out for me.
Rob C
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The shot occupies only about 10% of my 27" screen, thus can not really tell if it is soft or not. However, viewed on my non-Retina iPad (thus taking up most of the screen), it is clearly soft.
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Heavily compressed ?
Frank
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I have no idea about 'compression' beyond knowing that the image leaves here as a jpeg at, usually, the '7' setting for a quality level that might discourage copies.
I can't figure why it looks good on my monitor (at quality '7') when I see it via the computer on which it's created and then, on the same monitor but via another web-linked computer sitting beside the first computer, it looks soft when in LuLa.
Is there a way in which my sending of the image could be affecting the appearance in LuLa? In other words, could a fault in the sending computer cause such things, even if it allows incoming images to look perfect?
My monitor is a LaCie 319, if that helps.
Rob C
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Rob,
When i magnify the image on my ipad, i see halos around all of high contrast edges which indicates either compression or resizing artifacts, or over sharpening. Is the original scaled for 72 ppi and then compressed to jpeg or is it straight from the scan at scan resolution and then resampled to the final size ? Possibly the image is being compressed twice ? Or perhaps from too low of a resolution ? You are seeing the original jpeg before upload and the lula download ?
That is a fine monitor and should not make a difference if you are viewing at 100% for the comparison.
Frank
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Hi Frank,
What I do is this – more or less as I remember it.
I take the original file from the scan and then, if doing b/white, don’t mess with it at all before converting it into b/white. Once in b/w I use Pshop to alter the thing until it looks right to me.
At that stage, I make a Copy As file and then change that down from 4000ppi to 72 and fix the width to 600 pixels (the height maxing at 500 pixels if it’s from a crop), to keep the look of the website. I add the white background space and also the outer black line.
Once that’s done, I sharpen, usually (for Internet) as below:
Quantity: 30 – 75 %
Radius: 0.5 pixels
Umbral: 0
(My PS6 is now back working in Spanish after a brief foray giving me English…! Surprisingly, I’ve actually become more familiar with it in Spanish now.)
All of this work is done with the machine set at sRGBIEC1966-2.1 (Thanks, Keith for your time on 16/03/2009! It’s printed and up on the wall still.)
The final step is to print on the captions. After that, I make another Save As copy and convert it to jpeg. That's the first time we get a jpeg into the system.
Once that’s done, I put the jpeg file onto an external drive from which it goes to the Internet computer and out to the brave world out there.
The thing is, the jpeg file on the external drive still looks good on the monitor when viewed from either computer.
I vacuumed the openings in both machines before I made lunch. I opened the PS one and it looked perfectly clean inside but the various fan apertures were dirty as hell! However, the Internet one wouldn’t open easily and I decided not to force anything.
Rob C
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Let's see how this one fares - not a scan, but from the D700.
From the ongoing Coke thing.
Rob C
P.S.
Nope, no different, and the copy looks particularly blurry to me, even with my specs on!
Okay, it's shot with a 2.8/24mm manual Nikkor wide open (or at least, it was meant to be!) in a gale, but even so..
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I think I've comsumed enough Coke air by now to think of a new G-R-Q Plan; a simple one - always best - and this is it: I shall change my initials to N.G.M., Nan Goldin Mallorca!
Quite brilliant, I thought; what took me so long?
;-)
Rob C
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Oh, that's real spooky... your reflection reveals (devil?) horns! ;D
P.S. Congrats on self-promoting marketing, that's rather novel.
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I think I've comsumed enough Coke air by now to think of a new G-R-Q Plan; a simple one - always best - and this is it: I shall change my initials to N.G.M., Nam Goldin Mallorca!
Quite brilliant, I thought; what took me so long?
;-)
Rob C
Rob,
this is simply brilliant. Starting with a tiled studio is a very good idea...
Harald
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Rob,
this is simply brilliant. Starting with a tiled studio is a very good idea...
Harald
Especially with built-in water supplies. Then, to top even that, the tiles help the singing models sound like they are cutting a '55 R'n'R number! You could ask for more?
Rob C
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Oh, that's real spooky... your reflection reveals (devil?) horns! ;D
P.S. Congrats on self-promoting marketing, that's rather novel.
Yes, I saw the horny(today?) symbolism and thought I'd fly with it a while... but no Faustian pacts, believe me!
The logo cost me another denim shirt: this one was the trial, which they did well; the second one was a disaster because the two colours - dark blue letters/red stars - had to go down in two runs and they blew the locations both times! As it was a really old shirt, I refused their offer of a refund; they were young guys and gals starting out. I blew many things as a kid, too. What the hell - I use it at home and helps remind me whom I might still be. I know, it gets complicated at times.
;-)
Rob C
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Lunch
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I posted this earlier today in the tech area dealing with Nikon's new body; as I suppose folks don't always pop over there, I hope nobody minds the duplication here.
Another in the Coke series - clearly; I enjoyed working it to the sound of Dylan's Blonde on Blonde. It fitted, somehow, but regretfully I can't add Everybody must get stoned because it's © blocked on You Tube. I wonder if anyone is buying that LP or disc today - maybe unblocking it might increase interest in the back catalogue?
Rob C
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I was bored last night, and picking through some (relatively) ancient LX5 RW2 files, and decided to try and really go over the top with the processing. This isn't HDR, but I did use a filter sequence in Color Efex Pro that was pretty extreme. Haven't used it in a few years, but I'm almost always happy with what that little 10.1MP sensor could do.
(http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7416/10709256204_ae8308a757_b.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/87368247@N00/10709256204/)
The Slider Monkeys Found the Meth (http://www.flickr.com/photos/87368247@N00/10709256204/) by tanngrisnir3 (http://www.flickr.com/people/87368247@N00/), on Flickr
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... The Slider Monkeys Found the Meth ...
ROFL
I like it!
My attempts in this direction:
http://www.luminous-landscape.com/forum/index.php?topic=83749.0
Cheers
~Chris
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... Another in the Coke series - clearly; ...
Rob C
Obviously you cling to curves. Must be your destiny.
Harald
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Obviously you cling to curves. Must be your destiny.
Harald
Not to mention my preference for the upper areas of the subject...
Rob C
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Lunch
Whose lunch do you talking about? Does she serving or stealing the lunch?
;-) Harald
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Not to mention my preference for the upper areas of the subject...
Rob C
Will come back to that when I've cleaned my keyboard...
Harald
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Hi Keith,
I've just checked: both computers are set at 1280 x 1024, which is the max. they'll go.
The Internet one also adds the information that it's at 75 Hz and 32-bit, the other one, the PS one, won't tell me its details beyond the 1280 x 1024 part and 32-bit.
I think they love me as I love them!
Thanks for your suggestions,
Rob C
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Two little gems (943, 944)
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Two little gems (943, 944)
Thank you, kind sir!
It's funny with photography: nothing much happens for a while and then it comes to you in a burst of maybe ten minutes. Okay, I know the optic from way back, and that lets you know pretty much what you'll get, but the problem becomes one of what's the next trick with it going to be? Difficult to avoid being swamped by a characteristic and staying fresh at the same time. Well, c'est la vie; it's fun, and that's value enough.
;-)
Rob C
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And the zoom feature - bottom right of screen in Internet Explorer - is showing 100% on both machines?
Rob, the reason I ask is because I'm siiting on the sofa with a laptop on my lap set to 125% and all images look soft!
Keith, the reason I avoided a reply to that is because I can't find the zoomer! The only time I see one show is when I look at E-mail attachments! I'd hopd to find it and not appear a total putz, but I can't find it at all.
The closest I get by right-clicking is into a window that shows me to be at the recommended ppp setting of 96ppp and not the alternative option of 120ppp that enlarges the image.
?
Rob C
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Keith, the reason I avoided a reply to that is because I can't find the zoomer! The only time I see one show is when I look at E-mail attachments! I'd hopd to find it and not appear a total putz, but I can't find it at all.
The closest I get by right-clicking is into a window that shows me to be at the recommended ppp setting of 96ppp and not the alternative option of 120ppp that enlarges the image.
?
Rob C
Ctrl-0 [Ctrl Zilch - not "O"] gets you to 100% in most browsers.
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Keith, I can only do it on the other computer, the PS one.
There, it's simply:
1. Click on subject
2. Click Print Screen button
3. Open PS
4. File>New>OK>Edit>Paste>Crop
5. File>Save
6. Convert to JPEGS for E-mails.
That's on Windows XP and I use it for grabbing images etc.
This Internet computer is Vista and I have no PS in it! I haven't a clue how to do it on Vista.
Blush!
;-)
Rob C
P.S. Found it; was looking in the wrong area - it's up in the toolbar under 'Ver' which is 'to see' and you get it on a menu that comes down. Yep, it's set at 100%. I tried Chris' way and nothing moved, making me think I was already at 100%. The other computer is also setb form 100%.
Thanks again.
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Gió Ponti designed this house in Caracas during the 50's. (El Cerrito).
Now is a World Heritage kept by descendants from the original owners.
There is a very low maintenance budget, as you can see is a bit deteriorated.
The image is not retouched.
(https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/10120389/_DSC8994.jpg)
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Gió Ponti designed this house in Caracas during the 50's. (El Cerrito).
Now is a World Heritage kept by descendants from the original owners.
There is a very low maintenance budget, as you can see is a bit deteriorated.
The image is not retouched.
(https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/10120389/_DSC8994.jpg)
After we moved to Mallorca, I'd the dream of some day building a house to my own design. It was to consist of two principal areas: the ground floor for living, and an open space up top (without interior walls, I mean), that was going to be a studio, with a very high roof.
It never happened. It became far too expensive to do anything like that; inflation just kept on getting further and further ahead of me.
I do envy folks with the ability to indulge that final dream.
;-(
Rob C
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Rob, this house provably has some of those elements you dreamt about. Tomorrow i'll post some of the few interiors I had the chance to take.
ACH
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Rob, this house provably has some of those elements you dreamt about. Tomorrow i'll post some of the few interiors I had the chance to take.
ACH
You enjoy making me suffer for my poverty?
;-)
Rob C
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I awoke to further confirmation that the next best thing to hope for is the local freakery known as the January Calms, when the sun reappears for a few teasing days, lulling one into that wonderfully false sense of security where one believes, despite experience, that the worst is passed.
Rain or not, nothing holds this intrepid Nikonisto back: I pulled out the Gitzo -yes, the big mother - set him up in the bedroom, opened the french windows and stuck the poor old bottle onto the tiny table-for-two (lots of wee bijou motifs around chez moi) that lives, all forlorn and abandoned at the other end of the terrace. Funny, I couldn’t imagine what I’d forgotten; of course! the camera. That caused another delay whilst I stuck on the 500 reflex again, opened the menu, eventually found the part where the plot revolves around non-CPU objectives, scrolled over the little list of them, and logged in the right one. Whew! (Digital is so fast!!)
Then time for innovation: I decided to see if the D700 did early morning Live View. It does. The FM that I did read, told me how. So behold: my very first exposure (and probably the last) with this function. If you have ever tried to mix MU, an electronic cable release and delayed action, all the while with the camera's dial set at LV, then you probably won’t choose to attempt to do it again. For several minutes I thought I’d effed the camera: it clicked away totally blacked out. After switching it all off, then turning it on again – steady – the image in the viewfinder had come back!
Yes, that new Nikon was a lost opportunity indeed…
Rob C
P.S. Trust me: the original is crisp; the glass, I meant.
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Rob, I like your coke still lives. This one really shines. I like the freshness of style.
As promised hera are the interiors. All 3 are layered exposures as they did not allow for lighting and cable around. Hope you guys enjoy. Backwards to the 50's !
(https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/10120389/SelecGP3%20copy.jpg)
(https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/10120389/Select4GP%20copy.jpg)
(https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/10120389/Select2GP%20copy.jpg)
ACH
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Toni,
Nice pictures and a strange construction. What is that area used for? I don't pick up on any furniture for sitting on - what do people do there? The light and reflections must have driven you mad!
My own idea had been for this wide open space with a small room carved into it to hold a darkroom - you can tell I was thinking these thoughts a long time ago - and the rest, left open, was to have had a white cove at one end allowing for infinity concepts. Of course, it would have been a waste of time, even if I'd had the money: the whole point of being here was really to make use of the locations for beach pix. However, it's always difficult to heave off the memories of things one used to do, and always the expectation that they might have to be done again.
Rob C
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Tried this with the little Slik sitting on top of a thick(ish) carpet; sort of self-defeating in a way.
Similar, shot with 2.8/180mm Nikkor worked well in black/white; here's another in colour instead, but with, I think, the 500 Reflex (I used both this evening, but can't remember which this is, for sure, but I do think it was the 500. No doubt going back to Capture would tell me, but what the hell.
Rob C
http://youtu.be/2EdgsWU56XA
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I like it a lot Rob,
But the bokeh does not look like that of the 500 Cat.
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I like it a lot Rob,
But the bokeh does not look like that of the 500 Cat.
Hi Walter,
Thanks for the comment; I checked the details in Nikon's NX2 and these are:
8/500mm @ f8 (obviously!) and 1/10th of a sec. exposure on ISO 200.
My usual guide to Photoreflexology (!) is the circular highlights in OOF areas; but sometimes, as in the previous shot in the rain on the white metal table, these don't happen and we get an elongation effect instead, following the broad shape of the highlit leaves.
In this latest case, nothing particuarly distinguishing re. highlights at all, unfortunately - not enough spatial separation.
Ciao -
Rob C
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Toni,
Nice pictures and a strange construction. What is that area used for? I don't pick up on any furniture for sitting on - what do people do there? The light and reflections must have driven you mad!
My own idea had been for this wide open space with a small room carved into it to hold a darkroom - you can tell I was thinking these thoughts a long time ago - and the rest, left open, was to have had a white cove at one end allowing for infinity concepts. Of course, it would have been a waste of time, even if I'd had the money: the whole point of being here was really to make use of the locations for beach pix. However, it's always difficult to heave off the memories of things one used to do, and always the expectation that they might have to be done again.
Rob C
Rob,
The original furniture is scattered around the house. The space is now been used for small concerts as the house has an amazing sound acoustics. There's a lot to say about this place, even weired staff. In the studio, the wooden panels walls are reversible, they turn around help by an electrical motor and chains, from a classical studio to hunting trophies room. bah!!! Maybe it was fashionable those times.
Looking at your still lives I guess you like ManRay's. Not to be offensive in anyway.
ACH
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Rob,
The original furniture is scattered around the house. The space is now been used for small concerts as the house has an amazing sound acoustics. There's a lot to say about this place, even weired staff. In the studio, the wooden panels walls are reversible, they turn around help by an electrical motor and chains, from a classical studio to hunting trophies room. bah!!! Maybe it was fashionable those times.
Looking at your still lives I guess you like ManRay's. Not to be offensive in anyway.
ACH
Toni, certainly no offence taken!
To be honest with you, I have not really had a history of any great interest in still life photography. I was briefly a member of a camera club (the factory had a darkroom when I did not) and never forgot the reaction when I put in an image for one of those ‘shows’ they apparently held every now and again. It was of a Chianti bottle with traditional straw base, a mandolin and some other Italian-themed stuff I found lying about the house. (I wasn’t married – I was young, obviously, or camera clubs wouldn’t have held any attractions even with darkrooms.) I still think it was a good shot, but that’s possibly the remains of distant ego; anyway, I was told that the thing was “far too commercial” for a show. I took it as a compliment. It wasn’t meant to be. As I wrote, I was young. I constructed myself a loft darkroom very quickly after that.
The period of the 60s and 70s was a magical one in Britain for advertising imagery; there were very clever whisky and cigarette posters all over the place – you could take a White Horse anywhere, I discovered, with some star photographers actually leaving a Hasselblad A12 back in-shot! Courvoisier did some beautiful artist’s studio imagery stuff with Adrian Flowers, I think it was. Tobacco, in the shape of little cigars, did much for the pin-up model industry. Even the delights of the sweet tooth, wrapped in glossy cellophane, took one to tropical islands with yet more girls and sunlight and palms. Let’s not even think about the travel opportunities provided by shampoo! Bergasol sun cream: twin bums, one tanned and the other not so well. No wonder people sat at home of an evening watching commercials or, perchance, spent long hours tucked up cosily at the movies with their chick under their arm and even more (and better) advertising pulchritude up on the silver screen, just in case they felt the need to come up for air now and again. Or to enjoy an ice cream. Those usherettes were certainly worth looking at, I seem to remember.
The delights of airport concourses were made even more irresistible by those fabulous, shiny, large-format photography still life adverts for fascinatingly named drinks nobody actually seemed to buy oop north. Well, yes, they did buy some of the normal stuff available in Britain, but much of the exotica was destined for export only, the expensive images designed to influence travellers in the Duty-Free. I think there were more sub-brands of export whisky than nationally distributed stuff. Just like cigarettes, in that respect.
Which has little to do with Coke bottles, especially empty ones. Why do I shoot this one so often? Because it’s all I can think of at the moment; it’s available whenever I feel the urge; gives me a link (direction?) between shots, and it’s free. Can’t say that about any girl right now.
;-)
Rob C
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Rob,
As I understand it you were first drawn to the sensuous curves of a Chianti bottle and later moved on to more flexible, sensuous curves, so the Coke bottle has perhaps the nicest curves you can find around the house now.
If I had to choose between your earlier, professional photos and the newer, Coke series, I would likely choose the "pro" shots. But the Coke series is still quite stunning, and I look forward to more of them.
Eric
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Hi guys,
Thanks for the kind words of encouragement - it all helps to give an added reason for doing some of the things that we do...
Yes, Keith, travel indeed. I do think that I've always needed a purpose to travel: it was seldom enough to do the 'holiday' thing, possibly because all of my early travel was to do with domestic relocation because of family employment reasons etc. and not something about leisure. That experience spread into my own, adult life and I did most of my globetrotting with a professional cameras in hand, taking me wherever I was destined to go. And yes, I think I do mean destined - much/most of what happened in my life was probably in spite of my best efforts to eff it up, which I was sometimes able to do quite effectively - unfortunately...
As you might remember, The Canal du Midi thing has been playing on in my mind over the last few years, and I have met a couple of guys here who have taken boats through the thing, and the consensus seems to be that it's a lovely experience, but that one really needs younger bodies to do the pretty regular battle with locks etc, climbing steel ladders and generally being pretty nimble of foot. Moi?
I’ve considered doing it by car, instead, tracing the route along the waterway as much as is possible, but another chap I sometimes lunch with did that, and felt that it was a very poor and limited imitation of what he’d managed by boat.
The ideal is the holiday barge; it was something well illustrated (the experience) in the memorable Rick Stein cookalong series on his float from the Atlantic to the Mediterranean. Looking up decent Canal du Midi cruises on the Internet reveals that it’s millionaire territory – yet once again! Why are all the desirable things so reserved? Never mind, it’s all part of life’s juices and keeps us thinking thoughts of lottery wins and that kind of thing; I do have faith: the figures reveal that somebody always wins, even if they really are getting my share, poor devils. There is always next time!
What I have found in life is that doing things on the cheap is not for me, especially as I get older. Bumming along, concerned with survival, deprives one of time to enjoy the very thing one is trying to experience – you need mental and spiritual freedom to achieve that state of joy. At least, I seem to require it. That’s the difference between a well-financed commercial trip somewhere and doing it off the sweat of your own credit card. It’s also why I can’t bring myself to hire models for personal photography: money creates a barrier, a pressure that I find almost impossible to overcome. It was so pronounced with trips: when both the girls and I were being paid to shoot, we both felt free and motivated; when it was my money as in stock, I felt cramped and worried about wasting it and/or getting the best out of the investment, not conducive to great stuff at all. Doesn’t happen with a bottle!
Eric – if I get rich, I’ll do you a personal shot including both model and bottle; I promise to keep the bottle crisp.
;-)
Rob C
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Today I broke out all the juices and exposed the sensor to a variety of situations. The first one was with breakfast, and happened when I switched off the news in disgust. The next one was a planned shot, scheduled to be made in the restaurant during lunch, but a guy sat down right in front of me and blocked the shot I was going to take later, along with my cafe solo, so I got zilch from that. I then wandered the usual wander along the boatyard and was going to make some pix of my friendly bottle facing the bay, but the wind was too strong, so I ended up somewhere quite else, holding the bottle in my hand because I couldn't keep it from blowing over if I let it go.
Also, being unable to focus by hand since both were doing something else, for the first time ever I thought that af would have been a boon. Dangerous precedent.
Now, if I'd shot in the eatery right away, not trying to be smart about it and getting the perfect frame later when more OOF people had filled out the background, I'd have a shot...
I include one of the shots I did get - obviously not by the sea, but you probably deduced that.
This one was on the 50mm.
;-)
Rob C
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Well done, Rob! The best so far.
Mike.
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Thank you, Mike; now for a hand-held hand-held from yesterday's gale experiences.
Really enjoy my new-old 2/35mm; it's predecessor was an f2.8 version that was very crisp, but in those days I wasn't much able to use very (relatively speaking) shallow DOF - had to get my victims sharp - mainly all over: gotta see the stitches, man.
Rob C
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Rob, I love your various interpretations of the curvy bottle! Keep them coming…
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Rob, I love your various interpretations of the curvy bottle! Keep them coming…
Thanks, Francois; several stored up - always get more than one from each attempt, but should really think about organizing them for the website. Problem is, I'm either walking, eating, sleeping (badly) or worrying about things that may never happen, and so the site gets neglected. It used to be much easier when I played with the cellphone. No idea why - they took as long to produce, but getting them posted was somehow more simple. Maybe because I did sleep better and so had more energy. But my Rolling Stones facial-arts lines are getting more pronounced, so can't all be bad.
I like this girl's accent a lot. I also like the tune - a real sucker for broken-hearts stuff. Always was, even when life was all sunshine and roses. As I said above, I always did worry too much. Okay, like a broken watch, comes the time I'm right.
;-)
Rob C
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Af5TefYro8U
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Why do I shoot this one so often? Because it’s all I can think of at the moment; it’s available whenever I feel the urge; gives me a link (direction?) between shots, and it’s free. Can’t say that about any girl right now.
Rob, certainly a growing exercise, mostly because is always the same object which lead you to be clever and creative.
Myself I'm in the middle of a dilema with some still live serie that I'm trying to put together. Maybe you guys could give me some sort of light to show me the way.
The dilema starts because I have notice that to the few people that I have sowed it, the response is plain blankness. No emotions.
I like to know your honest opinions on this. My ego is not on this set of images I can tell you, so you won't heart my feelings. >:(
I'll show you a couple.
(https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/10120389/conchas/2013-03-20-07.09.06%20ZS%20PMax.jpg)
(https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/10120389/conchas/010813%28C%2C-9%2C-7%29.jpg)
Thanks
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Antonio,
I hope I'm allowed to say on this thread that I like them both a lot. They are very moody and visceral and really appeal to my emotions.
Eric
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Thank you Eric, of course you are allow to an opinion. I like that word "visceral". Provably is really me in there.
ACH
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Antonio, that is simply beautiful photography! Moody and filled with symbolism and allegory.
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Toni,
"The dilema starts because I have notice that to the few people that I have sowed it, the response is plain blankness. No emotions."
That's their problem, not yours. I have argued repeatedly that human photography and still life are 'creative' where I find landscape not to be. I don't wish now to offend anyone any more than I did on postulating this belief the first time; it's only how it affects me, so please don't anyone feel obliged to tell me how mistaken I am - you could be absolutely right, and I just can't see it.
That Coke thing isn't actually any more demanding of me than anything else; it just illustrates my reactions to an object when I place it in a given set. And there's the thing: I have always, genuinely, felt my landscapes to fail because I can only envisage landscape as set for something else. And an empty Coke bottle comes free!
I like your still life work and you have a good grasp of what your tools can do for you. Still life offers a huge scope for lighting skills to shine; all of my stuff is available light of one sort or another, even if a table lamp! I have no studios anymore - I just do what I can where I find it. That is the single capability that the D700 has given me that I never enjoyed before: I hardly ever find myself without enough light to shoot. That's worth a lot!
Regarding Eric's comment about passing an opinion - you may have missed his meaning, but he's right; this box is for everything except opinion in the sense of 'critique' of another photographer's work... You can like it or you can hate it and say so, but you mustn't tell him how to alter it for what you might think is the better! The other boxes invite that!
;-)
Rob C
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Thanks Slobodan, thank you Rob, sometimes I miss on the language barrier. I'm spanish.
Rob your are very right about still live imagery, is very personal and creative and should be spontaneous. A good tripod and a good eye.
Thanks for the likes.
ACH
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I wondered if I had the same problem with landscapes as Rob did and, if so, what to do about it.
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Shave. Shave the edges, I mean.
Rob C
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Something interesting I read: if your work appeals to everyone, then it moves no one. James Victore
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Today's postprandial jaunt was cut in half; I persevered until my feet froze, at which point I considered it a case of diminishing returns. So I took a couple of cellpix insted.
When I got home, I discovered that the die from the cheap, black, leather shoes (tourist market bargains) had run through my white socks and into the skin of my feet. I ended up sitting on the edge of the bath, feet in soapy water. This, though it felt strangely - and unusually - sexy, did nothing to remove the stains (top quality cheap die) so I massaged a handful of bleach onto each foot. That worked, and I now have shiny feet unlike at any previous juncture that I care to recall.
Ah, these sweet, careless days of youth!
;-)
Rob C
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Rob - this one is for you - I think you know the place. :)
Should be good for some postprandial activities too ...
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Your shot's a classic, but I can't figure out the location.
Most mountains here form part of longer chains...
Rob C
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Your shot's a classic, but I can't figure out the location.
Most mountains here form part of longer chains...
Rob C
Its west of the main road, somewhere north of Can Picafort on the way to Port de Pollenca.
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Its west of the main road, somewhere north of Can Picafort on the way to Port de Pollenca.
I must look more carefully next time I do the ride; it was great when my wife took the rare impulse to drive: I got to see places and things that were never visible long enough – or at all - when I was driving. I have often thought about buying a cycle, with or without engine, just to be able to stop off in the countryside to shoot some of the things a car can't let you near. You did the Tramuntana road with me when you were here – you can’t leave a car anywhere up there. For miles and miles of beautiful countryside, it’s just impossible unless you find a mirador that’s got a space left to park.
But that’s not just Mallorca: when I lived in Scotland I did a locations test-drive along the coast of Argyll, past the ‘ancestral’ home at Inveraray (shot a calendar at Auchindrain nearby) and it was much the same: no parking anywhere. So, zero fashion shots there, unfortunately. Another truly beautiful area is the southern shore of Loch Tay, and there it’s the same: passing places and that’s your lot. In the 50s/60s, because it was pretty remote and few folks drove up there, we used to find rare stopping places and park, climb the fence and go down to the water and have lunch out of one of those delightful little suitcases especially designed for the purpose. The one we had belonged to my in-laws… sweet memories. Years later, when everyone and his dog had wheels, we’d wait for really wet and rainy days and go then; the Trossachs in particular (the Duke’s Pass above Aberfoyle), were spectacular in the gloom. I loved the rain in those days… steamed-up windows, wife and two young kids, Patsy Cline on the cassette player, fantastic sandwiches and hot tea from a flask! Innocence and genuine, unsophisticated pleasures; what you lose as life teaches you other ways.
I hate the rain now.
Rob C
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Shot on Kodachrome for stock - F or F2.
Near Alaró in Mallorca, beneath the foothills of the Tramuntana range...
Rob C
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... Innocence and genuine, unsophisticated pleasures...
Watching "Dexter" TV series now. There is one scene where two main characters discuss what would be their dream life. Turns out, both of them longing not to become "rich and famous," but for normal life. Even if boring, even if mundane. Though enjoying simple pleasures has never been boring to me.
How I understand you, Rob!
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Watching "Dexter" TV series now. There is one scene where two main characters discuss what would be their dream life. Turns out, both of them longing not to become "rich and famous," but for normal life. Even if boring, even if mundane. Though enjoying simple pleasures has never been boring to me.
How I understand you, Rob!
Yes, I guess so.
I didn't understand it in my relationships with older family; I used to wonder why the hell they didn't learn to get over it, and get a life. How shallow that thought, and how empty of experience despite imagining one was sooo very smooth and filled with worldly knowledge, wisdom and understanding.
Far from needing to 'get a life', the problem was acually having lost one. So yeah, glaucoma comes to us in many forms.
Rob C
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Ummm... thumbs up? ;)
Mike.
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Ummm... thumbs up? ;)
Mike.
Only if you manage to keep them out of your eye in the excitement of the moment!
;-)
Rob C
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Rob - this one is for you - I think you know the place. :)
Should be good for some postprandial activities too ...
Christoph, beautiful Image. Very peaceful.
ACH
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Christoph, beautiful Image. Very peaceful.
ACH
Hey thanks!
:)
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Two shots of the walk of last Sunday to Pian del Lago (do you remember Marina and her hut Rob?), West Grosina Valley, Valtelline Valley.
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Two shots of the walk of last Sunday to Pian del Lago (do you remember Marina and her hut Rob?), West Grosina Valley, Valtelline Valley.
Yes, I do, and I would rather have met her - blind date, even? - than just read graffiti about her. But hey, you can't have everything!
I particularly like the top shot: beautiful balance of shapes and colour. I always love simplicity.
Rob C
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The second one is a classic amateur cliché, but a walk in the mountains is also a classic amateur cliché, perhaps only a Marina waiting in the hut of Pian del lago could make it an authentic experience... :'(
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The second one is a classic amateur cliché, but a walk in the mountains is also a classic amateur cliché, perhaps only a Marina waiting in the hut of Pian del lago could make it an authentic experience... :'(
We can dream!
;-)
Rob C
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It's been pissing down most of the past three or four days, so I haven't gone out other than to eat.
So out of guilt and panic, I compromised the honour of this bottle yet once again this afternoon. God, it's freezing here in Mallorca.
Rob C
P.S. It's reproducing even more blurred than ever now. What a drag.
I really don't understand this. I have just opened the very same file here, outwith Lula and on the same computer used to send the image to LuLa, and it's as crisp as you'd want on the bottle and the lettering of the titles.
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It's been pissing down most of the past three or four days, so I haven't gone out other than to eat.
So out of guilt and panic, I compromised the honour of this bottle yet once again this afternoon. God, it's freezing here in Mallorca.
Rob C
P.S. It's reproducing even more blurred than ever now. What a drag.
I really don't understand this. I have just opened the very same file here, outwith Lula and on the same computer used to send the image to LuLa, and it's as crisp as you'd want on the bottle and the lettering of the titles.
WOW! Bondage photographs on LuLa ... Going the Newton road now?
Rob - what I want now from you is:
- The Ansel Coke
- The Weston Coke
- The Sieff Coke
- The HCB Coke
- The Lagerfeld Coke
- The Salgado Coke
- The Burtynsky Coke
- The Daguerre Coke
- The Gursky Coke
... The Photographers (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photographers) Coke ..
And a final "Rob Special" Super Duper LuLa Coke !
Cheers
~Chris
;)
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WOW! Bondage photographs on LuLa ... Going the Newton road now?
Rob - what I want now from you is:
- The Ansel Coke
- The Weston Coke
- The Sieff Coke
- The HCB Coke
- The Lagerfeld Coke
- The Salgado Coke
- The Burtynsky Coke
- The Daguerre Coke
- The Gursky Coke
... The Photographers (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photographers) Coke ..
And a final "Rob Special" Super Duper LuLa Coke !
Cheers
~Chris
;)
Patience Chris, it's raining.
Never thought about a Newton input; I do have his Taschen mini Sumo; well, ten grand's a lot of money for a trestle table and a big piece of firewood-to-be. But though he didn't seem to have discovered the naughty delights of Coke (the cola) he certainly had a way with medical instruments.
Anyway, what bondage? It's a reference to the Customs & Excise man.
I'm currently trying to find a lady who has a large-brimmed black hat and an equally black veil; with the right hat she and I might go far.
Rob C
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West 5th St.
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Anyway, what bondage? It's a reference to the Customs & Excise man.
The bottle is in subdued and in bondage with his/her mistress looking from behind. :P
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The bottle is in subdued and in bondage with his/her mistress looking from behind. :P
Basically, what you are saying is that you can't really trust a bottle, and that sometimes a bottle is more than a bottle.
That rings bells.
No wonder Helmut left them alone.
Rob C
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Unlike Helmut, on the other hand, I can't leave it alone. But at least I can say that I never pick it.
I spent a few minutes sending a cellpic of our wind-killed mimosa to my daughter this afternoon, and that made me so depressed that I instantly shot another Coke.
Am I suffering delusions, or did Coke not really produce bottles with the name writ large much higher up than the base, where a tiny one hides at the moment? Are these tiny ones just for foreign, non US, manufacture? I'm positive I remember a more stylish version.
Let's hope this one's crisp.
Rob C
P.S. 'fraid it isn't, but it is, if you see what I'm saying.
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Rob - if you go on like this the Coke Company will discover you and give you a lot of money and ask for an exhibition.
I start increasingly liking your Coke project.
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My first Tintype
(http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5532/11047225956_0f15dc475a_c.jpg)
Cheers Daniel
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Melbourne CBD
(http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3692/10974088234_79530ab9e0_c.jpg)
Cheers Daniel
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Rob, re our discussion about hosting images and possible blur problems, if you like you could email me the above coke image. If it arrives in my inbox sharp I could upload it to my own site and then post it here to see if the problem goes away.
Thanks, Keith, have done that now.
Other than the image itself, I see a big difference in the © symbol, which should be quite clean on my file here too, but isn't. I fondly imagine that the lettering will be sharp even if the picture is crap!
Rob C
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Melbourne CBD
(http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3692/10974088234_79530ab9e0_c.jpg)
Cheers Daniel
Re. my own problems, your buildings look perfectly crisp to me! Can't be my computer, I guess.
Rob C
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Re. my own problems, your buildings look perfectly crisp to me! Can't be my computer, I guess.
Rob C
Its a fuji 14mm 2.8 at f5.6 (if I remember right)
Cheers
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Keith,
I've just managed to screen my website image of this B/W Coke alongside the image in LuLa; they are not even the same size: my website one appears smaller! Maybe that's why it looks as if the copy/title is more sharp on my site.
I despair of this technology!
Rob C
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Rob - we can work on the sharpness problem when I'm in Mallorca between X-Mas and New year.
I'm quite a nerd at solving all sorts of technical or computer problems of unknown origin.
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funny.
I knew it was a coke bottle from the very start!
Of the two above, I prefer #2 for its creamy goodness.
I guess I never noticed any crummyness in the uploads Rob makes.
My favorite scenes I make are often fuzzy.
Fuzzy-good word.
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Keith, thank you a million for resolving my sanity problem; I had started to think that it stretched beyond my glaucoma (which now feels sort of semi-stable - as in semi-virgin) and into my head.
I remember you mentioning this 'hosting' thing before, but I hadn't really undertsood what it implied. Doh!, as they write in some quarters.
I'll reread the e-mail on the topic and try again.
Thank you so much, not least for helping me regain face!
Rob C
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Rob - we can work on the sharpness problem when I'm in Mallorca between X-Mas and New year.
I'm quite a nerd at solving all sorts of technical or computer problems of unknown origin.
Hi Chris,
Thanks for the offer - maybe you can come up with some other sharpening advice too; I usually just do it by looking at the monitor, but perhaps there's a deeper science! I am happy with the way my prints look, but that's something else.
;-)
Rob C
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funny.
I knew it was a coke bottle from the very start!
Of the two above, I prefer #2 for its creamy goodness.
I guess I never noticed any crummyness in the uploads Rob makes.
My favorite scenes I make are often fuzzy.
Fuzzy-good word.
What first shook me about it at first, Rocco, was the fuzzyness of the captions; I know my PS6 is pretty old, but I thought that it wouldn't matter, and in effect, it didn't - there was a further factor I hadn't understood.
Hey, I feel too old a dog for these new tricks!
Woof!
Here are some more old pooches:
http://youtu.be/dm6qw_yeo6o
Rob C
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Rob, the other weird thing is when I first looked at post #433 it was so blurred that it looked like a crude scan. There was even fall off in sharpness from left to right. Now when I revisit that image it looks vastly improved.
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I think it's something to do with the EEC and Spain's economic troubles, probably why I'm already two months late (and waiting) for my regular hospìtal appointments.
Somebody in Madrid is stealing electricity from the national grid and selling it abroad... obviously, so that my computer won't get enough. It's a plot to send us expats home.
;-)
Rob C
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Chris! What are you waiting for?
Rob C
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Rob, the other weird thing is when I first looked at post #433 it was so blurred that it looked like a crude scan. There was even fall off in sharpness from left to right. Now when I revisit that image it looks vastly improved.
?
Airwaves?
;-)
Rob C
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I just had one thought:
Maybe the images are sharp.
But if they are stored to load progressivley and you have a bad connection,
you see only the initial part of the jpeg which has bad quality and you don't
wait long enough to see the whole true resolution.
So Rob, what you could try is, to check if the images are stored to load progressively and change that.
If that is that case and you store them to load at once and you are on a bad line you will see the
image constructing itself line by line instead of a blurred image getting sharper slowly.
And especially on Mallorca many people have terribly slow lines.
Cheers
~Chris
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I just had one thought:
Maybe the images are sharp.
But if they are stored to load progressivley and you have a bad connection,
you see only the initial part of the jpeg which has bad quality and you don't
wait long enough to see the whole true resolution.
So Rob, what you could try is, to check if the images are stored to load progressively and change that.
If that is that case and you store them to load at once and you are on a bad line you will see the
image constructing itself line by line instead of a blurred image getting sharper slowly.
And especially on Mallorca many people have terribly slow lines.
Cheers
~Chris
You have a PM
Rob C
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....Hey, I feel too old a dog for these new tricks!
Woof!
Here are some more old pooches:
http://youtu.be/dm6qw_yeo6o
Rob C
OK it's been a pretty long time since I smiled like that while listening to a song,
great choice, great band...
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OK it's been a pretty long time since I smiled like that while listening to a song,
great choice, great band...
Yeah, this is the best version of this other number that I've found.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YuGECUNZDIE
Rob C
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Two days ago on an old fashioned German Weihnachtsmarkt. A lot of Glühwein, later on changed to Feuerzangenbowle. Accompanied by some Matjesbrötchen. Yesterday I've found this precious picture on my memory card:-)
Harald
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Two days ago on an old fashioned German Weihnachtsmarkt. A lot of Glühwein, later on changed to Feuerzangenbowle. Accompanied by some Matjesbrötchen. Yesterday I've found this precious picture on my memory card:-)
Harald
You see, now, the value of lubrication?
To balance that, you must also appreciate the penance of enforced abstention.
Sometimes, equilibrium sucks.
Rob C
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You see, now, the value of lubrication?
To balance that, you must also appreciate the penance of enforced abstention.
Sometimes, equilibrium sucks.
Rob C
Oh yes, I do as poverty and humility lead to heaven. But I don't have to accept that a dirty rat or something else creature had must been slept in my mouth.
Harald
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Oh yes, I do as poverty and humility lead to heaven. But I don't have to accept that a dirty rat or something else creature had must been slept in my mouth.
Harald
That's easy Harald, don't eat hamburgers not made at home. Buy the meat, make the mince and hey, way to fry fly!
;-)
Rob C
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My first Tintype
(http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5532/11047225956_0f15dc475a_c.jpg)
Cheers Daniel
Wet or dry?
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Don't much like Sundays... everything here is pretty much dead. Maybe that's what resting does for one.
Anyway, in the wan hope that the photo-gods will choose to smile a little more crisply this time, here's another bottle.
;-)
Rob C
P.S. I guess they are still unhappy.
..image..
LOL - Rob you are cheating me !
Putting all these photographers books behind the bottle - thats not what I requested from you.
:D
Nice one again! - Love it !
Cheers
~Chris
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Hey, Chris, the spirit's still there: spirits of
schnapps snaps!
Rob C
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Thought a quick vacation was in order after all that hard work around Mallorca.
;-)
Rob C
I think I'll attribute the 'softness' this time to tequila. Grrrr...
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Rob, muy buena.
When viewing your images on LuLa you obviously click on the thumbnail to see the enlargement but are you then hovering over the enlargement to see if there's a + symbol that allows further enlargement?
On clicking the thumb I see a fairly soft enlargement but by clicking on the enlargement again I'm seeing a much sharper image.
This sure is my day at school!
Keith, I had never hovered and second-clicked; does anybody else know of this trick? I shall return to the images still remaining here and try it out - worked on this hatted shot!
((The sombrero was a silver wedding memento from one of our neighbours, half of which couple is long gone; he, the late hubby, was a delightful Canadian, a real and very generous gentleman (who used to bring doggy-bags back from various restaurants for our Alsabrador, who would wait for him every day on the edge of the terrace for her treat), and his wife is a Scot.))
;-)
Rob C
P.S. Yes, it works with all the remaining shots too, provided they start as thumbnails.
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Rob, I just assumed that everyone clicked for the full size image.
Well yes, I do too, and the difference in size between the two blowups (one click or two) is minimal - it's just that the second click makes it far crisper for me!
Rob C
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Nice Keith.
I have been trying to think of what to do with a baked enamel bed pan I have here for about 15 years. Motivated by Duchamp in a sense but not wanting to replicate has been the hurdle to jump. I have other still life objets d'art to shoot but just need some wet weather to keep me indoors.
If you google Bedpan Art there are some reasonably moribund examples.
Cheers,
W
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I have been trying to think of what to do with a baked enamel bed pan I have here for about 15 years.
Hang on to it, Walter, we'll all need one someday! ;)
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Rob, as far as I'm aware if you host your own images on your own site and refer them to here rather than download and have them hosted here then they will appear exactly as they appear on your own site, i.e. no thumbnails and no two stage enlargements.
I'll give it a try.
Keith, I did that on post #448 and it still came over with blurred captions...
That's why I reverted to the thumbnail route for the Mexican Coke because your two-clicks advice/method makes them more crisp to the viewer. I also don't want to touch my website again until Weebly tell me what's going on with my lost Home Page! I haven't even dropped the Mexican into it for that reason.
I like your leper colony image - in fact I approve most highly of the fact that the unimportant aspects of background go soft! I usually feel that infinite DOF makes concentration of the mind almost impossible - the actual 'subject' can get lost in the confusion. Unless, of course, the entire scene is the subject, but that can be too global a concept for me!
Did you hand-hold or tripod the Leica? Can you frame exactly at that sort of distance?
Rob C
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Rob, this shot was made with the M9-P before I had the new M(240). I use the Leica M9-P almost exclusively hand-held although for this shot it was tripod mounted as the light was very poor and this was a time exposure of several seconds. The M9-P is a simple rangefinder camera and as such critical framing is not possible at any distance. Critical framing is where the Leica M(240) complete with liveview and EVF excels.
I hardly dare ask: has the Hassy gone into retirement, or have you gently added two smaller millstones to the back of the Greek donkey that's waiting for your next trip?
;-)
Rob C
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Hassy is resigned to the fact that she has seen the last of Hellenic shores.
It would never have happened in the days of Victor!
I think you may be well-pleased, actually; I know that like Walter G, you haven't always loved 135 formats, but when it comes to travel and transportation into relatively difficult countryside, small suddenly becomes beautiful. As you know, I had both formats too, and it was really only at client request that the 6x6 went offshore.
I've never owned Leica because of the r/finder system not suiting my work, and their reflex machines didn't give 100% coverage in the finders either, which was vital using 35mm the way that I did. But, as I've related before, I did have experience of making prints from an M3 toting a 21mm from either Schneider or themselves, not sure, but the prints were something else: they certainly had a 'look' that the studio's Nikon did not. I think you wil be very pleased, in the long run too, and that's ever the test.
Good shooting!
Rob C
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Well Rob abd Keith,
I guess given that Leica has just bought out Sinar, I am kind of a Leica user again, too.
LOL,
W
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From the Department of Funny Billboards:
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Very funny!
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Once or twice, but the steady diet of them we have had hasn't helped my digestion.
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Can't say my digestion was much pleased on Friday, either. Turned up at one of my regular places expecting a ten-Euro lunch, only to realise that the menu was up to fifteen: Spanish Constitution Day. National (and local) holidays always drive restaurant food prices up by 50%.
Not willing to write off the diesel I'd used getting there, I went in and had what was, in fact, a delightful meal, far better than the usual offerings. But, before breaking bread - or anything else - I shot my dining companion sitting on the table. I wasn't sitting on the table of course - she was.
As remarked elsewhere, there are some things that cellphones don't always do all that well. These conditions find them fighting from the mat. But anyway, here it is.
Rob C
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Your paramour is still a classy model, Rob, and well worth the extra five Euros. Keep on treating her well.
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From the Department of Funny Billboards:
Love it !
:D
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Not so sure about this, thought I'd let it sit in Rob's thread.
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Your paramour is still a classy model, Rob, and well worth the extra five Euros. Keep on treating her well.
On her behalf, thank you, Eric.
Personally, I think she's starting to look a bit glassy-eyed and brittle, but maybe that's just because she feels a bit miffed about posing for a cellphone! would you believe! Whatever indignity next!
She did remind me about the folly of trading away my two 500 Series 'blads, saying that only a dealer benefits from a trade, and that had I had the sense to retain even one (500, not dealer), we could really have got down and dirty together, shooting from gutter-level and making the most striking 'street' images of all time. Now she tells me; where was she when I needed her advice, friggin' decades ago? Probably being handed round from hand to hand, just like in the song about Silver Dollars.
Femmes Fatales!
Rob C
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Anyway, whilst the computer still works, I've taken the liberty of shooting another nude - this time, in festive mode.
I suppose I felt I owed it to Christoph, having cheated him with the other 'photographers' shot.
Why not wish you all a Merry Christmas, whilst I'm at it?
Okay - Merry Christmas!
Rob C
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Rob, just find a green coke bottle and you'll have a winner!
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Rob, just find a green coke bottle and you'll have a winner!
Slobodan, I fought a mighty fight to remove the green. It's the Christmas spirit: envy must be removed from my life for a month. That's not really difficult - there are few I honestly envy and am jealous of none. Okay, I do still envy the cat that I once was, but that's spiritually dangerous and might lead to retouched selfies if not ruthlessly nipped in the bud.
Anyway, you can have your fill of green in the restaurant shot.
;-)
Rob C
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Very elegant, Rob.
And Weston never had his peppers and nudes in the same photo, to my knowledge.
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(http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3738/11283700533_579386ddfa_o.jpg)
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Very elegant, Rob.
And Weston never had his peppers and nudes in the same photo, to my knowledge.
Eric, in his day, even in NM, it would have been considered too risqué; in Mallorca it all flies, if only because most of the folks are zonked out: either asleep, looking at their bank books and shaking their heads, or just plain stoned. The remainder, like myself, wanders around by itself, speaking to nobody in particular and dreaming dreams of coming lottery wins. It's la crisis.
Miss Coke thanks you for thinking her nakedness elegant; a lesser mortal would simply have lusted.
;-)
Rob C
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(http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3738/11283700533_579386ddfa_o.jpg)
The plot thickens!
Rob C
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You're sitting in a fine cuisine restaurant - well, given the prices you suspect it's supposed to be fine dining, and someone leaves the door to the kitchen open and you have a peer inside, later giving into regret at having eaten there...I just liked the sign right next to the kitchen door: Consumer Advisory.
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Nicely creepy, Chris!
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;D
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Getting bleary-eyed led me to thinking about how the bottle might see it.
Rob C
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An urban anomaly ......
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An urban anomaly ......
You couldn't make it up.
Well, unless you are Italian, of course, when you do it all the time.
Loved the movies. And to think: when I spent a year there (Italy) as a kid, seeing every change of programme at the local fleapit, all the westerns (I seem to remember nothing but westerns) were dubbed into Italian. Quite extraordinary, really. Today, it might be described as surreal.
Which is where we came in. And why you need a Leica in your life. Perhaps I should patent that: like Ford used to proclaim back then:There's a Ford in your Future! And they were damned right: I've had lots. Of Fords.
Rob C
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You couldn't make it up.
Well, unless you are Italian, of course, when you do it all the time.
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Federico Fellini, Michelangelo Antonioni, Sergio Leone, etc.etc... Magical image makers and mind manipulators. Quite turned my head, they did.
I love 'em all.
Rob C
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Federico Fellini, Michelangelo Antonioni, Sergio Leone, etc.etc...
(Wasn't sure if the previous post was humorous or in earnest ..)
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(Wasn't sure if the previous post was humorous or in earnest ..)
M
But I am in earnest; Italians have that something else. Look at the great cars from so many different drawing boards - the US had Harley Earl. He was wonderful, and created a total perception of the States, but he was the only one outside Italy that comes to my mind. Oh - the UK designed the E-Type. I think. Italian fashion and its photographers, its magazines and calendars, it's cities...
Nothing to be modest about, a lot to be proud of in every way.
;-)
Rob C
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Glad you saw the Felliniesque in this happenstance scene, Rob,
It speaks to me in similar tone to the beach procession in Juliet of the Spirits.
And, as you might guess, no need for a Leica when a Linhof can please me better.
Cheers,
W
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And (
many some of them) a sense of humour !
M
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I almost forgot; apart from Harley Earl, you can add the Greek that designed the Mini, Sir Alec Issigonis.
But I am in earnest; Italians have that something else. Look at the great cars from so many different drawing boards - the US had Harley Earl. He was wonderful, and created a total perception of the States, but he was the only one outside Italy that comes to my mind. Oh - the UK designed the E-Type. I think. Italian fashion and its photographers, its magazines and calendars, it's cities...
Nothing to be modest about, a lot to be proud of in every way.
;-)
Rob C
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And (many some of them) a sense of humour !
M
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I almost forgot; apart from Harley Earl, you can add the Greek that designed the Mini, Sir Alec Issigonis.
Now I'm disappointed!
I was never an original Mini fan, and have indeed been in a couple of the first ones. They were a disgrace, and the lack of creature comfort made my Ford Popular seem like a Lincoln! But hey, that was during a period when new cars were still very expensive and hard to get in Britain. The Pop cost around £500 in '59 and the Mini about the same for a lot less: you didn't even get a proper trunk! The new, Germanic ones I do like, but you still don't get much space in the luggage bay. Neither, of course, does the Fiesta offer much, but then I wouldn't have bought it if that mattered today; today I shop little and carry even less on each trip.
The Mini was never a Topolino. Nor a Fiat 850 Coupé! I think the Italian car that I fancied the most (disregard the fantasy vehicles) was the little Giulietta Sprint:
http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=alfa+romeo+giulietta+sprint+&FORM=AWIR
Oh well, the Fiesta's a 1.6 diesel two-door... slow from a standing start, but phenomenal acceleration when already doing about 65kph. You find yourself speeding in moments. If you want to, of course.
A small, cheap British sports car that I fancied but never had, was the original bug-eyed Sprite. I also liked the MGB GT before they ruined it with those US-regulation rubber bumpers that made it look like it belonged in a fun-fair. The Rootes Sunbeam Alpine two-seater was a little classic (there was one in Dr No), and would still have looked contemporary today. There was a US version with a V8 crammed in (I think a V8), and a pink one was part of the reward/prize for the Playboy Bunny of the Year, one year.
Funny what you remember and sometimes surprising what you forget. I always forget birthdays and suchlike.
;-)
Rob C
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Now I'm disappointed!
I was never an original Mini fan, and have indeed been in a couple of the first ones. They were a disgrace, ...
Rob - apart from your photographic talent, you're a cross between a compendium and a connoisseur !
I agree with you about the original mini but as a design feat there are but a few to match it's impact and longevity - the Leica M, the Beretta and a few others. In terms of contemporary automobile design, almost anything that came off the drawing boards of Pininfarina and Bertone were, at one point, exemplar.
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Rob - apart from your photographic talent, you're a cross between a compendium and a connoisseur !
I agree with you about the original mini but as a design feat there are but a few to match it's impact and longevity - the Leica M, the Beretta and a few others. In terms of contemporary automobile design, almost anything that came off the drawing boards of Pininfarina and Bertone were, at one point, exemplar.
Indeed, my Fiat X1/9 was a Bertone sketch... My father-in-law used to joke that it carried my personal number plate in code: Bert One (Bert is an English contraction for Robert). Paulo B. and 9mm were a match made in heaven. A friend had one for a while, along with a machine gun. He'd commissioned a boat in Hong Kong and was sailing it back to Spain - well, powering it: a trawler yacht. They bought several guns there because of the pirate problem that existed in the South China seas even in the late 70s. I think they got as far as Singapore before deciding to ship it back instead. Anyway, I think the machine gun ended up overboard somewhere in the Mediterranean and I'm not sure about the fate of the Beretta; I wish I had it - especially now as the economy dives and more people cruise the place looking to steal.
Rob C
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Rob - apart from your photographic talent, you're a cross between a compendium and a connoisseur !
I agree with you about the original mini but as a design feat there are but a few to match it's impact and longevity - the Leica M, the Beretta and a few others.
Piaggio Vespa and Ape...
https://www.google.it/search?lr=lang_en&as_qdr=all&hl=it&tbs=lr:lang_1en&tbm=isch&source=univ&sa=X&ei=LqutUpidAoLQ7AbtroHYDw&ved=0CDMQsAQ&biw=1366&bih=626&q=indian%20vespa%20and%20ape%20piaggio (https://www.google.it/search?lr=lang_en&as_qdr=all&hl=it&tbs=lr:lang_1en&tbm=isch&source=univ&sa=X&ei=LqutUpidAoLQ7AbtroHYDw&ved=0CDMQsAQ&biw=1366&bih=626&q=indian%20vespa%20and%20ape%20piaggio)
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Piaggio Vespa and Ape...
https://www.google.it/search?lr=lang_en&as_qdr=all&hl=it&tbs=lr:lang_1en&tbm=isch&source=univ&sa=X&ei=LqutUpidAoLQ7AbtroHYDw&ved=0CDMQsAQ&biw=1366&bih=626&q=indian%20vespa%20and%20ape%20piaggio (https://www.google.it/search?lr=lang_en&as_qdr=all&hl=it&tbs=lr:lang_1en&tbm=isch&source=univ&sa=X&ei=LqutUpidAoLQ7AbtroHYDw&ved=0CDMQsAQ&biw=1366&bih=626&q=indian%20vespa%20and%20ape%20piaggio)
Who said the rickshaw wouldn't catch on?
;-)
Rob C
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The Ape rickshaw is nothing, look here...
http://www.smtvsanmarino.sm/video/sport/ape-cross-tre-ruote-versine-racing-14-05-2013 (http://www.smtvsanmarino.sm/video/sport/ape-cross-tre-ruote-versine-racing-14-05-2013)
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The Ape rickshaw is nothing, look here...
http://www.smtvsanmarino.sm/video/sport/ape-cross-tre-ruote-versine-racing-14-05-2013 (http://www.smtvsanmarino.sm/video/sport/ape-cross-tre-ruote-versine-racing-14-05-2013)
Heaven help us all!
;-)
Rob C
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Dynamic range nightmare, my old D90 which seldom gets used this days because of the X-E1 held up pretty well despite ISO 700. Still can't find a processing I'm entirely happy with.
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I few iPhonography vignettes from snowy Chicago, with a season-appropriate message:
Happy holidays everyone!
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And greetings to you too, Slobodan. Perhaps I shall attempt to hang a greetings card from around the neck of one of my girls: perhaps that wouldn't be such a bright idea; need a shot where she can hold it beside her instead.
;-)
Rob C
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And greetings to you too, Slobodan. Perhaps I shall attempt to hang a greetings card from around the neck of one of my girls: perhaps that wouldn't be such a bright idea; need a shot where she can hold it beside her instead.
;-)
Rob C
Please do! ;)
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Please do! ;)
Okay, just for you and for Christoph, who so wanted me to emulate the works of certain snappers, here's today's effort with Ms Coke. As I don't want to be sandbagged by his cushion, I thought it best to go along.
I convinced her to hide her nudity à la 1978 (?) Pentax Calendar by Hans Feurer. However, she drew the line at her chiffon getting wet - thought clingy wasn't very nice for a girl of her station. Perhaps she just substituted station for age, but there you are - it hits us all in the end - if we are lucky.
;-)
Rob C
P.S. The new computer arrives tomorrow; the old one worked flawlessly all day... do you think artificial intelligence has already got there? As it's nine years old (the PS computer), perhaps AI's been around longer than we think!
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Welcome Plateitude:
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(http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5520/11441741763_01728072f1_c.jpg)
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Another lady in a bottle especially produced for Rob C. I wonder if the background strikes a chord?
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And should the festive season create a desire for harmony, then here is the Andrews Sisters in their rendition:
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Walter, would Sam sue? Or did the estate do well?
;-)
Classical shape and shapes.
Far more my thing than skeletal offerings!
Rob C
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Sam wouldn't sue. Not now, at least. I hope.
Having reached the tomes down I may actually do some reminiscing over the holiday season.
I wonder if they were South African girls at that stage .... or London? I suspect Five Girls models may have had strangled vowels.
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Sam wouldn't sue. Not now, at least. I hope.
Having reached the tomes down I may actually do some reminiscing over the holiday season.
I wonder if they were South African girls at that stage .... or London? I suspect Five Girls models may have had strangled vowels.
The story I heard at around the publication time was that the girls in Five were college friends of his daughter; however, I haven't heard of a daughter since, only of his son, who took over the various website operations post-mortem. I would guess they are probably S.A. girls - some crackers there in some of the websites of S.A. snappers. Must be the climate!
I thought 5Gs was the book I really wanted; couldn't afford it at the time, and now I have the Cowboy one but don't think 5 will be reprinted. God, it was so refreshing in its day! Thank goodness for obliging public libraries of the period.
Rob C
P.S. I think chronologically they must be S.A. lasses, because Cowboy Kate, which came later, also features guns which wouldn't have been available in London to anyone but the fuzz, army or thugs. Maybe Sam had connections. What makes me wonder about Cowboy is the shots of girls in fields of tall grasses... would they do that so blithely in S.A.? Of course, I am assuming the 'daughter' lived in S.A. at the time of going to college - she may have been sent to the UK instead. He certainly spent a lot of time living in London. I am also, naturally, expecting Cowboy to have been shot all in one country, but that may not be the case at all.
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Hi Rob. I have mailed my friend Harry who might know the answers to the questions about Sam's models, I have a suspicion that "Kate" was South African, but will wait for Harry's confirmation that I hope he'll post here.
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Hi Rob. I have mailed my friend Harry who might know the answers to the questions about Sam's models, I have a suspicion that "Kate" was South African, but will wait for Harry's confirmation that I hope he'll post here.
Hi Riaan,
I'm trying to find my way around the new computer just now: have got my swamp pop rock thing working as background music:
www.klrzfm.com
and I've also got LuLa into the favourites list. Still haven't sussed out how to put either onto the desktop (this is Windows 8) and as I write, everything is being underlined in red! Why the hell do they complicate everything so!
Even more odd: I put the phrase 'Windows 8', above, in brackets, and the close bracket has come up on the Preview here as a smiley and the 8 has vanished! I'll see what happens when I post. Yep, it still comes up as a smiley. Why?
I don't know if this new thing here will do me in or not; so far, the blood pressure is mounting...
;-)
Rob C
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(http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5520/11441741763_01728072f1_c.jpg)
Interesting shot, but the horizon could do with some adjustment: it's not quite horizontal.
Jeremy
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Smoke and mirrors, Jeremy, smoke and mirors: hold two of them at 90° and you burn your fingers.
Rob C
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Rob, herewith Harry's reply:
"Hi Riaan,
As I have forgotten my log in name I will reply to you as you can re-post.
One of his models was Gill who is living in SA. His books Five Girls, Cowboy Kate and November Girl were done in SA. He left due to constrictions from the Censor Board and his wife battled to get clearance when Pentax brought him to SA for a lecture talk. His photos was considered soft porn, a term he hated as a photo was either porn or not, like he said, being considered slightly pregnant!
He did a pictorial for Playboy in the 70's called "Girls Of Africa", my copy has since disappeared, and possession of Playboy was illegal. Some of the girls in that feature appeared in his later works, if my memory serves correct. 5 Girls was banned in SA and my paperback copy was purchased from Corgi in the UK and got through the post without customs inspection.
November girl was shot in Cape Town, mainly, so the model must have being local. I think Gill was his favorite SA model.
I am not aware of a daughter only an adopted one that died young. I only know of his sons, Ludwig and Konrad who are alive today.
Hope this helps,
Harry. "
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Hi Riaan,
Thanks for Harry's notes: I didn't realise SA had a censorship regime on stuff like that - strange rules we make for our societies - look at Britain just a few years ago: you couldn't publish certain books that are now classics, see theatre shows etc. etc. unless 'approved' by the censorship boards.
So no daughter at college, then - stories just got invented back then, as now. I can hardly believe the two Italian chicks walked free in the Nigella Lawson case today. Even if what they stated as being the situation regarding huge personal spending on the 'company' is true, condoned if they kept silent about drugs, isn't that extortion?
Regarding Sam - I was invited to a picture show he gave in Scotland for the boss of a colour processing lab; it was really amazing stuff he projected - the best case for 120 format slides ever!
Rob C
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Okay, just for you and for Christoph, who so wanted me to emulate the works of certain snappers, here's today's effort with Ms Coke. As I don't want to be sandbagged by his cushion, I thought it best to go along.
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/ me pulls out an even softer cushion ... ;)
Nice one Rob! Looking forward to meet you next week - bringing a "Ken" for your "Barbie" from Hamburg ..
Cheers
~Chris
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Interesting shot, but the horizon could do with some adjustment: it's not quite horizontal.
Jeremy
I thought it was just me! Anyway, it's just a matter of a couple of degrees :D
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/ me pulls out an even softer cushion ... ;)
Nice one Rob! Looking forward to meet you next week - bringing a "Ken" for your "Barbie" from Hamburg ..Cheers
~Chris
Nah, don't bother with a new passport for Ken; Barbie, Cindy, Sindy or whoever she was wasn't part of the Campbell clan: she was just part of a Christmas consignment I had to photograph for a store back when... Action Man was one stiff prick and 'she,' B, C or S, was as (f)rigid as you can imagine in your worst nightmares... no idea why kids would have wanted any of them - maybe they never did: maybe their parents just saw themselves reflected.
;-)
Rob C
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Ice for Coke (Zero) and Chinotto.
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Ice for Coke (Zero) and Chinotto.
Love the inner glow!
Rob C
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Love the inner glow!
Rob C
Indeed!
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I accentuated it a little in post production... but it was already there.
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Oh well, I re-connected the old computer and stuck in this latest venture into the world of cinematic horror shows. Actually, there's a minor one playing itself out on my desk: the ants I saw earlier have multiplied, despite my efforts to exterminate them all. Watching them on the shiny desk, they scurry around following one lead after another. Also, when you flatten one, not only does another take its place but they seem to know exactly what you are trying to do, so they run into the edges of the notebook and along the spiral binding. Cunning, but I have more patience than they have sense. I think that's what I mean.
Rob C
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Put some methylated spirits into a laundry sprayer and spray the little sods. They be gone in a flash.
Oh, ..... and wish them a Happy Chriostmas as you do it.
Cheers,
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Put some methylated spirits into a laundry sprayer and spray the little sods. They be gone in a flash.
Oh, ..... and wish them a Happy Chriostmas as you do it.
Cheers,
So why didn't you warn me not to light a match?!
Rob C
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Wipe the trail and area down with very dilute vinegar after you figure out what they are after. Then they have to reforge the trail.
Maybe they could be extras in a new coke series ?
Frank
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Wipe the trail and area down with very dilute vinegar after you figure out what they are after. Then they have to reforge the trail.
Maybe they could be extras in a new coke series ?
Frank
Frank, isn't one enough already?
Regarding the ants, it's a bit worrying: most winters you never see them; they live either in the hollow bricks that comprise the building's walls or under the soil all around the property. Or in selected flower pots, and then when you water them, they run like hell all over the terrace, carrying tiny white blobs which I assume are eggs. The worry comes from the matter of scale: Puerto Pollensa (my village) is on the edge of a fairly enclosed bay. Should any of the mountains collaps into the sea, we humans would fare as the ants in the tsunami that would inevitably follow. Yet one worries about resale values.
On the Spanish news a couple of day ago I think I caught the tail-end of a spot on Hiero, one of the Canary Islands, where there has been a lot of recent volcanic action, with fumaroles pumping up through the seabed. One of those volcanic islands, I think it is Hiero, is somewhat like the original Santorini in Greece, which collapsed and cause devastation and, some believe, the disappearance of Atlantis which may have been what the original Santorini was. Anyway, part of the Canary island cliff is splitting away from its main volcanic shell, and if it falls into the Atlantic, adios Florida, NY NY etc. etc. Of course, it could offer immense aid to spawning salmon.
Merry Christmas...!
Rob C
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wish I had an image to add,
short of that, pieces of continents breaking off is a concern we share,
I never understood the fast charge to extinction having the constant threat of my beloved California heaving into the sea!
Seems you need to live in the moment to even discern such, and the fleeting nature of life's perception has never been less immediate.
Senseless self perfection at the expense of any alternative.
Poor poor ants...
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ps thanks for turning me on to Julie London!
I think she was the inspiration for Leslie Caron's character Mardou in the 1960 film of Kerouac's THE SUBTERRANEANS
Funny how that time inspired so much we all still look up to.
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ps thanks for turning me on to Julie London!
I think she was the inspiration for Leslie Caron's character Mardou in the 1960 film of Kerouac's THE SUBTERRANEANS
Funny how that time inspired so much we all still look up to.
This is one lollipop I'd truly enjoy shooting - and looking up at:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&v=pL1Gm3fNi4Q&feature=endscreen
Rob C
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Only 2 people in the park, that guy ice fishing and me taking a picture of him
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One from Friday, showing the atmosphere around a certain necropolis of certainly more than a certain age. This is not part of the necropolis per se, more is it a vantage point from which, if you have not seen Vertigo, you may aspire to view the world of the past beneath.
Rob C
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A quick, hand-held one to get something to play with in the new computer.
Thanks, Chris!
Rob C
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It looks quite cozy, Rob.
But where's the Coke bottle?
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It looks quite cozy, Rob.
But where's the Coke bottle?
The is a she, Eric; a little respect for the lady if you please!
Where was she? She was sitting elsewhere in the room doing her nails and wondering why I was being so silly as to snap a snap of somewhere I already see every day. I had no answer for that, other than that I needed a few new files to try to get into the - ermm - system, and one file being much the same as another, why go outside? Of course, I kept my cool and said nothing. Peace continued.
Just watched the last twenty minutes of another Pirates movie, this one with Penélope Cruz; some babe! Would gladly replace Ms Coke with her, but say nothing out loud!
;-)
Rob C
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Something I forgot to mention about the snap of the side-wall of the room, and which nobody - so far - felt obliged to notice in writing: doesn't the colouring of the painting in the gold frame match the colouring of the little sofa absolutely beautifully? The painting was my Mum's, bought in Tuscany many moons ago; it's a village/town I have seen mirrored repeatedly here in Spain.
Perhaps that illustrated one of the great things about buying 'art': it has to match the room deco! ;-)
Rob C
P.S. Something else I'd like to know: when I open these thumbnails, they now appear within a larger black hole; the question is, is this an effect of my new W8 - I used to see the original, thin black frame within which I frame my files against a white space. The effect of the thin line has now vanished into the intergalactic blackness of the cosmic wastes. Is this the universal LuLa viewing experience or simply mine?
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On my Mac the "larger black hole" is reached when I view in full frame mode. Likely you have other modes of viewing as well. I am tempted to take advantage of this opportunity advise you of the benefits of posting larger [a smaller black hole], though I know you have a firm grasp on the reasons for your scale and thus my whimpering about my need to better perceive the beauty of your Mum's painting will only be counter productive.
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On my Mac the "larger black hole" is reached when I view in full frame mode. Likely you have other modes of viewing as well. I am tempted to take advantage of this opportunity advise you of the benefits of posting larger [a smaller black hole], though I know you have a firm grasp on the reasons for your scale and thus my whimpering about my need to better perceive the beauty of your Mum's painting will only be counter productive.
Ah, I reach a large black hole at the first click on the thumbnail; going the next step up - full-frame - does indeed fill the remaining screen area with black. It doesn't look bad at all - it's just that it forces the loss of the key-line I like to use to enclose copy and image together.
The painting's a sort of Impressionistic kind of work, rather attractive, if a bit large to transport in the back of a small UK car. When it travelled here, it came from Scotland as part of a load in a furniture truck.
Rob C
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P.S. Something else I'd like to know: when I open these thumbnails, they now appear within a larger black hole; the question is, is this an effect of my new W8 - I used to see the original, thin black frame within which I frame my files against a white space. The effect of the thin line has now vanished into the intergalactic blackness of the cosmic wastes. Is this the universal LuLa viewing experience or simply mine?
I'm also using W8 (sadly), and I see a thin black frame when I click on them. Maybe the webpage magnification has been changed on your computer and this is messing with the boundary? (I find this often happens by accident to me, one of many poor design choices in the OS).
Brian
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Couldn't pass today without giving her a whirl.
Spooky place, however often I pass it, which is maybe twenty-two times a week.
Really wouldn't like to be there in the dark. Irrational? Probably, but true nonetheless.
Rob C
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Rob, you should do a "Coke bottle" show or post them all in one place. Quite a study and fascinating to see how you set up each shot.
Happy new year!
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She fits in everywhere, Rob, and never an eyelash out of place.
This is a wonderful series!
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She fits in everywhere, Rob, and never an eyelash out of place.
This is a wonderful series!
Indeed... although I wonder what the neighbours must be muttering to each other with you two being out together so often.
Mike.
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Thank you for the kind words, folks; truth is, the thing's a m¡xture of things that come to mind before I do them and others that just happen because of where we both find ourselves... she's so hard to say 'no' to. (Flutters his own almost vanished eyelashes.)
There's a page devoted to her on the website, but it's not up-to-date right now - not through laziness, but because I can't access the Weebly account yet again! This time, it's not W8's fault - the glitch happened a few times with Windows Vista too, and currently, neither system lets me in to edit. Cookies are allowed in both machines, but so far, the problem persists. To be fair, I have not contacted Weebly yet on this occasion because of the seasonal inappropriateness of bearing bad tidings; but things change later today when the Xmas cards get bagged. ;-)
http://www.roma57.com/coke.html
That's the link to the web page.
Actually, finding a so-called project has been rather beneficial for me, and I'm a bit surprised it took so long to register with me; after all, it's just the same deal as an assignment other than the small detail that I don't get paid to do it... oh well, swings etc. If I may, I'd like to point out that feeling that undeniable need to carry on clicking does sort of substantiate a past argument where I held that becoming a pro might take more love/dedication to the medium than not... were it otherwise, at least in my case, I'd perhaps be spending more time sitting in bars instead. Not drinking, because of medical prohibition, but indulging in the art of mutual boring, which seems to be the thing around this part of expat Spain; we have experts. But then, they do enjoy the lubricational benefits of alcohol which possibly changes the concept of boredom into something else...such as the taking of pictures, perhaps.
Enjoy the year,
Rob C
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from my mostly irrelevant perspective,
I have often looked at favored artists, wondered about their lives, looked at their work, been in deep with a few as they arted (lol-arted!)
followed a few close enough to see the changes.
I haven't looked forward to a new installment by an artist in twenty years.
I look forward to every new piece you're doing Rob.
fuckin awesome man!
forgive my inability to talk like the rest of yall.
a coke bottle.
ferchristssake
I'd stand in a room full of those images for sure.
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Thanks for putting it so well, Rocco. I, too, look forward to every new piece that Rob does.
Keep on "arting," Rob!
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Shoot! Now I feel the pressure start! Just like I'd found a twenty-year old... (bottle of whisky, I mean).
Let's all unwind with memories of the local close-to-school café jukebox where I'd spend lunchtime blowing the lunch money on a packet of crisps and, of course, a Coke, instead of real food. Even then I understood the concept of soul food, well before Motown or anyone else had defined it.
http://youtu.be/BUSGKlGCIT4
Thanks again for the kindness - warms me up!
;-)
Rob C
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My fondest memories of Coke are from way back when I was about ten or so. I had a buddy who knew the secret of the big Coke machine at the local gas station. He knew just where to kick it on the side, near the back, in such a way as to dislodge a bottle without putting in a nickel.
Ah, the Good Old Days!
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http://www.roma57.com/coke.html
That's the link to the web page.
Fantastic series, Rob! Maybe we could get Michael to feature this, and maybe Rob would be so kind as to give us some teaching on "contrast, gesture, and implication" for example. I think there is beauty both in subject matter/composition and in technical execution. One could "go to school" on that series.
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Fantastic series, Rob! Maybe we could get Michael to feature this, and maybe Rob would be so kind as to give us some teaching on "contrast, gesture, and implication" for example. I think there is beauty both in subject matter/composition and in technical execution. One could "go to school" on that series.
David,
Well that's a very flattering post, but I fear you're both looking for, and hoping for too much from me!
There's simply not a lot to teach or to say: up until now, the stuff's produced on PS6 of which I use little but Curves and some Colour Balance, sometimes locally, as when I convert the originals to b/w via Channel Mixer (the only way I've ever tried to do it) and try to give slightly off tints/tonalities, something quite new for me which in the days of wet chemistry I disliked... I even bought a bottle of expensive selenium toner once - only once, and never used it after I read the bottle's health warnings. Apart from that, it's just a matter of stopping when I think it's the best I can do with it.
Rereading this again after posting, I suppose the bottom line is that I spent too many years in darkrooms, both other people's and my own, and the direct result of that was to learn what a print can reasonably do or not do, so there are times when I really stop after the first few minutes; there's just nothing there, not necessarily shape-wise, but in the quality of the captured file. There are lots of blind alleys in photography, and I've found quite a few of them.
Thanks again for the nice words - just wish I had something more useful to offer from this end of the discussion!
Rob C
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Teetotal -more or less - so some walls instead. Sorry, no bricks...
;-)
Rob C
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Another from this afternoon, but also a new PS problem: the cropping tool goes all skittish when very near the edge of the image. This used to happen years ago on an old laptop, but never on a desktop model. If it ain't one damned thing drives you mad...
Anybody had this happen to them?
Rob C
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And where, oh where, is my Cokely Love in these last two images?
Inside the repair shop seducing the repairman? Playing hard-to-get just outside the window?
As for the crop tool: Is there any chance that "snap to grid" is turned on (under the "view" menu). That sometimes trips me up.
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also a new PS problem: the cropping tool goes all skittish when very near the edge of the image.
On my Mac if I hold the Control key while operating the crop tool it allows for far more precise increments. By the way, if you use the crop tool in conjunction with the shift key it will preserve the original aspect ratio.
W
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And where, oh where, is my Cokely Love in these last two images?
Inside the repair shop seducing the repairman? Playing hard-to-get just outside the window?
As for the crop tool: Is there any chance that "snap to grid" is turned on (under the "view" menu). That sometimes trips me up.
Yes, it was! However, switching that off hasn't helped. What happens is, that starting with the whole, freshly opened file, when I switch on the crop tool in the Toolbox and take the cursor up to the top left corner intending to drag it down to the bottom right, all works as normal until I'm about a centimetre or just less from the lower edge of the image, at which point, the lower edge of the crop stops right there and won't reach down to the bottom of the picture.
Also, when I try to move a single boundary line, the opposite one drags along with it across the image, cutting off bits I wanted to leave in! I can no longer move one edge at a time.
Rob C
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On my Mac if I hold the Control key while operating the crop tool it allows for far more precise increments. By the way, if you use the crop tool in conjunction with the shift key it will preserve the original aspect ratio.
W
Water, I'm currently thinking of having W8 pulled the hell out of the box, and my old, original XP put in instead. I recently discovered the original CD for it along with the code. I thought both had been long gone, but I'd simply put them into the wrong box along with the ADSL contract stuff, a place I never have need to look
It may not be so crazy: my LaCie Blue Eye Pro calibration device doesn't work with W8. LaCie have been worse than useless; the advice I got from their Spanish guy was that his worked perfectly with his Mac... Jesus, I have a PC, as he knows; is that a professional service doing its thing? Mine still works perfectly with the old XP! The other problem is that following the advice and troubleshooting moves in the PDF Help download, the steps don't include my problem (the calibration programme keeps saying no puck is connected), and the final answer, after clicking on all their closest examples of problem, is that it's an incompatibility thing, and goodnight.
Also, the SanDisk reader won't work on W8 either, despite all the various web-based advice groups I keep getting sent to by Microsoft et al.
So reverting to an XP installation in the new computer box may save me a new calibration system as well as another card reader.
I hate these companies with a vengeance. So far, it's a grand down the toilet.
Rob C
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If you learn virtual machines and master this windows software I'll have a regular cow Rob.
You can manage outdated software and lost functionality by rolling back to previous versions.
Look, the easy answer is to update to student status, Rob, take a computer class, the kids will mess with your head-
how do they know this shit?
Anyhow, don't abandon things just yet,
xp was cool,
I know why you like it.
W7 is really cool, I haven't used W8.
I spent lots of time researching the thing from the advanced consumer standpoint.
You can use your outdated software.
You just have to wrap your head around it.
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Another vote for Win 7. It works, unlike XP or W8. And I run my Sandisk card reader that was on my old XP system with no problem. My Monaco Optix calibration thingy from XP days works fine also on Win 7. And all sorts of old software can be run easily using various "compatibility" modes.
I think it is supposed to be fairly straightforward to downgrade (upgrade in my opinion) from Win 8 to Win 7, but I haven't tried it, having avoided Win 8 like the plague.
Calm down, spend some quality time with Lady Coke, and she what she suggests.
Good luck!
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Hi guys,
So far, perhaps because of the 'holiday period' I have not had any really intense contact with the shop where this comp. was built, but next week I shall return, machine in tow, looking for a resolution to everything. I have to say, it's utterly ruined the photographic experience and even the imagined benefits of a more powerful outfit have not materialised to any noticeable degree.
I had no gripe with XP at all - it, like my version of PS, did far more than I was either capable of using or interested in exploring; I wanted/want the closest digital experience to the wet photography (no shower suggestions, please) experience with which I am comfortable, and had few complaints with XP until the machine went nuts. I'm amazed that since ordering the new one, the old one developed a new lease of life! Nevertheless, I still want the new machine and will keep the old as insurance.
Apart from photography, all I need is the ability to write letters and send/receive e-mail. I don't even bank with the damned things.
Oh - if the shop won't do an exchange to W7, are there any new reasons why using my immaculate, original XP CD to install XP is not a bright idea, bearing in mind my limited needs from computers? I don't seek upgrades, just hope for online security and no more money down the toilet!
Next week the new year really begins!
Rob C
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Rob, I feel for you.
Yes, Windows 8 sucks, but having said that we have it on our travel laptop and have managed to get it working for us. But, if I were you, I'd have W8 replaced with W7 and start again. I certainly wouldn't go with XP as it is outdated and will soon lose all support from Microsoft.
On a lighter note, have you considered buying a selection of vintage coke bottles? Plenty of interesting variations on eBay at very reasonable prices.
Keith, I have struck gold!
I tried another route for using the existing SanDisk device, and it WORKED!
Unlike the old XP system, where all I did was put in the CD once, and once only, and download to the machine forever, what I discovered with W8 ten minutes ago is that if I put in the reader, although nothing shows up on the monitor to show anything has happened, I can then do a roundabout route to copying the files from that to a folder, from which I can open them in Nikon Capture NX2!!!! It's all manual, of course, but if I remember how to do it again next time, I'm in business!
All I need fix now is the Calibration device! Is that being greedy? (You see how conscience strikes me immediately after any success?)
;-)
Rob C (flying on air!)
P.S. Vintage Cokes. That's a new idea!
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As a celebratory gesture to the world at large, and for Christoph for 'encouraging' me to hike: Tomb Raider Coke makes her grand entrance.
Some mother of a cushion he sports; high-tensile steel with lead filling.
(Directly into the W8 fire 'n' brimstone via the SanDisk! Might sound like a normal event, but for me, this marked a moment of magic: it worked again!)
Rob C
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from my mostly irrelevant perspective,
fuckin awesome man!
And so's this: where classic rock'n'roll meets classic blues.
W.C. Handy must be wondering how to make some money out of this little number!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWmVeNSGTas
Rob C
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As a celebratory gesture to the world at large, and for Christoph for 'encouraging' me to hike: Tomb Raider Coke makes her grand entrance.
Some mother of a cushion he sports; high-tensile steel with lead filling.
(Directly into the W8 fire 'n' brimstone via the SanDisk! Might sound like a normal event, but for me, this marked a moment of magic: it worked again!)
Rob C
I like it - as well as the one from the abandoned house!
And good to see you went back there, I myself am still working on the images I took on Mallorca, sorting from the almost 1000 frames I shot there. The area around that necropolis has a lot of interesting details. I remember a broken down stone hut which looks like being from some medieval era and other rock formations.
Cheers
~Chris
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Further head-shot spoof in honour of a couple of heroes:
Rob C
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Nice face-on shot, but where's the profile?
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I thought that was the profile!? Maybe it's the angle of my monitor.
Mike.
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Quite close, but both mistaken: I used the disguise of both Hurrell and Watson to purposely mislead: it's actually after Picasso: cubism, where you get all of the perspectives/elevations at once. I was going to call it Postcard from Cannes, but felt that might be a bit pretentious (hadn't thought of it, in fact) so settled for something with a more 'photographic' connotation...
Cunning, what?
;-)
Rob C
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Of course! Makes perfect sense, now that you've laid it all out like that.
Mike.
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Okay then, solitary Cokes go nuts, so in order to prevent such a calamity I introduced Ms Coke to a trio of fireside ornaments. Well, fireside, but at a level above the part where the poker and similar rough stuff reside. I wouldn't let a poker anywhere near her!
Oddly, reminds me of the garlic swan.
Rob C
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Rob,
Was Raymond Loewy the personal trainer of Ms Coke who trimmed her proportions to render the sensuous siren with whom you currently flirt?
Possibly so.
Of course, he was also the designer of some great cars for Studebaker in a time when they produced highly distinctive mechanical lust buckets. To say nothing of some really neat Boys' Own Annual styles steam locomotives for the Pennsylvania Railroad.
From the time of the founding fathers on, it seems there is a lot of French in many a USofA icon.
Cheers,
W
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I might say this kind of group activity cannot be condoned here in LuLa land. I might say, but I won't ;)
PS Kinda suggestive, no Rob?
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Rob,
Was Raymond Loewy the personal trainer of Ms Coke who trimmed her proportions to render the sensuous siren with whom you currently flirt?
Possibly so.
Of course, he was also the designer of some great cars for Studebaker in a time when they produced highly distinctive mechanical lust buckets. To say nothing of some really neat Boys' Own Annual styles steam locomotives for the Pennsylvania Railroad.
From the time of the founding fathers on, it seems there is a lot of French in many a USofA icon.
Cheers,
W
Walter, my memories of Studie ended in '53 when we returned to the UK from the Indian idyll, just in time to be somewhere on the high seas when Everest was defeated and a princess became a queen. Returning to Britain was a culture shock, but it did result in my first bicycle: a red Raleigh Lenton, that I instantly personalized by doing the handlebars (why is it the convention to use the plural when, in reality, there is but a single bar?) up with white tape. That was my precursor to what became more famous as the Harley Earl fins. That every other third kid also used tape is neither here not there. Well, it was there, but made not a jot of difference to the feeling in my head. I was easily satisfied.
Studebaker rings the bell for me as being the very first 'going both ways at once' car that I recall seeing. Prior to that, they all made distinctions between fore and aft design; perhaps the Hudson Hornet was also guilty of seductive, ambivalent sin... In Britain we had the silly little Nash Metropolitan. I passed a parked old Jaguar yesterday - a quick peek confirmed my long-held belief that Jag made the most handsome cockpits of all time.
David, any suggestive motifs are to be found within the personal psyche of the viewer; perhaps some see Marilyn with a soupçon d'art décoratif thrown in for company, and proof of the concept of diamonds being a girl's best friend? I simply toss the dice to fall where they may.
;-)
Rob C
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Rob,
Was Raymond Loewy the personal trainer of Ms Coke who trimmed her proportions to render the sensuous siren with whom you currently flirt?
Possibly so.
Of course, he was also the designer of some great cars for Studebaker in a time when they produced highly distinctive mechanical lust buckets. To say nothing of some really neat Boys' Own Annual styles steam locomotives for the Pennsylvania Railroad.
From the time of the founding fathers on, it seems there is a lot of French in many a USofA icon.
Cheers,
W
Not to mention the eponymous king of them all: Cadillac, on the banks of the mighty Garonne!
Rob C
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David, any suggestive motifs are to be found within the personal psyche of the viewer; perhaps some see Marilyn with a soupçon d'art décoratif thrown in for company, and proof of the concept of diamonds being a girl's best friend?
Ah, I thought so! Are you suggesting (!) a soupçon de mea culpa? Is that like mixing metaphors? Which would be a simile, no? ;)
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Ah, I thought so! Are you suggesting (!) a soupçon de mea culpa? Is that like mixing metaphors? Which would be a simile, no? ;)
David, I blame no-one! Those stones - no, the other sort - are too close to the windows for comfortable chucking.
Regarding the mixing of metaphors or similes: had a friend in the late 70s who was into citizen's band radio. He used to call roundabouts MixMasters for some obscure reason; "breaker, one-nine" was a frequent phrase of his.... But he did have a really cool electrically erected aerial that came up from the tail of his car and seemed never to stop growing. Very impressive indeed, but worrying for any casual date, I'd have imagined, a sort of harbinger of things to come, though personally, of course, I don't know. For myself, the most memorable car-thing from the period was the delightful Daisy Duke of Hazzard County. She, too, seemed to have things - legs, in her case - that never stopped reaching ever upwards to the skies.
Ahh....
Rob C
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;D I just can't keep up ;)
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Walter, my memories of Studie ended in '53 when we returned to the UK from the Indian idyll, just in time to be somewhere on the high seas when Everest was defeated and a princess became a queen.
Sorry to be picky, Rob, but by the time '53 came round, the princess had been a queen for some time (more than a year, when Everest was climbed). Not officially crowned, but a queen nevertheless. Assuming you're talking about Liz 2, that is.
Jeremy
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Assuming you're talking about Liz 2, that is.
Jeremy
Who, so far as Glagow based Rob was concerned would more likely have been Liz 1. LOL
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Sorry to be picky, Rob, but by the time '53 came round, the princess had been a queen for some time (more than a year, when Everest was climbed). Not officially crowned, but a queen nevertheless. Assuming you're talking about Liz 2, that is.
Jeremy
That's what might be called a matter of opinion. Without being crowned, it's like thinking you've won the lottery before your bank has the money in your account. I was going to write safely in your account, but thought that might be a bit rash.
;-)
Rob C
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Who, so far as Glagow based Rob was concerned would more likely have been Liz 1. LOL
For sure, Liz Taylor!
I never quite grasped that fact, but women swooned. I don't think many men did, though. Funny thing, sex appeal.
Rob C
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There are tales doing the rounds that, some day soon, the bulldozers are going to move in, so maybe better to use it up whilst it still stands. I can't imagine who, in this land, would invest more money in building when the place is full of unsold new stuff going bad. But what has logic to do with greed?
Rob C
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There are tales doing the rounds that, some day soon, the bulldozers are going to move in, so maybe better to use it up whilst it still stands. I can't imagine who, in this land, would invest more money in building when the place is full of unsold new stuff going bad. But what has logic to do with greed?
Rob C
I particularly like this shot, especially since I know the place and how tricky it is to get a good perspective.
Nice one !
Cheers
~Chris
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I particularly like this shot, especially since I know the place and how tricky it is to get a good perspective.
Nice one !
Cheers
~Chris
Thanks, Chris, I had lunch today in the same restaurant nearby: crab salad and young pork ribs... and that one, bloody glass of wine. No wonder I walked away and felt under the 'surveillance' of every cardiologist in the land! But maybe it's not a bad thing: driving back with a few more glasses behind me wouldn't be politically correct anymore, not that it ever was the sensible thing to do. That's another important thing that wives are for: driving you home from things when you can't. Hospitals come to mind.
;-(
Rob C
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A house wearing the veil?
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A house wearing the veil?
An architectural burqa?
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You're a braver man than I am Gunga Din.
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That's what might be called a matter of opinion. Without being crowned, it's like thinking you've won the lottery before your bank has the money in your account.
King Edward VIII?
Jeremy
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Freezing cold afternoon; fire at home but I was out. Madness. Even the fish have gone somewhere else.
Shot a few frames, but zilch apart from this mildly 'possible' that filled in an empty space before making a snack. Such the rôle of retirement photography: an alternative to game-show tv. Thank goodness photography exists.
Rob C
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Too sunny in Sydney for the Bechers .....
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I'm sure that's 4x5, of course, but tonality like it is very rare for me from digital capture. Even at that size. Obviously, I don't own DMF, but I can't say anything I see posted here from DMF has that look either.
Maybe few posters who use DMF do black/white...
In the end, it's all down to the magic of real estate, and having spent too many years printing 4x5 and larger in my industrial epoch, I can vouch for the fact that even from expert printers there is something absolutely unmistakeable about the different formats at similar print sizes - even an 8x10 print reveals the naked truth. Whether such a test can hold via the Internet or not, I can't say.
Rob C
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Thanks Rob,
You can see that I left the evidence before the jury to indicate it is film, I neglected to zap the dust spots. LOL.
Herewith, I bring before thew Court another exhibit taken the day after. Just a bit of fun with repeated pattern.
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...Just a bit of fun with repeated pattern.
A pattern that ziz-zazes? ;)
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Paddo Stripe 2 reveals the charming pair of legs that immediately caught my eye, as the same pair must have yours.
;-)
Rob C
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Paddo Stripe 2 reveals the charming pair of legs that immediately caught my eye, as the same pair must have yours.
;-)
Rob C
Aaah, but Rob, the legs paused and their owner spoke to me moments previously, asking if it was alright to proceed. Sort of courteous, non-intrusive street in a way.
W
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Aaah, but Rob, the legs paused and their owner spoke to me moments previously, asking if it was alright to proceed.
Sort of courteous, non-intrusive street in a way.
W
Sort of courteous, non-intrusive street sex, in a way.
Couldn't resist the edit!
;-)
Rob C
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But somebody else's legs got left on the sign.
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Paddo Stripe 2 reveals the charming pair of legs that immediately caught my eye, as the same pair must have yours.
;-)
Rob C
And mine..
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Sunny way to go, proving Sunset Villas isn't a new invention from Florida or California.
;-)
Rob C
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OK, Rob, where the hell is she?
;-)
You beat me to it, Keith.
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You're type-casting me: this was the recce version devoid of any sexy curves! She appeared in the 'artistic' version in black/white! ;-)
Okay - here she is again, then.
No, she's not; she's sulking. I'll try to coax her out. It might be the curse of W8 again - she's friendly in PS but refuses to do anything (for me, right now) on LuLa - simply won't grow!
Hot damn! Neither, now, will the one in colour, above.
Rob C
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Feels like my throat.
Rob C
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wave
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I like "Tomb Raider Coke" Rob!
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I like "Tomb Raider Coke" Rob!
Imagine if the younger Angelina had been available... as ever, she and her fellow ladies would make the doing of everything so much more worthwhile.
;-) and ;-(
Rob C
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Country clambering today; decidedly not good for the shoes.
Rob C
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I was rummaging about looking for a file and stumbled across this. It is a view through the fortifications on the island of Tintagel across to the major fortification on the mainland. Some day soon I hope to dig out the rest of the 4x5 negs I shot around England but this will have to serve me as a motivation for now.
W
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Hi Walter,
Makes one realise what a hard life it used to be: even just visually it makes one feel uncomfortable. I doubt they faced it all with plaster and painted on Burano colours. Which is probably a pity: it would have led to a different national mindset.
Imagine: a nation devoid of empire-building genes... but that's probably wrong; the Venetians weren't backwards in going forwards.
Rob C
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Amongst the soft and rotting timbers of the stricken pine, Lady C found a moment and a place in which to brave the UV and catch a little sunbeam, not to mention a little tan...
Naturally, no way would I have deserted her in this place of luxuriousness; who needs more forest fires? So our love lives to burn another day.
Rob C
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Rob - this is one of your better ones !
1. She's no longer vertical - always better ... :P
2. Nice color at the edge of believability, but not over the top.
Cheers
~Chris
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Some from San Francisco area
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Some from San Francisco area
#1 and #4 for me, especially #1 !
Great shot !
Cheers
~Chris
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Thanks!
First 3 are shot with a compact superzoom (Sony HX-50V), crap at pixel level but ok for small prints and I wouldn't get the shot otherwise (first shot is at ~ 710mm on 35 mm equivalent).
Last is with X-E1 and 55-200.
PS. come to think of my D90 with the 70-300 at 300 would get a similar picture but would be much bigger
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This is a different view from the Necropolis in Son Real.
It was on the same shoot than Robs version above,
since we went together there.
So it can be seen a as sort of photographic answer.
Cheers
~Chris
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Here's one that escaped the Necropolis - for the time being.
Several layers of age have been self-edited away, so I trust it fools the Grim Reaper a while yet.
;-)
Rob C
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Here's one that escaped the Necropolis - for the time being.
Several layers of age have been self-edited away, so I trust it fools the Grim Reaper a while yet.
;-)
Rob C
LOL - Rob you made my day .. thanks!
Cheers
~Chris
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Here's one that escaped the Necropolis - for the time being.
Several layers of age have been self-edited away, so I trust it fools the Grim Reaper a while yet.
;-)
Rob C
I read a mixture of emotions on that face. Some satisfaction in having memories of better days hanging on the wall, but also perhaps a bit of disappointment that your latest, Lady C, is out of reach.
Fear not, Rob. She will return to enthrall us all again.
Eric
P.S. Nice portrait, Chris!
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I read a mixture of emotions on that face. Some satisfaction in having memories of better days hanging on the wall, but also perhaps a bit of disappointment that your latest, Lady C, is out of reach.
Fear not, Rob. She will return to enthrall us all again.
Eric
P.S. Nice portrait, Chris!
Hey thanks !
Usually not my speciality ...
Cheers
~Chris
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Rob, I have to say you have the look of a thoroughly nice guy, which is exactly as you present here on LuLa!
That's rather nice of you Keith, but not what the Beeb will be thinking: I bought five DVD RWs the other day, expecting to record a new R'n'R 'definitive' series that's been touted for BBC 4, and what do they do? They change the effin' broadcast footprint, that's what they do! I no longer get BBC 4 as it used to be, I get a scramble. Of course, the crappy soaps etc. still come along just fine, but the HDs are all lost!
Even worse, there are ads running for Sky Arts that will include something devoted to David Bailey, and that's a channel I never had, but that doesn't mean I don't get emotions running high!
So Eric, were Chris's snap taken today, not much 'benign' would be on show!
Screeeeeam!
;-)
Rob C
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That's rather nice of you Keith, but not what the Beeb will be thinking: I bought five DVD RWs the other day, expecting to record a new R'n'R 'definitive' series that's been touted for BBC 4, and what do they do? They change the effin' broadcast footprint, that's what they do! I no longer get BBC 4 as it used to be, I get a scramble. Of course, the crappy soaps etc. still come along just fine, but the HDs are all lost!
Even worse, there are ads running for Sky Arts that will include something devoted to David Bailey, and that's a channel I never had, but that doesn't mean I don't get emotions running high!
So Eric, were Chris's snap taken today, not much 'benign' would be on show!
Screeeeeam!
;-)
Rob C
I'd make you look nice, believe it ! ;)
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Amongst the soft and rotting timbers of the stricken pine, Lady C found a moment and a place in which to brave the UV and catch a little sunbeam, not to mention a little tan...
Naturally, no way would I have deserted her in this place of luxuriousness; who needs more forest fires? So our love lives to burn another day.
Rob C
Her best work yet!
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A variant on the water tower motif:
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A variant on the water tower motif:
When you blow this up - no pun etc. - you get the impression of an atomic explosion.
I don't think this theme would fly in Somerset, UK, these days...
;-)
Rob C
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Her best work yet!
Were she not lying down (last time I saw her), I'm sure she'd give you a little curtsey, a tiny smile at the corner of her lips and her head bent down in modest tease. I believe her favourite author is Kathleen Winsor.
;-)
Rob C
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In the park
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One for Patricia, with thanks for an idea.
Rob C
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Love the red dot.
;-)
Studio flash backside! Knew it would come in useful one day. I wonder if you-know-who made it? Nah, probably not...
;-)
Rob C
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I wonder if you-know-who made it? Nah, probably not...Rob C
Ay a guess: Bowens.
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Any more bets on Bowen? I was actually attempting to tell Keith it 'probably' wasn't M territory...
;-)
Rob C
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The other one from the Chuck Berry music on Youtube that fuelled the 'Red Dot' session with Ms Coke.
Love that little 105mm; best second-hand deal I ever made - so far!
Rob C
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I didn't expect her to wander into the red light district.
Another great shot, Rob. You should make a book with these. Title might be "Things go better with Miss Coke."
Maybe the soft drink giant would subsidize the project. I would certainly buy one.
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I didn't expect her to wander into the red light district.
Another great shot, Rob. You should make a book with these. Title might be "Things go better with Miss Coke."
Maybe the soft drink giant would subsidize the project. I would certainly buy one.
Thanks, Eric; set up a petition and I'll do it if they'll do it!
Seriously, though, I'm thinking about it. I'd been worried about my eyes, what with glaucoma and all that, but when I went for my eye-test yesterday as prerequisite for renewal of my driving licence (three years between them - tests, not eyes) I was told I didn't need my recently-bought distance specs because the test result, run without wearing the specs, turned out quite okay... go figure. So, with driving now not an official problem, I'm rapidly running out of excuses for indolence.
;-)
Rob C
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I think Coca Cola would be more interested in the concept rather than any specific images.
If they could persuade people to take images of coke bottles in their own environment, on their travels, in unusual situations... and then upload them to social media, well, it could well go viral.
Cheap and effective advertising.
Rob, rather than images, sell them the concept and make your fortune.
Can I copyright a concept?
;-)
Rob C
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I have no idea what this is but I like it
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Thirsty work.
Rob C
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Rural roadblock.
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A studio break...
Peter
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A studio break...
Peter
Funny thing: I just shot something vaguely (very vaguely!) similar at lunch yesterday, but it's last in the queue and I haven't yet poured it into the computer. For once it was a very sunny day and I had the pleasure of eating outside on the terrace, so the mind strayed to thoughts of snaps, and so I snapped. As I've more or less convinced myself of the folly of doing any more of my own kitchen art - I was going to write cooking, but that would be an exaggeration - it may be a long time before I have the experience again. The shot must serve as fond memory. If it works. If not, I'll forget it quickly.
;-)
Rob C
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Factory
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Well, Peter - rushed it through tonight on the energy from Jazz on a Summer's Day.
No ice in the fridge, not supposed to touch this stuff, but some days you just think screw it!
;-)
Rob C
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No ice in the fridge, not supposed to touch this stuff, but some days you just think screw it!
And quite right too. Good shot, Rob.
Jeremy
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And quite right too. Good shot, Rob.
Jeremy
Thank you, Jeremy; I'd just like to add that my escapes from the strict regime are very few - I realise it's for my own survival and the reasons for keeping away from the effects of alcohol on the heart system have been explained to me and more or less understood - and regarding this shot, my wife would have been most upset that I had lunch out on the terrace and was too lazy even to set a cloth on the table!
But she did sometimes admit that were she living alone she'd probably not work as many culinary miracles as she did for the two of us; such miracles no longer exist. So perhaps that makes us sort of morally square? I love her, anyway.
;-)
Rob C
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Providence, RI
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South America, or maybe just Brazil
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A couple of random finds/cell phone shots from today.
Mike.
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A couple of random finds/cell phone shots from today.
Mike.
Though ultimately disappointing if you want to print large, cellpix are otherwise the best option because they are pretty much always possible to make.
And for personal fun, you don't need to print at all: the primary buzz is in the shooting, and a secondary one (buzz) might come along seeing it 'develop' in the dry dish of the monitor.
Rob C
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Powerful protectors
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Now that really is an intriguing photograph.
Rob C
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Should have copyrighted your idea, Rob... too late now. Don't know what Ms. Coke will have to say to the press about this obvious imposter. :-\
http://blogs.adobe.com/photoshopdotcom/2014/02/what-its-like-to-be-a-world-tour-photographer-at-coca-cola.html
Mike.
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Should have copyrighted your idea, Rob... too late now. Don't know what Ms. Coke will have to say to the press about this obvious imposter. :-\
http://blogs.adobe.com/photoshopdotcom/2014/02/what-its-like-to-be-a-world-tour-photographer-at-coca-cola.html
Mike.
Oh well, it was always going to happen, and doesn't matter to Ms Coke; she's above all that cheap publicity stuff. You know, the real thing, etc...
;-)
Rob C
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Things are not going well at the ranch; I mentioned the Coke impersonator to Ms C for the second time last evening, and she got quite cross: told me that I was getting too concerned about cheap wenches wearing parts of garish red paper dresses, and that it had better be the last time I mention such things.
Consequently, chastened, I thought I'd better go quite rapidly on to something else, and as the American West is somewhat distant - in fact, should you want to go there for some reason, then this wouldn't be a good place from which to start your journey - I decided to do a local, faith-based cover version instead.
Did the crusaders ever build churches in New Mexico or California? Probably not.
Rob C
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Ms C? Not really discernible in this scenes. Perhaps she lurks within the chapel flirting with other, possibly polished, identities in the cruet.
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Ms C? Not really discernible in this scenes. Perhaps she lurks within the chapel flirting with other, possibly polished, identities in the cruet.
I've a deep suspicion that some distant relatives of hers are sitting on the tables in the distance; most everything else, apart from coffee, is too expensive for people who spend more than a couple of weeks here. I drink a lot of coffee, even though it's supposedly rationed for me too. However, having endured severe rationing during WW2, I feel I have a free ticket to ride.
;-)
Rob C
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Down we go
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Bench
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Down we go
Is the image a cynical reference to photographers?
;-)
Rob C
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Geese are much more fortunate than photographers, Rob. Geese have no shoulders for heavy bags of expensive kit.
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I was getting more at the down that comes from geese
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Fall
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I was getting more at the down that comes from geese
If you knew that your goose was going to be cooked, wouldn't you feel at least a little bit down?
However, I was being generous and placing them a tiny bit further up the evolutionary scale and aligning them with the mythical properties of lemmings and the proven qualities of sheep.
;-)
Rob C
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My amber varnish jar....
Peter
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My amber varnish jar....
Peter
Man, that wine throws a lot of sediment --- outside the bottle. ;)
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Man, that wine throws a lot of sediment --- outside the bottle. ;)
It's a nice shot, and the trick with the wine sediment is so that you can't re-cork the bottle for later if you fail to finish it in one sitting. That way, they sell more retsina. And/or get the basis for Metaxa.
Hic! 'scuse me!
Rob C
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From my studio classroom NYC....
Peter
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From my studio classroom NYC....
Peter
Interesting composition.
I like it.
Cheers
~Chris
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Interesting composition.
I like it.
Cheers
~Chris
Thanks Chris, very much....
Peter
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...Visit
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Golden crown...
Peter
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Peter, I like the direction you are going to with your last images posted here.
Even if some may see them in their current state as tourist shots, I see there is something behind them, not yet fully realized.
To my eye it looks like you are experimenting with very simple, maybe even simplicistic, colorful compositions,
an abstract graphical concept realized with simple shots.
Go on with them!
I am sure if you follow this yet-to-be-fully-realized thing something good will come out of it.
Maybe not in photography - maybe in your paintings - no idea where.
But I see you are chasing something and I think you're going to catch it after some time.
Cheers
~Chris
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Why does this make me feel uneasy, unsettled? Does it reflect myself or something outside of me that I don't want coming in, but fear that will?
Rob C
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Why does this make me feel uneasy, unsettled? Does it reflect myself or something outside of me that I don't want coming in, but fear that will?
Rob C
..."Oh, hidden deep but ever present!
I do not know from whence it comes.
It is the forefather of the ancestors."
___Tao Te Ching, Chapter Four
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Why does this make me feel uneasy, unsettled? Does it reflect myself or something outside of me that I don't want coming in, but fear that will?
Rob C
Perhaps because it is a compelling and powerful image that doesn't have a simple meaning.
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Perhaps because it is a compelling and powerful image that doesn't have a simple meaning.
I sometimes wonder if we aren't on the wrong tack when we consider images from a point of view of 'meaning'. In fact I wonder if a picture can ever have a meaning as such. I can see it can suggest on various levels, that it can stir memory or even fantasy, but apart from news imagery which is something quite else, specific even, or perhaps advertising which self-consciously attempts, with greater or lesser degrees of success to sell you on an idea about a product and its possible effect on you if you buy it, I think 'meaning' is a bit of a stretch when it comes to tying that word up with pictures.
Perhaps the great thing about pictures might be that they actually have no meaning, because they can just as well be thought to mean pretty much anything the viewer chooses to have them mean. Now that would seem a fatal contradiction, wouldn't it? Nothing can mean everything, or can it?
Perhaps the best we should hope for or expect is that an image (such as the shoes and chair) will make us wonder or feel something.
On a scale of that nature, then I suppose the vast majority of images means zero. Or have we generally already accepted that as fact?
Rob C
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Exploring the inside of my PC and the joys of off-camera flash ...
Yeah - got a new toy (Fuji Flash EF-42).
Cheers
~Chris
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Maybe there is a story, or maybe there's not.
Rob C
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Maybe there is a story, or maybe there's not.
Rob C
All your photos have meaning, Rob. ;)
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All your photos have meaning, Rob. ;)
Thanks, Eric, and harking back to another post related to the meaning of images, I think there are two separated issues to address here - not on this specifc pic - but in general: the photographer brings something to the relationship and the viewer something quite separate.
In my own case (I'm thinking here about non-commercial work though there are overlaps, of course), and especially with the Coke series, the interest is very much from the point of view of what will it look like - does the idea, when there is one that's close enough to having a form, translate into reality, and how close or distant is that result from what was anticipated. Even then, some stuff as seen in the camera changes quite a lot when it comes onto the screen and I think I want to change the boundaries to a different shape, or simply crop in to concentrate the idea; even cutting away neutral background a bit can alter the strength of a shot quite dramatically.
Perhaps that's the meaning for the photographer: a travelling between the points of departure and ultimate arrival? And for the viewer? Perhaps the watching of a little, silent documentary?
As usual, more questions than answers.
Rob C
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HI Rob,
I think this is a very telling self portrait on very many levels.....
Peter
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HI Rob,
I think this is a very telling self portrait on very many levels.....
Peter
Peter, I think I might have to stop posting!
But then I guess everything that we do for ourselves is a form of self-examination. Before I had a decent camera and processing facilities (the converted loft in the family home) I was into painting. This was almost entirely due to my mother who dragged me to many galleries when I was a child under eight, and she also gathered a fine collection of books on painting and painters, which I absorbed like a sponge. I wanted to be a painter, but was thwarted by the system: I was denied art as a subject in my last school because it was deemed a class for dummies, and since my other subjects were not too bad and the school had ambitions to retain its leading place in the local school-leaving results tables, in which pursuit I was but a pawn amongst many, I was roundly discouraged by both system and, in truth, family. Art college demanded a Higher Art certificate (English version being A levels, + or -) which, obviously, I couldn't produce without being in the class...
In the end, I wasted a further four years before breaking into photography. In retrospect, not one damned part of photography has been an easy option...
Rob C
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Peter, I think I might have to stop posting!
But then I guess everything that we do for ourselves is a form of self-examination. Before I had a decent camera and processing facilities (the converted loft in the family home) I was into painting. This was almost entirely due to my mother who dragged me to many galleries when I was a child under eight, and she also gathered a fine collection of books on painting and painters, which I absorbed like a sponge. I wanted to be a painter, but was thwarted by the system: I was denied art as a subject in my last school because it was deemed a class for dummies, and since my other subjects were not too bad and the school had ambitions to retain its leading place in the local school-leaving results tables, in which pursuit I was but a pawn amongst many, I was roundly discouraged by both system and, in truth, family. Art college demanded a Higher Art certificate (English version being A levels, + or -) which, obviously, I couldn't produce without being in the class...
In the end, I wasted a further four years before breaking into photography. In retrospect, not one damned part of photography has been an easy option...
Rob C
Rob,
Dont you dare stop the posts. It's the reason I come to this site. I enjoy your work and your insights.
Peter
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Rob,
Dont you dare stop the posts. It's the reason I come to this site. I enjoy your work and your insights.
Peter
So now, not only do I hobble with a sore foot, I have to carry responsibilities?
;-)
Rob C
P.S. The foot is a story unto itself: I developed a corn under my foot, wasted time before going to the doc because some days it was painful but others I wasn't even aware it was there. Anyhow, when I went to see him, he said it had nothing to do with him or the health service, that I had to go see a foot person. Well, I went to her, she removed the offending corn without any pain at all, and I walked out with a slightly lighter wallet and rejoicing in the freedom of not worrying about the foot.
Unfortunately, I had carried the thing for so long that I'd altered my normal way of walking to compensate the pressures, and that has caused me as much discomfort now that I try to return to normal as did the corn. The past few days the foot has been quite swollen, and I've applied stuff to remove the inflammation, and it seems to be working a bit...
I actually remember a time when everything functioned as per design.
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So now, not only do I hobble with a sore foot, I have to carry responsibilities?
;-)
Rob C
No Pressure, just pleasure.....?
Peter
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Rob's foot ;D
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Rob's foot ;D
You know, that, alternating with a hot tub, might just be the answer to the swelling! Let's face it: who on Lula ever read a post from a Swede with a swollen foot?
Rob C
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Okay, just to show I'm not all passive and softly romantic, here's a Weegee-mode interpretation.
Rob C
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Ah! The international man of mystery...
Peter
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Wonderful!
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Wonderful!
Thanks!
Rob C
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Intriguing shot, Rob.
You'd have your work cut out trying to achieve that DOF with the Oly.
Thank's Keith, Oly etc. aren't really, really going to happen: too many formative years with Nikon mould one into whatever it is comes out at the end of the process...
Just watched another rerun of the Fleetwood Mac video I have... Stevie sure was an amazing little icon. Looking at those years, it must have been quite something being in Los Angeles. But hey, you had London!
;-)
Rob C
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Okay, just to show I'm not all passive and softly romantic, here's a Weegee-mode interpretation.
Rob C
Masterful, as ever...
But... Weegee-mode? Where are blood and guts?
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Masterful, as ever...
But... Weegee-mode? Where are blood and guts?
What Rob meant was that he was chomping on a big fat stogie as he took it (and possibly wearing a fedora and braces.)
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And a short interruption to the bottle saga
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Nicely done, Armand!
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Masterful, as ever...
But... Weegee-mode? Where are blood and guts?
It's all relative: the very act of somebody being apprehended is bloody enough for some.
The trick is to get the action before the bullet hits! That takes anticipatory reflexes and a good sense of the decisive moment, a term that I've just coined to express the nuts of the pooch.
You do see what I mean, of course? Weegee the Elder was too slow. He waited for the sirens and then arrived after the thing had gone down. No horse-heads on the pillows for him - he would have been found somewhere else wearing a bib and shovelling pasta. In other words, he was a messy operator. The true art of any caped crusader lies in prevention: any old fool can come along later and make some snap, blow some smoke on the scene of the crime: people do it all the time, at parties, dances, in restaurants, on the beach, up mountains and in the subway, and when there's nothing else at which to point, they turn the weapon onto themselves.
Be grateful for television: it brings us game shows.
;-)
Rob C
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Rob, one of my fondest memories of the 60s was a visit to the Star, a rather down at heel pub in the roughest part of Croydon - an area of Sarf London for those who ain't acquainted wiv it - to see a band consisting of Peter Green, John McVie, Jeremy Spencer and of course Mick Fleetwood.
I believe they went on to greater things ;-)
That's because they added wimmin...
Rob C
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The owls are not what they seem - extra points for who can say from where this is without goggling
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The owls are not what they seem - extra points for who can say from where this is without goggling
It is stuffed - the eyes are dead and glass and it is looking out of a shop window probably ...
Cheers
~Chris
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It is stuffed - the eyes are dead and glass and it is looking out of a shop window probably ...
Cheers
~Chris
I should have been clearer, I was referring to the quote "The owls are not what they seem" which is from Twin Peaks.
As for this owl being dead all I can say is that it has hiding it quite well.
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A friend and I recently opened a beer he had been aging for 16 months. Until then I wasn't aware one could even age a beer.
(http://ppcdn.500px.org/56527708/8aadc927eca3106828a6bc8ef41f4e10bddbd4f2/2048.jpg)
I also caught some nice light hitting my Manhattan while waiting for a connection. The flight was better than the drink.
(http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3815/12786053595_08e891228b_b.jpg)
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That's because they added wimmin...
Rob C
;D
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Inviting
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Normally, one of the cats hunts them and then wolfs them down.....
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Inviting
Good.
Perhaps this is of a similar mood (except the boots...)
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A friend and I recently opened a beer he had been aging for 16 months. Until then I wasn't aware one could even age a beer.
An aged beer in South Africa will be a novelty- the stuff hardly gets time to get cold!
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Shaka's country.
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Nice. I like the way the bushes mimic the clouds above. Or is it the other around?
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Another local shot
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Simple
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Made this image last night for a LR workshop I did today. It's not a great image by any means, but I thought it was interesting for what it is. And what it is... is a composite of 14 images made using my cell phone, set up on a tripod, using the SmugMug Camera Awesome app's intervalometer to photograph one minute apart. The 14 images were stacked in LR using the LR/Enfuse plugin, and the result was pushed around a bit in LR.
Mike.
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P.S. Another of last night's images. Small sensor cameras do lousy in the dark but sometimes you can pull a little something out.
Mike.
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Simple
The first one's simple but beautiful.
Mike.
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P.S. Another of last night's images. Small sensor cameras do lousy in the dark but sometimes you can pull a little something out.
Mike.
Looking at the thumbnail, I thought it was a bottle (not Rob's Coke bottle, of course)… I like it a lot!
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Looking at the thumbnail, I thought it was a bottle (not Rob's Coke bottle, of course)… I like it a lot!
You are right; now that I've seen it I can't see anything else!
;-)
Rob C
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Made this image last night for a LR workshop I did today. It's not a great image by any means, but I thought it was interesting for what it is. And what it is... is a composite of 14 images made using my cell phone, set up on a tripod, using the SmugMug Camera Awesome app's intervalometer to photograph one minute apart. The 14 images were stacked in LR using the LR/Enfuse plugin, and the result was pushed around a bit in LR.
Mike.
Quite impressive, Mike. And I suppose that was easier than setting up 14 cell-phones on 14 tripods. ;)
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Well, let's see... where can I get 12 more cell phones? My wife's, mine...
Just wanted to show people how much technology is changing photography.
Thanks for the comments, folks, and Rob, I wasn't trying to cut into your bottle theme, I swear! It was actually another image for the workshop. Here's the original.
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Spent the evening last night with friends, and took a few photos using the available light, which wasn't much - stars (no moon), bonfire & mobile/cell phones. The X100s did pretty well, though at ISO 6400 and 1/15 sec, the quality isn't brilliant
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Not sure what Rob's up to (haven't seen him here in a month), but maybe he and Ms. Coke are busy somewhere.
Two different views of complexity.
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Two different views of complexity.
I like the first one a lot, branches seem to come out to reach the viewer
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Very interesting, particularly the first one, to find the configurations of (in) the caos is much more correct than to create configurations out of chaos.
P.S.
I hope my poor english is understandable.
P.S. 2
Yes, I too am a bit worried about Rob, this his thread...
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Very interesting, particularly the first one, to find the configurations of (in) the caos is much more correct than to create configurations out of chaos...
It is much easier to create chaos. Just ask economists. And politicians. ;)
P.S. Great #1, Mike!
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It is much easier to create chaos. Just ask economists. And politicians. ;)
P.S. Great #1, Mike!
Don't say this to the italians...
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P.S. Great #1, Mike!
+1.
As for Rob, I suspect he's having computer problems since he succumbed to the lure of Windows 8.
I hope he'll be back again soon. Especially with more views of Ms. Coke.
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Rob is fine and has his life back!
Thanks for that, Keith.
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Rob is fine and has his life back!
Molto bene!
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(https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7370/14078277602_acf73dac6a_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/ns3Rsb)Sun Shadow, Alabama Hills (https://flic.kr/p/ns3Rsb) by tanngrisnir3 (https://www.flickr.com/people/87368247@N00/), on Flickr
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Interesting. Took me a moment to figure out exactly what I was seeing.
And thanks, folks!
Mike.
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One of the few remaining working ore stampers in Australia - Tyrconnell Gold Mine, Far North Queensland
(http://mattlarsen.smugmug.com/Travel-/Mount-Mulligan-and-surrounds/i-GGMVN3v/0/L/P1011527_editmod1-L.jpg)
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I like industrial landscapes. As photographers, those places are fantastic, full of opportunities but I always try to have a thought for those who spent years working there…
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An older pano that got more TLC
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My son has set up a wedding venue, and yesterday I was shooting a fake happy couple as promotional material for his website. I'm quite pleased with many of the results, but really quite liked this one, so thought I'd share it
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Burt? She'd look good as the runaway bride in Smokey & the Bandit
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... fake happy...
Or just plain sad? ;)
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Well they plan on being the happy couple at his venue next year
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My son has set up a wedding venue, and yesterday I was shooting a fake happy couple as promotional material for his website. I'm quite pleased with many of the results, but really quite liked this one, so thought I'd share it
She looks wistful, and very pale: my first thought was Miss Havisham. Lovely location, though.
Jeremy
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I wanted something a little ethereal, and the light was filtered through the oak & almost spotlighting her, creating the potentially ghostlike image. Some careful fettling in Silver Efex 2 left her skin really pale, and nicely darkened the surroundings & sky. Job done.
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Puts me in mind of Reynolds.
That's what I immediately thought ... is the Platonic idea of the English countryside (and of the english virgins, "Britanne vergini" U. Foscolo). Beautiful and mighty oak, beautiful and mighty ropes, probably beautiful and charming bride (I can not see her very well) and... wonderful light.
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... probably beautiful and charming bride (I can not see her very well) ...
Here she is in more detail in a Hassyfake photo. And yes, she's beautiful
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But the ropes of the swing are sublime (and, like every true sublime, a bit ominous...).
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A pano from last night. Not technically sound, more like a proof of concept.
As a side note this one might make rethink my planned computer upgrade as PS with a Nik filter went out to 97% of my 16 GB RAM, 32 might not be as much as I thought it would :(
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(https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5531/14154436504_82947e46f7_b.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/nyMbQG)Sunrise Lenticular Forming, Northern Owens Lake (https://flic.kr/p/nyMbQG) by tanngrisnir3 (https://www.flickr.com/people/87368247@N00/), on Flickr
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Very nice, Mjollnir! Nice, restrained processing as well.
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Very nice, Mjollnir! Nice, restrained processing as well.
Thanks, Slobodan.
W/all the wonderful tools we have at our disposal (LR5, NIK, etc...) I'm always worried that 'enough' while processing will end up "too much" in the final treatment.
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another pano, wide angle lens this time
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In-camera panorama gone wrong, terribly wrong. I find it quite funny though.
PS. I couldn't have done it much better manually anyway
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And one that came up a little better
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In-camera panorama gone wrong, terribly wrong. I find it quite funny though.
PS. I couldn't have done it much better manually anyway
Did a post about that once: http://www.wolfnowl.com/2010/05/panoramic-photography-and-stitching-errors/
Mike.
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Did a post about that once: http://www.wolfnowl.com/2010/05/panoramic-photography-and-stitching-errors/
Mike.
You failed panoramas or HDRs (as well as those from Armand) can be quite interesting and very spectacular!
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Thanks!
I just wonder what the computer was working with to create them. Never works when I try to create something like that.
Mike.
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Lake Malghera (Läch di Piän) in June. (Malghera valley, West Grosina Valley, Valtelline)
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A multiple exposure image.
(http://johnroias.smugmug.com/On-the-Road/i-wM72SkT/0/M/June%2027-%202014%20High%20Park%20081%20smugcopy-M.jpg) (http://johnroias.smugmug.com/On-the-Road/i-wM72SkT/A)
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I like it, John!
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Lake Malghera (Läch di Piän) in June. (Malghera valley, West Grosina Valley, Valtelline)
Was it early June? Lots of snow and lovely alpine colors!
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Was it early June? Lots of snow and lovely alpine colors!
First day of June, the winter was very snowy.
Now the most of the snow is gone, but... yesterday there was a snowfall over 2300 m. Today I have taken some shots of my favorite small pool (2300 m) with fresh snow on the background... Perhaps I'll post one if it's not too bad.
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A few more from the multi-exposure garden. I suppose I could have posted them in abstracts thread also.
JR
(http://johnroias.smugmug.com/RBG-impressions/i-FsZkMM5/0/M/June%2030-%202014%20RBG%20049%20smugcopy-M.jpg) (http://johnroias.smugmug.com/RBG-impressions/i-FsZkMM5/A)
(http://johnroias.smugmug.com/RBG-impressions/i-gd3HF4W/1/M/June%2030-%202014%20RBG%20034%20smugcopy-M.jpg) (http://johnroias.smugmug.com/RBG-impressions/i-gd3HF4W/A)
(http://johnroias.smugmug.com/RBG-impressions/i-qNZN2b8/1/M/June%2030-%202014%20RBG%20051%20copysmug-M.jpg) (http://johnroias.smugmug.com/RBG-impressions/i-qNZN2b8/A)
(http://johnroias.smugmug.com/RBG-impressions/i-Z2ZpWbk/0/M/June%2030-%202014%20RBG%20083%20smugcopy-M.jpg) (http://johnroias.smugmug.com/RBG-impressions/i-Z2ZpWbk/A)
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These are great, John! And yes, they belong in the Abstracts thread, too.
Eric
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These are great, John! And yes, they belong in the Abstracts thread, too.
Eric
John excels at these beautiful abstracts!
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As I promised (or thretened), here's a photo (three or four photos, actually) of my favorite small pool last Sunday, after a snowstorm. Acqua di Rugiai, Malghera valley, Valtelline.
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These are great, John! And yes, they belong in the Abstracts thread, too.
Eric
Indeed.
Mike.
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As I promised (or thretened), here's a photo (three or four photos, actually) of my favorite small pool last Sunday, after a snowstorm. Acqua di Rugiai, Malghera valley, Valtelline.
Fresh and beautiful!
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Taken in the garden this afternoon
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Lovely, Bill!
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Love my new multi-exposure settings. So easy to use. Two more from the surreal garden.
(http://johnroias.smugmug.com/RBG-impressions/i-bnZf5F8/0/M/July%206-%202014%20RBG%20107%20copysmug-M.jpg) (http://johnroias.smugmug.com/RBG-impressions/i-bnZf5F8/A)
(http://johnroias.smugmug.com/RBG-impressions/i-4zFhjwC/0/M/July%207-%202014%20James%20Gardens%20027%20copysmug-M.jpg) (http://johnroias.smugmug.com/RBG-impressions/i-4zFhjwC/A)
(http://johnroias.smugmug.com/RBG-impressions/i-smGBsQp/0/M/July%206-%202014%20RBG%20129%20copysmug-M.jpg) (http://johnroias.smugmug.com/RBG-impressions/i-smGBsQp/A)
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Was hoping that someone would sit on the bench, but alas, it did't happen and it was getting dark, so I took a shot anyway.
JR
(http://johnroias.smugmug.com/RBG-impressions/i-mxCZG2P/0/M/July%2031-%202014%20James%20Gardens%20214%20copy1000-M.jpg) (http://johnroias.smugmug.com/RBG-impressions/i-mxCZG2P/A)
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The amount of selfies taken these days is enormous
(http://pegelli.smugmug.com/Other/201403/i-TzF6Mgq/0/O/PEG_Nex6_1_03785_20140308-L.jpg) (http://pegelli.smugmug.com/Other/201403/37538424_4MRGbR#!i=3418295279&k=TzF6Mgq&lb=1&s=A)
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A photo of someone photographing themselves being photographed whilst photographing themselves being photographed whilst ... how far down the rabbit hole does this go?
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... how far down the rabbit hole does this go?
Bill, it's called the Droste effect: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Droste_effect (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Droste_effect)
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Great shot, I really like the opposition between the dark storm clouds and the flipped boat
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Lovely! One wants to take shelter under the boat…
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Thanks both. If shelter was needed, the Anchor Inn was about 30 yards away, and their Palmer's Best Bitter was very nice :-)
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Frustrated Epson users seeking revenge with street art :P
NEX5 + E20/2.8
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Water slide.
Samsung Galaxy S5
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Extreme sports
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Extreme sports
I bet she prays for a soft landing :)
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Sitting on the edge:
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Hey Slobodan, that is good find and shot. Someone should commend the owner for being so creative.
Here is one I took today. A little soft, but I still like it.
JR
(http://johnroias.smugmug.com/Badlands-of-Caledon/i-dKhbrbS/0/M/Aug%2018-%202013%20Caledon%20Badlands%20040%20smugcopy-M.jpg) (http://johnroias.smugmug.com/Badlands-of-Caledon/i-dKhbrbS/A)
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Orobie Alps from the arcade of the Church of St. Bartholomew, Caspano, Valtelline.
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Some great shots in this thread recently. They make a fine tribute to Rob C who started the thread.
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Tribute? Has he died or something?
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Tribute? Has he died or something?
I think I saw in another post, that Russ had just talked with him. That's all I know.
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Tribute? Has he died or something?
No, he is doing just fine. Then again, "tribute" does not necessarily imply "dead" either. Though, truth to be told, I had to check a dictionary to make sure. My initial reaction was just like Bill's and I was thinking "Does Eric know something I don't?" My last correspondence with Rob was only a few days ago.
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No, sorry for the confusion.
As far as I know he's just fine, but he doesn't check in on LuLa very often any more, which is our loss. He has many friends and admirers here.
I had become quite fond of his "Ms. Coke" portraits as well as his commentaries.
Eric
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And all I had with me was my iPhone.
Jeremy
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And all I had with me was my iPhone.
Jeremy
"The best camera...." Maizel, I think.
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Glad he's not shuffled off this mortal coil. I too enjoyed the Coke bottle series
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Pizzo Argent and Pizzo Zupò from Poschiavina Valley (Malenco Valley, Valtelline).
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(http://pegelli.smugmug.com/Other/201405/i-dp7xjR5/0/O/PEG_NEX6_1_04797_20140504-L.jpg) (http://pegelli.smugmug.com/Other/201405/40682682_jsxvJD#!i=3491208165&k=dp7xjR5&lb=1&s=A)
Stern warning in a Philly train station
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Kiss me
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Armand, oh my! Excellent!
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Armand, oh my! Excellent!
+1.
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+ eleventy thousand.
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The owl è un amore.
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Thank you!
While a lucky shot I also had plenty of bad luck.
This is in Muir Woods, just above the paved trail. We were walking and finally saw the owl when we were just under. For several moments the questions was if it's a prank or real until it moved.
I had the XT-1 with the 18-55, a little short but was able to get several shots.
Then my memory card filled. Got a new one but the owl flew at the edge of the stream where it caught something that was moving and trying to escape. A little too far so I quickly changed the lens to the 55-200 (a mistake in retrospect). Tried to take another shot but my battery died. Got a new battery in but the thing escaped before I was ready and the owl flew to another tree where I got many shots but none that interesting.
As you may know it's very dark in there and it was afternoon anyway so ISO 6400 and low exposure times were a must. Technically the photo quality is borderline, I had to crop and the owl is of course lit up in post processing which is less real but that's how it felt when I saw it just above me. Quite noisy and barely sharp enough, but good enough for at least an 8x10.
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Haven and Freedom
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Photographer
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Fall
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Very good, exposure time 1/20 or a little faster ?
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Very good, exposure time 1/20 or a little faster ?
1/105
It's a handheld 3-frame panorama.
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I take it back, partially at least.
I was using the technique of focus in the same spot, hold the shutter half-way and recompose; it seems it didn't lock my exposure, so the exposures are from the top 1/90, 1/80, 1/105.
As it is I don't see any obvious stitching errors.
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I take it back, partially at least.
I was using the technique of focus in the same spot, hold the shutter half-way and recompose; it seems it didn't lock my exposure, so the exposures are from the top 1/90, 1/80, 1/105.
As it is I don't see any obvious stitching errors.
Interesting outcome. Congrats, I think it's a fine shot, maybe better than what would have occurred with exposure lock. Just speculating, but it makes me want to try this "on purpose."
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saving a blurry shot
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Bright and sunny
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My pathetic attempt to record the Milky Way (a failure on multiple levels, preparation being the first) and a nice sunset
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I guess everyone who went here has most of these.
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I've seen a number of Barred Owls, but never one quite so... 'luminous'! Fits well with this site. :)
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Summer storm.
Cell phone, hand held, several exposures combined in post.
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Trail encounter
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Out for a stroll?
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Out for a stroll?
Definitely the eyes were red mad that I interrupted him/her
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Clouds and rocks.
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Trail encounter
Never seen a tortoise that hungover before. :)
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Never seen a tortoise that hungover before. :)
I cannot vouch for her previous actions, all I can say she was quite slow ;), this shot is in macro mode with a RX100 probably 5-10" from her nose.
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I cannot vouch for her previous actions, all I can say she was quite slow ;), this shot is in macro mode with a RX100 probably 5-10" from her nose.
They're really fast if they've not been out on the raz the night before. ;D
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Cloudy days
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Cloudy days
Very 3D!
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Cloudy days
Very nice, simple yet powerful
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Very nice, simple yet powerful
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Indeed I had seen the effect 3D in the viewfinder and in Live view and shot for that, but I suspect that the Elmarit R 100 apo macro gave his personal contribute to the final effect... (I will not fall in lenses mysticism, but... yes, I've fallen in love for this german girl...)
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Reality is overrated
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Aliens on the beach
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Looking again at that turtle shot I realized the white balance was off by a mile, here is a corrected one.
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We've had the hand of man, well here's the feet of women
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We've had the hand of man, well here's the feet of women
Nice.
Jeremy
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Looking again at that turtle shot I realized the white balance was off by a mile, here is a corrected one.
Much better and still as grumpy.
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Visiting a friend in Loire valley when he lived in the rather small and remote village of Mossac-Bas.
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Those of you who know (of) Herman Brood will probably agree that he would have kicked some butt if he would have seen these ugly/kitchy artificial flowers trying to "spice up" his exhibition.
(http://pegelli.smugmug.com/Other/201409/i-VXDWvT4/0/O/PEG_NEX6_1_05597_20140922-L.jpg) (http://pegelli.smugmug.com/Other/201409/44128278_xp4GsH#!i=3558841908&k=VXDWvT4&lb=1&s=A)
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this morning
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this morning
Nice pair of shots. Can you pull back the highlights on the leaves in the first, just a bit? They don't look blown but they seem to be lacking detail.
Jeremy
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Silver & Gold
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The eyes have it.
Mike.
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The eyes have it.
Mike.
The first makes me think of a medieval helm
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Just a local landscape from yesterday's walk
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I wanna go there, Bill!
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Let me know when you're passing - I'll buy you a pint in the local pub. It's next door, which is nice :-)
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the spider won
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brownie
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OK, so it's a bit kitsch, but I quite like the place
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Been in a long time shooting slump, even after having purchased a whole new rig and glass I've always lusted after. Too many things going on in life, I suppose. Just goofing around with shadows and fog.
(https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5607/14926358773_7000a8d90f_b.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/oJZurk)Post Sunset, Highway 46 (1 of 1) (https://flic.kr/p/oJZurk) by tanngrisnir3 (https://www.flickr.com/people/87368247@N00/), on Flickr
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Oh, this one as well.
(https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5600/15370884730_3181dc1214_b.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/pqgNvY)Due West, Treatment 1, Color (https://flic.kr/p/pqgNvY) by tanngrisnir3 (https://www.flickr.com/people/87368247@N00/), on Flickr
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Halloween it's coming
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study in lights and shadows (or DR testing)
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decay
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Cima Piazzi from Mt. Storile (Valtelline) two days ago. Today it's snowing heavily on these mountains.
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my precious
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it seems I'm the only one posting here lately
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You aren't alone...
Acqui Spärsi (Spread waters), Eastern Grosina Valley, Valtelline.
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Legs
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You aren't alone...
Acqui Spärsi (Spread waters), Eastern Grosina Valley, Valtelline.
I really like the first one!
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…Acqui Spärsi (Spread waters), Eastern Grosina Valley, Valtelline.
Did you take them recently?
BY the way, I like them both but the first one is my favorite.
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Thanks for the comments. The shots were taken eleven days ago (11.16.2014).
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Thanks for the comments. The shots were taken eleven days ago (11.16.2014).
Thanks!
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Last Sunday I snowshoed to Pian Sortivo (Piän Sertìf), Western Grosina Valley, Valtelline. In the panorama you can see on the right Pian del Lago (Piän del Läch) and the hut.
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Last Sunday I snowshoed to Pian Sortivo (Piän Sertìf), Western Grosina Valley, Valtelline. In the panorama you can see on the right Pian del Lago (Piän del Läch) and the hut.
I like them a lot, the first the most. The colored rock in the middle of snow is really nice, even if you boosted the saturation (or even more because of it).
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fun stuff
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hmmm
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Another gloomy day
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Heavy duty sledding
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Boulders along the old military mule track of Mt. Storile (Valtelline).
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Anybody hear anything from Rob lately. Wonder how he is doing?
My contribution: some people walk their dog, some walk their bicycle ;)
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Lovely… I really like this one and the diagonal beams of light really add something to this shot.
Well seen!
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Taken before Christmas, very early morning…
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It is a nice tribute to Rob that this thread that he started is still very much alive.
I hope he is well.
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(https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7510/16160835668_068439c887_h.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/qC5vpJ)Ragged Point, 1st attempt (https://flic.kr/p/qC5vpJ) by tanngrisnir3 (https://www.flickr.com/people/87368247@N00/), on Flickr
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I love the mood of this tempestuous weather and the jagged coastline.
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Snow boulder
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Postcard, with atypical landscape settings (F/1.4)
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What contrast between this one and those of your previous post! Tired of the snow? :D
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An orchid and a violet. I'm starting to think that close up focus stacking (at least) is not for me, way too much time to spend retouching.
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Cityscape
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Plan B ???
I would easily consider this plan A ;)
Btw, heard through the grapevine that Rob (the one who started this thread) is alive and doing well.
Hope he still looks here once in a while 8)
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Btw, heard through the grapevine that Rob (the one who started this thread) is alive and doing well.
Hope he still looks here once in a while 8)
I miss him. Come back Rob, even the marmots of the Brata hut ask about you!
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Not even the Industrial Zone could escape the dreaded blur of the fiendish photographer.
HR
(http://johnroias.smugmug.com/Camera-Impressions/i-j5B2d5m/0/M/May%2015-%202015%20James%20Gardens%20003%20copy1000-M.jpg) (http://johnroias.smugmug.com/Camera-Impressions/i-j5B2d5m/A)
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Marcia and I were out the other night at an author event - called the Asymmetrical Press 'WordTasting Tour' (http://asymmetrical.co/wordtasting/). Anyway, one of the opening presentations was a poem, "You Must Speak Louder". It ended with, "You must leave your bones on the beach with your jaw unhinged." or something like that.
It reminded me of an image I'd made a while back.
I also met an old man on the beach that same day. A philosopher, I tried to engage him but he would only speak to me of silence.
Mike.
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Marcia and I were out the other night at an author event - called the Asymmetrical Press 'WordTasting Tour' (http://asymmetrical.co/wordtasting/). Anyway, one of the opening presentations was a poem, "You Must Speak Louder". It ended with, "You must leave your bones on the beach with your jaw unhinged." or something like that.
It reminded me of an image I'd made a while back.
I also met an old man on the beach that same day. A philosopher, I tried to engage him but he would only speak to me of silence.
Mike.
I thought it was a jaw before reading your explanation. Very interesting walk and enjoyable presentation.
JR
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Thanks, John!
Mike.
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Welcome back Wolfnowl, I missed your competence (and sensibility) in matters of nature
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Feast
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^^ Great party up there Armand
How about some man made jumble
Sea of Bikes, and a strategy to find yours back in the crowd:
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Sea of Bikes, and a strategy to find yours back in the crowd:
I've seen similar with the luggage in the airport :)
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Lovely image Bill.
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Thanks, Graeme.
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Just for fun folks. I hope our photography group gets a laugh or two out of it.
JR
(http://johnroias.smugmug.com/Dowtown-TO/i-jdst9Bz/0/M/June%202-%202015%20Downtown-Centre%20Island%20043%20jonathan%20livingston%20copy1000-M.jpg) (http://johnroias.smugmug.com/Dowtown-TO/i-jdst9Bz/A)
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Excellent, Bill!
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Thanks, Slobodan. I've been going through some oldish photos that I've just not got around to processing, and wondering why I've left it so late with some of them. This one is over 3 years old
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Thanks, Slobodan. I've been going through some oldish photos that I've just not got around to processing, and wondering why I've left it so late with some of them. This one is over 3 years old
Time is a relative passage...outstanding capture and Great post!
Peter
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Time is a relative passage...outstanding capture and Great post!
Peter
+1.
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Lovely light and drama.
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Thanks all. Glad people like it
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A few interiors from Penryhn Castle.
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And a few more...
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& yet more
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Thanks, Slobodan. I've been going through some oldish photos that I've just not got around to processing, and wondering why I've left it so late with some of them. This one is over 3 years old
Well done!
Leaving this til now and taking advantage of current editors may not have been such a bad idea.
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Some garden flowers
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Some garden flowers
Nicely done.
The 3rd could be enhanced with some cropping IMHO
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Taken about two thirds the way up Mt. Snowdon, North Wales
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Haven't posted for a while, hands…
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Gentiana acaulis L. and Saxifraga stellaris L. Western Grosina Valley.
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Gentiana acaulis L. and Saxifraga stellaris L. Western Grosina Valley.
I love the first one (Gentiana), those rich blues are pure luxury!
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I love the first one (Gentiana), those rich blues are pure luxury!
From Wikipedia :"This plant, like others of its genus, is valued in cultivation for the unusually pure intense blue of its blooms."
But this is a wild Gentiana. (And the blue is a Leica lens blue...)
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Had breakfast at the Sydney Fish Markets, the largest fish markets in the southern hemisphere. The pelicans are very interesting.
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Cheers,
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I illuminated this night bloom with an LED C-cell flashlight.
Bruce
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I illuminated this night bloom with an LED C-cell flashlight.
Lovely. Perhaps you could darken the very bright leaves on the right.
Jeremy
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Lovely. Perhaps you could darken the very bright leaves on the right.
Jeremy
I hadn't thought of that.
I may give it a try.
When the light is no longer coming from the lower right, maybe the flower will be the light source.
Bruce
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I saw it, and photographed it. I don't dislike it, in fact, I don't think it's too bad at all. I just can't work out why.
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When the light is no longer coming from the lower right, maybe the flower will be the light source.
Exactly.
Jeremy
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I saw it, and photographed it. I don't dislike it, in fact, I don't think it's too bad at all. I just can't work out why.
Because it looks good in gray scale too?
Bruce
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Bruce
I know I quite like it, in particular the play of light, but I suppose it's not the sort of subject I would normally photograph
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Bruce
I know I quite like it, in particular the play of light, but I suppose it's not the sort of subject I would normally photograph
Stacy says, that it is different, is a good enough reason to like it.
I say four alterations of light dark is a good number. The composition works both deep or flat. The railing protects us from the telescoped space colapsing back at us, discourages speeders, and seems readily surmountable should we dare proceed. Our hero at the other end seems to be escaping in good order, which is more than I can say for my prospects with the hole I'm in.
Bruce
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Well at least Russ should like - the hand of man & all that jazz :)
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A couple from Wimpole Hall.
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Like the sun.
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View from the flanks of Bow Fell, English Lake District
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View from the flanks of Bow Fell, English Lake District
Very nice, Bill.
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Thanks, Eric
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A few from Baddesley Clinton. An interesting historic house. National Trust: The volunteer guides are mostly OK but there are a couple of real PITAs lurking in amongst them.
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Exactly.
Jeremy
[See previous page]
I did move toward the general direction of your idea if not fallow it exactly.
Bruce
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Really nice.
Now for mine - and yes, I know the highlights are a little bit blown in one of them :)
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Lovely scenes, Bill.
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[See previous page]
I did move toward the general direction of your idea if not fallow it exactly.
I don't like the crop: I think it's unnecessary and spoils the image. But it's your shot.
Jeremy
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I don't like the crop: I think it's unnecessary and spoils the image....
Jeremy, I will be reporting you to Rob, for a gross violation of his thread's original intention. You do not want Rob's wrath and locking of the thread! ;D
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Jeremy, I will be reporting you to Rob, for a gross violation of his thread's original intention. You do not want Rob's wrath and locking of the thread! ;D
Now now. Bruce was responding to a suggestion I'd made, so it would have been churlish not to have acknowledged him.
It'd be awfully nice to hear from Rob again, though.
Jeremy
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Five frame stitch. View from Langdale, English Lake District
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Really nice.
As for mine, it is assuming a defensive position.
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Really nice.
As for mine, it is assuming a defensive position.
Am I allowed to say I like this one, Slobodan? :)
Jeremy
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Rosebay willowherb near Baita (alpine hut) Brata, Queen of the snow.
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Rosebay willowherb near Baita (alpine hut) Brata, Queen of the snow.
You are not alone. These were shot last week.
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Once again welcome back Rob.
A Trent Parke inspired image.
(http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-KL-mH434Xa0/VeEfDQkrqQI/AAAAAAAAAFw/EligGXt5RSQ/s1600/tpm.jpg)
Cheers,
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You are not alone. These were shot last week.
It's one of the most generous plants, It offers abundant elegance and beauty free of cost...
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Some hops in our garden I have been wanting to shoot for several days.
Yesterday finally the wind subsided
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NEX6 + Porst 240/4.5 @ f4.5 (M42) on a bellows
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Why I like cheap restaurants.
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Rob, finalmente!
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Quite a compelling image there, Rob. It is pleasantly surreal.
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Rob, finalmente!
Prego; mio piacere!
;-)
Rob
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Quite a compelling image there, Rob. It is pleasantly surreal.
Bob, when you live on this either overheated or freezing island, everything becomes surreal.
Trouble is, you can sometimes begin to wonder if it's all in your mind, and that the white coats on the peg are just holding still and pretending to be empty until you look the other way.
It's the financial crisis that's at the bottom of it all.
Thanks!
Rob
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Nice to know 50s hi-speed film still available - indirectly.
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unlikely companions
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Okay, no park, no hedges, no corpses and certainly no fantasy tennis. However, PS does let you play at Antonioni in the comfort of your own pad, and for no more money than the electricity bill.
I think I prefer this single to the double.
Rob
P.S. Oooh! It looks much flatter here than in PS. I wonder if it has anything to do with the new 'system'?
P.P.S. It has; I just opened both together and I was right: it's gone flat. Such is life.
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At the zoo
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I think the unknown chick in my pic has just set eyes on the one in yours below her!
Ain't life wonderful?
;-)
Rob
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I thought Armand's photo would be a good one for your "portraiture" thread, Rob.
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Actually, I saw armand's model drive past in a 4WD this morning. Almost killed me!
Rob
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That beautiful Matrix Moment!
;-)
Rob C
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My contribution to the gallery of (dangerous) women. Misumena vatia, I've read that she is used to eat the male après l'amour...
P.S. I was wrong, the female of Misumenia vatia doesn't eat the male.
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Evening light over Belstone Tor, Dartmoor
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Very nice, Mr. Chairman.
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Snoopy
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NEX5 + OM Zuiko 85/2
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Peaking
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Sometimes it's just too wet, too sunny, too damned cold to bother leaving the house.
The alternatives that lie around you when you lock into that space aren't exactly thrilling, because, truth to tell, you no longer really see them at all, just like those relationships where, as in Billy Joe Royal's song, the only time we're touchin' is when we're passin' in the hall.
But even so, the mind usually doesn't close down and go to sleep; sometimes it's impossible to go to sleep even when you are as tired as you have ever been – it just doesn't come or you simply lose the off switch. Same result.
But there's always photography, if you're lucky, and through that sweet bitch you can find something new, that you realise you hadn't been aware of, existing right under your nose. In fact, though I live on a so-called holiday island, the motivation that brought me here, sunshine, sand, sea and beautiful clichéd picture locations, now usually stands in the way of what I find most interesting from a photographic perspective. I've become possibly over-fond of gloomier days, find dark clouds reflecting in windows rather appealing, and pray for the day when it'll be cold enough for condensation to run down the windows of the local bars so that I can pretend to be in New York in the 50s, and shoot people scurrying by with red umbrellas. No prizes for sourcing.
However, that doesn't tie with those days when I know I'm just going to make my own lunch and spend hours wondering how to pass the journey to bedtime. Sometimes, I'm not even aware I'm going to do that until I find myself, keys in hand, at the front door, and suddenly stop, say eff it, I can do as well here. Of course, I can't, but it doesn't matter; I just know there's nothing out there that I want on that particular day, least of all people.
For some reason, straight after eating, dishes piled in the sink, is often the moment that I find myself pulling out the D200 and wandering around the old familiar. And I can get lost in it, truly lost in a little dwam where my mother's painting, bought during one of her car trips to Tuscany with an old friend from Perthshire, and now hanging somewhat indignantly (the painting) between a topless b/white and a couple of colour printed landscapes, becomes a real location within which I can do some silent and undisturbed photography. Lens wide open, hand-held, light from outside bouncing all over the place, it's a tiny adventure inside my head. And blur. Yeah, I love blur; it shrouds in mystery to lay bare what's actualy real inside your mind. Folks should enjoy it more. Nobody who isn't occupied with commercial/scientific/clinical reproduction of some sort need slip into the prisoner of war condition that technology forces upon one. The hell with megas this or that; who cares? Only you; and you probaby don't want to understand why, the why being that it helps you to avoid a deeper truth that mightn't be to your liking; it's an evasion of the final moment of truth: the image. I'm not being smug: I've been there, done that and got the D700 which, to most folks, would mean the retirement of the D200. Irony lies in the fact that it's the D700 that lies quietly in the dark most of the time, only seeing daylight when I need a wide, film-days lens to give me its raison d'être. I can't tell you why I really, really have the newer camera (though I admit to having tried to rationalize my choice), especially as I am perfectly happy to add grain all by myself. I suppose it comes down to a moment of madness. The last thing the amateur needs is to be a collector.
But as I was saying, the snap within a snap is always available if you seek it out. And you don't have to step outside when you can't be bothered with the hassle of what's out there.
And it doesn't have to be your mother's old painting, it can be a cupboard, a door or even the corner of your kitchen. Personally, I find lots to think about with wooden shutters, especially when they are wet with rain. Apart from varnishing the damned things, that is, which I do but detest doing.
Not a natural digital fan and especially not a Photoshop devotee, I can thank my lucky stars that they both came into my life. Why? Because I discovered something I hadn't quite accepted before, that I've been touching upon in this note: it doesn't always have to be about what you shoot, it's also possible for it to be about what you can do with what you shot. That opens up a line of enquiry that transparency film didn't, if only for the cost and relative finality of the act as performed inside the camera.
Explore both your inner spaces.
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Plums
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Peaking
I love that kind of photography.
Rob C
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Had coffee here today; reminded me of this shot made a while ago, just around the time I realised that manual focussing and my eyesight didn't make for happy bedfellows anymore. So I bought an af lens.
Thing is, I now find myself overriding af as much as I use it, just lke Auto ISO, which works very well, but not always as I'd want it to do.
C'est la vie; if it's not one damned thing it's another.
Rob C
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P.S. Still don't understand why LuLa makes the printing on my pix look out of focus. I remember same years ago.
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Wednesday, most weeks, but only sometimes.
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Wednesday, most weeks, but only sometimes.
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Yes... handfuls!
Peter
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Yes... handfuls!
Peter
Them wuz the days...
;-(
Rob C
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Another handful.
Unless you use a glass, of course.
Rob C
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Another handful.
Unless you use a glass, of course.
Rob C
Nice to see Ms. Coke again (with friend).
Eric
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fireworks
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Nice to see Ms. Coke again (with friend).
Eric
Yes, Eric, and I was lucky enough to take her to the beach with another friend, where she decided she'd like to be a bit more colourful and play around with a conch shell or two.
I'll have to get her permission - her release - for Internet use of such a private moment; she handles visibility situations one by one, giving them all due attention regarding suitablilty of context, and so forth. No daft mamma, she!
I'll be nice to her (was I ever anything else?) and see what I can do.
Rob C
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Anybody else 'mature' enough to remember this kick?
Rob C
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Note to self: do this type of photography when the wind is not blowing
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Note to self: do this type of photography when the wind is not blowing
I like. ... This image begs to be printed--at least 20" wide.
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Street People
Rob C
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Still wondering why everything is going soft; look at the lettering!
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Street People
Rob C
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Rob,
A most haunting unsetteling image. But I can't quite say as to why this image makes me feel that way...
Peter
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... Still wondering why everything is going soft; look at the lettering!
Browser. Blurred on Safari, crisp on Chrome (both on Mac).
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That seed was there again this evening when I came from work, with no wind at all until I found that the battery was dead. Back in house, when I came back the wind was blowing.
2 versions of it.
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equally dead - a focus stack
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Rob,
A most haunting unsetteling image. But I can't quite say as to why this image makes me feel that way...
Peter
Hi Peter,
Yes, I know what you mean. It's what happens to me this way all the time, in that I wander around aimlessly, and something just reaches out. I can't predict where or when, I can't manufacture it.
For example: Wednesday is market day here in Puerto Pollensa, and the place fills with hundreds of people thronging around a smallish square filled with all the crap that you can imagine as well as some nice farm produce, much of which is not actually locally grown at all, but comes for wherever stuff's in season or the feezers big enough. The perimeter of the trading zone's got a lot of cafes doing good business, and you can't find a seat because they are all filled, not with towels but with asses. Now, I pass all of them a couple of times and see nobody worthy of a snap; nobody. That's hard to believe out of so many. Then, as yesterday, boredom lets me sneak past the flowerpots set up to divert people into a regular way-in to a certain bar, and I find an empty spot. (Being thin allows for some of these tactics.) After a while, a pair of girls finds another table and I watch over my coffee. One animated girl in heavy sunglasses seems quite attractive at fifteen feet, and I eventually decide she's worth a couple of images.
I get home, stick the stuff into PS and in moments wonder what the hell I'd been thinking about. Dumped.
In other words, things reach out, but they are often just chimeras.
As I have said before, Saul Leiter's a hero, and one of the simple, deep things that he said, and that I paraphrase here, was this: if I knew what was going to be good, I wouldn't have had to take all the others.
And then there's the viewer perspective. In your shot of the Uber thinggy, the first thing that hit me was the lovely girl on the poster on the right, with the low-cut back on her dress. The same shot, and others saw something quite else.
In the end, I think we react not to what's just physically there, but to something else that triggers what's inside of us rather than what the shooter is trying to catch that suits his game plan.
Rob C
P.S. I think that the experiences/reactions we are both talking about constitute one of the factors that strongly influences my belief in a God and a hereafter. Take that away, and it would all be worthless baggage and Nature, in her ruthless efficiency, wouldn't have saddled us with it.
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Browser. Blurred on Safari, crisp on Chrome (both on Mac).
I'm usually on Internet Explorer because I know how, within it, to put things onto various 'favourite' lists, which are now all so long I couldn't face starting over on another system.
I tried both Firefox and Chrome and they worked fine! I'm on Windows 8 within a Classic Shell configuration just so I can understand it (a bit!). But I can't understand why these shold differ; I had thought that a digital signal was as basic as + or - and there was no room for error...
Thanks for researching it for me, Slobodan.
Rob C
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equally dead - a focus stack
This falls into the fine art category. A series on death and decay?
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Anybody got a copy of The "Chirping" Crickets still playable?
Rob C
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P.S.
The blurry caption glitch has been fixed; thanks, lads!
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Rob,
A most haunting unsetteling image. But I can't quite say as to why this image makes me feel that way...
Peter
There was a Dr Who series, I remember from a long time ago, in which the enemies were all shop dummies, whose hands flipped down to reveal weapons. Reminds me of that. Creepy indeed.
Jeremy
PS: and a Google search reveals it was 1970, and in colour: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auton
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There was a Dr Who series, I remember from a long time ago, in which the enemies were all shop dummies, whose hands flipped down to reveal weapons. Reminds me of that. Creepy indeed.
Jeremy
PS: and a Google search reveals it was 1970, and in colour: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auton
Yep, I remember that one.
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There was a Dr Who series, I remember from a long time ago, in which the enemies were all shop dummies, whose hands flipped down to reveal weapons. Reminds me of that. Creepy indeed.
Jeremy
PS: and a Google search reveals it was 1970, and in colour: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auton
I remember that show, in the sense that it existed, never saw it...
Peter
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I remember that show, in the sense that it existed, never saw it...
Peter
I love that concept, Peter: it's exactly what the illusive image is really all about: the suggestion of what might be there, could one but see it clearly enough to describe it instead of just feeling it.
Rob C
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It occured to me that this is actually WP2 and that the original purpose of this thread, for those not blessed with remarkable memories (or not here long enough to know) is lost in the mists of time.
To articulate again: there are several areas within LuLa where images can be posted for comment and advice on technique etc., both from the raw beginner's perspective to the pro section elsewhere. This thread was started on the premise that it should house images that are posted simply because the author likes them, and wants to share, in the belief that others may find something of spiritual interest in those images too.
Indeed, the expectation is that posters here already know what they are doing, don't want somebody telling them how it could be done 'better' and otherwise just be smart-ass at the poster's expense.
As such, I'm delighted to notice that recent comments here are pretty much exactly where I'd wanted this thread to go: it's interesting to see how other people respond to whatever has made the author make that picture, and I think that's where comments serve their most useful purpose. It's one thing feeling compelled to go click!, and quite another to see whether the motivation has been successfully transformed from original mental stimulation to visual representation. And it works in both directions: it's always interesting to get an entirely different reaction to the one felt at the moment of exposure.
So, yeah, thank's for the manner in which this is being carried out; it's very gratifying!
Rob C
P.S. Shoudda sed: if an image leaves you cold, then silence is certainly the kinder option! ;-)
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So, yeah, thank's for the manner in which this is being carried out; it's very gratifying!
Rob C
Rob, that calls for a celebration
With a nice pastry:
(https://pegelli.smugmug.com/Events/Dyxum-Rotterdam-20150823/i-nKMgRVw/1/O/PEG_NEX6_2_03096_20150823-L.jpg) (https://pegelli.smugmug.com/Events/Dyxum-Rotterdam-20150823/i-nKMgRVw/A)
Or maybe a cool refreshing beer:
(https://pegelli.smugmug.com/Events/Dyxum-Rotterdam-20150823/i-jF88s6r/0/O/PEG_NEX6_2_03159_20150823-L.jpg) (https://pegelli.smugmug.com/Events/Dyxum-Rotterdam-20150823/i-jF88s6r/A)
The pastry is from the place where historically the ships from the "Holland-America Line" departed for the US in the 20th century, the beer is from where the Pilgrim fathers departed a few centuries earlier to the same place.
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Buddy there looks like a katydid, not a cricket. Katydids are even louder.
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Take care, pegelli, you might put on weight! Or not. I was always thin, regardless of eating absolutely everything that I liked, but I was also the dope to get the heart attacks!
One of the treats on our drives back to Scotland was going to M&S and buying their meringues and chocolate eclaires, and downing them with afternoon tea! Of such was heaven made, or so I imagined until later in life.
;-(
Rob C
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I love that concept, Peter: it's exactly what the illusive image is really all about: the suggestion of what might be there, could one but see it clearly enough to describe it instead of just feeling it.
Rob C
Rob,
I know all art is illusive...and that's where all the magic lives.
Peter
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Cheers, Pieter!
(https://drscdn.500px.org/photo/78927493/m%3D900/34765d5a21599a3cc9cfd92f4affb1a8)
(https://drscdn.500px.org/photo/62281373/m%3D900/f7a812986993b64fcb1765849aeef00c)
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Buddy there looks like a katydid, not a cricket. Katydids are even louder.
But... but this is Mallorca, not North America. Please don't tell me they can cross oceans!
However, Lubbock, Texas is America, so perhaps you were right after all.
Was a time they drove me crazy; then a few years ago I thought they'd gone to pastures new. However, in early August, my daughter came out on holiday and complained about the screeches. I couldn't hear a damned thing. Clearly, they hadn't become migrants (oops!), but I'd lost their wavelength. So, age does bring some rewards...
;-)
Rob
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But... but this is Mallorca, not North America. Please don't tell me they can cross oceans!
But then agan, Lubbock, Texas is America. Maybe you're right after all.
Was a time they drove me crazy; then a few years ago I thought they'd gone to pastures new. However, in early August, my daughter came out on holiday and complained about the screeches. I couldn't hear a damned thing. Clearly, they hadn't become migrants (oops!), but I'd lost their wavelength. So, age does bring some rewards...
;-)
Rob
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Mycena sp. near Sufignon.
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Some things never die in the heart.
Rob C
(http://www.roma57.com/uploads/4/2/8/7/4287956/6800895_orig.jpg)
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'Negatives" is "just like a ball and chain".
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Here you go Rob -
http://www.soundboard.com/sb/Katydid_sounds
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Here you go Rob -
http://www.soundboard.com/sb/Katydid_sounds
I mentioned earlier the doubtful pleasure of having moved 'beyond' the beasties' vocal range; further example of that hit me the other day when I went to the AGM of the community in which I live: I realised that the echo within the meeting room was preventing me from picking up clearly quite a few of the voices. Several people who were old when I was middle-aged used to say "don't raise your voice, that doesn't help. It's about clarity, not volume."
Who need crickets, anyway?
;-)
Rob C
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For those who speak French, an untranslatable joke.
A couple lying in bed:
Her: J'éteigne ?
Him: Oui, je t'aime !
...
He thinks: Putain d’acouphène...
(I'll turn out the light?
Yes! I love you!
...
Damn ringing in the ears :-( )
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For those who speak French, an untranslatable joke.
A couple lying in bed:
Her: J'éteigne ?
Him: Oui, je t'aime !
...
He thinks: Putain d’acouphène...
(I'll turn out the light?
Yes! I love you!
...
Damn ringing in the ears :-( )
Though that'll - uhm - go down well in parts of Canada, Buddy was from Texas...
;-)
Rob C
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Found in my garden yesterday. Amused me, anyway.
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Found in my garden yesterday. Amused me, anyway.
Hot news: Slowest Suicide Ever Hits Garden!
Rob C
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Morning Lineup...
Peter
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Morning Monoliths...
Peter
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Peter, there's something very church-like in that shot.
It also reminds me of the Scottish Parliament building which was apparently designed by a Spanish architect who died, and then the project completed by his wife. This is from memory and I made no notes, but I'm absolutely certain that Isaac will know...
Anyway, the point is that they apparently and collectively designed some sort of sloped sitting area which, in the event, is too low to permit ease of sitting other than for the special Swiss gents from Zurich who deal with finance. Whether this was, in fact, a purpose-built option designed to keep out the international press whilst facilitating secret talks remains to be disclosed, but then with so many leaks it's sure the "truth" will surface in the end, and Gulag will publish.
Disclaimer: this could be entirely another place of which I think, but it was definitely Edinburgh, as in Scotland.
Rob C
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It's a splendid shot Peter. If the tables were bare, it would be much less interesting. The napkin rolls, etc., on the tables are so delicate they make a fine counterpoint to the massive architecture and rigid areas of light and shadow.
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It's a splendid shot Peter. If the tables were bare, it would be much less interesting. The napkin rolls, etc., on the tables are so delicate they make a fine counterpoint to the massive architecture and rigid areas of light and shadow.
+1. Great shot
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This from the place I probably use most for lunch. It's usually more full, but I've noticed it starts to fill after I've reached coffee... maybe this poor lady didn't know.
There must be a not-so-hidden message there, but I turn a blind eye. Needs must! ;-)
Rob C
(http://www.roma57.com/uploads/4/2/8/7/4287956/721108_orig.jpg)
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Sony? What Sony? Florence? Nope, home.
D200 and some tiny thought. And Vaseline. That was the tiny thought.
Oh, and for our technicians: ISO 200, 1/4th sec, f2.8/24mm manual lens, wide open. Flesh tripod.
They do say that most of the action that a swan indulges in goes on below his Plimsoll line.
;-)
Rob C
(http://www.roma57.com/uploads/4/2/8/7/4287956/293566_orig.jpg)
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Rob,
Leda with Swan...Anyone?
Peter
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Rob,
Leda with Swan...Anyone?
Peter
Our slips are showing, Peter.
;-)
Rob
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Our slips are showing, Peter.
;-)
Rob
A little slip peek at a slip, now and then, makes for a happier day...
Peter
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A little slip peek at a slip, now and then, makes for a happier day...
Peter
I know, I know, but the problems arise when that little peep isn't quite enough. Ask our priapic swan... Zeus! What am I saying?
Rob
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I know, I know, but the problems arise when that little peep isn't quite enough. Ask our priapic swan... Zeus! What am I saying?
Rob
I will ponder that while in the studio today...
Peter
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Yes, Leda with Swan, dirty old men ;)
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Yes, Leda with Swan, dirty old men ;)
David, David! Didn't you mean dirty old swan?
;-)
Rob
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I'm so glad you are back, livening up this otherwise fairly dull place, Rob!
Keep working that "flesh tripod."
Eric
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I'm so glad you are back, livening up this otherwise fairly dull place, Rob!
Keep working that "flesh tripod."
Eric
Eric!
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I put this one into the thread elsewhere about cameras for black/white digital. I think I might have annoyed the serious folks, so here we go again in a safer place where nobody expects anything much from anyone. Peace!
;-)
Rob C
(http://www.roma57.com/uploads/4/2/8/7/4287956/9818331_orig.jpg)
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I can't match Rob's six bottles, but these are bigger
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Rob and Bill:
Maybe you two should collaborate on an exhibit (or perhaps a book). You could call it "99 Bottles of Beer on the Wall." ;)
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I can't match Rob's six bottles, but these are bigger
Lovely catch!
Rob C
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Complete fake because ain't no glass here at all! Purists, look away NOW!
(Another lunch...)
Rob C
(http://www.roma57.com/uploads/4/2/8/7/4287956/4164458_orig.jpg)
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Yes, Eric, and I was lucky enough to take her to the beach with another friend, where she decided she'd like to be a bit more colourful and play around with a conch shell or two.
I'll have to get her permission - her release - for Internet use of such a private moment; she handles visibility situations one by one, giving them all due attention regarding suitablilty of context, and so forth. No daft mamma, she!
I'll be nice to her (was I ever anything else?) and see what I can do.
Rob C
Ooops! Sorry, Eric, in the heat of several moments I completely forgot about the shell I'd promised you!
(The Parasol bit's a reference to our client on the day.)
Here's the music for it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svQEi5n8GRA
Rob C
(http://www.roma57.com/uploads/4/2/8/7/4287956/1117022_orig.jpg)
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Train with a view
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David, David! Didn't you mean dirty old swan?
;-)
Rob
+1 and I second Eric's comment!
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My supersleuth stage.
Rob C
(http://www.roma57.com/uploads/4/2/8/7/4287956/8573155_orig.jpg)
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The dream stage, or more like caught between dream and...
Peter
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The dream stage, or more like caught between dream and...
Peter
Actually, caught with my pants down!
I've become so used to working on auto ISO that I forgot that I'd gone manual again until I clicked. Then, I guessed it would have been so under-exposed I had better not even bother with it once it opened in the computer. Happily, I don't chimp, so didn't dump it there and then. When it did open, I thought b/white, but decided nope, better as it is.
Jus' showz to go you: hang on until the bitter end!
Rob C
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Actually, caught with my pants down!
I've become so used to working on auto ISO that I forgot that I'd gone manual again until I clicked. Then, I guessed it would have been so under-exposed I had better not even bother with it once it opened in the computer. Happily, I don't chimp, so didn't dump it there and then. When it did open, I thought b/white, but decided nope, better as it is.
Jus' showz to go you: hang on until the bitter end!
Rob C
Never dump in public...wait until your in the privacy of home.
Peter
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Never dump in public...wait until your in the privacy of home.
Peter
My old dog wouldn't have liked to hear that advice!
;-)
Rob C
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One for the Chairman:
Rob C
(http://www.roma57.com/uploads/4/2/8/7/4287956/895811_orig.jpg)
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A very solemn image...A place for one's daly bread.
Peter
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Strangely attracted to blistering paint
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An instant map of Europe!
Rob C
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A very solemn image...A place for one's daly bread.
Peter
Very solemn, Peter; the shot's taken from the steps leading up to the loos, and for the disabled, it means you have to use your pants - though up or down is optional. Not a brilliant idea, but the food is: French chef/owner, local Mallorquin prices (medium).
This bears out what I've said before about out-and-about photography on your own: travel light - you never know when you might want to use the Gents room!
Ten to ten in the morning; why the hell am I thinking about bathrooms?
Rob C
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One for the Chairman:
Rob C
(http://www.roma57.com/uploads/4/2/8/7/4287956/895811_orig.jpg)
Like it. Off to find ten green bottles
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Damien?
Rob C
(http://www.roma57.com/uploads/4/2/8/7/4287956/1283876_orig.jpg)
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(http://www.roma57.com/uploads/4/2/8/7/4287956/9314203_orig.jpg)
Avoid cholesterol-laden food.
Rob C
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Damien?
Rob C
(http://www.roma57.com/uploads/4/2/8/7/4287956/1283876_orig.jpg)
A Foreshadowing?
Peter
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We have a creative competition and I was asked to do something involving more than camera movement so I can learn PP skills. This is what I came up with.
(https://johnroias.smugmug.com/Autumn-2015/i-348f3K9/0/M/Sept%2027-28-2015%20Algonquin%20area%20250%20copy1000-original-M.jpg) (https://johnroias.smugmug.com/Autumn-2015/i-348f3K9/A)
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We have a creative competition and I was asked to do something involving more than camera movement so I can learn PP skills. This is what I came up with.
(https://johnroias.smugmug.com/Autumn-2015/i-VDRB3Xp/0/M/Sept%2027-28-2015%20Algonquin%20area%20250%20copy1000-M.jpg) (https://johnroias.smugmug.com/Autumn-2015/i-VDRB3Xp/A)
You're ringing my bells, John! I like this kind of imagery a lot; straight pictures can become very, well, straight!
Rob
(http://www.roma57.com/uploads/4/2/8/7/4287956/657867_orig.jpg)
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I always encourage people to shoot straight jpegs when they are learning. So they can get it right in the camera and worry about fixing the dark and light areas later. Except for slight crop, here is one right out of camera, as wild as yours Rob. And here is second image that didn't quite make it; I tried to capture the flare, but it went out of control, as you can see.
(https://johnroias.smugmug.com/Autumn-2015/i-bV89qCP/0/M/Sept%2027-28-2015%20Algonquin%20area%20241%20copy1000-2-M.jpg) (https://johnroias.smugmug.com/Autumn-2015/i-bV89qCP/A)
(https://johnroias.smugmug.com/Autumn-2015/i-HkxsjR6/0/M/Sept%2027-28-2015%20Algonquin%20area%20251%20copy1000-M.jpg) (https://johnroias.smugmug.com/Autumn-2015/i-HkxsjR6/A)
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in the garden
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The mad hatters (Madrid)
(https://pegelli.smugmug.com/Events/Dyxum-Madrid-201111/i-t3tDcGr/0/O/PEG_A850_05708_20111106-L.jpg) (https://pegelli.smugmug.com/Events/Dyxum-Madrid-201111/i-t3tDcGr/A)
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Great shot, Peter
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Great shot! Esp with the two hatless people in the middle bookended by the white hat folks.
Nice!
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Finding myself in a rare, gentle mood:
(http://www.roma57.com/uploads/4/2/8/7/4287956/3528222_orig.jpg)
;-)
Rob C
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;-)
Rob C
A sweet lament...
Peter
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A sweet lament...
Peter
Yeah, Peter, I looked at it in b/w for a moment, and felt it lost pretty much everything when that delicate colouring was missing. It was the understatement of colour and sadness of its reality that caught me at once. Like a beautifully aged movie star. I often wonder how great beauties, who can't hang on to their beauty in a different way later on, react to the mirror. I've seen some truly wonderous ladies in their 80s... it's the delicacy, the indestructible line of good bones, all with the knowing look in the eyes.
A year or two ago I had the surprise of my life when I was shooting my local muso friends in a bar; this very attractive woman walked past me up at the front of the band and smiled straight at me on her way to the Ladies room. I smiled back, surprised and flattered that an old guy like me could still raise interest. She smiled again on her way back to wherever she'd been sitting. The next week I was back shooting when somebody tapped me on the shoulder. I looked around and it was the same woman. Before I could say anthing to cover my surprise she said my name. Then she introduced herself. One of my original Scottish models out for the winter! After feeling an ass for not knowing who she was, shattered that it hadn't been my ahem, sex appeal after all, I realised that she was in her early 60s and still looked great: cheek bones, jaw line. Never let you down if you have 'em.
I don't know if the petals had any, though, but they do boast a twig...
Rob C
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(http://www.roma57.com/uploads/4/2/8/7/4287956/7923370_orig.jpg)
Reflecting on the extremes of living. Perhaps the last word (above) is lost on non-British speakers.
Rob C
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English Lake District
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As time rolls on, I find myself preferring winter to summer, from a snaps point of view, at least.
(http://www.roma57.com/uploads/4/2/8/7/4287956/9494186_orig.jpg)
Rob C
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Love it, whatever the time of year
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Thank you, Bill, I got into appreciating this sort of thing many years ago through, again, American photography magazines. At the time, the UK ones such as Amateur Photographer were obsessed with snaps of fishermen complete with the obligatory pipe (for smoking) and heavy-ribbed, clean sweater; sometimes, you actually saw a little piece of net... Things picked up when I discovered Photography, a very different publication edited by Norman Hall. Within, I found the whole Parisian ethos with its incoming eastern-European migrants from persecution, the work of the new wave Italians and so on. Eye-opening stuff! It was that same magazine that saw my first published picture - a Polish model's portrait which shared space alongside Peter Sellers' pix of Britt Ekland... heady stuff for one callow youth!
There's such a tease with this kind of material - I suppose with 'street', in the sense of people-pix, too, in that it can't happen outwith the right place. For example: there have been several well-published images of ladies (very elegantly dressed) trying to cross puddles/gutters, their high heels and nylons marking such beautiful, delicate counterpoint to the black, wet and filthy drain water. I love those moments of contrast; makes one feel so lucky to be human and have women to brighten the days. In the sticks, nobody dresses up; mostly, as with France, you see deserted villages. I can't count the number of French villages we drove through, looking for a café in which to buy a coffee - everything looked closed, but the streets are beautiful with well-maintained flowerpots! Makes a whole new dimension to The Deserted Village.
Frankly, it's one of the reasons I'd like to move from the tranquility and return to a big city. Too much tranquility and you fall asleep - one good reason for being with Lula!
Rob C
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Maybe I get a bit of both worlds - living in rural Somerset, yet working in a capital city (even if Cardiff isn't that big). I do get the occasional urge to get off the train in Bristol & wander around taking urban landscapes. Maybe next summer, on the way home ...
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Maybe I get a bit of both worlds - living in rural Somerset, yet working in a capital city (even if Cardiff isn't that big). I do get the occasional urge to get off the train in Bristol & wander around taking urban landscapes. Maybe next summer, on the way home ...
Now, if you were to try it on the way to work one day, could change your life!
;-)
Rob
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Yeah, I could end up unemployed & on the streets full time
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Yeah, I could end up unemployed & on the streets full time
That could easily be par for the photographic course!
Rob
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From Rob I'm learning not only photography, but english language too. Alas! I'm a very bad learner in both subjects.
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From Rob I'm learning not only photography, but english language too. Alas! I'm a very bad learner in both subjects.
I wish I could learn languages as poorly as you do. ;)
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From Rob I'm learning not only photography, but english language too. Alas! I'm a very bad learner in both subjects.
But you have a wonderful sense of humour!
Thanks, anyway ;-)
Rob C
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For Peter, with fond Cat thoughts!
Rob C
(http://www.roma57.com/uploads/4/2/8/7/4287956/1442953_orig.jpg)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wgetd17XTOY
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Thank you, Keith.
That was indeed an occassion for bringing out the Gitzo with three legs. I have adapted a shopping basket (on wheels) to carry it... but still tend not to go there. Thing is, without low sun neither lens nor basket do much for me, and as I have no clothes people to pay for anything any more... Clothes people? No people!
;-)
Rob
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For Peter, with fond Cat thoughts!
Rob C
(http://www.roma57.com/uploads/4/2/8/7/4287956/1442953_orig.jpg)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wgetd17XTOY
I know of Sea Dogs...Sea CATS is an all new concept! And a great moment, indeed.
Peter
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I know of Sea Dogs...Sea CATS is an all new concept! And a great moment, indeed.
Peter
Before I came to live out here I used to have a dream where I would have this little old folding director's picnic chair, be wearing my Walkman, the Beachboys in my head, and sit out at the end of some harbour I had yet to see, and watch through a long lens as life sailed peacefully past.
Stood at the end of many harbours after that little fantasy, but without chair, defunct Walkman or anything else but the photographic bits...
Something's always missing in the real world.
Rob C
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Hell, Rob, winter is approaching together with that low sun. Man, get yourself that chair and wheel out that pod and cat!
Actually, I was thinking about trying to use it to get some weird market shots, but I think I'll save them until my ND arrives, which won't fit that lens anyway.
Unless my gut settles soon I won't be doing much of anything. I was sick (violently) most of Sunday night, stayed in bed Monday till noon and eat nothing but drank lots of water. Tuesday I went out to lunch, where the owner told me it wasn't me, it was something doing the rounds: he and his son had had two days of it! That was all I needed: decided that was where I'd picked it up! Felt grim all today and made myself some rice. As they said at the end of the famous movie: tomorrow's another day!
Cheers!
Rob
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Rob, get well soon!
Thanks - had lunch out again today and feel quite good! Time for another snap, in fact!
(http://www.roma57.com/uploads/4/2/8/7/4287956/5717071_orig.jpg)
Rob C
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A few from St Michael's, Kirby Malham, UK.
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One of the rare times (as in 2) when I managed to carry the Tamron 150-600 with me.
Focus works well with a D750, here are a couple of examples.
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Rob - nice lunch time shot. Nicely balanced in composition and tone.
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Rob - nice lunch time shot. Nicely balanced in composition and tone.
Could say the same about Armand's 2 photos: Looks like the little guy's hiding & the big one's seeking.
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Rob - nice lunch time shot. Nicely balanced in composition and tone.
Thanks - but I think I misled you: "lunchtime shot" was a reference to my feeling like posting a shot after lunch on the day of the post, not that I'd made it that day! But it was made after lunch a year on two ago - it's the daily period I seem to find most energy to do much of anything!
Armand's two shots do make for perfect mutual companions, the one to the other.
Rob C
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I wanted a grainy moonlit seascape, but time was short, and the weather wasn't about to deliver any visible moon before we left, so I improvised a bit, and thought I could sort things in processing. So a daytime shot, but hopefully looking a little bit moonish. Whaddya think? Does it work?
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I wanted a grainy moonlit seascape, but time was short, and the weather wasn't about to deliver any visible moon before we left, so I improvised a bit, and thought I could sort things in processing. So a daytime shot, but hopefully looking a little bit moonish. Whaddya think? Does it work?
I think cropping the picture on the right-side, just beyond the driftwood, will strengthen the composition. I think it's okay to open up the upper sky to let the grain show. This image will look great on cotton natural hot press paper. When looking at your picture, I am reminded of Nicéphore Niépce.
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I think cropping the picture on the right-side, split the difference between the moon and the right-side edge, will strengthen the composition. I think it's okay to open up the upper sky to let the grain show. This image will look great on cotton natural hot press paper. When looking at your picture, I am reminded of Nicéphore Niépce.
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I wanted a grainy moonlit seascape, but time was short, and the weather wasn't about to deliver any visible moon before we left, so I improvised a bit, and thought I could sort things in processing. So a daytime shot, but hopefully looking a little bit moonish. Whaddya think? Does it work?
I think cropping the picture on the right-side, halfway between the moon and the edge of the frame, will strengthen the composition. Why not open up the upper sky a shade or two to let the grain show? This picture has a tactile quality that will render well on natural hot press cotton paper. As I look at it, I am reminded of Nicéphore Niépce's famous first photo.
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Thanks for that. The crop would cut out the sun/moon lit rocks on the beach. I quite like them. Off to look up Nicéphore Niépce
Edit: to add that I now feel slightly embarrassed for not knowing who he was
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Thanks for that. The crop would cut out the sun/moon lit rocks on the beach. I quite like them. Off to look up Nicéphore Niépce
Edit: to add that I now feel slightly embarrassed for not knowing who he was
Nicéphore Niépce is not exactly a household name.
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Nicéphore Niépce is not exactly a household name.
Nope, a gallerista's wet dream is closer. You ain't missed much, Mr Chairman; rarity doesn't equate with quality! (As I get banned from cultivated society...)
;-)
Rob C
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I think cropping the picture on the right-side, halfway between the moon and the edge of the frame, will strengthen the composition. Why not open up the upper sky a shade or two to let the grain show? This picture has a tactile quality that will render well on natural hot press cotton paper. As I look at it, I am reminded of Nicéphore Niépce's famous first photo.
Ahem.. this is Without Prejudice...
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I wanted a grainy moonlit seascape, but time was short, and the weather wasn't about to deliver any visible moon before we left, so I improvised a bit, and thought I could sort things in processing. So a daytime shot, but hopefully looking a little bit moonish. Whaddya think? Does it work?
It's good, Bill, and I like it, but you aren't going to fool anyone into thinking that it was taken at night.
Jeremy
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It's good, Bill, and I like it, but you aren't going to fool anyone into thinking that it was taken at night.
Jeremy
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For Maggie
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Rob, really enjoyed your 'fats domino' and 'five' images. You must be entering a new phase, where your try to find new ways of seeing ordinary things in new ways.
JR
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Rob, really enjoyed your 'fats domino' and 'five' images. You must be entering a new phase, where your try to find new ways of seeing ordinary things in new ways.
JR
Thank you John. The 'Fats' thing is only newish for me because I wanted to go beyond what the cat delivers when focussed as best it can be. There seems to be a critical point between in and out when it works in an interesting way without going too far out. For commercial purposes it was always 'in' and that was quite a challenge with 64 ASA films!
Regarding '5', it's something for which I had no commercial calls - but it is very much a memory 'thanks' to Saul Leiter, as is a lot that I do these days- Discovered him in the late 50s and then he vanished from my area across the mighty Atlantic but for a sporadic period when he graced Nova and similar. It's not easy to get into the mood with digital; takes a bit of messing about to degrade enough...
;-)
Rob
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Another, with my original 500 cat before my male menopause when I dumped everything for 6x7 (I know, I know!), but this was, I think, Kodachrome 200, which was rather special too.
Rob C
(http://www.roma57.com/uploads/4/2/8/7/4287956/7103323_orig.jpg)
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Shot a long time ago with a cheap fixed lens film camera (the film was probably a Fuji Superia 200).
In the middle there are 2 doves who spent half of a winter on the same branch outside my apartment window, 3 stories high, until one night I didn't see them anymore.
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Another, with my original 500 cat before my male menopause when I dumped everything for 6x7 (I know, I know!), but this was, I think, Kodachrome 200, which was rather special too.
Rob C
(http://www.roma57.com/uploads/4/2/8/7/4287956/7103323_orig.jpg)
Rob, very nice. Filtered, may I ask?
Peter
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This is a multiple exposure image. It finally dawned on me that if I exposed a few images I would get a similar effect to a very long exposure because the water was moving.
(https://johnroias.smugmug.com/Autumn-2015/i-ZZp4Nx3/0/L/Oct%2015-%202015%20Glen%20Haffey%20102%20copy1000-L.jpg) (https://johnroias.smugmug.com/Autumn-2015/i-ZZp4Nx3/A)
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Rob, very nice. Filtered, may I ask?
Peter
Yes, Peter; I think it was one of the little yellow ones that fits into the back part of the lens. I remember seeing some great shots with these lenses where everything was blue, or green, too, and thinking how strange the new world they discovered. Thing is, I almost never had clients wanting that kind of stuff, so it almost never got shot. This particular one was done as part of a stock thing I had going based on Mediterranean 'atmospherics'. I was quite enthusiastic, until the Stone agency rang me up asking me to stop sending Med pix because the entire London stock business was awash, nay, drowning in similar material...
Too many people, too many agencies, too few paying clients. Like any good idea, it has its time during those first few years before the rest of the world latches onto it too.
Rob
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Thanks - had lunch out again today and feel quite good! Time for another snap, in fact!
(http://www.roma57.com/uploads/4/2/8/7/4287956/5717071_orig.jpg)
Rob C
Like it very much :-)
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This is a multiple exposure image. It finally dawned on me that if I exposed a few images I would get a similar effect to a very long exposure because the water was moving.
(https://johnroias.smugmug.com/Autumn-2015/i-ZZp4Nx3/0/L/Oct%2015-%202015%20Glen%20Haffey%20102%20copy1000-L.jpg) (https://johnroias.smugmug.com/Autumn-2015/i-ZZp4Nx3/A)
It's a much more interesting effect than a long exposure of water, which I've now seen in photos more times than a nude woman arching her back in euphemistic desire. Looks like brush-strokes :-) Pity about the big watermark, but I guess if you need to protect your image...
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Like it very much :-)
Thanks, it's pleasant to find things just sitting there waiting for me!
;-)
Rob
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Thanks - had lunch out again today and feel quite good! Time for another snap, in fact!
(http://www.roma57.com/uploads/4/2/8/7/4287956/5717071_orig.jpg)
Rob C
Rob, ..That's a Beaut !!!
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Rob, ..That's a Beaut !!!
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Patricia, Eric: thanks very much - I enjoy finding something that just fits itself well!
On the one hand I think life is full of such things, then on the other hand, they seem so difficult to discover despite being there all along. Perhaps we, as photograhers, simply have on and off days. Wish I could find the switch.
;-)
Rob
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Patricia, Eric: thanks very much - I enjoy finding something that just fits itself well!
On the one hand I think life is full of such things, then on the other hand, they seem so difficult to discover despite being there all along. Perhaps we, as photograhers, simply have on and off days. Wish I could find the switch.
;-)
Rob
In this case the switch was on, and you caught that last triangle of sunlight...seconds later the switch would be off.
Peter
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In this case the switch was on, and you caught that last triangle of sunlight...seconds later the switch would be off.
Peter
Damn! I knew it wasn't ever going to be my finger on that switch!
(Which reminds me of the new politico heading up the UK's left... forget that, Rob! At once!)
;-)
Rob C
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Damn! I knew it wasn't ever going to be my finger on that switch!
Rob C
It never is... :~ )
Peter
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It never is... :~ )
Peter
Too true!
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Rob
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Quite an old one - Rannoch Moor & the Black Mount
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Quite an old one - Rannoch Moor & the Black Mount
Nice. Looks bleak: I hope you had a stiff Scotch waiting when you got back inside!
Jeremy
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Nice. Looks bleak: I hope you had a stiff Scotch waiting when you got back inside!
Jeremy
Had me worried for a moment, there!
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Rob C
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IIRC, that night was spent at the Clachaig Inn, and I was drinking Fraoch
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Nice. Looks bleak: I hope you had a stiff Scotch waiting when you got back inside!
Jeremy
Had me worried for a moment, there!
;-)
Rob C
Rob! As Russ has commented when I have made comments which could be similarly interpreted, tut tut.
Jeremy
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Two images of my favorite pool, in september and yesterday (the subject of the second one is me talking of love to her, while she remains rather cold...)
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Love the one with the sheep. Not that I've got a thing for sheep. Thought I should just make that clear. They are very pretty though ...
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Love the one with the sheep. Not that I've got a thing for sheep. Thought I should just make that clear. They are very pretty though ...
But is it clear enough, Mr Chairman?
It's been noted that you frequent those lonely places a great deal... do you wear green wellies or, perhaps, boots on those - excursions?
;-)
Rob C
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Two images of my favorite pool, in september and yesterday (the subject of the second one is me talking of love to her, while she remains rather cold...)
Man, there is a confusion of love objects there!
;-)
Rob C
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Another little trip into the far away:
(http://www.roma57.com/uploads/4/2/8/7/4287956/2019743_orig.jpg)
Rob C
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It's been noted that you frequent those lonely places a great deal... do you wear green wellies or, perhaps, boots on those - excursions?
Usually trail running shoes. Wet feet, but they dry better than wet boots, and much more comfortable.
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These are the same sheeps. I had the same impression of Bill, they are very pretty (and nosy), you can find them even on the summit of a mountain.
P.S. For me italian mountain boots GTX.
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Usually trail running shoes. Wet feet, but they dry better than wet boots, and much more comfortable.
Artful Dodger!
;-)
Rob C
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These are the same sheeps. I had the same impression of Bill, they are very pretty (and nosy), you can find them even on the summit of a mountain.
P.S. For me italian mountain boots GTX.
You can't get near the Mallorcan ones; their mothers have warned them. Their fathers would ram you if the daughters forgot.
Rob C
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:) (After some ermeneutical reflexion on Rob's text )
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:) (After some hermeneutical meditation on Rob's text )
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A windy day on Dartmoor. The long range forecast is for a potentially very chilly winter. Hopefully lots more days like this one
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Looks like the apocalypse!
[in a good way]
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Usually trail running shoes. Wet feet, but they dry better than wet boots, and much more comfortable.
I'm currently wearing some Inov8 Roclite trail running shoes, light comfy and they are also waterproof. The GTXs on this page (http://www.inov-8.com/New/Global/product-select-offroad-shoes.asp?G=%&L=26&A=Trail&WA=%&T=%&F=%)are the waterproof ones. GTX meaning Goretex. There's now a boot version I see, which would be even better for keeping ones feet dry.
Waterproof socks are one of the great inventions though. I bought some Dexell Bamboo socks (http://dexshell.co.uk/product-category/waterproof-socks/) recently as Seal-Skinz seems to be poorly fitting and inconsistent size wise these days and generally not as good as they used to be.
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On Dartmoor in particular, the ground is very boggy & there are hundreds of streams to keep crossing. It's much easier to just walk through the streams than worry about rock-hopping your way across - one slip & Smack! Splash! Ouch! My camera! Waterproof boots tend not to stay waterproof when the water gets up to mid-calf & beyond :-)
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Usually trail running shoes. Wet feet, but they dry better than wet boots, and much more comfortable.
I had the same rationale this summer (a little chilly up in the mountain though). With wool socks I had no major issues with the temperature if you keep moving. The problem that I didn't anticipate was that in the damp and cool cabin the damn shoes wouldn't dry up, at all. And they were light trail shoes. No heat source either.
If you don't have large streams to pass and you have long pants/gaiters to keep the water from going in the shoes from above waterproof shoes/boots are still a good option.
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Playing with focus stacking just to find out (again) just how much time it actually takes
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On Dartmoor in particular, the ground is very boggy & there are hundreds of streams to keep crossing. It's much easier to just walk through the streams than worry about rock-hopping your way across - one slip & Smack! Splash! Ouch! My camera! Waterproof boots tend not to stay waterproof when the water gets up to mid-calf & beyond :-)
I also have long waterproof socks. :P
I believe a decent set of gaiters will also keep water from getting in via top of boot.
I don't have an issue with hot sweaty feet, so getting them wet will simply mean very cold feet. So no chance of shoes drying out, particularly when temp drops. I ended up going through a bog today whilst out on bike. Waterproof socks kept feet lovely and dry/warm when my summer cycling shoes shoes got sodden. :)
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As an escape from socks 'n' feet:
(http://www.roma57.com/uploads/4/2/8/7/4287956/2139393_orig.jpg)
As with our XR2 before it, when this was taken in for its first Spanish MOT, the guy in charge of issuing or not issuing certificates insisted in arguing that the spots were not 'de serie' - standard - and should be removed before the car could pass! I told him they all came like that... in the end, he failed me for their angle. I went straight back to the local Ford dealership where it was bought, they tested them, said they were perfect. I returned to the test centre and they passed it right away. Go figure.
Kept it for about 8 years, did many Mallorca/Scotland trips with it; the sliding panel roof rusted, had it replaced on Ford, and then when we traded it in, it continued to live in the local village until it was 14, at which time it vanished for ever. The new owners never even washed it - I'd swear - and I used to pat it, wish it well and apologise every time we saw it parked somewhere. Funny how you can feel emotionally attached to things that have been part of your good times. I liked Pirelli P6s.
Rob C
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Another conversation with Ms Coke.
Rob C
(http://www.roma57.com/uploads/4/2/8/7/4287956/434837_orig.jpg)
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Oh well, friends are where you find them.
(http://www.roma57.com/uploads/4/2/8/7/4287956/7747594_orig.jpg)
Rob C
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I like your new BFF...I approve.
Peter
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I like your new BFF...I approve.
Peter
Funny thing: the horse shares the field with three more of them; they all vanish whenever they see a camera, but this one came up and let me rub its nose. (Well, not its nostrils of course - why would I want to do that? - but the long part between ears and nostrils.) I haven't done that before - always kept my distance. They bite, you know. My wife used to feed similar creatures at every opportunity and they never bit her. She had a dog before we were married. It bit me, as did my mother's, and also a stray here in Spain. I only liked my own dogs. We understood each other perfectly. We never bit one another.
Rob
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Funny thing: the horse shares the field with three more of them; they all vanish whenever they see a camera, but this one came up and let me rub its nose. (Well, not its nostrils of course - why would I want to do that? - but the long part between ears and nostrils.) I haven't done that before - always kept my distance. They bite, you know. My wife used to feed similar creatures at every opportunity and they never bit her. She had a dog before we were married. It bit me, as did my mother's, and also a stray here in Spain. I only liked my own dogs. We understood each other perfectly. We never bit one another.
Rob
We live across the road from a small horse farm. When it snows I get to watch, from my studio, the horses rolling around in in their snow bath. Great stuff all year round...
Peter
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We have alpacas living across the road from us. They look cuddly enough. Don't know if they bite, but I've heard they spit. Which is worse?
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We have alpacas living across the road from us. They look cuddly enough. Don't know if they bite, but I've heard they spit. Which is worse?
You can wash off spit, as everyone who followed punk knew. They just didn't want to go near the water - too 'establishment', not 'radical' or enough 'of the people' to be nice, and tribally acceptable.
;-)
Rob C
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Thought of a little trip into the mythical.
Rob C
(http://www.roma57.com/uploads/4/2/8/7/4287956/3362103_orig.jpg)
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Thinking.
Rob C
(http://www.roma57.com/uploads/4/2/8/7/4287956/9460412_orig.jpg)
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A reworking of a photo taken a couple of years ago. Five frame stitch.
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Absolute beauty, Bill!
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Absolute beauty, Bill!
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easy on the eyes, nice
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Absolute beauty, Bill!
Likewise.
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Thanks. I was trying toget a bit more sense of depth than the original processing. I'm certainly happier with this one.
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Great shot Bill!
Just a fun shot from me:
2D/3D
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I think I'd like to hire that little guy to clean my oven. It looks like he does a good job of it. ;)
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Läch di Pian del Läch, Pedruna Valley, Valtelline.
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Läch di Pian del Läch, Pedruna Valley, Valtelline.
I love those alpine landscapes. The deep blue of the lake is a magnet for my eyes…
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Very nice, Bill. Composition, light, cloud pointing to the tree: all work well.
Jeremy
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Northeaster Light is serious fun.
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Thanks for that, Jeremy.
Here's one from Borrowdale in the Lake District, Grains Gill from Stockley Bridge. Gill is a local term for rocky, steep mountain streams
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(https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5691/22471627213_4814b91d60_b.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/AeJXSv)Storm, Antelope Valley (https://flic.kr/p/AeJXSv) by tanngrisnir3 (https://www.flickr.com/photos/87368247@N00/), on Flickr
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this evening
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Cool double rainbow. Fisheye?
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Cool double rainbow. Fisheye?
Nope, handheld pano from a Pana FZ1000. I stopped the car and used the camera I had with me, it only lasted for few minutes.
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windows
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this evening
Damn, Armand. You've captured an image that I've been trying to get for decades. Well done. I'd trade a pot of gold (or two) to capture a scene as well as you have.
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Damn, Armand. You've captured an image that I've been trying to get for decades. Well done. I'd trade a pot of gold (or two) to capture a scene as well as you have.
Thank you. Luck and preparedness (partial). In hindsight I should have done better though, as in lower ISO and covering the entire rainbow.
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Canopy covering the walkways at the Shanghai World Fair in 2010
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Very little snow in (Eastern) Grosina Valley last Sunday, but cold enough to freeze my double-socked feet while shooting in Cassavrolo (Casauröl) Valley...
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Very little snow in (Eastern) Grosina Valley last Sunday, but cold enough to freeze my double-socked feet while shooting in Cassavrolo (Casauröl) Valley...
Lovely light!
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Quantock Hills
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^^^ Lovely.
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^^^ Lovely.
+1.
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More snow
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I don't usually do birds but here are few
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birders
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True birder:
(http://www.slobodanblagojevic.com/img/s4/v12/p1725488490-3.jpg) (http://www.slobodanblagojevic.com/p1025007936/e66d8dd6a)
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Slobodan & Eric - thanks for the comments. Much appreciated
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My grandfather's pen, circa '48. It came as a set, complete with propelling pencil. I tried to use it once, but contemporary cheques turned out to be made on inferior, ink-running paper suited only to the ubiquitous Biro. Another example of things improving whilst actually becoming worse than before.
However, the broad nib was eminently suited to signing prints with a flourish. Nice 'n' crass.
Rob C
(http://www.roma57.com/uploads/4/2/8/7/4287956/1252491_orig.jpg)
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Nice. I'm not so sure about the crass bit though
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Nice. I'm not so sure about the crass bit though
Neither am I, truth to tell; just passing the time looking for images within the things already present at home. I get so bored - no, blinded - by covering the same old few square kilos of this island every day that sometimes I feel it's better just saving the gas and looking around the pad instead. Been doing that, on and off, for quite a while, and I discovered that there's as much within as without - just needs the passage of time to renew the interest in both (for myself, at least, and that's what counts).
When we first came to live here, we visited every single bay, large or minute, that was reachable by car in the essential recce for photographic locations for calendar/fashion shoots. Found some beauts, but most of them have gone, raped and turned into themes of what Spain might have been had Disney bought it. Anyway, the times have changed, and driving for hours just to get happy snaps doesn't cut it for me. Never did: had to be a payday for all that discomfort. Long driving for pleasure meant France. Loved it.
Rob C
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Rob,
There's something especially fascinating about looking closely at an every-day object that you have been passing by thousands of times. And sharing those moments can inspire others to look more closely, too.
I took a workshop with landscape photographer Paul Caponigro many years ago. Although he has written lengthy essays in recent years, back then he didn't lecture or have much to say, at least verbally. When we weren't out photographing somewhere, he would show us prints of some of his own and of several other photographers. Most of the time he just showed a print for a couple of minutes, and then brought out a different one. But every now and then, he said: "Look!" and waited a bit longer.
And we did. And we had to make up our own minds what to look for. To me, that is the essence of good photography: just "Look!"
Your grandfather's pen got me looking around my cluttered office, and I began to look at one of the most mundane things around: the side of my desktop computer. Some day soon I may try to take a picture of it.
Until I do, Thanks, Rob!
-Eric
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Hi Eric,
Yes, there's merit in some mundane stuff after all. I sometimes think of the Leica 111 G-type of camera body, because it was partly adverts for it and other fancy products that I discovered (as a kid in India), on the pages of Life and other manistream US publications, that caused me a lot of interest in cameras, partly for their artistic possibilities, but more for their design, which, in common with Rolex, strike me as the most impressive design manifestations of them all. Of course, the tail of the '59 Coupe de Ville is never forgotten... (I also liked the mean look of the snout of the Sabre Jet. The entire aircraft, in fact.) Actually, when I first saw the Leica bodies I was far more into Vincent Van Gogh, and that's exactly what I thought/hoped my future would be: paint. I soon realised I lacked the talent for paint, and the switch to photography was easy, mentally, but exceptionally difficult physically, because nobody I knew even believed photography was a 'proper' career, and the only pro known to any one of us lived down in London and shot stills for movies. I never met him, unfortunately. But all that's neither here nor there.
What's here, is that those old cameras do have a lot of design value, even the ugly old Exaktas had a certain clumsy, visual charm and they did help make damned good pictures, too. I think such things make for great subjects, if you have any of them to hand. I don't mean as cleverly-lit product shots, but just bits 'n' pieces, and like that. I think an old Contaflex lives somewhere in a cupboard - it wasn't mine - just dumped on me by somebody else who inherited it and didn't want to waste space. Must look for it some day... But shoot your computer first!
Rob
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Rob,
I wonder if I can find the old 7-inch Aero Ektar lens I had, which I fitted into a hom,e-made lensboard for my Speed Graphic back in the day. It could be a good subject.
Or my father's Leica M3, which I handled once but never used to take pictures. I had a lowly Pentax, and when I handled the Leica, it was like holding a Rolls Royce in my hands. I have never experienced such a smooth feel to the focusing on any lens, or the clarity of the view finder. But it just felt so damned EXPENSIVE that I never dared take it outdoors for fear of dropping it. Sigh!
Eric
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Rob,
I wonder if I can find the old 7-inch Aero Ektar lens I had, which I fitted into a hom,e-made lensboard for my Speed Graphic back in the day. It could be a good subject.
Or my father's Leica M3, which I handled once but never used to take pictures. I had a lowly Pentax, and when I handled the Leica, it was like holding a Rolls Royce in my hands. I have never experienced such a smooth feel to the focusing on any lens, or the clarity of the view finder. But it just felt so damned EXPENSIVE that I never dared take it outdoors for fear of dropping it. Sigh!
Eric
I understand the emotion, Eric. When I bought my first 500 'blad I sat and read the booklet over and over and over again: there seemed to be so many things that I might do to make it falter, but in reality, it was a gently pussycat, and the only things ever to go wrong were the same, twice: delayed-action failure on the 50mm lens's shutter. It felt wonderfully tactile in a purposeful sort of way, and I eventually bought a prism finder (45° one) which felt odd at first, but then became the norm. The two ways the Rollei TLR beat it were shakeless hand-held work, and I felt the more generously checked Rollei screen was more useful than the fewer etchings on the 'blad's version.
The 'booklet' problem fades into nothingness when we compare it with the literature that accompanies even a modest, contemporary dslr. But, even there, we can discount so much about digital cameras and just set them up at the most manual setting we like, and then they generally keep out of our way.
Rob
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Hi Eric,
I think an old Contaflex lives somewhere in a cupboard - it wasn't mine - just dumped on me by somebody else who inherited it and didn't want to waste space. Must look for it some day... But shoot your computer first!
Rob
Yep, I found it Eric, and now I know why I was 'gifted' it: the mirror's jammed up and the blades within the lens don't seem to move open even though the shutter mechanism makes a hideous din. In other words, junk.
But everything has value: come summer and all going well, I shall actually try to remember to use it as a doorstop; it is certainly heavy enough, especially within its lovely, hard, leather case. (I better be careful of conjoining words like hard and leather - you know what the PC police are like...! Conjoin? Heavens, even that sounds suspiciously like something naughty in Spanish!)
Of course, my F3 will never knowingly be used by myself as stopper. But naturally, everyone knows that already.
I don't think that I'll be snapping the Contaflex at all.
;-)
Rob
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One thing about winter out here is this: 'tis the season the farmers etc. are legally permitted to start bonfires which, thought they might endanger the planet's long-term future, do allow for the cultivation of fresh stuff for the more near future. There's something attractive, almost mystical in distant smoke. Reminds me (smoke, not the pic) not of red indians (is that still okay to write?), but of that famous scene about "the smell of napalm in the morning".
Rob
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I like the photo, Rob, but it doesn't smell like napalm to me.
Then again, I am happy to report that I have no idea what napalm actually smells like, as I was excused from military duty because of my bad hearing.
Eric
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I like the photo, Rob, but it doesn't smell like napalm to me.
Then again, I am happy to report that I have no idea what napalm actually smells like, as I was excused from military duty because of my bad hearing.
Eric
I was also excused - because I was spending the time in alternative capture: engineering. By the time press-ganging ended, I was also able to turn a deaf ear (oop`s!) to all entreaties and do what I'd always wanted to do: become a learner smudger. Shame so many years were wasted avoiding one PITA but paying much the same time-price for enlisting in another. C'est la vie.
Rob
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Seasonal mood:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5I2f1UJjiAA
Rob C
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Told you you can have fun jus' shootin' around the house...
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I never thought of brushing my teeth with Chanel. #5 is it? ;)
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I never thought of brushing my teeth with Chanel. #5 is it? ;)
5, indeed, but not a good idea for the teeth. The spray was, apparently, good for a quick squirt at the throat before going to the Sunday market to buy the week's veggies, but the little bottle was the real deal, and no longer exists chez moi. It went to Scotland with my daughter.
Sadly funny: feeling low one day, I thought I'd remove the black top and have a little sentimental sniff: unfortunately, I got the damned spray right in my eyes. Sentiment immediately flew right out the window - the howl was one of fright!
Leave lady things alone, I think, is the moral of the tale.
Rob
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Leave lady things alone, I think, is the moral of the tale.
Rob
Yes. They can fight back.
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Leave lady things alone, I think, is the moral of the tale.
Definitely not. Not yet anyway. You're a long time dead, so I plan to not leave lady things along until I have no choice in the matter.
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Definitely not. Not yet anyway. You're a long time dead, so I plan to not leave lady things along until I have no choice in the matter.
Wrong! You are never dead! You simply pass rapidly from one life to another form. It's a mechanical, physical, chemical fact: matter can neither be created nor destroyed. The water you drink was predrunk by a dino, your skin once belonged to a wasp; the cloud in the sky above you in Blighty once lived in the Pacific and gave support to a whale. You see the inevitability and impossibilty of death?
Cheers me no end!
Rob
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Matter can indeed be created & destroyed. Sadly.
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Matter can indeed be created & destroyed. Sadly.
You do yourself an injustice.
That Cornish Engine House is absolutely beautiful: simple but dramatic in an elemental way.
Rob C
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Which Cornish engine house?
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Which Cornish engine house?
As I click the link right now, it's the image on the right, top row of two images: reddish earth foreground, small building at horizon and magnificent dark clouds with a little bit of sunlight bursting through mainly on the left.
Rob
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Ah, this one on my Flickr page. Got it. Thanks.
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Snatched yesterday afternoon before going home, having wasted some more gas going no particular place but out and away.
Rob C
(http://www.roma57.com/uploads/4/2/8/7/4287956/3368750_orig.jpg)
D200 with manual 2.8/135; almost impossible to fame and/or even hold steady. One good reason for image stab. if starting again from new.
The single cup looks as depressed as the single fag end. Must be the onset of winter.
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Snatched yesterday afternoon before going home, having wasted some more gas going no particular place but out and away.
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The single cup looks as depressed as the single fag end. Must be the onset of winter.
I like it, quite a lot in fact: it conveys a very strong mood.
ps: what's the 2.8/135mm manual lens? Could it be an Helios? :)
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Snatched yesterday afternoon before going home, having wasted some more gas going no particular place but out and away.
Rob C
No particular place to go...but out and away. My favorite thing. Ofter the best stuff happens for that very reason. One needs to be open.
Peter
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Thank you, Diego - glad it reaches out a bit.
Peter: I tend to stay out as much as I can; the motivation in winter is to let somebody else pay for the heating! But actually, yeah, as long as one can keep going, that's the way to do it. Little comes knockin' - you gotta get after it. However, I believe it would be different in a city: memory tells me that it stays just as busy, but with a far different flavour. Purposeful rather than lazy.
Rob C
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This was just down the street.
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...yield to light
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Very fine, Patricia!
Minor would love it, too.
-Eric
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Very fine, Patricia!
Minor would love it, too.
-Eric
+1
This is the type of photography I'm very fond of
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Here's looking at ewe
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...yield to light
Lovely, Pat. I like the highlighted mast to the right.
Jeremy
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Eric, Armand...Thank you for your first impressions... very much in line with where I was as I waited in the still that morning. Jeremy, surprisingly I had slipped into a blurred meditational eye watering stare as I was shaken back to alertness by just exactly that momentary event. Realigned the shot, one click, and it evaporated from view.
Thank you all. I am currently enjoying work with this illusive file trying to distract myself from some enormous life changes barreling down at me. Appreciate you camaraderie.
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Can't trust a soul.
Rob C
(http://www.roma57.com/uploads/4/2/8/7/4287956/3870536_orig.jpg)
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Can't trust a soul.
Rob C
(http://www.roma57.com/uploads/4/2/8/7/4287956/3870536_orig.jpg)
Hi Rob,
Just a mere leap of faith...
Peter
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Not if it's your boat that got stolen!
;-)
Rob C
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Not if it's your boat that got stolen!
;-)
Rob C
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I don't own a boat...
Peter
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Lodore Falls, Cumbria
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Not if it's your boat that got stolen!
;-)
Rob C
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I don't own a boat...
Peter
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And for a zillion reasons, neither do I!
I originally wanted to live in one (thinking it was just about whether you could buy it), and then later I discovered the enormous annual expense these things generate, which in my case, would have implied going futt. The original idea came about in stages, the first nudge from a shoot in Rhodes, where we walked into a room in the Rodos Palece Hotel to see an exhibition of paintings. I think the painter was American, but the lady (his wife) running the room was French and she used to hire exhibition rooms in the various top hotels in the Med and they would sail from place to lace showing and working like that...
Later on, after a couple of weeks in the Bahamas working on one cal which involved boating, we found ourselves in Puerto Pollensa, Mallorca, doing another, and standing in front of a boat called Tortola which belonged to an ex-broker who lived in Switzerland in winter and aboard his boat in summer. Invited aboard, the chat led to the cost of mooring a boat in Mallorca, and I realised that this chap was paying less a year for his moorings than I was to the local Scottish council as rates on a house I already owned. The contrast was plain. It led from one thing to another, and the upshot was that we sold the house and came here, but my wife refused to sink it all into a yacht - thank God! and so we managed okay. Another thing about boats here is that the taxation thing is never quite resolved, and you seem to be a dripping roast to inland revenue bodies... as they say, you can't tax blood out from a stone, so look for something fat.
I even toyed with the idea of just a ski boat as consolation prize; that led to the curious situation where the Glastron agent was very happy to sell, but could never be pinned down as to where, once bought, the boat could be moored or wintered. In essence, even a toy requires you own a house with grounds, or that money doesn't matter to you in the slightest. Fortunately, I didn't nibble at the hook, and later realised that even a yacht I might have once been able to afford to buy wouldn't have been big enough for what's required for a comfortable life. Today, even a floating shoe requires you be a millionaire.
But anyway, it all gave me illusions for about five years. Which pretty much sums up what this life is all about.
;-)
Rob C
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"Musos," as I think Rob calls them, in a Chicago performance the other day:
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You're in the right city, baby!
;-)
Rob C
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I espied this while waiting for the drawbridge to come down.
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Interestng medical condition of the thumbnail...
That's not street, that's road!
;-)
Rob C
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Interestng medical condition of the thumbnail...
That's not street, that's road!
;-)
Rob C
psoriasis?
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One from the Pembrokeshire coast
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Different music, rock guitar:
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The good lighting in the fourth one makes his guitar sound better too.
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Slobodan, of the set I like the second one the most. It's cool the way the green glints off his hair. His expression is interesting too. I looked at it with some of the top cropped off and just a tad of the left-side of the frame too. That seemed to bring him closer to the camera.
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~except memory.
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The good lighting in the fourth one makes his guitar sound better too.
Maybe it tastes better too.
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Patricia - that's a very interesting image with shapes and textures to explore. The main shadow motif is very strong and it sits well on the background.
Mike
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Maybe it tastes better too.
Blueberries and blue-corn are all right, but blue notes are tastiest if they are served with the color black.
You need at least a little white light in the picture to get the best from the shadows.
Therefore, on second thought I still prefer the guitarist with arm raised.
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Blueberries and blue-corn are all right, but blue notes are tastiest if they are served with the color black.
You need at least a little white light in the picture to get the best from the shadows...
Ah, Bruce, you are just green with envy ;)
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Being correct and being envyous are not mutually exclusive.
The neck and strings running along the edge of the frame is cool.
Red, green and blue make white, sometimes.
Neat shadows on his face too.
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(http://www.roma57.com/uploads/4/2/8/7/4287956/1733576_orig.jpg)
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Cellphone swing
In a classic form a modern subject (modern in the sense that the woman is collecting images of the past.). I like both.
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In a classic form a modern subject (modern in the sense that the woman is collecting images of the past.). I like both.
Thank you; a shot from Tuesday, in Palma, looking at the 'whatever's there'.
Shapes interest me a lot. (Note: food for trolls.)
Merry Christmas!
Rob C
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Patricia - that's a very interesting image with shapes and textures to explore. The main shadow motif is very strong and it sits well on the background.
Mike
Mike, It is that shadow which repeatedly flickered on and off trying to attract my attention which produced this and a small additional group. I've made note of the location to revisit along the way of my passings... Thank you for recognizing the communicator. I know we all build our individual lenses and receptors, and nice to see the catch for you. Affirms my thoughts as I watch some of your "seeing" as to something of whom may be at home behind your eyes.
Wishing you a Merry Christmas and a strong year ahead.
Lumine,
P.
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Thank you; a shot from Tuesday, in Palma, looking at the 'whatever's there'.
Shapes interest me a lot. (Note: food for trolls.)
Merry Christmas!
Rob C
Merry Christmas Rob!
P.S. When I wrote "Classic form " in my mind there was a rather confused mix of Orson Wells (Othello), Antonioni and the mediterranean heritage... ::)
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Merry Christmas Rob!
P.S. When I wrote "Classic form " in my mind there was a rather confused mix of Orson Wells (Othello), Antonioni and the mediterranean heritage... ::)
Antonioni saves the rest! Well, Fellini might have been better, but any Italian will do. La Lollo would be perfect - well, taken back into the right time zone! Always thought she was pretty cool. Hell, now that I think about it, there were so many in the high days of Cinecitta...
http://www.chiarasamugheo.com/4.aspx
Rob C
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Great photo, Rob. Great subject, great framing, great tonality....
Here's a few taken yesterday. All shot with a 135mm enlarger lens.
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Thanks, Bob; looks like that enlarger lens has great possibilities. Unusual combinations often seem to work like that.
Cheers,
Rob C
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(http://www.roma57.com/uploads/4/2/8/7/4287956/500689_orig.jpg)
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Orson
Wells Welles.
:)
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One from this afternoon
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Chopin, eat your heart out!
Rob C
(http://www.roma57.com/uploads/4/2/8/7/4287956/2814432_orig.jpg)
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Chopin and George - eat your hearts out!
Rob C
(http://www.roma57.com/uploads/4/2/8/7/4287956/1816209_orig.jpg)
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Chopin and George - eat your hearts out!
Rob C
It's the thigh high stockings...yeah that's it.
Peter
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fence of mystery
(http://i.imgur.com/vDRMdKG.jpg)
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It's the thigh high stockings...yeah that's it.
Peter
The invention of the pantihose was the ending of natural (as in non-specialist purchase) allure as provided, in daily and unassuming manner, by the stocking. There are not words to describe the loss to womankind that that single, cursed invention of comfort-before-function presented. Fully-fashioned, as in stocking if not jersey, was also a retrogressive step in that the eye-magnet of a perfectly aligned seam was relegated to memory. It's not by accident that the glamour and entertainment industries have persisted in the cult of the stocking, the seam and the belt, delightful accessories to which, before 60s madness, every young lady (and her mother) had a perfectly normal right of accession.
As I often sigh: things have definitely improved without getting at all better.
On a depressing note: the bimbo in the shot was amost certainly wearing the same unfortunate garment below her thicker layer.
As I wrote in another post this morning: hang Cartier from the ears of a pig...
I feel much happier now that I have had my little attempt to save womankind before it's too late! It still has to defeat the Manifest of the Sorority of the Ugly Sisters, but it'll come, it'll come. Generations also to come depend on it!
I checked the room temperature when I crawled out of my pit this morning, and it read 61°F; no wonder I believe myself to be freezing to death in what those not here think of as Mediterranean heat.
Rob C
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fence of mystery
Very cool Micheal, as if it was put there for you to find. Beautifully exposed to bring out the movement of the ropes and fence.
JR
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The invention of the pantihose was the ending of natural (as in non-specialist purchase) allure as provided, in daily and unassuming manner, by the stocking.
Rob C
Bad news, Rob.
http://www.goldenlady.com/en/news/
P.S. I hate the tights too.
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Bad news, Rob.
http://www.goldenlady.com/en/news/
P.S. I hate the tights too.
To be fair, even they offer a brief relief, though it might be a fake:
http://www.goldenlady.com/en/Stockings-and-tights/classic-/Autoreggenti/297/2/
But, it fails to bring with it all those mysterious clips that could have trained every young pickpocket in town.
;-(
Rob C
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Love it, Armand!
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Love it, Armand!
Absolutely! Well done Armand.
JR
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Thank you, it took me 9 shots to get it right in camera, as in minimal processing required to get what I wanted.
I'm attaching another version where the elements maybe go together a little better but framing doesn't feel totally right (I wanted a little more space between the lights) and focus point is slightly off from where I wanted it.
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First version feels just right to me, Armand.
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Window-shopping for reflections of fantastical beings.
Anybody seen Cowboys and Aliens? Don't.
Rob C
(http://www.roma57.com/uploads/4/2/8/7/4287956/9289070_orig.jpg)
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Thank you, it took me 9 shots to get it right in camera, as in minimal processing required to get what I wanted.
I'm attaching another version where the elements maybe go together a little better but framing doesn't feel totally right (I wanted a little more space between the lights) and focus point is slightly off from where I wanted it.
the spacing in the first version feels right to me.
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Window-shopping for reflections of fantastical beings.
Anybody seen Cowboys and Aliens? Don't.
Rob C
(http://www.roma57.com/uploads/4/2/8/7/4287956/9289070_orig.jpg)
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Hi Rob,
I have...I admit it. I'm also ashamed. Nice shot, as expected.
Peter
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Hi Peter,
It was on Spanish tv last night, and after watching two Bond movies earlier this season (also Spanish tv) I wanted to see Mr Craig doing something else. Now I don't.
Regarding the Siren Sisters: two shots blended together which, on reconsideration, I should have turned into b/white. There's a third one on which I'm working right now, but a bit different. May return to the 'construct' later... but I don't do that very often.
Rob C
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Here's the black/white one; I think I do prefer b/white to colour, so I shall attack the 'double'.
FWIW: D200; 1.8/50 G Nikkor; Metering - Matrix; Metering - Manually set - 1/200th @ f2; Auto ISO; Manual Focussing.
Rob
(http://www.roma57.com/uploads/4/2/8/7/4287956/8758782_orig.jpg)
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Here's the black/white one; I think I do prefer b/white to colour, so I shall attack the 'double'.
FWIW: D200; 1.8/50 G Nikkor; Metering - Matrix; Metering - Manually set - 1/200th @ f2; Auto ISO; Manual Focussing.
Rob
would these represent the Mannequin ...of Man?...
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Here's the black/white one; I think I do prefer b/white to colour, so I shall attack the 'double'.
FWIW: D200; 1.8/50 G Nikkor; Metering - Matrix; Metering - Manually set - 1/200th @ f2; Auto ISO; Manual Focussing.
Rob
would these represent the Mannequin ...of Man?...
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Might be, but more likely just that fiction is more fun than reality when reality means zero!
I wonder if they feel the cold? Must ask, one day... great way of starting a conversation! However, it's a bit cheap not using wigs, but this is just a local heroine, not one of the wealth¡er ones to be found in Palma...
;-)
Rob
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Hi Peter,
It was on Spanish tv last night, and after watching two Bond movies earlier this season (also Spanish tv) I wanted to see Mr Craig doing something else. Now I don't.
Regarding the Siren Sisters: two shots blended together which, on reconsideration, I should have turned into b/white. There's a third one on which I'm working right now, but a bit different. May return to the 'construct' later... but I don't do that very often.
Rob C
I like color...it lends a living quality to the sisters.
Peter
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I like color...it lends a living quality to the sisters.
Peter
This is true, Peter, but then colour denies the Draculaean touch I find so irresistible... that little bit of distance from a reality that threatens to deaden the soul of the unwary. I mean, with colour, who can tell the difference between the modern miss and window dummy (to use a word that retailers hate, preferring mannequin)?
Life is such an unequal struggle: Atlas got off lightly - all he had to do was a bit of heavy lifting. There appears to be no record of his artistic journey, leading me to believe that he had none...
Rob C
This is a better 'protective' measure than garlic, never fails to raise the spirit:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mUdvSnjlrPg
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City pavement, Palma de Mallorca.
Rob C
(http://www.roma57.com/uploads/4/2/8/7/4287956/5926077_orig.jpg)
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City pavement, Palma de Mallorca.
Rob C
aha The Cigarette Butt Of Man!
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City pavement, Palma de Mallorca.
Rob C
aha The Cigarette Butt Of Man!
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Yep, and I can't believe that I once used to smoke, too.
It started as I think it did for all my contemporaries: we thought we looked grown up. Little did any of us realise we actually looked like idiots. Hollywood has a lot of death on its hands.
Rob C
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There's Street and then there's Road.
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This is a little more peaceful head replacement than the one I had up earlier.
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Charming.
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Because they know it teases.
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I like color...it lends a living quality to the sisters.
I have a couple of photos where I was happy with the colour version, then happened to see it in B&W... and loved it. Then after looking at the B&W version for a bit, I looked at the colour again... and prefered it. So I think I will now have to circulate perpetually :-)
On thing I have noticed is that the colour version works "easily", whereas in the B&W, especially in the print, needs to be well lit to "pop". Logical I guess, it depends on luminance contrast so it needs illumination.
https://500px.com/photo/132922903/crypt-de-l-ange-nb-by-graham-byrnes?ctx_page=1&from=user&user_id=10643117
https://500px.com/photo/128307685/crypt-de-l-ange-by-graham-byrnes?ctx_page=2&from=user&user_id=10643117
https://500px.com/photo/133379189/ciel-de-vieux-lyon-b-w-by-graham-byrnes?ctx_page=1&from=user&user_id=10643117
https://500px.com/photo/133321989/ciel-de-vieux-lyon-by-graham-byrnes?ctx_page=1&from=user&user_id=10643117
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Welcome:
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Welcome:
Heh, heh. I like.
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Welcome:
All I can say is Thank You!
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(http://i.imgur.com/9ZxuT98.jpg)
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A sign of our times.
(https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7250/13608904045_815f246fa5_b.jpg)
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In years past, hollows were made in fields, then planted with trees, to provide a suitable habitat for a fox to site its den. And all for the entertainment of the landed gentry, who wanted to chase foxes for so-called 'sport'. Known as 'coverts', the local countryside is still dotted with these sites.
You might notice (you're not looking closely enough if you don't) some bloody awful-looking signs of attempting to clear dust marks. What on earth is going on here I do not know. They're not noticeable until I upload the photo.
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In years past, hollows were made in fields, then planted with trees, to provide a suitable habitat for a fox to site its den. And all for the entertainment of the landed gentry, who wanted to chase foxes for so-called 'sport'. Known as 'coverts', the local countryside is still dotted with these sites.
You might notice (you're not looking closely enough if you don't) some bloody awful-looking signs of attempting to clear dust marks. What on earth is going on here I do not know. They're not noticeable until I upload the photo.
You can see them because youve seen the image under other conditions.
I cant find..the dust spots. they may be embedded in the clouds which I could easily mistake for a part of the skys natural .."makeup".
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I couldn't find them either. Perhaps they are "covert" dust spots (hiding behind the "covert.")
Nice image.
Eric
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OK. Here they are
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OK. Here they are
Now they are apparent. I may be subconciously programmed to try to ignore dust spots...
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Grafitti - Miami area
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Graffiti - Miami area
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Great set, Armand!
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Great set, Armand!
Thank you, these were targets of opportunity during a night walk (hence iso 6400 and/or F 1.4 on most). Quite a colorful area that was.
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I see halos around the tree, but I like the photograph.
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Yeah, I noticed that. Some work to do.
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Yeah, I noticed that. Some work to do.
Its nicely "evocative and worth the work.
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Its nicely "evocative and worth the work.
I agree.
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I agree.
You mean +1? Why don't you say so!?
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You mean +1? Why don't you say so!?
;)
+1 the minimalist's dream realized
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the geometry of that shadow still mystifies s me
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You mean +1? Why don't you say so!?
;)
I may start replying +1 to my own posts.
Wait! I already have! ;D
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+1
Er ???
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One from this afternoon's bimble
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if i remember correctly, an angled light source hitting a half circle projects an ellipse on a flat surface at right angles to the half circle like is shown in the picture.
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if i remember correctly, an angled light source hitting a half circle projects an ellipse on a flat surface at right angles to the half circle like is shown in the picture.
Thank you.
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Yes this was photographed in The Continental U.S.A.
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if i remember correctly, an angled light source hitting a half circle projects an ellipse on a flat surface at right angles to the half circle like is shown in the picture.
Indeed. And it's also a cool photo :-)
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One from this morning
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Indeed. And it's also a cool photo :-)
Thank you.
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suburban serendipity
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I noticed a penchant for mannequins in this thread, so...
(http://www.slobodanblagojevic.com/img/s9/v96/p1638634725-4.jpg) (http://www.slobodanblagojevic.com/p631768190/e61ab94e5)
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We've got snow on Dartmoor. Not a lot, but enough. Plus wind & some great clouds. Bloody cold though.
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Taken last evening, a combination of Nikon 24 F1.8G and Rokinon 14 F2.8
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Drain pipe attached to old brick wall
Chuck
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Nice lines and shapes Chuck.
Dare I suggest a square crop losing the right edge? I know the rail then exits the frame but I think everything becomes more taut like that. But I may well be wrong :)
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Nice lines and shapes Chuck.
Dare I suggest a square crop losing the right edge? I know the rail then exits the frame but I think everything becomes more taut like that. But I may well be wrong :)
Nope; that's the entire point of Without Prejudice.
Rob C
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I beg your pardon. I get muddled about the etiquette in the various threads. We can probably delete these comments.
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No prejudice, but I think it's easier to lose money in Montmartre then win it :-\
(https://pegelli.smugmug.com/Events/Dyxum-Paris-March-2012/i-HhbFX5Q/0/O/PEG_Nex_01324_20120401.jpg) (https://pegelli.smugmug.com/Events/Dyxum-Paris-March-2012/i-HhbFX5Q/A)
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Nope; that's the entire point of Without Prejudice.
Rob C
This answer gives me renewed courage (or temerity ... ::)
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I beg your pardon. I get muddled about the etiquette in the various threads. We can probably delete these comments.
No problem; I hate to appear despotic, but it's just that some people, myself included, don't really enjoy other people telling us what we 'should' have done, which is what 'critique' usually presupposes people are seeking.
In my own case, I did (and still do) photography for the buzz that what I do gives me; if others like it too, great, but my opinion's what, for me, it's all about. And clearly, by the number of posts this thread has had, I'm not alone in that wish for self-satisfaction/fulfilment
Obviously (I hope!) that doesn't preclude all other forms of comment, which as long as they don't get into the 'instructional' zone, are fine. Nobody has to love shots here; a mutual admiration society is boring.
;-)
Rob
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I would never tell anyone what they 'should' do just what they might like to explore. When it comes down to it I don't really care two hoots what they do and do not do. But I take your point. I'm the same, I shoot what I like and if others enjoy too that's a bonus. That said I always welcome suggestions - well polite ones.
But I will of course abide by the conventions of this thread :)
Mike
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This answer gives me renewed courage (or temerity ... ::)
I think Rob would allow me to say "I like it."
But if I started to say something like "Of course it might be better if you...." then I would worry about the state of my kneecaps.
It is very liberating to have a "critique-free zone" like this.
-Eric
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I think Rob would allow me to say "I like it."
But if I started to say something like "Of course it might be better if you...." then I would worry about the state of my kneecaps.
It is very liberating to have a "critique-free zone" like this.
-Eric
BTW Eric, I have meniscus problems (I wear knee pads when I go around to shoot). Particularly when I shoot macro, I risk to come back home by the Helicopter...(when - rarely - there is field for the cell phone). Hopefully not a Swiss helicopter, they charge you for the rescue not less than 10000 euros ...
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Karma was kind to me last night: after volunteering to model for some friends, I was asked to photograph a concert: everything was laid on, the pianist was gorgeous and had been painted by one of her artist friends. All I had to do was get the exposure basically right and not shake too much...
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Karma was kind to me last night: after volunteering to model for some friends, I was asked to photograph a concert: everything was laid on, the pianist was gorgeous and had been painted by one of her artist friends. All I had to do was get the exposure basically right and not shake too much...
Very nice portraits!
I also like the mood you get with those straight lines conrasting with humanity.
Rob C
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I like the unusual composition, Bill. Well balanced.
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Thanks. It's one of those times when only a square format seemed to work, so the crop was decided before I took the photograph.
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I like the unusual composition, Bill. Well balanced.
+1.
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Something Hopper-esque...
(It's also a cat photo, he's asleep inside the clothes basket)
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Something Hopper-esque...
(It's also a cat photo, he's asleep inside the clothes basket)
Great disposition of shapes/colour. Not as easily found as folks might think.
Colours for hanging out of windows?
Rob
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Yes, very nice one, Graham.
It's also the most subtle cat photo I've ever seen. ;)
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Two different views of the White Moor stone circle on Dartmoor
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Colours for hanging out of windows?
Complete accident. A red t-shirt, a white polypro thermal top for cycling, blue leggings for same. Back to front relative to the flag, but in the right orientation ;)
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Taken last evening, a combination of Nikon 24 F1.8G and Rokinon 14 F2.8
Fantastic sky in the first one!
Jeremy
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Window-shoppìng for something that's not there.
(http://www.roma57.com/uploads/4/2/8/7/4287956/7266592_orig.jpg)
Rob C
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This being Without Prejudice, I can't tell you how much I like that one, Rob. So I won't. :)
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This being Without Prejudice, I can't tell you how much I like that one, Rob. So I won't. :)
+1. ;)
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+2 Rob; excellent photo.
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Thanks, guys; I quite enjoy this kind of thing, gives me something to do that's more interesting to me than my navel, the various contours of which are far too familiar to me already.
;-)
Rob
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That might be a good title for an exhibit: "Substitutes for my Navel." ;)
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Another concert, same pianist. This one was complicated by the lighting tech going missing, so some guy rustled up at the last minute came and made random movements of the sliders... I was shooting manually at 3200iso, somewhere between f/5.6 & 1/90 and f/2.8 & 1/6, with a 70-200, an APC sensor and a monopod...
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The second one is alarming: did she fall off her stool or was she trying for a Jerry Lee Lewis thing and slipped? Not all of us can lift out feet to keyboard height and get away with it. Now she knows.
Rob
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She was also plucking the strings directly with her right hand, below the keyboard. There were various things attached down there, ranging from wooden clothes-pegs to 1/4" cup-hooks bolted through the string-pairs, with bits of putty attached to tune them. All in the spirit of John Cage and his prepared piano works. There was also a stage when one of the dancer/singers crawled between her legs, a bit of a Harvey Keitel / Holly Hunter moment from The Piano...
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She was also plucking the strings directly with her right hand, below the keyboard. There were various things attached down there, ranging from wooden clothes-pegs to 1/4" cup-hooks bolted through the string-pairs, with bits of putty attached to tune them. All in the spirit of John Cage and his prepared piano works. There was also a stage when one of the dancer/singers crawled between her legs, a bit of a Harvey Keitel / Holly Hunter moment from The Piano...
This would never happen in Puerto Pollensa!
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She was also plucking the strings directly with her right hand, below the keyboard. There were various things attached down there, ranging from wooden clothes-pegs to 1/4" cup-hooks bolted through the string-pairs, with bits of putty attached to tune them. All in the spirit of John Cage and his prepared piano works. There was also a stage when one of the dancer/singers crawled between her legs, a bit of a Harvey Keitel / Holly Hunter moment from The Piano...
In that case, I'm glad I can look at the photographs without having to listen. The only thing Cage wrote that's ever appealed to me is 4'33".
Jeremy
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(http://www.roma57.com/uploads/4/2/8/7/4287956/1552889_orig.jpg)
Or Four Birds.
Rob
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Or four Easter Island statues.
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Or four Easter Island statues.
Both interpretations work.
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Isn't art wonderful?
If we only but knew what it was or, for the pedants, is.
;-)
Rob
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Isn't art wonderful?
If we only but knew what it was or, for the pedants, is.
;-)
Rob
It is musical...
Peter
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Off-season.
(http://www.roma57.com/uploads/4/2/8/7/4287956/5994768_orig.jpg)
Rob
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Off-season.
(http://www.roma57.com/uploads/4/2/8/7/4287956/5994768_orig.jpg)
Rob
Rob,
You capture bittersweet wonderfully...
Peter
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Rob,
You capture bittersweet wonderfully...
Peter
+1.
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Shot well before I knew what I was doing, with my first interchangeable lens camera ever.
(https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7158/6754927131_9fe20d6c81_b.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/bhULuT)Power Plant in Valley Haze, Huron, CA, Redo (https://flic.kr/p/bhULuT) by tanngrisnir3 (https://www.flickr.com/photos/87368247@N00/), on Flickr
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+1.
Thanks, Eric and Peter; I'm afraid it comes easily - the problem is avoiding it!
Rob
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Thanks, Eric and Peter; I'm afraid it comes easily - the problem is avoiding it!
Rob
As long as you can still sometimes find the sweet and not only the bitter, you'll be OK.
Eric
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As long as you can still sometimes find the sweet and not only the bitter, you'll be OK.
Eric
Fingers crossed!
;-)
Rob
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Mjollnir, you may not have known 'what you were doing' but you did it well anyhow!
Rob C
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Another cheerful pick-me-up...
(http://www.roma57.com/uploads/4/2/8/7/4287956/9980996_orig.jpg)
;-)
Rob C
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Mjollnir, you may not have known 'what you were doing' but you did it well anyhow!
Rob C
+1.
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Bad circulation makes my winter fingers a bit uncomfortable - well, more than a soupçon cold and unresponsive - much as my toes at night. That means that I'm often to be found wearing gloves when mere mortals continue life as if nothing were amiss. An example of this was lunchtime, Friday: in my pockets I hid a pair of those gloves without fingertips so that I could wield the knife and fork, and for the street I had the full-duty alternative. I'm serious here: bad circ. can make simple tools, as mentioned, feel dangerously out of control, and as bad, physically painful. Clearly, fighting a camera is not one of those things called a priority.
I give you this amazing information not gratuitously, but because I want to explain, if only to myself, why I may be running short of fresh imagery these past few days. Forewarned is supposedly forearmed (again, not physically as in bones,) and so that's why I'm rolling out my little red carpet to Memory Lane.
A print of a shot made in the days when one could access the field in front of my place. It was a Nikkor 4.5/300 IFED wot shot the tree, which is actually quite crisp, an amazing feat as the focussing ring was far too slack, and even the act of letting it go was enough to shift focus... It was printed on a very cheap Epson office letter printer, and I was never able to match the colours when I eventually got my eventually deceased HP B9180; oddly, it still hasn't faded, in that I can still see it perfectly well, but it might have changed colour a few times. I didn't need gloves when I shot the thing as picture-on-wall. Obviously, it wasn't winter.
;-)
(http://www.roma57.com/uploads/4/2/8/7/4287956/2908109_orig.jpg)
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Ah, meta-photography, I like :-)
Which reminds me, my mobile phone photo of a man taking a photo of a painting of a photographer shooting a wedding... from Fine Arts Museum in Lyon
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Ah, meta-photography, I like :-)
Which reminds me, my mobile phone photo of a man taking a photo of a painting of a photographer shooting a wedding... from Fine Arts Museum in Lyon
Cool! Like that kinda cookie stuff too, as you see.
;-)
Rob
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Inspired by Fats:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2ZOxzsBE8A&index=5&list=RDkjMU5_O8-vo
The shot, I mean.
(http://www.roma57.com/uploads/4/2/8/7/4287956/5509718_orig.jpg)
Rob C
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More feet...
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I went to a Saul Leiter exhibition in London and apart from being very impressed I was surprised by how many disembodied legs appeared in the photographs. I think it's still on in the Photographers' Gallery, free entry before noon.
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He seemed like a very unassuming man... perhaps he shared my reluctance to aim a camera at strangers faces ?
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I think it's more probable that you both see patterns and interesting juxtapositions in these legs.
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I don't think I'd dare compare myself to Saul Leiter in that way :-)
Thanks for the tip on the exhibition, haven't been to London for a bit...
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I see my son from time to time and try to get the PG ideally before noon but it's only 3 quid anyway. Always something interesting IME.
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I don't think I'd dare compare myself to Saul Leiter in that way :-)
Thanks for the tip on the exhibition, haven't been to London for a bit...
I don't see Saul as surrealist; I see him as a guy with an eye for beauty wherever he was able to find it.
I see myself as totally lost; fish out if water. I know what I like, sometimes it finds me, but control? Not on your life! Other than in commercial, but that's something usually else - even historical, in fact!
Rob C
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The power of advertising touches us, even where it's not trying to score.
(http://www.roma57.com/uploads/4/2/8/7/4287956/4628854_orig.jpg)
Rob
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I see myself as totally lost; fish out if water. I know what I like, sometimes it finds me, but control? Not on your life!
I rather liked a blog entry on The Online Photographer the other day, wherein he launched an attack on previsualisation and lauded the role of chance. I'm sure someone has called this Creative Chaos and added a TM to it...
In fact that's how I see the work of HCB : having a finely tuned intuition for what will happen, the reflexes and anticipation to often be in a position to capture it, and so increasing the odds that among the vast number of photographs he made, some masterpieces happened. Hence my rather ill-tempered response to the front page article suggesting that somehow he already knew what he was going to photograph, together with its Jungian interpretations and literary references, so he just had to wait until the pieces all arranged themselves in front of his Leica and he was able to press the button and shout "Voilà, ça y est !"
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B&W - Dow Crag (originally, and still properly pronounced 'Doe Crag'), from just below Buck Pike, English Lake District.
Col - The view from Buck Pike towards Brown Pike & the sun glinting off the Duddon Estuary, English Lake District.
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Sometimes when I have no real camera with me my phone has to do the honours
(https://pegelli.smugmug.com/Other/201508/i-mnv5B4H/0/O/20150805_205909_b.jpg) (https://pegelli.smugmug.com/Other/201508/i-mnv5B4H/A)
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I rather liked a blog entry on The Online Photographer the other day, wherein he launched an attack on previsualisation and lauded the role of chance. I'm sure someone has called this Creative Chaos and added a TM to it...
I really like that, Graham; might even start to bandy it about should people be rash enough to ask me about my approach to 'concepts' and stuff! Creative Chaos, hmm.. I like that very much. At least, it's not an "ism"!
Rob C
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Ah, as suspected:
http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-creative-chaos.htm
Anyway, sometimes I overcome my reluctance to snap unknown people, especially if the inconnue is belle :
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As ever, cherchez la femme! (It keeps one of a healthy mind.)
Rob
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On the theme of cherching those femmes:
(http://www.roma57.com/uploads/4/2/8/7/4287956/9439237_orig.jpg)
Rob
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On the theme of cherching those femmes:
Rob
Rob, This is so delightfully unsettling...
Peter
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Bill, You could have easily titled this the "Face of Man".
Peter
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Bill, You could have easily titled this the "Face of Man".
Peter
Reclining Man?
Rob
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Rob, This is so delightfully unsettling...
Peter
Thanks, but I almost gave up on it at first; it did offer something graphic (both senses) in the flesh, but looked absolutely flat straight out of Nikon's Capture. In extremis... get cookin' and turn up the heat!
;-)
Rob
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The face of man? Are we talking pareidolia, or am I missing something?
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You are missing the lying (horizontal) face. It's forehead starts at the tree and extends to the right into a nose. Much easier to see in a thumbnail.
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Got it. Thanks
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man too
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Thank God for Rock'n'Roll!
(http://www.roma57.com/uploads/4/2/8/7/4287956/4977963_orig.jpg)
Rob C
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Look, a landscape!
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Look, a landscape!
But, but, there's nobody jumping!
;-)
Rob C
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But, but, there's nobody jumping!
;-)
Rob C
That's easily fixed in Photoshop. ;D
Eric
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Suburbs and Skyscape
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Mixing history with stock and reflecting on the consequences.
Some gardening might have been in order; perhaps not the most pressing thing on the Tourist Board's collective mind.
(http://www.roma57.com/uploads/4/2/8/7/4287956/5280550_orig.jpg)
Rob C
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Today it snowed in Lyon, for about 5 mins...
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...which made people hungry, I guess...
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That girl with the pram needs a meal.
Rob
P.S.
If you reduce your pix' width a smidgen I won't have to scroll... and lose the effect.
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Kennedy Space Center
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His master's voice:
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But did the dog sing, Slobodan?
Rob
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I sometimes think that a cellphone is the best damned thing we have. Other times I hate it because it's a lottery: can't even see what the blessed image is when I'm outside.
I wonder if the best compromise is one of those point 'n' shoots. I mean, after all, if I have no intentions of printing again, and I do like 'grain'... Did P'n'S cameras have accurate viewfinders?
Rob C
(http://www.roma57.com/uploads/4/2/8/7/4287956/2106902_orig.jpg)
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Buy a P'n'S camera with an electronic viewfinder and you'll see what the sensor sees ;-)
Hi Keith,
But aren't those things to stick into accessory shoes, and only for expensive versions of P'n'S like the little Leica X range? I'm thinking of something totally under 500 quid or so. A useable toy. I wouldn't dump either of my Nikons - it's just for a walkabout which neither of the Niks really is - too damned bulky.
Rob
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One option might be a used Olympus e-pm2 with the kit 14-42. About 200 USD. Decent sensor. Small and light. If you need a higher resolution evf, a vf400 evf on the flash shoe. About 150 USD used. You can also put almost any other manual focus capable lens on it with adapter. 50mm or longer best to avoid light ray angle issues with the sensor microlenses. 2X crop factor on FOV.
Frank
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Frank, Keith:
Thanks for your input - lot's to look at and think about there.
What would be cool wold be a digital version of the original, tiny Minox spy camera! Now that would really fit into a shirt pocket! And cost more than the Leica ones, no doubt.
Rob
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Hmm, almost in synchrony with Rob's post, one of my friends posted this, shot in the car wash :)
I'm not sure the video adds much, I'd have kept the first frame (oops, that was a prejudicial comment, sorry!)
https://www.instagram.com/p/BCuDEQ9u6jF/
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I sometimes think that a cellphone is the best damned thing we have. Other times I hate it because it's a lottery: can't even see what the blessed image is when I'm outside.
The problem I have is that for whatever bizarre reason, I'm incapable of getting the horizon level when using my cell phone. But it's the biggest camera I'm ever going to take on a 100+ km bicycle ride, so...
Rob: I'll try changing my export setting down to 600x900, hopefully that will work better.
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Rob, my local London Camera Centre has a Fujifilm X100s for about £500
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Rob, my local London Camera Centre has a Fujifilm X100s for about £500
I believe it's London Camera Exchange, not Centre.
Brian
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You're right. Exchange. We used to have a Taunton Camera Centre, but that's now long gone.
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Rob, the Sony RX100 is arguably the best "pocketable"--even if only in a rather large pocket--camera out there. I have the original "mark I" version, and have loved it for both its convenience and high image quality. The more recent "mark III" and "mark IV" versions have built-in, popup EVF finders, though I haven't personally looked through them. If you search for Sony RX100 here on LuLa forums, you will find a lot of positive testimonials. The biggest downside to this camera is that it's not cheap; maybe the most expensive in its category.
RX100 IV review at DPReview (http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/sony-cybershot-dsc-rx100-iv)
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Maybe used.....
http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/590456-USA/Minox_60651_DSC_Digital_Spy.html
Frank
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Maybe used.....
http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/590456-USA/Minox_60651_DSC_Digital_Spy.html
Frank
Live and learn!
I thought that Minox had long died, victim of its own tiny film format!
Today I decided to brave the current gales - at least it's not raining today - and do the regulation walk I'm supposed to perform every day. Well, I'd bought a VND filter some months ago and only tried it once, with no luck at all - and promptly forgot about it. Then, I recently saw again some work by our South Africa contributor Riaan, and today the filter was back outside its case.
Fitted to the 24mm on the D200, stopped down to f22, not a care in the world about diffraction etc. and focus set once and for all via DOF scale, I shot around the sea edges and have yet to find out the truth/value (if any) of my efforts. But here's the thing: the feeling of the exercise was worth its weight in fools(?) gold! Back home, I've wiped off the salt, feel perfectly confident in the innards working okay next time, and realised yet again that it's not the camera, stupid, it's how your head's working at the time.
Guess that means I just stay with what I have, and get on with it. Weight's one thing, but so's mental attitude, as Mrs Ringo Starr told 007 some years ago.
Nonetheless, thank you all for your ideas and suggestions: I now know a lot more about other cameras than I did!
Rob C
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Well, a new departure that I hope isn't a brake. (Probably only for older US readers...)
;-)
(http://www.roma57.com/uploads/4/2/8/7/4287956/1940056_orig.jpg)
Rob C
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Definitely at least two million quid :-)
I think one problem of the Euro is that it still doesn't have a consistent slang term like "buck" or "quid". It will be difficult across so many cultures. The French occasionally call it the "roro" (pronounced row-row).
Anyway, another shot from last weekend's after the brief snow walk, in the new 600x900 format...
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Well, a new departure that I hope isn't a brake. (Probably only for older US readers...)
;-)
(http://www.roma57.com/uploads/4/2/8/7/4287956/1940056_orig.jpg)
Rob C
I love your new departure, Rob.
But be careful: You just may be unintentionally teaching some of us how to be creative. ;)
This reminds me of a comment by a famous landscape photographer that I took a workshop from a many years ago. It took me a long time (decades) before I realized that his comment really held the essence of creativity in photography, in one word:
"Look!"
-Eric
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Definitely at least two million quid :-)
I think one problem of the Euro is that it still doesn't have a consistent slang term like "buck" or "quid". It will be difficult across so many cultures. The French occasionally call it the "roro" (pronounced row-row).
Anyway, another shot from last weekend's after the brief snow walk, in the new 600x900 format...
Hi Graham,
Yes, it's easier now - just - for my little LaCie 319 to get a full vertical; I'm sure horizontals will be just perfect. Thank you for caring enough to change!
Rob C
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I love your new departure, Rob.
But be careful: You just may be unintentionally teaching some of us how to be creative. ;)
This reminds me of a comment by a famous landscape photographer that I took a workshop from a many years ago. It took me a long time (decades) before I realized that his comment really held the essence of creativity in photography, in one word:
"Look!"
-Eric
One thing I've recently discovered is that when something looks intriguing in another, quite different photographic idiom to the one(s) that one happens to like, it's fairly simple to adapt it to suit one's own interests.
I used to worry somewhat about being derivative, but then I realised that even the cats I though great were also basing their stuff on the shoulders of past giants. In mitigation, I don't think anyone can be so close to another's point of view as to acually copy them - unless they set out to do exactly the same shot - so perhaps these have been worthless concerns. At the end of the day, you can only bring yourself to the table. Thank goodness! Were it otherwise, we might all as well sell up.
Rob
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The Hercules of Palazzo Buonaccorsi, Macerata
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frozen cacti
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Melting ice.
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Melting ice.
The first is beautiful.
Jeremy
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The first is beautiful.
Jeremy
+1.
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Thanks for the feedback!
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Twice holds better
A recent evening walk in Berlin led me unexpectedly alongside a prison. A good example of how the Fuji X-Pro2 works in low light conditions (ISO 12.800, ACROS-SW-Simulation)
(http://v3.harlempix.com/wp-content/gallery/myxp-city/DSCF0386.jpg)
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Twice might hold better but will it be enough? Check out the getaway scooter!
Rob C
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parking lot
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Wot's cookin'?
(http://www.roma57.com/uploads/4/2/8/7/4287956/2384605_orig.jpg)
Rob C
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Olive oil
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I like that; remember, though, the guy with the mighty forearms is crazy.
Rob
P.S.
I see your tiles are as 'artistically' fitted as mine. As with so many things, the artisanal arts have gone with the last, pre-tourism generations.
P.P.S.
I recall suggesting folks look around the house, if they feel there's nothing to shoot; always is.
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I like that; remember, though, the guy with the mighty forearms is crazy.
Rob
P.S.
I see your tiles are as 'artistically' fitted as mine. As with so many things, the artisanal arts have gone with the last, pre-tourism generations.
P.P.S.
I recall suggesting folks look around the house, if they feel there's nothing to shoot; always is.
Raises the question: Can you mix oil and water? Or Olive Oil and Hot Water?
I guess the guy with the mighty forearms probably could. ;)
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Raises the question: Can you mix oil and water? Or Olive Oil and Hot Water?
I guess the guy with the mighty forearms probably could. ;)
And if you mixed it with Olive, you were in hot water already. The question would then be: which sort of hot water' Psychological or physical?
Ah, philosophy. No wonder it turns one to stone.
Rob
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Raises the question: Can you mix oil and water? Or Olive Oil and Hot Water?
I guess the guy with the mighty forearms probably could. ;)
You can. High voltage electricians know that procedure as Spratz-Test. You may experience impressive results.
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Met with an actor friend on the weekend, went to the station and played film noir...
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Watching Porn
(http://v3.harlempix.com/wp-content/gallery/artsy/DSCF0423.jpg)
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I rather liked a blog entry on The Online Photographer the other day, wherein he launched an attack on previsualisation and lauded the role of chance.
I just discovered that this was not on The Online Photographer, but elsewhere. So in order to put the world to rights:
http://blog.kasson.com/?page_id=1858
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Street Corner Soak...
Peter
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Street Corner Soak...
Peter
Yet again you give me the unsettling urge to forsake my life in the sticks...
Great mood; reminds me of the HC-B shot of Alberto Giacometti crossing the street, huddled in his coat against the weather. Now were your model Debbie Harry, your shot would be as immortal as HC-B's too. Isn't life a bit of a bitch? FWIW, I'd rather have shot Debbie (photographically, that is) than Alberto.
Rob
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I just discovered that this was not on The Online Photographer, but elsewhere. So in order to put the world to rights:
http://blog.kasson.com/?page_id=1858
Thank you for the link: provided good reading between courses today at the diner! (What a wonderful difference that buying a new battery did for my cellphone 'experience', as these things are now described!)
But again, it underscores the gulf between am. and pro. thought: I can't remember being posessed of these 'previs' obsessions at any stage during the many years I had to earn my risky crust via a camera. Come to think of it, and thinking takes a lot out of me sometimes - the only period when such a thought has arisen, vis-á-vis photography, has been since my time here on LuLa. It used to be a simple, automatic process of just getting on with the job in hand. I fail to see why the am. finds that difficult to understand - unless it goes even deeper, and right down to the Terry Donovan quotation I promised not to quote again, and provides an excuse for not actually doing anything much, because there isn't really anything very much that one needs to photograph. I find that every day now, and defeat it by changing technique/focal length periods; for example, I have recently moved from shooting through smears of Vaseline to doing much the same through a VND filter. Passes the time otherwise inevitably spent on the navel. That neither activity brings in a dime matter not a jot: I need far more than a dime to see much betterment in my daily grind.
But I guess this preoccupation is a product of far too many pundits 'proving' themselves at the cost of their respective audience.
One meets some interesting characters online.
Rob C
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Would it have been easier to make this with black or with white crayons, assuming one had choice of colour of support?
(http://www.roma57.com/uploads/4/2/8/7/4287956/2247603_orig.jpg)
Rob
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United Colours of Tourism.
(http://www.roma57.com/uploads/4/2/8/7/4287956/8589406_orig.jpg)
Rob C
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Isn't life a bit of a bitch?
An EPIC Understatement...
Peter
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United Colours of Tourism...
Texas cowboy hats - Brokeback Mountain Special Edition:
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Texas cowboy hats - Brokeback Mountain Special Edition:
I wouldn't dare! Even though I've now sort of self-banned the bandana because of the sun.
Rob
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Another from after lunch. Boy, is it still cold here!
(http://www.roma57.com/uploads/4/2/8/7/4287956/3394714_orig.jpg)
Rob C
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A barbecue joint in Texas:
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A barbecue joint in Texas:
Tromp l'oeil and more.
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A barbecue joint in Texas:
The clouds seem to be trying to imitate Rob C's "Swingin Blue." ;)
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And I thought I was witnessing a bad accident in Cuba!
Did you know that American cars remained functional there because Russia supplied all the "American" engine parts from their own, USSR factories? That, from the horse's mouth. I believe him.
Rob
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Sailing cats.
(http://www.roma57.com/uploads/4/2/8/7/4287956/3577386_orig.jpg)
Rob
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Love the sail (Rob's yacht-envy-denial slipping out? :P )
Here's another from my brief snow series...
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And a local:
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Great shot - thought you'd caught Sarah Moon!
Rob
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Love the sail (Rob's yacht-envy-denial slipping out? :P )
Here's another from my brief snow series...
Great balance!
Regarding the boats: yep, part of the original escape plan was to sell the house in Scotland and buy a boat, live in that and tour the Med doing this'n'that until we got bored, then move on to the next idyllic spot. We, I write, but the idea was wholly mine: fortunately 'she' refused to accept a boat, but as long as we reinvested in bricks... so that's what happened. Thank God! I'd have gone broke within two years; no idea just how much the things cost to run, even if you don't move an inch from a mooring. Ironically, after a year or two here we were offered life membership of the local yacht club for 240 quid... as I had abandoned the boat idea the offer wasn't taken up, largely because the club - a new one - had yet to be built, and 'expert' advice said it would be a disaster. Today, you have to stump up twenty-two grand (in pounds) to get membership, and there's a waiting list. Idiot! I could have bought a mooring in it and lived off renting that out to an actual boat owner! Hindsight; experts.
Now, I wouldn't own a yacht even if I won the lottery - honestly wouldn't want one. I feel the same about large cars.
Rob
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Father Figure.
(http://www.roma57.com/uploads/4/2/8/7/4287956/4042714_orig.jpg)
Rob
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Hal he is...
Peter
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Some colour, just to change my habits. My favourite café has red blankets available to keep their terrace customers warm in early spring conditions...
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Nice touch with these things, Graham. I quite enjoy forms of street where people are not necessarily included. The peripherals to street life are quite interesting in their own right. Must be Leiter tugging my strings!
Rob C
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Yep, Saul's work has been inspiring me lately, if that's not too grand a word ;)
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Yep, Saul's work has been inspiring me lately, if that's not too grand a word ;)
That's my situation too, ever since I rediscovered him a year or so ago!
And here's a distinction I make: I don't believe I have been influenced by other photographers, but I sure know that I have been inspired by many!
Same difference? I think not. I began to dabble in fashion in '66, as soon as I went out on my own. I already knew all about David Bailey and thought him the bee's knees; however, copying wasn't going to happen: different type of clothes to work with, different models, different budgets (vastly!) and location possibilities. Same when Sarah Moon popped up a few years later: loved her, and still do, to bits! But again, working in different worlds and ambiences. She claims hardly ever to leave Paris for work locations; I never worked there, sadly enough. Saul Leiter is the same: the stuff I love is all yellow cabs, red umbrellas and condensation-drenched windows. A world away from Mallorca. But, in the case of these photographers I admire, they have vision and appear to be able to make something out of pretty much anything that's available. That, is photographic creativity, where you can't just imagine a shot, but have to have a 'something' right in front of the camera and work with it to get where you have to go. I also love the work of Hans Feurer; apparently so simple: just put on a very long lens and shoot against the light. Yeah, right! Try it first with anybody out of your provincial model agency, no hair/make-up experts to design the model, stylists to dress her up in a fantasy look, and see where it gets you!
I think the greatest contribution these 'stars' make is this: they let you know that it is possible to do more than you ever imagined was feasible. They let you believe in infinity.
Rob
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~une bise...(edit/modify image size)
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I especially like the two small foreground clouds chasing each other.
I don't think Stieglitz got one quite like this. ;)
-Eric
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@Eric,
...he'd forgotten his Cphone that day for note-taking. :)
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I think the greatest contribution these 'stars' make is this: they let you know that it is possible to do more than you ever imagined was feasible. They let you believe in infinity.
Rob
I totally agree, their work encourages you to keep trying to develop your own work/style rather than give you examples of what to emulate.
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About all the exercise I
need am willing (capable of?) to undertake!
(http://www.roma57.com/uploads/4/2/8/7/4287956/7405571_orig.jpg)
Now technically, could this be a tricycle? Not as I understood the term when I think I remember having one.
Rob
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About all the exercise I need am willing (capable of?) to undertake!
(http://www.roma57.com/uploads/4/2/8/7/4287956/7405571_orig.jpg)
Now technically, could this be a tricycle? Not as I understood the term when I think I remember having one.
Rob
Not a tricycle, Rob. That would need three wheels. The essence of your image is, I think, captured in the old song (slightly edited to improve the rhymes):
"Daisy, Daisy, give me your answer free.
I'm half crazy, all for the love of thee.
It won't be a stylish marriage,
I can't afford a carriage.
But you look neat
Upon the seat
of a bicycle built for three!"
-Eric
P.S. I like it.
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Not a tricycle, Rob. That would need three wheels. The essence of your image is, I think, captured in the old song (slightly edited to improve the rhymes):
"Daisy, Daisy, give me your answer free.
I'm half crazy, all for the love of thee.
It won't be a stylish marriage,
I can't afford a carriage.
But you look neat
Upon the seat
of a bicycle built for three!"
-Eric
P.S. I like it.
Indeed, I like it too: a great adaptation if not a final solution to the question.
Final solutions are also being sought for the stuff just gone down in Brussels. I think Trump was right all along; you know, crazy like a fox?
Rob
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bottoms up
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Colors of music:
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Wet & windy here today
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Managed it at last: everyone's goal!
(http://www.roma57.com/uploads/4/2/8/7/4287956/3367786_orig.jpg)
;-)
Rob
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Ansel couldn't have done it better.
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Ansel couldn't have done it better.
I know, I know; just too modest to admit it in public.
;-)
Rob C
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fire
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This thread is great, I might contribute as well.
A series of greens.
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Two from a recent walk through Chicago. The second one is more a political statement: McDonald's and Trump, rags to riches, 99+1 = one nation under...Trump? 😀
P.S. For those not familiar with Chicago, the building in the middle is the Trump Tower.
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Did some shots today with a young actor friend, for her book. This one I rather liked
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À propos of not a lot in particular, but probably inspired by recent events on the news:
(http://www.roma57.com/uploads/4/2/8/7/4287956/4397003_orig.jpg)
Rob C
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Did some shots today with a young actor friend, for her book. This one I rather liked
Can't fool me: it's an actress!
;-)
Rob C
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Can't fool me: it's an actress!
;-)
Rob C
I guess it takes an experienced pro to tell the difference. ;)
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I guess it takes an experienced pro to tell the difference. ;)
All you need is love
;-)
Rob
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Can't fool me: it's an actress!
She promised to come to the studio (err, the room where I have a flash) and do some nudes. I'll advise.
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She promised to come to the studio (err, the room where I have a flash) and do some nudes. I'll advise.
Let us know how that line works in France...
Peter
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She promised to come to the studio (err, the room where I have a flash) and do some nudes. I'll advise.
A flash what? My mind is not boggling. I have supreme self control.
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(http://www.roma57.com/uploads/4/2/8/7/4287956/7835340_orig.jpg)
Rob C
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Oh, very nice :)
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A flash what? My mind is not boggling. I have supreme self control.
I should hope so, a doctor and all.
Is there a policy here on nudity, btw?
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Is there a policy here on nudity, btw?
No selfies. Kate Beckinsale would be fine though
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Nude policy: AFIK, the policy seems to be - thankfully - that nudes are just fine, but anything pornish is not.
IMO, porn defeats the objective of nude photography, which I imagine to be the preservation against time of transient beauty. Whether or not concepts of beauty change over time, the point remains that I think we are, or probably should be, trying to record and conserve for ever, how wonderful something once looked. And the subject can't, of itself, do that for too many years.
I don't think there's validity for confusing nude photography with medical.
On a tangent: isn't it strange how some can become so stressed out about the matter: after all, every sister, mother, grandmother has the same basic equipment below the cotton, nylon, wool or whatever. The only difference is that some have it in a beautiful format and others not. Are the cries of the latter to defeat the joy of the former?
Rob C
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... waits for comments about colour management....
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My favourite definition is that porn is what other people like, erotica is what I like.
Anyway, this is Grace C. Jones, another actress (I'm fairly sure), and a very lovely person :)
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(http://www.keithlaban.co.uk/me.jpg)
Sorry, the temptation was just too great ;D
Fuerteventura? Ibiza? By the weed, I'd imagine the Med rather than Atlantic. Maybe it's volcanic rock, in which case Atlantic. Either way, you know what to tell colour critics! Love the hair... I used to have about as much. (Depression? Who's depressed? High shine is good!)
;-)
Rob C
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Crocus vernus subsp. albiflorus (Kit.) Ces.
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(http://www.keithlaban.co.uk/me.jpg)
Sorry, the temptation was just too great ;D
That's a photograph, not a selfie. Even if it is of you.
Jeremy
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But, but (hmmm... should double "but" be written twice or simply with a double "t"?) Jeremy, you could have made your point without double posting the
butt image :D
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One from early evening today
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A camelia flower
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A camelia flower
Thank you for feeding my monochrome flower lust, Bill.
Jeremy
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You're welcome.
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Foot fetish?
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at the bar
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Foot fetish?
I used to wear trainers almost all the time except for summer, when it was flip-flops, which meant the luxury of barefoot driving, which can't be a sin, because millions do it every day in India.
I stopped wearing them - trainers - after a trip through France: we were spending a few days in Payrac (near Rocamadour, Brive, Sarlat etc.) and I realised my wife had placed the 'shoes' on the ledge of an open window in the hotel bedroom. She said not a word.
Rob C
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An exercise in deep chemical physics:
(http://www.roma57.com/uploads/4/2/8/7/4287956/8610024_orig.jpg)
Rob C
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Warmer weather coming in.
(http://www.roma57.com/uploads/4/2/8/7/4287956/6408005_orig.jpg)
Rob C
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Ah! :)
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Rubik's Cube:
(http://www.roma57.com/uploads/4/2/8/7/4287956/9201367_orig.jpg)
Rob
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A few from Temple Newsam ( near Leeds, UK ).
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A few more from Temple Newsam.
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All Saints Church, Scholar Green, Cheshire, UK.
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Seaquarium, Weston Supermare, UK.
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Tyntesfield, Somerset, UK.
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Graeme, really like your indoor work and what appears to be the use of soft window light. Also the use of warm lamp light. The ambiance really comes through and makes the scene come alive. Excellent work!
JR
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Graeme, really like your indoor work and what appears to be the use of soft window light. Also the use of warm lamp light. The ambiance really comes through and makes the scene come alive. Excellent work!
JR
Thanks John.
My other half & I often find ourselves wandering around historic buildings which are open to the public ( usually National Trust ). These places are usually very dim inside as they keep blinds over a lot of the windows to minimise UV damage to fabrics, artworks etc. They often use fake candles to bring some light into darker parts of the buildings. This combination creates a definite 'vibe'. The low light levels give my Canon 60D's sensor a bit of a workout & the focus is often a bit off but the images work best as small prints where the technical shortcomings aren't a problem.
Ok not as intrepid as some forum members expeditions to Iceland or Death Valley but I get to eat more cake than them. ( National Trust properties usually have good tea rooms / cafes ).
Graeme
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few long exposures with the RX100 (focused by ear as autofocus didn't work and I couldn't see a thing)
PS. I have no idea why the light changed between shots 2 and 3
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few long exposures with the RX100 (focused by ear as autofocus didn't work and I couldn't see a thing)
PS. I have no idea why the light changed between shots 2 and 3
By chance was your WB set to AWB? If yes, that could easily be the reason.
Peter
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After a coffee I didn't really need.
(http://www.roma57.com/uploads/4/2/8/7/4287956/4718543_orig.jpg)
Rob
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Left over from last summer's crop and feeling the passage of time.
Chuck
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Chuck,
This one has some of the feeling you are getting in your "Effervescent" image.
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Eric - that's a bit scary. I just got a chuckle from this one. :)
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Jeremy
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I didn't know you went hunting, Slobodan!
;-)
Rob
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Not street, but lawn...very nice
Peter
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Not Café de Flore (sorry Rob), but Café de France, in Lyon.
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Place Célestins...
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Graham,
People really are the most fascinating of all the animals!
I expect that each species thinks similarly of its own... I think we are actually rather fortunate to be living in Europe. I find our own types quite remarkable - not for being 'exotic' as in far away lands, but in their little ways and facial expressions of distaste, resignation and even bewilderment. Lots of the latter in the mirror, as a matter of fact.
Do you ever have the feeling that you're here to finish something before your curtain comes down, but can't quite nail what the hell it might be that you're supposed to be completing?
Rob
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Funny you should say that... I'm reading Frans de Waal's book on animal intelligence, and he talks about how as a species we choose to see the things we're good at as the most important, whereas a squirrel would see us as woefully stupid about remembering a few hundred hiding places for nuts...
I also just watched a video of a lecture by Gary Winogrand where one could imagine that there was no photography outside the US:
https://www.lensculture.com/articles/garry-winogrand-garry-winogrand-visions-from-the-street-portraits-of-america
Otherwise... after a couple of years working under a psychopath boss with narcissistic personality disorder, I lost most interest in my day job... as of 3 weeks, I'm working for a human again, and it's taking some time to re-adapt to not expecting an attack hidden behind every innocent question. Anyway, during my puragtory I decided I needed to move on to a different phase of my life. Not sure what it is yet... probably not sorting out the connection between gravity and quantum field theory :-) Anyway, a couple more years and I'll be over the "can walk away now" savings threshold, at which point the question will really demand to be answered.
It's pretty clear that whatever it is, it will go unnoticed in the wider world, which is an interesting challenge to the ego. For the moment, I'm practicing ;-)
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Thanks for the link, Graham - I'll watch it later in the day - at the moment I have to hang out the washing that's just stopped going round and around (Chuck Berry?)...
Beware the fuck off money: it's never as big a heap as you imagined. I forgot two things: possibility of banks ceasing to pay interest; the rising cost of living that the official figues lie, and tell me isn't happening. It sure is, and has. Oh a third: is hobby able to replace work? And yet a fourth! Life for one on one pension is not the same as life for two on two of them. The mutual constants are very high!
Rob
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By chance was your WB set to AWB? If yes, that could easily be the reason.
Peter
I just got the time to check and you are right, that was the only difference.
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Not a lady snapper in sight.
(http://www.roma57.com/uploads/4/2/8/7/4287956/5149259_orig.jpg)
Rob
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It seems I need some text :)
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Decay
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Not a lady snapper in sight.
(http://www.roma57.com/uploads/4/2/8/7/4287956/5149259_orig.jpg)
Rob
Rob,
You are most persistent this time...
Peter
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It seems I need some text :)
Nope, my own soudtrack is perfectly happy to provide the lyrics!
Great shot!
Rob
P.S. I'd just like to add: I think that if this sort of image is made with infinitely fine grain/lack of noise, utter sharpness etc, etc. then it fails to provide the feeling of humanity. I like to see the look of struggle, of happenstance; the little kiss of Lady Luck taken on the fly!
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Rob,
You are most persistent this time...
Peter
Hang about...
;-)
Rob
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This village is the perfect deserted one during the lunch hour(s).
(http://www.roma57.com/uploads/4/2/8/7/4287956/8420695_orig.jpg)
Rob
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Slow day…
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I like to see the look of struggle,
You know the story the Stravinsky deliberately set the opening bassoon solo of the Rite of Spring across the bridge to make it hard to play? He wanted the player's struggle to be heard, to represent the struggle of a new plant pushing out of the soil.
Apparently he was upset that technical skills have improved so much that most decent bassoonists can knock it out as a party trick.
The other amusing anecdote is that the dancers hated Nijinsky's choreography. However
"When on his return Diaghilev enquired about Le Sacre and learnt of its enormous unpopularity, he merely remarked that it was an excellent sign. It proved the composition to be strikingly original."
It don't work that way these days :-)
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You know the story the Stravinsky deliberately set the opening bassoon solo of the Rite of Spring across the bridge to make it hard to play? He wanted the player's struggle to be heard, to represent the struggle of a new plant pushing out of the soil.
Apparently he was upset that technical skills have improved so much that most decent bassoonists can knock it out as a party trick.
The other amusing anecdote is that the dancers hated Nijinsky's choreography. However
"When on his return Diaghilev enquired about Le Sacre and learnt of its enormous unpopularity, he merely remarked that it was an excellent sign. It proved the composition to be strikingly original."
It don't work that way these days :-)
Yes; and looking at the sterility of some Leica Mono stuff elsewhere on LuLa, you can see the point illustrated large! Dee-effin'-ded!
Rob
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Slow day…
Looking at the thumbnail, the first thing I saw was a close-up of a small barge going through a narrow canal. Glaucoma can bring you some funny moments, too!
On expanding, the woman is fascinating: I see her, many years younger, leaning against a wall somewhere, her boyfriend up close in front of her... celebrating. Face is so important.
Rob
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(http://www.roma57.com/uploads/4/2/8/7/4287956/7186282_orig.jpg)
Rob
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(http://www.roma57.com/uploads/4/2/8/7/4287956/7186282_orig.jpg)
Rob
Gosh, Rob. I had to take off my glasses to get the nice blurry effect on that one. :D
Eric
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(http://www.roma57.com/uploads/4/2/8/7/4287956/7186282_orig.jpg)
Rob
Ladies and gentlemen the Beetles!!!!! A new world was born.
Peter
My 1000 post and on a good one.
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The barn on the hill
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Gosh, Rob. I had to take off my glasses to get the nice blurry effect on that one. :D
Eric
Life's a blur, Eric. The older I get the faster is screeches round corners. Thing is, sometimes there are no corners when it screeches. That's when I realise it just needs some more snake oil. Plenty of that around!
;-)
Rob
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Ladies and gentlemen the Beetles!!!!! A new world was born.
Peter
My 1000 post and on a good one.
Hey, Peter!
Congrats on the millennium. The first one's easy, just the opposite of the milliions.
Rob
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crime scene
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Much nicer than the crime scenes you find on TV. I especially like the second one (as an abstract).
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Hey, Peter!
Congrats on the millennium. The first one's easy, just the opposite of the milliions.
Rob
Rob,
You know it's the little things in life...thanks.
Petet
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Tell Me a Story, Father
Sometimes, out amongst the red rock, you begin to see figures that once may have been alive. Or perhaps you're just hallucinating! It's easy to see how the ancients may have worshipped these stones, especially as the light changes.
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A kiss in time, David! Nice one. The shot - no idea about how they felt their kiss to be.
Rob
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The shot - no idea about how they felt their kiss to be.
Rob
They were Petrified!
Peter
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They were Petrified!
Peter
Brilliant!
Rob
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(http://www.roma57.com/uploads/4/2/8/7/4287956/4078991_orig.jpg)
Rob
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(http://www.roma57.com/uploads/4/2/8/7/4287956/4078991_orig.jpg)
Rob
An eternal beauty!
Peter
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(http://www.roma57.com/uploads/4/2/8/7/4287956/4078991_orig.jpg)
Rob
Could be "in the prison of the mind."
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Hi Eric,
By coincidence, I, too, was thinking later about the shot in terms of 'prison' rather than graveyards. Not of the mind, though I do see your source - but of breasts: that sort of sharp, rigid neckline seems so anti-feminine! But then, I have noticed something similar with women at weddings, at least, at the ones I sometimes had to present myself years ago: in efforts to look formal, smart and possibly wedded to the right guy, there used to be a proclivity for wearing suits that looked as it they had been constructed (the suits, not the women) from sofa materials. I wonder why? Come to think of it, maybe it did make the women, too, look like sofas were part of their build.
I fully understand why youth rebels against this choke-hold on spirit. The hell with the girdle! Save the whales!
Rob
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As with Hadleyville, I think you'd have to google it.
(http://www.roma57.com/uploads/4/2/8/7/4287956/3367910_orig.jpg)
Rob
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Rob,
Is that one breasts, or is it "Gladly, the Cross-eyed Bear?"
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Rob,
Is that one breasts, or is it "Gladly, the Cross-eyed Bear?"
Eric, don't be lazy: google it (them)!
;-)
Rob
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Ms. Bing tells me that 55-59 Old Compton Street is Ho Vietnamese Restaurant. ?
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Ms. Bing tells me that 55-59 Old Compton Street is Ho Vietnamese Restaurant. ?
Ah, history and the contemporary vandalism thereof!
It used to be the 2i's Coffee Bar, the London 'Cavern', as it were, many years before the Liverpudlian's existed as placenta to musical symbols.
Many of Britain's great musos made their debut there; probably unknown, most of them, outside Britain, but it was all we had apart from Radio Luxembourg on 208m medium wave, and AFN coming across from the US Forces network in Germany (Good Morning Vietnam! with a different location base but probably identical agenda) - both, for us, dependent on good atmospherics. First time I heard R 'n' B was on AFN... so no musical colour prejudice there, at least.
As for Hadleyville, NM, think Gary Cooper...
;-)
Rob
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Thanks, Rob.
Gary Cooper is somebody I have heard of. (Hmmm. Was he one of my classmates?)
Eric
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Tell Me a Story, Father
Sometimes, out amongst the red rock, you begin to see figures that once may have been alive. Or perhaps you're just hallucinating! It's easy to see how the ancients may have worshipped these stones, especially as the light changes.
Nice one!
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Thanks, Rob.
Gary Cooper is somebody I have heard of. (Hmmm. Was he one of my classmates?)
Eric
Um, I dont think so, Eric; he was probably a close personal friend of your parents, but it's hard to be sure: he had one of those personalities that was so difficult to pin down: he used to disguise himself as Randolph Scott now and again, so well that I could seldom spot the join. And that was pre-Photopshop! Come to think of it, which identical twin has the Toni? Which Gary is really Randolph?
And so runs Saturday, much to the distress of some.
;-)
Rob C
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The Great Western Sleepwalk:
(http://www.roma57.com/uploads/4/2/8/7/4287956/889917_orig.jpg)
Rob
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I was in Hannover for the long weekend. Interestingly, the 5th of May is Ascension in France, whereas in Germany it's Father's Day, or more precisely "Load a hand-cart with alcohol and go drink it in a public place day."
Friday was a bit calmer.
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Funny; I'd remembered it as Oh! Calcutta! at first, but maybe the period really was a bit mixed up for some of us.
(http://www.roma57.com/uploads/4/2/8/7/4287956/8518724_orig.jpg)
Rob C
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Chips.
I mostly abide by the commandment to refrain from feeding them, but I am usually happy when someone else does.
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(http://www.roma57.com/uploads/4/2/8/7/4287956/6773912_orig.jpg)
Rob C
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I really love this intense electric blue…
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I really love this intense electric blue…
Me, too. This is very nice. Would have fit just as well in the abstracts thread.
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Thank you, Francois and Arlen,
To an extent, I agree, but my feelings about that thread are now a bit different to what they used to be: I think it has departed from abstraction -as I believe that I understood it - and moved into a sort of programmed/mechanical version with which I have no empathy. Regardless, as long as somebody enjoys the stuff, either this, that or the other - fair enough in all ways: no rules.
;-)
Rob C
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Lots of low-hanging cloud over the last couple of days
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Very English, Bill, with a distinctly painterly, watercolour quality about it.
Rob C
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A little more violently:
(http://www.roma57.com/uploads/4/2/8/7/4287956/8321455_orig.jpg)
Rob C
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Rob, spilled orange juice, or time for a Tena pad? :)
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A little more violently:
(http://www.roma57.com/uploads/4/2/8/7/4287956/8321455_orig.jpg)
Rob C
Cant't be blood, wrong Value... : )
Peter
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Some black/white:
(http://www.roma57.com/uploads/4/2/8/7/4287956/2279120_orig.jpg)
Rob C
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Hi Rob,
Another sweet, frozen in time dream...
Peter
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Hi Rob,
Another sweet, frozen in time dream...
Peter
It's my Pygmalion moment: I can't stop gazing into her face. Lord above, help me.
Rob C
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It's my Pygmalion moment: I can't stop gazing into her face. Lord above, help me.
Rob C
She or He will...
Peter
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Apparently, the Art Institute of Chicago uses plexiglass for their windows, so, when you use a polarizer, you get rainbow colors all over:
(https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7019/26982195375_eae95b0c56_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/H7jND6)
Polarizer + Plexi (https://flic.kr/p/H7jND6) by Slobodan Blagojevic (https://www.flickr.com/photos/slobodan_blagojevic/), on Flickr
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Fascinating result!
Have you showed this image to said Institute Slobodan?
Tony Jay
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So what's going on with the rainbow effect on the tower behind?
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Some black/white:
[the beauty spot]
Nice freezing of a frozen model :-) I wonder if Cindy Crawford ever tried to patent her famous spot? I think Harley Davidson attempted to patent the supposed unique exhaust noise of their two-wheeled tractors, and these days Samsung and Apple lodge patents on the roundness of the corners on their phones, so I wouldn't see it as unwinnable. Your lovely abstract may also have been approaching Klein blue as well :-)
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Nice freezing of a frozen model :-) I wonder if Cindy Crawford ever tried to patent her famous spot? I think Harley Davidson attempted to patent the supposed unique exhaust noise of their two-wheeled tractors, and these days Samsung and Apple lodge patents on the roundness of the corners on their phones, so I wouldn't see it as unwinnable. Your lovely abstract may also have been approaching Klein blue as well :-)
Hi Graham,
Re Cindy, I wonder if her contracts precluded retouching the spot out?
Actually, I think the Harleys do have a pretty good sales point with their exhaust tone; they are about the only bikes with the thunder frequency which can make itself heard before you catch vision in the mirror. Good for safety - car people are made aware there's a two-wheeler in town without having had to catch sight first, and often too late.
Went to Palma today, after putting it off for days due to bad weather. It was sunny when I left home, and when I arrived there. Took the watch to the dealer (prime motivation for the trip; dealer today promised me a two-month turnaround), and then I started to shoot windows, hoping for more "Cindies" but with hair. To my surprise, I realised that hardly any of these creations do sport hair anymore (an expression of Palma chic?) - or even faces: the top parts seem to have morphed into liquid blob sculpture. What a drag... been hoping for a pretty face all the drive down. To console myself, I had a cup of tea coffee.
But all was not lost: instead of having a snack lunch, I ended up sheltering under a variety of arches and doorways as the heavens burst upon me. So, no lunch, but a few snaps of people getting very wet instead. Naturally, I found myself with the wrong camera: the D200 and its limitations under low light. But maybe those will add flavour after all; and as token non sequitur, not an Afghan Girl in sight. But there was one very charming poster also taking refuge from the storm (inside a cosmetics shop) that I couldn't resist... couldn't quite decide if I hated the photographer for having the reality, or myself for stooping so low as to kneel at their collective feet and go click! I think I shall just look upon it as as demonstration of huge admiration. There you are: decision made and no need to solicit moral advice!
But hey, the feeling of shooting in the rain (when you are dry) is strange. Made me think of HC-B photographing an artistic friend crossing the street in the rain. You probably know the image, so I won't bother hunting out the book to name and blame. Of course, I have no way of knowing if Henri got wet or not, but his friend clearly did.
Life can be quote enjoyable at times, despite everything that gets in the way.
;-)
Rob
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So what's going on with the rainbow effect on the tower behind?
I was shooting from within the building (the modern wing), through the same type of glass/plexi, hence the double effect. It is in the sky too.
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But hey, the feeling of shooting in the rain (when you are dry) is strange. Made me think of HC-B photographing an artistic friend crossing the street in the rain. You probably know the image, so I won't bother hunting out the book to name and blame. Of course, I have no way of knowing if Henri got wet or not, but his friend clearly did.
;-)
Rob
Alberto Giacometti and it is a great shot...
Peter
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Alberto Giacometti and it is a great shot...
Peter
That's the one where A G is crossing a street and pulling his raincoat up?
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That's the one where A G is crossing a street and pulling his raincoat up?
That's the one.
There were probably more decisive moments going down, but I haven't seen the contact sheets... ;-)
Rob
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I feel slightly embarrassed posting this one. It's a bloody sunset shot, and yes, I know ...
What i want to know is, why has Capture One insisted on exporting this Fujifilm X100s file full size, rather than the much reduced size I'd set it to export it as? I've done it again & again, but it still comes out as a full-sized jpeg, whereas Nikon files come out as intended. Odd.
Anyway, here it is, lowering the tone from informed conversation about HCB, to another bleedin' sunset photo <insert embarrassed emoticon here>
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There were probably more decisive moments going down, but I haven't seen the contact sheets... ;-)
Well, I found two
https://p2.liveauctioneers.com/404/9340/1901825_1_l.jpg
https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/9e/d4/74/9ed474db57584dfb785059dbf464ee41.jpg
I can't resist the snide comment that someone should have cloned out that tree :)
And Bill, your happy sunset shows up at 1200x800 on my pc... ?
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That's the one where A G is crossing a street and pulling his raincoat up?
From yesterday's unexpected storm. Not Alberto Giacometti in Paris, 1961, but perhaps - at a stretch since I don't know her - Alberta G in Palma in 2016. Regardless, she's got a cuter ass than he, or any other of his gender, could ever have. (Disclaimer: personal opinion.)
A thing I noticed, since I had a camera with me: the great majority of women caught up in this yesterday seemed, instinctively, to do one of two things: either cover their hair, or cover the breast region of whatever they were wearing. Strange, but interesting, which somehow reminds me of the Rowan & Martin position on similar matters.
(http://www.roma57.com/uploads/4/2/8/7/4287956/5264105_orig.jpg)
Rob
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And Bill, your happy sunset shows up at 1200x800 on my pc... ?
Say thanks to GraphicConverter :-)
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Well, I found two
https://p2.liveauctioneers.com/404/9340/1901825_1_l.jpg
https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/9e/d4/74/9ed474db57584dfb785059dbf464ee41.jpg
I can't resist the snide comment that someone should have cloned out that tree :)
A friend of mine who used to use an 11x14" view camera always had a chain saw in his Land Rover for just this type of situation. ;)
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I actually know rue d'Alésia reasonably well: a friend lives just off it, towards Parc Montsouris, and I must have walked up and down there 50 times, but I can't recognise the corner. Most of the buildings would still be the same... frustrating.
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I actually know rue d'Alésia reasonably well: a friend lives just off it, towards Parc Montsouris, and I must have walked up and down there 50 times, but I can't recognise the corner. Most of the buildings would still be the same... frustrating.
Before the Palmesian sky fell in and the thunder rolled (well it was Friday 13th after all), I did a short walk in a direction I'd remembered, from maybe thirty years ago, as leading to a classy square with nice bars etc. It didn't pan out that way: pavements under repair, rubbish bins everywhere, and nothing enticing at all. So I backed up and returned whence I'd come. Which was quite nice: I shot this pair.
(http://www.roma57.com/uploads/4/2/8/7/4287956/8278759_orig.jpg)
When I did fnd a bar for my tea coffee, I was rewarded by the same girl walking in to use, I expect, the restroom. She looked even more spectacular in full profile; I didn't expect a relatively short lens to have quite the flattening effect I discovered when I came to play with this snap. Sadly, Graham, she didn't offer to share a cup of anything with me. How painful to be invisible.
;-(
Rob
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Just in case...
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Self portrait... with a friend...
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Just in case...
You simply have to admire anyone capable of continuing to express (and bring) their lifestyle statement along like that!
I remember wondering aloud, here, whether or not Lincoln Capris of the early 50s came with red metallic paint: I think it must have been so: my Raleigh Lenton bike had exactly that - in '53.
I understand that it is illegal to give a tow to another car, here, in Spain. Apparently, that's why there are so many tow trucks around. At first I thought this pretty restrictive, but on further thought it make sound safety sense.
Rob
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Self portrait... with a friend...
You display sound sense in your choice of bosom friends!
I can't help wondering if you are firing your shutter with your thumb, in homage, as it were... Personally, I discovered a better, more finger-friendly way of holding the Nikon for the making of vertical shots courtesy a Peter Lindbergh video... twisting the wrists into painful shapes and contortions is no longer de rigueur as essential part of the artistic expression.
;-)
Rob
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I can't help wondering if you are firing your shutter with your thumb, in homage, as it were...
Lol... no, I'm mirror reverse remember... I use my right eye and my forefinger. I need my thumb to hit the focus button on the back, since I insist on choosing what to focus on.
Actually when I was in Hannover the previous weekend I handed the camera to my friend... who is not a "fancy camera" user. She instinctively put it to her left eye and got herself into quite a tangle trying to manipulate it that way, and generated a batch of not-really-focussed shots.
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Lol... no, I'm mirror reverse remember... I use my right eye and my forefinger. I need my thumb to hit the focus button on the back, since I insist on choosing what to focus on.
Actually when I was in Hannover the previous weekend I handed the camera to my friend... who is not a "fancy camera" user. She instinctively put it to her left eye and got herself into quite a tangle trying to manipulate it that way, and generated a batch of not-really-focussed shots.
Have you tried using zone-focussing with digital?
I never really trusted it even with film. I firmly believe that only a single, sliver-thin plane is ever in focus, and the catch is finding that crock of gold with the camera; usually, one only manages to catch a crock of, as it were.
Here's another bit of street theatre played out in my mind: third shot of this chicklet. I could pretend that it was all planned to the nth degree, but even the most generous wouldn't buy that one... I was, of course, invisible.
;-)
(http://www.roma57.com/uploads/4/2/8/7/4287956/5654487_orig.jpg)
Rob
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Here's another bit of street theatre played out in my mind: third shot of this chicklet. I could pretend that it was all planned to the nth degree, but even the most generous wouldn't buy that one... I was, of course, invisible.
And you didn't even invite her to come see your etchings? What a lost opportunity, Rob.
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Have you tried using zone-focussing with digital?
Not really, but prefocusing yes. Yesterday there was a strip of sunlight across rue de la République, so I focused in the middle of that and waited for someone to ride a bicycle through it. Of course, cyclists suddenly became rare, but a pair of teenagers on bmx bikes eventually showed. Lemmee see if I can extract it from Fesse Bouc...
Yep. I was a tiny bit slow hitting the button, I would have preferred to have had the one on the right sharp, but I was happy enough have managed to frame them semi-competently. I cropped off some empty space on the left, but nothing off the vertical.
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Just in case...
There was an actual motorcycle funeral transport company in Melbourne, but they used a sidecar. It had the standard coffin-holding apparatus...
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Sometimes, you have all the time in the world and then you stick it on f/11 anyway ;D
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And you didn't even invite her to come see your etchings? What a lost opportunity, Rob.
But Eric, I told you, I was invisible at the time: didn't want to frighten anyone into hearing disembodied voices now, did I?
Anyway, it would have been a waste of time: saw her later as I sat having coffee, and she didn't even turn her head as she walked right on by on her way out from the loos. I guess I was still invisible. (No, of course not, I wasn't having my coffee in the john!)
Rob
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...How painful to be invisible.
Indeed. And I do not understand why science is so obsessed with creating an invisible cloak. Every man will become invisible at a certain age, women even sooner.
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Indeed. And I do not understand why science is so obsessed with creating an invisible cloak. Every man will become invisible at a certain age, women even sooner.
Hence the Lambos: they fix faulty vision.
;-)
Rob C
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Self portrait... with a friend...
I don't know about you, thought I suspect it holds in your case too, but I feel advertising is much more than selling: rather than reflect, I believe it to express the emotions and mores that we eventually end up following.
Anyway, this was the first image that I made on Friday 13th, and also, as I sheltered out of the surprise thunder and rain an hour or so later, the last beautiful face that again graced my camera that day. Which is all very interesting but not the point: the point, then, is this: look at the eyes. You'll discover that the one on the left (her right one) is much larger than her left. I'm surprised this poor bit of PSing got through all the levels of checks... It's not just that her eye is more open, due to expression, but the actual iris sizes are diffent too. (On the last shot, tighly framed, it's even more obvious, but I can't work on it - feels all wrong to have somebody else's shot on the screen without at least some personal input from myself. Only shot it because I had to find something to do rather than go crazy waiting for the rain to stop.)
(http://www.roma57.com/uploads/4/2/8/7/4287956/823111_orig.jpg)
Rob
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My parable from the weekend:
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Fortunately for the world, they never learn.
Unfortunately for Social Security Services, they never learn.
Very nice shot - lots of HC-B feeling comes through, or is it just in the nature of France?
;-)
Rob C
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Lens set at 50mm equivalent, unusually for me, and of course looking down on the berges from above triggers a reminder of the H C-B picnic photo...
Just one of those cases where you see something, grab the first shot, then stand there like an idiot waiting for it to re-occur with better framing of the pram and... it never happens. Finally I open it at home and the first frame was just fine :)
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Lens set at 50mm equivalent, unusually for me, and of course looking down on the berges from above triggers a reminder of the H C-B picnic photo...
Just one of those cases where you see something, grab the first shot, then stand there like an idiot waiting for it to re-occur with better framing of the pram and... it never happens. Finally I open it at home and the first frame was just fine :)
Well, unless another new 'Mum' happened to walk past wheeling her evidence whilst the couple remained transfixed, the deadly message could never be repeated. You got lucky - enjoy! It bears out the olde 'f8 and be there!' philosophy. Sharp eye; but you know that already.
;-)
Rob
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Ha, I checked and it was indeed f8 :) There's actually a good supply of mothers and prams along there, but getting it to all line up...
Here's something in colour, and another fluke. Wandering around the city I encountered a salsa band, and to my surprise, recognised the wife of one of my colleagues...
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...and here's one of those frustrating "so close..." occasions. I saw the shot, and grabbed this one. Then I realised the perspective would be better if I got lower down... but then there was always a bus or a car in frame.
So I used LR to straighten the converging verticals, but as often happens there remains a slightly sea-sick variation of vertical across the frame.
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Ha, I checked and it was indeed f8 :) There's actually a good supply of mothers and prams along there, but getting it to all line up...
Here's something in colour, and another fluke. Wandering around the city I encountered a salsa band, and to my surprise, recognised the wife of one of my colleagues...
Does he know? Reminds me of Belle de Jour situations...
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Rob
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...and here's one of those frustrating "so close..." occasions. I saw the shot, and grabbed this one. Then I realised the perspective would be better if I got lower down... but then there was always a bus or a car in frame.
So I used LR to straighten the converging verticals, but as often happens there remains a slightly sea-sick variation of vertical across the frame.
In a perfect world, I think I'd have gone the opposite way: higher, and increased the space between the principal figure and the crowd. "Internal negative space", as seems to be the current art-speak. Why bother correcting verticals? You give me an appetite to go back to Palma again, despite the drive and the terrifying parking situation. Really, there's no substitute for people if you wanna shoot people! ;-)
Rob
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Reminded of Palma:
(http://www.roma57.com/uploads/4/2/8/7/4287956/6690275_orig.jpg)
Rob C
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In a perfect world, I think I'd have gone the opposite way: higher, and increased the space between the principal figure and the crowd.
Quick, patent the carbon-fibre photographer's flip-out step-ladder (kind of like the regular one, but 4 times the price)!
Or just launch the idea on kick-starter, the poor-person's venture capital fantasy...
Nice eyes you found there :)
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Quick, patent the carbon-fibre photographer's flip-out step-ladder (kind of like the regular one, but 4 times the price)!
Or just launch the idea on kick-starter, the poor-person's venture capital fantasy...
Nice eyes you found there :)
Ah Graham, I'm always too late with bringing bright ideas to market: the secret's now out there, and the product will soon be on sale at a specialist photo-dealer near you. That there soon won't be any photo-dealers near you doesn't matter...
Rob
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Another H C-B picnic reference:
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Another H C-B picnic reference:
Have you noticed how pretty people are usually to found to the fore? Shame about the shoes.
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Rob
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I watched for a while, and Mlle was well aware of the value of her legs ;)
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I watched for a while, and Mlle was well aware of the value of her legs ;)
Which of course, is why she is dressed as she is. It's been my observation - at least since I became aware of these things in my pre-tens, that ladies - or even other pre-ten female children - are fully aware of where their score stands, or sits, as the case may be. The clamouring for ballet lessons etc. etc. is all a part of the awakening, and long may that remain so; we depend on it for survival.
Naturally, the same gender-inspired self-interest is what later creates the excesses of the politically correct police: it's their own failings, shortcomings and personal disappointments (for either all of the genders) that leads to the condition, a striving to silence any vestige of guilt about said under-achievements. Of course, they may be abe to silence some mouths in some areas, but that enforced external silence does absolutely nothing to silence their own inner voices, and that's why their situation gets progressively worse and more extreme.
And it could have been so much easier and different: all they ever needed do was accept that we are all different, that equality is a myth, an impossible fantasy, proof borne out every time they see someone who looks or can do something better than they can look or do.
Only one person can win a single, top prize: anything else, and you inevitably end up devaluing everything. It's a choice society has to make. Are we better off with no golds, just universal sub-bronzes?
Rob
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In the same location as the eyes, here, the continuing movie has rolled and it is the turn of the lips.
My heart is truly bleeding for anguish caused the lesser-gifted people denied such splendid make-up artificers!
:-)
Rob C
(http://www.roma57.com/uploads/4/2/8/7/4287956/4136410_orig.jpg)
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In the same location as the eyes, here, the continuing movie has rolled and it is the turn of the lips.
My heart is truly bleeding for anguish caused the lesser-gifted people denied such splendid make-up artificers!
:-)
Rob C
(http://www.roma57.com/uploads/4/2/8/7/4287956/4136410_orig.jpg)
Rob,
Another great image, which brings to mind " Love for Sale" a Cole Porter classic...
Peter
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Rob,
Another great image, which brings to mind " Love for Sale" a Cole Porter classic...
Peter
Thanks; it's a funny thing, though, perhaps even a telling one, but I am utterly incapable of making a musical sound on my own, or of making any instrument do so either; yet, I find myself very much drawn to the lyrics of songs and I find that many of them are incredibly apt on so many occasions. Songs that work seem to carry a truth that is simple, often unadorned, and which resonates.
There seems to be so much in common with music and the art of photography. Whenever I worked in my studio, music would be a presence, ditto in the darkroom. (Ditto in the darkroom... even that seems almost musical if you say it quickly enough.) Thank heavens I never, ever felt the frustration in photography that I constantly face with music. With photography I never asked myself whether I thought I could do it, I simply never thought of it like that; with music, I regularly find myself telling myself to shut the eff up and give my poor ears peace. How patient my wife must actually have been...
Rob C
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In the same location as the eyes, here, the continuing movie has rolled and it is the turn of the lips.
To which the passing crowd remains utterly indifferent :) Imagine if you had set that image down in the same place in 1954, people would have travelled in to stand in front of it, the local priest would have thrown black paint over it...
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To which the passing crowd remains utterly indifferent :) Imagine if you had set that image down in the same place in 1954, people would have travelled in to stand in front of it, the local priest would have thrown black paint over it...
Well, black would be his favourite colour: many of them were murdered due to politics... so yeah, not only the 'wilder' nations kill their spiritual leaders.
This makes me think of France, today. Looking at France24 for my news fix (I have more or less abandoned Sky News) I am slowly losing my love for the country. Their unions are about as democratic as Attila; they ruin many people's holiday plans, disrupt lives without giving even a token shit about it, and provide rabble cover for every thug you can imagine. They smash into and loot banks, burn cars, because they support incredible 'workers rights'? I look at those police forces using pathetic little sprays... shit, I'd machinegun the lot of those goddam thugs in black balaclavas: they even feel confident enough to wear a friggin' uniform!
Then it's Obama's turn: he visits Japan and is expected (by European media) to apologize (to apologize for Pearl will be next on the agenda) for defnitively ending a bloody war that disrupted and enslaved so much of the far east and right down next door to India! The west, in my view, has lost its collective mind, both to political correctness and to reverse-engineered politics and history.
Rob
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What is happening in France is an example of what happens when both sides behave incredibly badly: government is progressively more incompetent and corrupt, the use of the terrorist attacks to justify a State of Emergency which is still in place and will be used to protect the UEFA football tournament, as it was used to protect the COP21 meeting is extraordinarily cynical. Meanwhile the unions are where they were in the UK pre-miner's strike.
So there is increasing polarisation, no source of information is considered reliable. The extreme left are unable to see that their naive ideas of overthrowing the government are just screwing people who need to go to work, while the riot police are given free reign to beat up whoever they feel like, while the main-stream media turns a blind eye. It's a massive f-up.
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It boils down to forms of attitudinal education, Graham.
The concept causing all of this is simple: the world owes me a living.
It has two distinct and surprisingly opposite fans. On the one side are those mainly in the blue-collar world who can lack the background or vision to further themselves via their own efforts and enterprise; there is then the opposite type that comes from wealth, feels youthful guilt at not really having to find a job, and attempts to express empathy with the other 'side' as absolution. Absolution, that is, from totally illogical guilt: unless to further an artistic, philanthropic or altruistic dream of some sort, work is simply an essential to finding money. Without need, there is little intrinsic value to be found in it: it fills your life at the expense of so many better things with which you could concern yourself.
When reason or logic can't deliver what one wants, then force and/or violence becomes the alternative that sometimes works. But but at what cost? You mentioned the 'miner's strike' and it was indeed a sort of turning-point marker. But it also left some terrible scars both on communities in the physical sense, and on people in the psychological and political. That it was inevitable, that no country can continue to subsidise systems that lose money, mattered not to those affected directly, which is perfectly understandable if one is in their shoes. But as a nation, choices and actions become unavoidable, regardless of the political toll it will charge to the party faced with the implementation. It takes a brave leader to run the risk - and see it through.
But youth doesn't last for ever. After a few years of having to earn that daily bread, political leanings can change dramatically, and love for those actively dodging work fades as the romatic idea becomes exposed for the freeload it essentially is.
It's also a bit ironic that France, of all countries, gets targetted by terrorism: it was one of the few lands which so many black US Americans who had the gift of music decided to try and make their new home. As I understand it, they were well-received, became very popular because of their talent, and led better lives than they could find back home in the States; one even bought herself a chateau! But then religious terrorism is so much more evil than that of colour or race: we enjoy some of the same in some Scottish circles as we do in parts of Ireland: one 'Christian' religion devided by partisan groupings. Absolutely insane. They can't even have football matches without bringing it into play. So much needless tragedy. And you don't need to travel to the Middle East to find version of the islamic one: not so long ago, a guy in Glasgow, a moslem, was killed by another moslem with a different religious slant. Hey ho.
So yeah, pretty much everything is effed up everywhere.
Rob
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The history of blacks in France is very different than the US because of the relative lack of an evil past. In the US, the racism is still virulent on both sides (obviously not everyone on both sides, but enough). And it's further complicated by angelism and political exploitation and scapegoating and etc etc
In France, issue is the colonial history with Algeria, and the resulting bi-cultural society with conflicting beliefs and myths. Again, for from everybody, but enough. With the same complicating factors.
But that's not what is going on at the the moment... it really is an Arther Scargill "using the workers as cannon fodder in the class war" situation.
What I find ironic is that despite La Révolution and The République, France is extremeiy aristocratic in its attitudes: it's in the medical profession, the banks and of course the politicians, whether of the left or the right. In those circles, the church also has huge influence... some of the far-right groups are still lamenting the fall of the monarchy as a destitution of the divine order! Nuts.
Anyway, it's still pretty...
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Yes, indeed pretty, and in parts of it - the Dordogne, for example - I felt I was driving through the nicer parts of Perthsire (Scotland).
I didn't feel much love for the area near Amiens, but very much so with Abbeville, where we used to spend the night going up to the Calais ferry... Eat the best Dover sole we ever had, there, which was an irony: we also tried to get it in the Trusthouse Forte Hotel just outside Dover, and they couldn't supply...oh Britain. Hitting the motorway south from Calais was one of the golden, recurrent moments of my life: there were thin, stylised sculptures of sports motifs on the sides of that motorway, and when the first one would come into view my heart sang: we were going home! The alternative memory of that stretch of motorway: each time we'd stop at the first/last gas station south of Calais for another tank of freedom (disclaimer: phrase stolen from CW song) there would be an almighty, freezing gale ablowing. So much for Atlantic/Channel zephyrs. Pre-motorway, the Abbeville/Calais strip was a nightmare of ferry-fodder moving at 3mph, which, when the motorway was being built, became even worse. France does motorways marvellously: clean, well-maintained and with plenty of services both for gas and food, as well as other, non-commercial ones, just for relaxation. Pity politics screws it so badly.
Regarding the race conflicts: with most of these, it's something we brought upon ourselves some centuries ago. Payback time. Sadly, it's our generations carry the cost, not those who created the situation: they enjoy monuments to their greater glory.
Rob
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Another concert by Cynthia, with Damien doing the body painting...
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There seemed to be some tension between them... but maybe that was my invention... (jpg was a bit cruel to Damien there, he was more visible in the uncompressed version)
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Finally, here is a technically horrible shot of my assistant: the cat lives at the venue, and he seems to like sitting on the legs of photographers. Here he is making friends with the videographer...
(and that is 51000 ISO grain)
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Another one...
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Finally, here is a technically horrible shot of my assistant: the cat lives at the venue, and he seems to like sitting on the legs of photographers. Here he is making friends with the videographer...
(and that is 51000 ISO grain)
Aha! The hunt for dead fish continues!
Rob
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There seemed to be some tension between them... but maybe that was my invention... (jpg was a bit cruel to Damien there, he was more visible in the uncompressed version)
Maybe she wised up...
;-)
Rob
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Maybe she wised up...
I'll try again with the shadows lifted a bit. The jpg is ok on my machine, LuLa must apply an extra layer of compression...
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I'll try again with the shadows lifted a bit. The jpg is ok on my machine, LuLa must apply an extra layer of compression...
I don't think it was the shadows pissed her off...
;-)
Rob
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Continuing the love affair with the land of Marianne, let's trip the light fantastic awhile:
(http://www.roma57.com/uploads/4/2/8/7/4287956/6882961_orig.jpg)
Rob C
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Maybe she wised up...
Or he did :)
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Maybe she realised the painting didn't affect the acoustics very much...
Good gig for him whilst it lasted, though.
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Rob
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Oh, it will last as long as he believes it will lead elsewhere. As with everything else in life :)
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Oh, it will last as long as he believes it will lead elsewhere. As with everything else in life :)
That's quite a thought: I reached a plateau in my life where I hoped I'd stay for ever, with nothing, ever, leading anywhere else. I didn't suspect that my plateau was as much slippery slope as everything else. Should have known.
;-(
Rob
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Some colour...
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In good company ;)
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Ah, I first read as a single phrase "photography restrooms", which throws open all sorts of questions if you suppress the euphemism. Rooms for photographers to rest? Or where subjects might go to recover from being photographed? :)
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Ah, I first read as a single phrase "photography restrooms", which throws open all sorts of questions if you suppress the euphemism. Rooms for photographers to rest? Or where subjects might go to recover from being photographed? :)
Or from looking at photographs?
One mother of a day today: got out of bed at 7 in the morning to get my ass down to Palma to investigate the info. that I was sent regarding the 'service' of my watch. The 'info' claimed that the screwing base of the thing had been severely bumped, that it presented serious removal problems in Madrid (surprising they'd do that, as it has, ultimately, to go to Geneva!), that the hands were showing signs of condensation, that one of the links in the bracelet wasn't original issue, and that anyway, the bracelet could not be replaced, being obsolete.
Well, I obviously wasn't going to sign that off by e-mail! The thing's been serviced three times: the first time by Watches of Switzerland in Britain (I have the stamped booklet - they pretend it's a car) and the other two times by the same specialist dealer in Palma. That suggests: Rolex sold a sub-par product as new; somebody in the select two dealerships has screwed me; somebody is now trying to screw me again; that a watch guaranteed to withstand water pressure up to 600 ft. nonetheless leaks if, presumably, I sweat (I have not swum with it - or without it - for over 15 years). Oh - a replacement strap, that will fit, but not an expander (thank goodness) like the original is, can be had, for only €1200. And somebody at one of these establishments has dropped the damned thing on the floor. I never saw any such signs of damage.
I laughed at the young man in the beautiful suit and told him that one day, that could be my son's problem, and that no doubt they would meet. Right. Oh - apparently, as I bought the watch in 1972, it's now an antique and worth a lot of money to collectors. I was going to tell him about Leicas, but thought the hell with it... Regardless, the service will take six or seven weeks.
In retrospect, these things make some sort of sense when you are young and working your way upwards, they are symbols that are recognized by some who matter to you and your career, but after that passes, they become somewhat inaccurate, heavy and bulky watches. Period. Oh - if you wear them in the wrong places, they can also cost you your life; watches to die for, then.
As it that wasn't enough, I used an underground parking I haven't used before; coming out I took the wrong turn a few street down, and ended giving myself the Grand Tour of the city. At least that wasn't extra.
Tomorrow's another day.
But back to photography: I had switched the af lens for a manual one; I found it damned slow, if not useless. How age alters your abilities. I may have some reasonable shots from the trip - or not. The suspense is killing me, or at least, it should feel like that but doesn't.
Rob
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Ah, I first read as a single phrase "photography restrooms", which throws open all sorts of questions if you suppress the euphemism. Rooms for photographers to rest? Or where subjects might go to recover from being photographed? :)
Back in the 80's, two of my photographic friends from my home town went to New York for the first time. Went then to a stadium to watch a game, and when the nature called, started looking for... what in my country and the rest of Europe is known as WC (water closet) or toilet. All they could find were...restrooms. Given that they were at a stadium, they thought those must be the rooms for athletes to rest after the game :)
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Back in the 80's, two of my photographic friends from my home town went to New York for the first time. Went then to a stadium to watch a game, and when the nature called, started looking for... what in my country and the rest of Europe is known as WC (water closet) or toilet. All they could find were...restrooms. Given that they were at a stadium, they thought those must be the rooms for athletes to rest after the game :)
All My life going to sports in NYC, restrooms is not the verbiage, restrooms sounds so inviting.So pleasant. LOL...Men's and Women's or Ladies room.
Peter
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All My life going to sports in NYC, restrooms is not the verbiage, restrooms sounds so inviting.So pleasant. LOL...Men's and Women's or Ladies room.
From the Yankee Stadium Reference Guide:
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From the Yankee Stadium Reference Guide:
Today in the new stadium,yes...But you need to be a millionaire to get there. I should have clarified. I don't go anymore, so all of my life was an accurate statement from my point of view.
Peter
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From this morning's trip to the big city.
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Rob
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Rob C
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Hi Keith, I responded to your other post before opening this thread: great minds etc. etc.
I think I'm going to the reopening of an art gallery here tonight; might make a snap or two. I know a couple of the artists on show - well, whose works are on show - but I hope that as it's an event, they too will be on show; never know. I'll try to find an acorn to keep in my pocket, just in case.
Rob
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Rob C
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Closing time
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Closing time
Hi Graham,
The face on your rapid young lady is of the same general style as of the French artist who was my main reason for going to the show last night.
I chatted with 'mine' for a few minutes and she seemed rather interested in my INTERrelate interview/snaps concept and we shall see if she follows up. But, I pulled her in front of a couple of her paintings in order to make a shot, and she struck me as extremely shy about it; how odd! That instantly made me think nope, she's not gonna take this forward - it will feel painful for her. Hope I'm mistaken, but either way... actually, I will probably do nothing with the shot I made: the lighting was fine for her pictures, but too many crossed sources for three-dimensionals such as her face.
It's funny what you see at shows: there was this old guy of about my age with a young woman in her - probably, I'm not much good at ages - early thirties in a tight T-shirt kind of thing; bra-less and with amazing accoutrements just below the surface of said garment. Face as tough as nails, but I couldn't help smiling at her. He looked German and she from either South America or the Philippines. Another version of the expensive pair of slippers. Oh - she had a silly little dog on a leash.
Fortunately, my favourite Cuban tenor sax player was in attendance too, so we had a pleasant chat about the changing face of that land, and where he thinks the new political developments will take it. I mentioned that I hoped his countrymen had more prescience about the future than some of the folks in Spain, where property got sold off to foreigners at what they imagined to be ripp-off prices, only to discover very soon that they then became unable to buy back into the market that streaked way ahead of them. He pointed out that a great present problem there is establishing ownership: much property has been left untouched by legit owners for more than fifty years, and these people, many of whom went to live elsewhere, are now starting to trickle back and claim their own...
Rob
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The face on your rapid young lady is of the same general style as of the French artist who was my main reason for going to the show last night.
I showed the photo to an ex with whom I still have a complicated relationship: she thinks it might be her daughter! ;D
Yes, I have the impression that good painters are often shy about being photographed... lesser ones, less so. I think I read that of Soames, Saul Leiter's partner. Maybe it's a levelling effect, that if you're shy then your work has to be good enough to sell itself, whereas those with a grand vision of their importance get themselves shows based on their chutzpah.
Damien, the guy doing the body painting of the pianist, is a bit in the second category: he seems friendly to me, and he invited me to participate in a project where he was painting women, who would then be photographed. Initially the idea appealed, then coordination of time and place became difficult, then the more I looked at what was being produced with other photographers, the less motivated I was to be involved. Basically, his painting bores my tits off. Just in case, I did some cross-checking in case my view was biased by the sight of him with his brush caressing la belle Cynthia, and independent witnesses shared my lack of appreciation...
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This is the sister of the other photo...
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I showed the photo to an ex with whom I still have a complicated relationship: she thinks it might be her daughter! ;D
Yes, I have the impression that good painters are often shy about being photographed... lesser ones, less so. I think I read that of Soames, Saul Leiter's partner. Maybe it's a levelling effect, that if you're shy then your work has to be good enough to sell itself, whereas those with a grand vision of their importance get themselves shows based on their chutzpah.
Damien, the guy doing the body painting of the pianist, is a bit in the second category: he seems friendly to me, and he invited me to participate in a project where he was painting women, who would then be photographed. Initially the idea appealed, then coordination of time and place became difficult, then the more I looked at what was being produced with other photographers, the less motivated I was to be involved. Basically, his painting bores my tits off. Just in case, I did some cross-checking in case my view was biased by the sight of him with his brush caressing la belle Cynthia, and independent witnesses shared my lack of appreciation...
There are those here who would say that thought was nothing but envy, but you're right: why assist some other dude get his jollies when all you will get from the help offered are indifferent photographs as result of the quality of the venture? (That's either Occam's friggin' razor or the Black Box, I confuse the two.) Oh - was there an offer to share in the painting part of the exercise?
Hans Feurer wasted severel rear pages of his eponymous book on just that subject, and it's not even with Veruschka! Demi Moore also comes to mind.
Regarding Soames: it appears that Saul was greatly pissed off at the relative lack of recognition that she got for her work; however, I think the market on matchstick figures had already been cornered in England... Insofar as he was concerned about himself - it would appear that fame didn't interest him much, or so he says often enough. I wonder if that's simple truth or rationalization of the hand he knew he had been dealt? Yet he got pretty prestigious work: many years of shooting for Harper's Bazaar and also Nova, amongst others. But as the world knows, fashion editorial isn't usually profitable unless you are a star with a zillion-dollar contract, when fee sanity returns because the magazine needs you more than vice versa.
;-)
Rob
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Oh - was there an offer to share in the painting part of the exercise?
Nope, and he's since started photo-shopping the other photos himself. So I'm definitely not playing.
There may be a possibility of doing something without him in the way, to be discussed soon... :)
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Nope, and he's since started photo-shopping the other photos himself. So I'm definitely not playing.
There may be a possibility of doing something without him in the way, to be discussed soon... :)
That sounds surprisingly like something my wife told me some years ago: one of my 'friends' during school days tried a similar line with her after I'd left school and she and this mother were still there...
I won.
Rob
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St Mary's church, Fountains Abbey.
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Night Dreams...
Peter
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Peter, just as I thought I'd got over it, put it firmly to sleep, you ignite again my lust for lost/betrayed Hasellblad 500 cameras!
When that lottery comes home, stops being just a couple of coffees, I shall get my hands on an unused collector's set, find a top scanner, and never look back again.
Next, I shall probaby have to buy a film company. And then a chemical company.
Rob
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Peter, just as I thought I'd got over it, put it firmly to sleep, you ignite again my lust for lost/betrayed Hasellblad 500 cameras!
When that lottery comes home, stops being just a couple of coffees, I shall get my hands on an unused collector's set, find a top scanner, and never look back again.
Next, I shall probaby have to buy a film company. And then a chemical company.
Rob
If we pool our resources we might just have enough to go broke... : )
Peter
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If we pool our resources we might just have enough to go broke... : )
Peter
But Peter, can we afford the lawyers to do that? I think I told my legal eagle granddaughter never to do freebies - so I guess I spoke too soon (to her).
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Rob
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But Peter, can we afford the lawyers to do that? I think I told my legal eagle granddaughter never to do freebies - so I guess I spoke too soon (to her).
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Rob
I'm sure you have a huge warm spot in her heart. I'm counting on it.
Peter
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Grab of one of the artists at the recent gallery reopening.
Shame it was a 50mm; should have been at least 105mm! But...
Her pix are really interesting - light, ethereal and a bit like she seems to be: slightly and beautifully somewhere else... Still hope one day to shoot her properly without so many lights and people!
(http://www.roma57.com/uploads/4/2/8/7/4287956/5309217_orig.jpg)
Rob C
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Great shot Rob. having just spent the final day of a conference in Lyon snatching photos of colleagues in and around the auditorium with its horrible lighting, I wonder if bad lighting can sometimes help. A bit like the mantra that if you can't shoot without converging verticals, just go all out and tilt the camera to make it clear you didn't want to get a nice level horizon and vertical verticals. For me, "standard" 3-flash portrait lighting makes about the least interesting portrait possible, even if it makes the sitter happy...
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Graham,
Your 'sitters' seem to be quite happy at being photographed - which makes a difference, too. (I particularly like the quizzical look on the woman on the left in the top shot.)
Three lights: I dislike too many lights with people images - outdoors I sometimes used reflectors, but almost never flash - didn't marry very well with Nikon's top bodies and only the FM/FM2 variety went up to a 1/250 synch. if memory serves. I think my F and F2 were maxed out at a sixtieth! On indoor locations it was usually a brolly on the subject and another flash on the background if I thought it helped in contrasting person with b/ground. But mostly this was black/white photography. In studio shots it was brolly on subject, perhaps a direct flash behind the subject to rimlight, and another flash onto the background roll to kill off the person's shadow. But usually two was the most, and often just the brolly on the person and forget the white roll - let it go grey.
All depended on what they were wearing, really, and contrasting it with the background. How wonderful Photoshop would have been!
Rob
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This is Ghislaine... she considers herself the "opposite of photogenic" ! So a bit more work was required to get a shot where she didn't look intimidated by the camera.
We shared the same psychopath boss for many years, and in fact she is still under him... despite being far better than him at everything except sleazing and BS.
That's probably why her hair is prematurely grey...
By the way, a couple of years back she worked out from the pattern of mutations in tumours that people in Romania were somehow ingesting aristolochic acid, and that it was killing them via kidney cancer. It seems that a plant containing the substance is used as a "natural remedy" in the region. So she may just be responsible for saving a lot of people from nasty deaths in the future.
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So after a week I get back my SD card that I handed over so someone could copy off the videos I shot. There were a few still on there too: this was a present surprise :)
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So after a week I get back my SD card that I handed over so someone could copy off the videos I shot. There were a few still on there too: this was a present surprise :)
Is this a bondage music I see before me?
Rob
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Possibly... Madame has other projects I do not photograph, I have no Araki ambitions (although he did some wonderful stuff without rope).
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We had a special visitor to the village today
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Interesting cloud pattern you caught there behind The Queen... :~ )
Peter
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Interesting cloud pattern you caught there behind The Queen... :~ )
Peter
The clouds all have to stand rigidly at attention as she passes.
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The clouds all have to stand rigidly at attention as she passes.
But on tiptoe to catch a better view; no double-selfies. We would not be amused.
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Rob
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Can't remember if I posted this one before:
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Rob
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The Stables at Boscobel House, Shropshire, UK.
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Those are beautiful reflections, Keith!
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Love the canal shot.
One from yesterday evening
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Graeme,
"The Stables at Boscobel House, Shropshire, UK."
Hey, this site only has a family viewing certificate; stay cool with the S&M motifs!
Thinking about which, great minds must be thinking kind of alike or, as some claim, not at all:
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Rob
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Graeme,
"The Stables at Boscobel House, Shropshire, UK."
Hey, this site only has a family viewing certificate; stay cool with the S&M motifs!
Thinking about which, great minds must be thinking kind of alike or, as some claim, not at all:
(http://www.roma57.com/uploads/4/2/8/7/4287956/1388790_orig.jpg)
Rob
You haven't seen the uncropped versions.
Re Heavy Metal 3: I remember a dentist having to resort to using one of these b*****ds to remove my wisdom tooth after all his other implements had failed. Happy days.
Rob
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Jilly Cooper!
I just knew there was previous form!
A Mole for a molar would have been more neat, but I suppose a wisdom will have to do; I don't think I ever had one of those.
Can't win 'em all.
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Rob
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Implements of torture are all very well, but personally speaking, I think I rather investigate the strange world of snakes.
(http://www.roma57.com/uploads/4/2/8/7/4287956/4457032_orig.jpg)
Rob
P.S. Unfortunately, this turns out to be wider than my monitor allows - no problem in the original, but as a repro here, there is.
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This was a busy canal, it took forever for the water to settle enough to get anything resembling a recognisable reflection.
Just right :)
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Rob, I think your model might be regretting her frog dismissal...
No frogs permitted along this part of the Rhône, alas
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Meanwhile, on the other river...
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Daliesque in Venice. Leica M240, 90mm Summarit-M.
(http://www.keithlaban.co.uk/Daliesque_in_Venice.jpg)
With a touch of Antoni Gaudi splashing around for good measure!
Rob
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With a touch of Antoni Gaudi splashing around for good measure!
Rob
Gaudi was my first thought as well, Rob.
Jeremy
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Careful, Jeremy - you could get tarred with the same brush. No, I didn't mean thought a half-crazed architect!
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Rob
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I think this is a feminist joke:
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Rob
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This is heavy metal though with some plastic too.
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Boscobel House, Shropshire, UK.
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Hi Rob,
These tool portraits your doing are wonderful...I love the motif. They bring back to mind the wonderful drawings and etchings of Jim Dine.
Peter
A link to some of his tools...
https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#q=jim%20dine%20tools
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I think this is a feminist joke:
Rob
Great image. I hadn't seen the first one, it could become a (meaningful....) series.
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Boscobel House, Shropshire, UK.
The third one is charming, I wish I could sleep there...
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Hi Rob,
These tool portraits your doing are wonderful...I love the motif. They bring back to mind the wonderful drawings and etchings of Jim Dine.
Peter
A link to some of his tools...
https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#q=jim%20dine%20tools
+1 & thanks for the Jim Dine link.
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Hi Rob,
These tool portraits your doing are wonderful...I love the motif. They bring back to mind the wonderful drawings and etchings of Jim Dine.
Peter
A link to some of his tools...
https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#q=jim%20dine%20tools
Thanks for the link, Peter, and the kind remarks from you, Graeme and Muntanela.
The first shot in the 'series' was this one:
(http://www.roma57.com/uploads/4/2/8/7/4287956/4683772_orig.jpg)
The pliers were bought in London, in 1948, and the legs used to be a delightful red. At least I think it was '48, the year when Wolves won some football cup or another. I'm not into these things, but the newspapers were full of it. (In a way, I suppose they still are...)
Maybe that makes both the pliers and myself antiques, though I prefer to think of it in terms of vintage.
I shot a couple more yesterday (tools, not goals) - have to make myself work for the nights! ;-)
Rob
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Some lighter metal.
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Rob C
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Very successful, Rob. B&w with a dash of selective color?
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Very successful, Rob. B&w with a dash of selective color?
Hi Slobodan,
Yes, the straight file was almost the same - which was what prompted me to convert it in part. The first look at it in total b/w lost the differentiation at the hanging branches, and just made a confusion of blobs of shadow. I don't often like these mixes of colour/conversion to b/w, but in this case it seems to have been okay.
These recent heavy metal tools have been a bit weighty on my soul - what with this wretched referendum pressing down too. Nice to feel a bit lighter!
;-)
Rob
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Hotel balcony in Morocco.
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Shape of things to come?
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Rob
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Rob
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A family holiday snap: my biological son and one of his moms. Waiting for the cable-car to the Aiguille du Midi
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Claire, painter and engraver, at a garden concert...
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Claire, painter and engraver, at a garden concert...
Claire's looking happy, thinking of all those bottles that won't now get exported to the UK! Good bit of reportage on topical events!
;-)
Rob
P.S. Have you noticed how artistic people have a sort of serenity about them, even at the bitter end?
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Some of them, yes. Some seem determined to make a statement about how rotten the world is... which is sort of redundant, since it's available on every news feed. The piece of electronic music we were listening to was of that ilk: based on texts from a woman condemned to a lunatic asylum in 1910, and so unremittingly violent that everyone placed themselves at some sort of ironic distance.
Claire's work seems very light and happy, however : http://claireborde.blogspot.fr/
Here's another audience shot, with a blissful woman:
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Where did I go wrong.
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Give it time, Keith, you're still too young!
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Rob
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Where did I go wrong.
Lol... it's part of the process... you don't want to get there too soon :-)
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Some of them, yes. Some seem determined to make a statement about how rotten the world is... which is sort of redundant, since it's available on every news feed. The piece of electronic music we were listening to was of that ilk: based on texts from a woman condemned to a lunatic asylum in 1910, and so unremittingly violent that everyone placed themselves at some sort of ironic distance.
Claire's work seems very light and happy, however : http://claireborde.blogspot.fr/
Here's another audience shot, with a blissful woman:
Claire has a very cool palette; I laughed reading this:
"publication avec Yves Bonnefoy, Magiciens de l'insécurité éditions"
Just the title to inspire confidence!
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Rob
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Oh, doubly topical then, Yves Bonnefoy died 2 days ago. At 93 though, which can reasonably be called a good innings...
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Public calisthenics has become trendy in Lyon...
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I remember when I looked vaguely like those young people. On the other hand, perhaps that's just an illusion born of Photoshop and the soporific effects of varnish, which has given me the mother of all sore throats.
Rob C
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I remember when I looked vaguely like those young people.
Rob C
How Vague? :~)
Peter
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Rob, please reassure me you never wore a hipsta beard and a top-knot?
Anyway, something more to your taste (and mine), from the line of people waiting to pay money to watch France play Iceland on a big TV...
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Rob, please reassure me you never wore a hipsta beard and a top-knot?
Anyway, something more to your taste (and mine), from the line of people waiting to pay money to watch France play Iceland on a big TV...
The beard came and went - depending on mood - for a few years, and then about forty years ago it took on the form of a full, almost black permanent structure that needed a lot of upkeep. So, in an endeavour to save on both maintenance time and the daily visual angst of ever-encroaching grey, I tore away the sides and it has remained pretty much as in the picture ever since.
The ponytail came about when I lost my wife, because I refused to pay barbers twenty-whatever euros to cut a very few hairs, so I just tie them together and nobody notices. It's a practical impossibility to tie it anywhere near the top, Graham - it has to go low down at the neck.
I think the selfie was with a Vito B, a pretty little rf camera of the day, which my girlfriend helped me to buy - she got more pocket money. (I can't remember what Chris used - it was black and Japanes and suitably small, and had all sorts of funny tricks in its répertoire.) Perhaps I should have though of being a gigolo for a while. I certainly imagined I had the appetite. Instead, I just married her, which was a far brighter idea.
Clearly, no Dorian Grayesque deal has been struck!
(http://www.roma57.com/uploads/4/2/8/7/4287956/8006381_orig.jpg)
Rob
P.S. Pity she ruined a perfectly good T-shirt with a dungaree top! The girl in your picture, I mean, not my wife. Nice picture.
P.P.S. This also illustrates something I learned only the other day: in the human animal, the ears and the nose never stop growing. Okay. I can't remember where this gem came form, but it strikes me as borne out by observation. If we lived long enough, we might be able to fly up to Heaven, much in the manner of Concorde, you could say. Time always defeats us.
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Nice pirate look: I'm sure Cecil Beaton would have made a pass at you :)
I bought some cheap electric hair clippers (it doesn't seem possible to think of the thing as singular) off ebay. After a bit of practice, I can do the all-over 10mm cut myself.
Check these guys: I think they were waiting for Henri to come by...
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P.S. Pity she ruined a perfectly good T-shirt with a dungaree top!
In French, it's a salopette. As opposed to a salope, who is a slut (not that there's anything wrong with that, there should be more of it). I should try to find the connexion some day. Maybe the salopette without the t-shirt?
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In French, it's a salopette. As opposed to a salope, who is a slut (not that there's anything wrong with that, there should be more of it). I should try to find the connexion some day. Maybe the salopette without the t-shirt?
Wonderful idea!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iW7qmJe7dLg
There's always a song out there about it - just have to play it all day long... as I tend to do. Then you just think back, et voilà. It improves the memory cells, and the bouncing knees the circulation. I need a lot of the latter.
Rob
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Vaccinium microcarpum (Turcz. ex Rupr.) Schmalh., Eastern grosina Valley.
It's a very tiny glacial relict and very rare in Italy.
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I learned only the other day: in the human animal, the ears and the nose never stop growing.
It's not that, Rob. It is that the rest of the skin on the head recedes leaving, well, the nose and the ears ;)
Dr Dave ;)
PS Handsome. All three portraits.
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It's not that, Rob. It is that the rest of the skin on the head recedes leaving, well, the nose and the ears ;)
Dr Dave ;)
PS Handsome. All three portraits.
I can see a logic to that, Dave, as the hair sets a precedent. But I do think that the ears, especially, seem to grow a lot longer - as if there were an elephant in the family. Now for the sake of our PC friends here, I'm not in the least knocking elephants - some of my best friends are elephants - it's just that there's a right time and place for even the greatest of them, and I hardly feel that's hanging from the side of one's head.
In fact, I think that the skull changes shape too: inspection of the pink bandana image shows the bandana to be slighty high on the forehead. For it to look right, it should be lower down, almost at the eyebrows. It always starts there, but drifts upwards... I find the same sartorial inconvenience in winter, when those nice wooly hats (that are supposed to cover the ears and insulate the crown) end up above the ears. and tilted rakishly backwards à la pixie, not at all the look I am after.
Could this be the onset of a decline to simian forebears?
Rob
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Could this be the onset of a decline to simian forebears?
Perhaps ascent? Why worry? Be happy ;) Here's a shot from an Argentine Giant cactus flower taken with my new J5 attached to the Nikkor 70-200 f/4
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Taken in Newhaven, East Sussex, UK
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Who needs expensive advertising or big billboards?
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Events/Dyxum-Kroatia-2016-05/i-nvRVcSR/0/O/PEG_A6000_1_7747_20160530.jpg) (https://pegelli.smugmug.com/Events/Dyxum-Kroatia-2016-05/i-nvRVcSR/A)
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Who needs expensive advertising or big billboards?
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Events/Dyxum-Kroatia-2016-05/i-nvRVcSR/0/O/PEG_A6000_1_7747_20160530.jpg) (https://pegelli.smugmug.com/Events/Dyxum-Kroatia-2016-05/i-nvRVcSR/A)
Nice photograph - irony, too, with the paint job being perfectly suited to red wine, but the 'commercial', nonetheless, for white!
It's one of the things that makes this form of 'street' (as I seem to think of the genre) so interesting - one doesn't always need people... enough their traces.
Rob
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Boring landscape. Not street. No wine. Sorry.
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Something from Barcelona, late, listening to buskers.
BTW, the standard for buskers in Barcelona is incredible: we're not talking unemployed teens, these are people in their 50's and 60's who presumably have been been playing/singing since they were kids, in a culture where classical guitar is serious stuff...
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Boring landscape. Not street.
A bridge is sort of a street, isn't it?
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There were lots of photographers... of different degrees of seriousness...
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And here is some lens flare.
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And here is some lens flare.
Tout ce qu'il faut, c'est une fille avec une cigarette:
Helmut Newton, Rue Aubriot, Yves Saint Laurent, French Vogue, Paris 1975.
;-)
Rob
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Indeed so, and I have another version without the flare, but the fille in the billowy black robe is replaced by a middle aged mec in a t-shirt.
I opted for the content :)
For reference (although there were several: I think Newton lived in rue Aubriot at the time??)
https://ongallery.com/images/stories/virtuemart/product/newtonh_rue-aubriot.jpg
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Indeed so, and I have another version without the flare, but the fille in the billowy black robe is replaced by a middle aged mec in a t-shirt.
I opted for the content :)
For reference (although there were several: I think Newton lived in rue Aubriot at the time??)
https://ongallery.com/images/stories/virtuemart/product/newtonh_rue-aubriot.jpg
If you don't aready have some Helmut books, I'd recomment the mini-Sumo: it's already a huge volume in both senses of huge, comes with its own thick, perspex stand, and when I got mine, retailed at just about €100. It's my only Helmut tome and worth ever penny. Taschen, of course.
Do you ever buy French PHOTO? I used to for a good many years, and apart from discovering a lot of interesting shooters, it helped me remember a little of the little of the language that I'd learned at school. Never had mecs and cons in school lessons, though...
Rob
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Different times, different tools.
But still available in one shop ;)
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Other/201605/i-VHWrSr6/0/O/PEG_A6000_1_6040_20160507.jpg) (https://pegelli.smugmug.com/Other/201605/i-VHWrSr6/A)
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Who're ewe looking at?
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Pieter, at first I thought those pink and blue objects were for an older type of feminine selfie...
Rob: yes, I was tempted by mini-Sumo at christmas when the Taschen store in town had a stack of them. Then again my Scottish blood calculated that just before xmas was not a good time to be a buyer in the market :-) I already have a pocket-size collection of Newtons, and a couple of later soft-bounds. One of them is the "Us and Them", which collects portraits by Alice of Helmut, by Helmut of Alice, and by either of others.
Having Sumo is still tempting... one day :-)
Photo, I have a few copies about still. One had a very nice collection of Jonvelle... First time I bought it was when visiting Paris as a student in the late 80's. Subscription from Australia would have been well outside my budget, but I would occasionally pick up copies as they arrived by chance in the Technical Bookstore in Melbourne. That was also the source of most of my photo books at the time: the ones that were cheap after having been pawed-over extensively without selling. Bought Mapplethorpe's book on Lisa Lyon that way...
Wonderful store: mathematics, architecture, photography, computer science, motorcycles... It seems they folded a few years back :-(
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More Barcelona night-time laneway
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More Barcelona night-time laneway
Reminded me of a shot I took in Madrid a few years ago (2011)
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Events/Dyxum-Madrid-201111/i-jm6hfbc/0/O/PEG_Nex_00456_20111106.jpg) (https://pegelli.smugmug.com/Events/Dyxum-Madrid-201111/i-jm6hfbc/A)
Quite different, but still it was the first shot I thought of after seeing yours.
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There is a similar feeling of late-night abandonment...
Back in Lyon today. I tried straightening it, but I finally prefered the lean.
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And some colour!
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Reminds me of my travel brochure days; I used to carry small plastic flowers in a variety of colours, and would deploy them, when necessary, as OOF blobs of colour with the highly doubtful purpose of disguising unexpected hotel 'extras' such as railway lines and trunk roads between hotel and beach! Really creative stuff, I'm sorry to say. Well, sorry today, not then. I was paid to tell visual porkies, and I think I told them very well indeed. If my memory of the 60s still holds, I'm thinking of the Costa Brava.
On the other hand, your picture is also beautiful with the added value of being benign, and with not a lousy hotel in sight!
;-)
Rob
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I like the poppies in the field.
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Thanks for those comments, Rob & Bob. Much appreciated
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Did a portfolio shoot for a friend of a friend this am.
I have to say it was agreeable :)
Interesting ethical situation too: in the morning, I was the photographer, so of course usual rules: no touching except when absolutely needed, with permission.
In the afternoon, I was one of 5 models, together with Maeve below, rolling around on the floor and each other for another photographer. Context is everything, I guess...
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I like this, Bill.
Jeremy
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Lovey light and face!
Sadly, nobody wants to roll around with me here in Mallorca, not even on the floor. Probably just as well - there's a strong possibility I might break.
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Ambience is all - as is context, I guess, as did you.
Rob
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Rob, I'm sure there must be certain ladies, who for a fee would be content to roll around with you :)
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who for a fee
That's like buying the postcard rather than taking the photo... ;)
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Lovey light and face!
Thanks Rob, I was borrowing my friend's studio with its wonderful window light. Actually her look is challenging... thumbnail size, she looks quite upset. Full screen, its more ambiguous. The frames before and after are quite different and she generally seemed to be having fun, after a nervous start. I'm intrigued by the Mona Lisa-ness of her expression I guess...
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I really like the third one. That said, given how beautiful she is, I can't imagine it being possible to take a bad photo of her. :-)
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Thanks Rob, I was borrowing my friend's studio with it's wonderful window light. Actually her look is challenging... thumbnail size, she looks quite upset. Full screen, its more ambiguous. The frames before and after are quite different and she generally seemed to be having fun, after a nervous start. I'm intrigued by the Mona Lisa-ness of her expression I guess...
Of course, The Mona's the first thing I'd be thinking about too... ;-)
On the colour shot: I like things that look like nature intended, whether or not they actually are. So many pros would feel obliged to use a lot of fill and destroy the mood... Delightful lady nicely portrayed. She should be very pleased.
Rob
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Rob, I'm sure there must be certain ladies, who for a fee would be content to roll around with you :)
I'm too mean: I'd rather save the money and spend it on bar lunches! Anyway, money wouldn't preclude the fragility risks for me.
Rob
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I can't imagine it being possible to take a bad photo of her. :-)
Actually, she had a remarkably well tuned reflex for closing her eyes at the sound of the shutter/mirror etc. In a fairly frightened way. A lot of shots in the bin... At first I was trying to shoot her at the same time as my friend was working at the other side of the (very small!) studio... she was quite stiff, and nervous even about unbuttoning her shirt a bit. Then Alina had a MacFailure and went off for an angry walk thinking she'd lost all her photos, so we had a long chat in the calm.
After that things got easier... once over the initial resistance to getting her clothes off, she was completely at ease, didn't bother putting anything back on during her cigarette breaks... but still had some involuntary tension when the camera was pointed at her. We did some breathing exercises... it helped.
She's still young, only 20. During the chat I found out that she's been in a romantic situation with another Lyon photog for about 6 months: I'd have thought that would have given her confidence in front of the lens. Then again, by that logic it would have been him shooting her portfolio, not me. Invent the story that you wish :)
PS Apple are going to fix Alina's Powerbook and she hasn't lost any images... :)
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Graham, Jeanloup's looking over your shoulder!
Did you take tea?
Rob
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Jeanloup over one, David Bailey over the other :)
With some Baudelaire added by Maeva:
"Ces robes folles sont l'emblème
De ton esprit bariolé ;
Folle dont je suis affolé,
Je te hais autant que je t'aime !"
Mais il n'y avait pas de thé :(
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Mixed up emotions, then, and no tea!
I also detect the spirit of the late Franceca Woodman coming through in the latest image. You are in venerable company - France breeds these moments! Enjoy whilst they communicate with you!
(Try a thermos - when all else fails, man's best friend.)
Rob
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Sort of topical, in its way.
(http://www.roma57.com/uploads/4/2/8/7/4287956/889962_orig.jpg)
Rob
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Jeanloup over one, David Bailey over the other :) ...
An new Muslim fashion statement? On the other hand, some find feet highly erotic ;)
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An new Muslim fashion statement? On the other hand, some find feet highly erotic ;)
Tell me about it: I have a baseball cap with Footjoy, 1857 writ large across it. Came from a golfing pal. It's by Texace, made in the USA.
Took me a while to discover that it's not that he imagined me a fetishist, but that it's a golf supply company of some kind... I now wear it without embarrassment.
I really wanted John Deere or IHeartNY (on black base) but there you go - anything keeps the sun off my nose is good. I think they sell those NY ones in the local market, but hey... as if I would!
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Rob
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There is a bit of a frenzy during the sales at the shoe departments: even quite heavily veiled muslim women still seem able to go wild on their feet. They're probably not permitted to pull their burkhas that tight, otoh...
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She's still young, only 20. During the chat I found out that she's been in a romantic situation with another Lyon photog for about 6 months: I'd have thought that would have given her confidence in front of the lens. Then again, by that logic it would have been him shooting her portfolio, not me. Invent the story that you wish :)
Graham, this is what cameras were made for, forget the street and in my case landscape nonsense. A lovely photo, the half open dress ( from what I've learnt from Rob) adds to the mystery and wondering - I could stare for hours Sir.
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Thanks for the kind words Riaan. Unfortunately these opportunities don't come along that often, so I'll keep myself in practice doing street stuff :-)
Of course as noted by Rob, the unzipped-back photo is quite recognisably in the style of Jeanloup Sieff, so it's not as though I can claim to be doing anything original... but my approach to "art" is more basic: making things I like looking at, with the possibility that others will also enjoy. So I'm glad you enjoyed :)
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Thanks for the kind words Riaan. Unfortunately these opportunities don't come along that often, so I'll keep myself in practice doing street stuff :-)
Of course as noted by Rob, the unzipped-back photo is quite recognisably in the style of Jeanloup Sieff, so it's not as though I can claim to be doing anything original... but my approach to "art" is more basic: making things I like looking at, with the possibility that others will also enjoy. So I'm glad you enjoyed :)
Graham, nobody is doing anything original; everything was already done in the thirties if not the twenties. The best we can do is make the best of what comes our way. Jeanloup was as derivative as all the rest from the period. Those old giants carry more of us every year!
It's not a matter of copying, which would bore anybody trying to do that, but of absorbing an excellence and seeing what works and what does not. In the end, if not standing there with somebody else's snap or drawing before us, all we can do anyway is to follow our emotional triggers and use 'em as they want to pop. Truth to tell, it's pretty much impossible to copy one's own back catalogue: models are different, locations are never the same twice even if you can find them again, and neither are you, the photographer.
Rob
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Rob, I agree 100%... and of course some of the results of people trying to be original above all else... sometimes there is a good reason no one photographed that before ;D
I think this is the Francesca Woodman shot:
http://www.berk-edu.com/RESEARCH/francescaWoodman/pages/woodman010.html
Maybe that's what I had floating around me head: I know the Bailey image of Marie Helvin wrapped up in the attic, I thought there was also one of here behind a curtain, but maybe not.
Credit to Maeva too: I had the idea of putting her behind the fabric, but it wasn't working: then she thought of pulling it around her body... bingo :)
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Rob, I agree 100%... and of course some of the results of people trying to be original above all else... sometimes there is a good reason no one photographed that before ;D
I think this is the Francesca Woodman shot:
http://www.berk-edu.com/RESEARCH/francescaWoodman/pages/woodman010.html
Maybe that's what I had floating around me head: I know the Bailey image of Marie Helvin wrapped up in the attic, I thought there was also one of here behind a curtain, but maybe not.
Credit to Maeva too: I had the idea of putting her behind the fabric, but it wasn't working: then she thought of pulling it around her body... bingo :)
And there the thing that makes a model: imagination. Some girls imagine that being pretty is all it takes - so wrong. And that's one of the reasons that I find model photography (with a good one!) so rewarding: the buzz when something's working out between you can't be described, other than to say there's nothing else like it - not even cups of metaphorical tea.
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Rob
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This one posed beautifully
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This one posed beautifully
Anaesthetised!
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Rob
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Hasn't chewed it to bits yet?
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Hasn't chewed it to bits yet?
I don't eat dog
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After printing another image, I realised I'd also done a Bettina Rheims. But better, I think :)
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Very nice Patricia.
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Very nice Patricia.
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Ooooohhhhhhhhhh Patricia!
Very delicious.
Rich
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Very nice Patricia.
And again :)
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After printing another image, I realised I'd also done a Bettina Rheims. But better, I think :)
Did you go to Paris and the George V(?) bedrooms?
Taschen has done some very expens¡ve books by/for her, one using the friend/fiancée/wife of some plutocrat; if the blurb was true, what a way to show your 'assets' to the world at large. A whole new meaning to the word trophy: don't just have it hanging onto your arm, put it out there on paper!
What happened to the concept of love? Gee, I must be a Luddite after all!
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Rob
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A very tactile experience, Patricia!
Lovely image.
Rob
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Taschen has done some very expens¡ve books by/for her, one using the friend/fiancée/wife of some plutocrat; if the blurb was true, what a way to show your 'assets' to the world at large. A whole new meaning to the word trophy: don't just have it hanging onto your arm, put it out there on paper!
No, things were a bit hectic here at the time. Looking a bit in Google, it seems she hit her high point, relative to my judgement, in 1986-1994. By the time of INRI, she'd come over all metaphysical-religious. I'd have thought Sarah Lucas had killed the "woman holding large fish" meme in 1997, but Bettina had a crack at it 2 years later... as a religious reference. One could wonder about the influence of her partner Serge Balmy, who is a writer... of sorts... but not my sorts. And Chirac seemed to like her, gave her a Légion d'Honneur...
Anyway, she's on special at 39,95€. I think the next slice of the book budget will go to a mini Sumo... 100€ on ebay, but the Taschen shop had Sale signs up last night, and I could see they had a stack of Sumo boxes. Need to go look on the weekend :)
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No, things were a bit hectic here at the time. Looking a bit in Google, it seems she hit her high point, relative to my judgement, in 1986-1994. By the time of INRI, she'd come over all metaphysical-religious. I'd have thought Sarah Lucas had killed the "woman holding large fish" meme in 1997, but Bettina had a crack at it 2 years later... as a religious reference. One could wonder about the influence of her partner Serge Balmy, who is a writer... of sorts... but not my sorts. And Chirac seemed to like her, gave her a Légion d'Honneur...
Anyway, she's on special at 39,95€. I think the next slice of the book budget will go to a mini Sumo... 100€ on ebay, but the Taschen shop had Sale signs up last night, and I could see they had a stack of Sumo boxes. Need to go look on the weekend :)
Bettina comes from relative wealth: buy the mini-Sumo and help Alice pay her bills instead! ;-)
Actually, anything I know about Bettina comes straight for French PHOTO which, as you know, used to be pretty damned good. I'm not really sure why I stopped buying it - maybe it was the inevitable frustration between what's possible in the photographic world and what's available to me on the rock. Funny thing: she reputedly stopped women on the street and talked them into going to hotels with her and taking off their clothes as she did her bedroom images. Some did look like they came straight off the street; makes me wonder if there's a bit of an Arbus complex at work there.
Regarding Sumo: I bought it from a local shop run by a French chap with a Mallorquin wife; I used to get the magazine from him too, and my wife the Sunday Times. Maybe that's why I got a discount; I think I still shelled out about €100 for the thing (new). He supplied what he could that I found listed in the book reviews in PHOTO; trouble was, it largely depended on whether the publishers has Spanish agents or distributors. I also remember finding many great websites through them. For a whle I bought both the French mag and then the American version that they started; from having both I ended up with nothing, beyond a dozen or so culled from a several-feet-thick pile. Space...
Rob
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Bettina comes from relative wealth: buy the mini-Sumo and help Alice pay her bills instead! ;-)
Funny thing: she reputedly stopped women on the street and talked them into going to hotels with her and taking off their clothes as she did her bedroom images.
Rob
I'm going to try that: I'll let you know how I get on.
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Funny, I thought the days of that were long over. I asked Maeva how she had met the other photographer:
"He stopped me in the street."
So there you are.
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I have tried it - only suggesting portraits - a couple of times, but never in the street - only in cafés.
In the end, I have to conclude that it's easier for another woman to do it. Maybe a good lookin' thirty-year-old guy would have success. I fail on all three counts. I also hate embarrassing moments, so...
Rob
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Funny, I thought the days of that were long over. I asked Maeva how she had met the other photographer:
"He stopped me in the street."
So there you are.
Graham, I am going to pretend I didn't read this. The last three years I have been trying to get someone, apart from the blonde I live with, in front of the camera and truth be told, it's been "hell"
The anticipation, hope, joy and all those feelgood emotions that turned to despair and let down I experienced too often with my attempts at model work. Models booked who cancelled, friends of friends who show interest in some pics and then never get to the shooting part. Ladies who interrupt me on the beach while I'm shooting waves to ask if I could do a shoot for them, but then never contact me again. And so it goes on. I eventually gave up as I got tired of the roller coaster and said fuckit, I will carry on shooting my rocks and trees and water and leave the models for someone else. Anyway, I have Sam Haskins and Clergue in the bookcase to cheer me up on those days when I start thinking about models, I can't do "Born of the waves" any better in any case, so what would the point be.
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Riaan, here's my secret advice: step to the other side. Volunteer to be a model, either for photography or life-drawing.
First, it puts you in contact with other "models".
Second, it establishes that you are not asking people to do what you wouldn't do yourself.
Third, it creates a certain empathy... you have some idea what the model is experiencing.
It also gives you a means of choosing to work with photographers whose work you respect, who are likely to work with other models who are interested in that sort of work. In contrast, if you go onto a Facebook model-photographer group, the majority of participants will be naive and ambitious people trying to make very stereotypical images in the belief that they will help them earn a living in the field. It is (almost) all about fashion and make-up and lies, so far as I can see.
Also, I put "models" in quotes because I don't work with women who see themselves as models: they are musicians, artists, actors, dancers. They may also be teachers or whatever... but they don't see themselves as having a career in modelling.
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Those may be related. If he's selling the prints at good prices, he can and should be paying his models...
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Some beautiful landscapes; they look very crisp, too, and very well 'printed', so to speak. I wonder what he uses? Apart from a tripod, that is.
I don't at all like his 'noods' because they seem so self-conscious, and parodies of the old guys with their 8x10s. There seems no reason why there would be a figure in the shots - I suppose a harking back to classical days long gone.
Good luck to him - seems he's got it organized well enough!
Rob
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Hi Rob, he used Canon DSLRs for years but I believe he's now switched to Fuji mirrorless. Not sure what printers he uses now but last I heard was Hewlett Packard. Glyn is very talented, determined and the complete opposite of a gearhead.
Which is probably why his pictures look so well thought out and executed.
I was thinking it might have been larger formats than Canikon; I never get anything as crisp, but then I almost never use a tripod anymore. Looks like he often uses movements to get depth on those coastal shots, which are brilliant; I was very taken with the Lanzarote set, too. I've worked there, and never saw it looking quite as nice: apart from some man-made places, all I saw was black!
It was a worthy link; thanks!
Whilst I was sitting in a bank office yesterday fighting the system, I noticed the chap had two very good photographic images mounted on perspex, maybe a yard wide or just a bit larger. One was a shot similar to your Venetian reflections, but much tighter, showing just ripples and perhaps two colours, and the other a shot of some people on a jetty, blurred with sideways shake. Both took my fancy and made me wish I had a big printer... nope, no way, but a pleasant passing thought for all that!
Rob
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Something else from Barcelona
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Something else from Barcelona
That pony could give me a hissy fit! So unfair of Mama Nature.
On French etiquette: at what age, more or less, does one stop addressing a female as Mademoiselle and turn to Madame when unaware of her marital status? In fact, should a known older spinster still be addressed as Mlle or is it more polite automatically to use Madame for anyone who appears to be more than in her early twenties?
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I think beyond the early 20's, Mlle is used only for flirting, typically by rather sleazy waiters. In fact I don't think I've heard it used other than by waiters... ;D
Bought my copy of Sumo... and another almost as big "History of Erotic Photography" which didn't look very erotic, but interesting, for 20€. And the book-shop owner threw in a guide to Parisian architecture, because she liked my accent. Had nearly 10kg of books, with the box and stand, to lug back to the car...
Here's the lift-well in the carpark :)
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... should a known older spinster still be addressed as Mlle ...
They say that a Miss is as good as a Mlle
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I really like that lift well image Graham. Could have posted it in the 'Abstracts' thread.
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They say that a Miss is as good as a Mlle
Ugh! ;)
Jeremy
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I think beyond the early 20's, Mlle is used only for flirting, typically by rather sleazy waiters. In fact I don't think I've heard it used other than by waiters... ;D
Bought my copy of Sumo... and another almost as big "History of Erotic Photography" which didn't look very erotic, but interesting, for 20€. And the book-shop owner threw in a guide to Parisian architecture, because she liked my accent. Had nearly 10kg of books, with the box and stand, to lug back to the car...
Here's the lift-well in the carpark :)
Thanks, Graham, makes sense to err on the side of diplomatic sexual caution. But can still hear a voice in the blue complain: "hey, why did you think I was so old?"
Enjoy Sumo; put a small, thick face cloth onto the plastic stand to protect the book!
Great abstract, by the way.
Rob
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The Chiweenie is shunning the spotlight.
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Riaan, here's my secret advice: step to the other side. Volunteer to be a model, either for photography or life-drawing.
First, it puts you in contact with other "models".
Second, it establishes that you are not asking people to do what you wouldn't do yourself.
Third, it creates a certain empathy... you have some idea what the model is experiencing.
It also gives you a means of choosing to work with photographers whose work you respect, who are likely to work with other models who are interested in that sort of work. In contrast, if you go onto a Facebook model-photographer group, the majority of participants will be naive and ambitious people trying to make very stereotypical images in the belief that they will help them earn a living in the field. It is (almost) all about fashion and make-up and lies, so far as I can see.
Also, I put "models" in quotes because I don't work with women who see themselves as models: they are musicians, artists, actors, dancers. They may also be teachers or whatever... but they don't see themselves as having a career in modelling.
Graham, I suspect we live in vastly different worlds..there are no "art communities" here.
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Ah, that makes it very difficult :(
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Some beautiful landscapes; they look very crisp, too, and very well 'printed', so to speak. I wonder what he uses? Apart from a tripod, that is.
I don't at all like his 'noods' because they seem so self-conscious, and parodies of the old guys with their 8x10s. There seems no reason why there would be a figure in the shots - I suppose a harking back to classical days long gone.
Rob
Agreed. Very nice landscapes, but nudes which, though admirably skilled, rather made me think of stills from a "Game of Thrones" shoot - and the Artist Statement didn't help.
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Agreed. Very nice landscapes, but nudes which, though admirably skilled, rather made me think of stills from a "Game of Thrones" shoot - and the Artist Statement didn't help.
Artist's Statements are a sort of paradox.
If one believes in the dictum of a single picture being worth a thousand words, then doesn't that make the entire AS thing seem a bit superfluous or, at the very least, signify a tiny doubt about the vaunted verbosity of the images?
Writing in the third person is even worse - IMO - because it comes over as conceit or even deceit; better to write as in the first person and be open about it, or get somebody else to do it for you as honestly and as dispassionately as possible. Hype is always seen as hype, and whilst expected in advertising soap powders, is a bit thick when found within a photographer's own website.
Some guys do this very well, but I think mainly because some have had really interesting lives, especially within the fashion photography world, and their travels etc. lend a sort of sophicticated otherness to the work that they produce. Seeing images with beautiful people in fantastic locations can't help but add to the glamour of the photographer, even with images not shot in such places: it's an overall influence or effect, I think.
In the end, I think a reserved 'About' is worth more than an official, effusive 'Artist's Statement'.
Rob
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This amused me, but it's easily done.
Jeremy
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This amused me, but it's easily done.
But well done, in this case :)
Rob, I certainly agree about Artist Statements: even done by others they are often horrid, and now that everyone is leaping at the idea of getting rich by writing clickable stuff on Facebook, there are more and more offers to explain artworks to me.
So I must read Sontag's "Against Interpretation"
Nudes are a special case, however: someone usually feels a need to reassure the potential buyer or mere spectator that (s)he is not looking at "a dirty picture." It is in fact a visual allegory for societal power structures, where sun reflecting through a fine weft of pubic hair represents the carcinogenic imposition of negative opinion on the delicate white soul of the artist.
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But well done, in this case :)
Rob, I certainly agree about Artist Statements: even done by others they are often horrid, and now that everyone is leaping at the idea of getting rich by writing clickable stuff on Facebook, there are more and more offers to explain artworks to me.
So I must read Sontag's "Against Interpretation"
Nudes are a special case, however: someone usually feels a need to reassure the potential buyer or mere spectator that (s)he is not looking at "a dirty picture." It is in fact a visual allegory for societal power structures, where sun reflecting through a fine weft of pubic hair represents the carcinogenic imposition of negative opinion on the delicate white soul of the artist.
Interesting observation, Graham. I expect this is the reason that contemporary models appear to eschew any hair there at all.
I'm doing the first run on a new washing machine. I have it on an eco programme for cottons. The machine it replaced - also Zanussis - used to do that in 67 minutes; it's now run for an hour and forty minutes and shows no sign of stopping its fun. I am starting to think that more than lenses require multiple purchases before finding one that does what it says on the box.
Life is getting too full of stress.
Rob C
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I don't at all like his 'noods' because they seem so self-conscious, and parodies of the old guys with their 8x10s. There seems no reason why there would be a figure in the shots - I suppose a harking back to classical days long gone.
I was thinking about this again this morning while leafing through my big cheap book of "Troubling erotic contemporary photography", and wondering why it was mostly completely un-troubling. The thing is, nudity itself is not particularly erotic once past adolescence, it's the symbolism of why he or she is undressed, does it have something to do with me the viewer, or someone who is my proxy in the frame (or implied to be just out of it). All of which is related to the model as an individual. It can be a very subtle thing... leafing through Sumo, there are plenty of troubling images, but the feeling is one of having been told to sit in the corner, watch and don't make any noise, of not belonging in the scene. Then I get to the photo of Charlotte Rampling sitting on the table in the hotel in Arles... Bang... all of a sudden there is a connection. Whether that is because there was a real complicity between her and Newton, or because she is an amazing actress, or both...
Now if you put a figure in an interesting shape in a landscape, you've returned to the 18th century version of pretending your interest is in an objective appreciation of her shape, at the same level as some unusual rock formations. Or as an allegory to the three humours, or the 4 seasons, or fire, air, earth and water... or whatever convenient lie by which the painter and the priest could agree to check out the flesh while pretending not to think about sex. It's dishonest and it's boring. Just the sort of thing a Conservative PM might give as a subtle nudge-nudge wedding present ;)
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I was thinking about this again this morning while leafing through my big cheap book of "Troubling erotic contemporary photography", and wondering why it was mostly completely un-troubling. The thing is, nudity itself is not particularly erotic once past adolescence, it's the symbolism of why he or she is undressed, does it have something to do with me the viewer, or someone who is my proxy in the frame (or implied to be just out of it). All of which is related to the model as an individual. It can be a very subtle thing... leafing through Sumo, there are plenty of troubling images, but the feeling is one of having been told to sit in the corner, watch and don't make any noise, of not belonging in the scene. Then I get to the photo of Charlotte Rampling sitting on the table in the hotel in Arles... Bang... all of a sudden there is a connection. Whether that is because there was a real complicity between her and Newton, or because she is an amazing actress, or both...
Now if you put a figure in an interesting shape in a landscape, you've returned to the 18th century version of pretending your interest is in an objective appreciation of her shape, at the same level as some unusual rock formations. Or as an allegory to the three humours, or the 4 seasons, or fire, air, earth and water... or whatever convenient lie by which the painter and the priest could agree to check out the flesh while pretending not to think about sex. It's dishonest and it's boring. Just the sort of thing a Conservative PM might give as a subtle nudge-nudge wedding present ;)
Interesting, I've often wondered why Rampling seemed to attract so many different photographers working in Europe. I have never thought her sexy - quite the opposite. I know she even shared a cuppa with Jeanloup! Strange...
Regarding Conservative wedding presents: perfect example of the sort of thing that, once dumped, would later be bought second-hand by a Champagne Socialist MP at a 'chic' boutique book store specializing in genuine erotica...
;-)
I just love these pages in LuLa!
Rob
P.S.
Just run a second wash on the Zanussi: three hours. They must be in league with the electricity companies!
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Or post nudie snaps here in an Art of Photography thread in the hope someone, anyone, might think of them as such.
Since I don't know what art is, they may be: there is plenty of stuff I'm told is art which I also consider dishonest and boring, but maybe it works for some people. Or maybe it's essential irony or something. I'd like to try doing some "nude in landscape" shots as a challenge to make something interesting, one day.
Rob, Charlotte can help herself to my thermos any time she wishes.
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Rob, quick wash button?
I'm still looking for it; I gather one exists, but I'm saving that excitement for the third attempt!
The instruction manual is a real cheapie - I suspect it's supposed to self-destruct before you can sue the makers. Ironically, the old one, which must have given us about twenty years of good, regular service was great: 67 minutes on setting 'K' and everything was clean, read to hang, and once out on the terrace, dry by six or seven in the evening, except in winter when it would have to sit around on the rack until morning. I could have everything ship-shape and out drying before going out to do whatever had to be done that day. Now, it could seriously impact lunch!
As the original machine would turn the programme selector knob around the sequences as it progressed, you always had an idea of how it was doing: this thing is either on or off, with no indication of where it's at. Just like a computer then, and as hateful. But it is very quiet.
Rob
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Since I don't know what art is, they may be: there is plenty of stuff I'm told is art which I also consider dishonest and boring, but maybe it works for some people. Or maybe it's essential irony or something. I'd like to try doing some "nude in landscape" shots as a challenge to make something interesting, one day.
Rob, Charlotte can help herself to my thermos any time she wishes.
Decades too late, Graham. Now is the time for quiet contemplation and rejoicing in sins past... that generous offer should be reconsidered very carefully in the light of the passage of time.
Rob
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Sadly true. Anyway, Maëva turned 21 yesterday...
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Sadly true. Anyway, Maëva turned 21 yesterday...
Great, peaceful atmosphere; really like the reflections in the window and the tonality with which they are reproduced. You've found a good, really natural-looking girl with whom to work, so take it forward, concentrate on the photography and leave the tea for cafés.
Wish her a happy birthday and send her a ticket to Mallorca.
;-)
Rob
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I'll see what I can do about transport.
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Photography in synch
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Photography in synch
No wonder women get back problems! Willing bondage, even.
Rob
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I'll see what I can do about transport.
Strange bit of industrial design error: imagine writing your logos etc. upside down. Or is this produxt designed for sale in Oz?
Rob
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Un dernier clope...
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People queuing for ice-cream in the rain.
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Looking towards Hurlstone Point, Porlock beach, Somerset, UK
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Cameras still packed deep in the mountain of shipping crates from the move to the island, but at least the cellphone fits in the backpack to sneak in a little seeking out the terrain.
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It rained the other night...
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Marie
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VC, taking it easy
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Gentiana brachyphylla ? Western Grosina Valley.
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More rain
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Marie
Makes me think of Ralph Gibson's work.
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Makes me think of Ralph Gibson's work.
Ah! Thank you... I either didn't know about Gibson, or did but had forgotten. I have some browsing to do.
Maybe this slice of Hélène is also suggestive of him?
She came as a project to shoot self-portraits in other people's homes, I profited... :)
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Some more Hélène
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Have a heart Graham, I only have damn trees to shoot! Wet ones at that!
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Ah, but nice trees! I grew up in a suburb of Sydney that had mangroves... unfortunately it was on the edge of a fairly filthy industrial area and my memory was that everything was grey :-(
It subsequently became the Olympic Park for the 2000 games... a lot of cleaning was needed.
So it's good to see happy mangroves.
BTW, Hélène and I discussed at length the issues of model/photographer collaborations, and we both had the same impression: the great majority don't go anywhere, or never happen at all. Then sometimes things happen unexpectedly... you have to keep trying and stay around.
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Lovely shot Riaan van Wyk. Your trees look like they're dancing in very skimpy cloths. Nice light - quite sensual.
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Have a heart Graham, I only have damn trees to shoot! Wet ones at that!
Very nice, Riaan.
Jeremy
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Yes, lovely dancing trees!
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One from this evening
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Nice! Rolls of hay season is fun... and since it's holidays, here is a cat... with a fish-eye
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BTW, Hélène and I discussed at length the issues of model/photographer collaborations, and we both had the same impression: the great majority don't go anywhere, or never happen at all. Then sometimes things happen unexpectedly... you have to keep trying and stay around.
Graham, Helene is probably right, in the greater scheme of things but I decided last year to not bother anymore. When the despondency gets too much I am fortunate to have Clergue, Haskins and Newton ( on long term loan) in my collection for easing the thoughts.
Mind you, if I had a Helene she would have been inside the wave pic as attached.
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Very nice, Riaan.
Jeremy
Thanks Jeremy. Been trying for a year to get the tides and light ( EDIT; and a bloody wind that doesn't want to blow everything to Madagascar) favourable when I have time to be in the mangroves.
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The Children of the Corn are waiting ...
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Home
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Ranunculus glacialis at Pass di Matt (Vermolera Pass) and Schlagintweitia intybacea in Pedruna Valley. Both in Valtelline.
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For some life is a walk in the park
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Wishing for winter to come back, but with filed-down teeth this time. Summer and tourism destroy ambience.
(http://www.roma57.com/uploads/4/2/8/7/4287956/d-2616_orig.jpg)
And no, it's not a Leica hanging down near my belt; a great war-snapper look, but all I know was suspended from the neck was a pair of Polaroids that I used to wear even as far back as during my French drives, the last being about fifteen years ago. Hardly a scratch on the lenses (lenses? Polaroids?) but the gold (another overstatement) rims have turned anything but; more a delicate aquatic green from perspiration rot.
You'll all be delighted to know that my watch's recent service has been a great success: timed against the computer clock, it has gained a minute in a month. It always used to lose time, so nice to discover, forty-four years later, that it's really quite versatile and can swing both ways! I don't imply anything sexual to it - I'd be quite surprised to learn it has a sex life, or at least not unless when I'm asleep. You never can tell, though. I wondered why it glowed better in the dark now than it did before it went off on vacation a couple of months ago. Maybe it's just happy to be home.
Rob C
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In honour of Rob's return, a scene from a pianist's birthday party yesterday...
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In honour of Rob's return, a scene from a pianist's birthday party yesterday...
Is the party in the room with you, or across the street? If that's the pianist, must be a blues thumper.
;-)
Rob
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A friend of mine just had a piano delivered through a third floor window, using a crane.
The delivery company was the aptly-named "Death Wish Piano Movers."
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Ha, no, he was some theatre associated person but I'm not sure what he does exactly. Cynthia (below) has an upright in her apartment which was apparently carried up the stairs: there is a piano moving company staffed with very large men who are adept at negotiating the narrow stairs of inner Lyon.
And I have no idea what was happening across the street :)
PS. Note that scores are read from i-pads these days...
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Ha, no, he was some theatre associated person but I'm not sure what he does exactly. Cynthia (below) has an upright in her apartment which was apparently carried up the stairs: there is apparently a piano moving company staffed with very large men who are adept at negotiating the narrow stairs of inner Lyon.
And I have no idea what was happening across the street :)
Across the street has a guy possibly taking a leak, or perhaps the deal in the distance concerns the chaps recent upright? (Speaking of which, reminds me of the guy with the very short one who, when mocked by the temporary consort asking him whom it was meant to satisfy, looked her in the eye and replied "Me.")
I don't have any idea whether the companion has been taken unawares, or is settling the change from the deal. They do give change? Perhaps you could consult with Nan Goldin?
Isn't life complicated? Especially if it becomes a problem carrying it up the stairs.
;-)
Rob
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I have to show my "one that got away"... was very happy to have snapped it, since Cyhthia tends to over-pose if she knows a camera is pointed at her. And all was well until I noticed the 190cm guy in shorts lurking in the mirror. Now it was 34°C and pretty much all the men present were wearing aesthetically dubious shorts, but if someone had to photo-bomb this shot I would have much preferred he was clothed by the Helmet Newton school of decadent formal attire...
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I have to show my "one that got away"... was very happy to have snapped it, since Cyhthia tends to over-pose if she knows a camera is pointed at her. And all was well until I noticed the 190cm guy in shorts lurking in the mirror. Now it was 34°C and pretty much all the men present were wearing aesthetically dubious shorts, but if someone had to photo-bomb this shot I would have much preferred he was clothed by the Helmet Newton school of decadent formal attire...
For many years I used to save the life of my old, exhausted Levis by, contrarily enough, taking a pair of large scissors to them and surgically removing the bits below the knee joint. I felt I then looked the ideal beach bum I always imagined mysef as having been born to become. My reward has been actinic keratosis and a complete ban on the midday sun. Well you know the saying about dogs and sunshine, and ninety miles count not a jot... My wife, bless her, refused to do any of this stuff for me, saying it was all too thick for the Singer.
Nowadays I tend to find that Levis last longer (nice commercial ring to that) and none has been cut the past few years. Perhaps I get around less so they are newer longer; perhaps I feel market-bought Hong Kong specials are more comfortable in the critical areas.
Comfort ends up being king: just like partners, I believe.
Rob
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A further shot of my current favourite artist. She's French, which of course makes all the difference, as Graham will testify.
(http://www.roma57.com/uploads/4/2/8/7/4287956/d-2613_orig.jpg)
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Ah, I'm tempted to say it's very "atmospheric." I presume that visible atmosphere was what led to describing things as that, and that now it seems strange to describe the literal form of what became metaphoric.
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Er ... probably :)
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Opposite Vermillion Cliffs
On our way to the North Rim of the Grand Canyon. The light was spectacular given the monsoon storm action. I jumped out of the Jeep parked next to the highway (AZ 89A), grabbed my camera from the back, and ran across the recently rain-soaked red sand. I was in a hurry because the clouds and light can change in the blink of an eye ( or shutter ;) ) This will not be my last visit.
Nikon D800E with Nikkor 28-300 zoom at 28 mm, 1/500 sec, f/11, ISO 200 (from a three stitch pano)
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(https://c4.staticflickr.com/9/8443/29399154331_44cf700ae9_b.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/LMUmke)Parent's Garden Abstract, Wind Chime (https://flic.kr/p/LMUmke) by tanngrisnir3 (https://www.flickr.com/photos/87368247@N00/), on Flickr
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The light on those cliffs & the cloud is superb. Lovely image.
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(https://c4.staticflickr.com/9/8443/29399154331_44cf700ae9_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/LMUmke)Parent's Garden Abstract, Wind Chime (https://flic.kr/p/LMUmke) by tanngrisnir3 (https://www.flickr.com/photos/87368247@N00/), on Flickr
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The light on those cliffs & the cloud is superb. Lovely image.
Yes, it was an ooooh, ooooh! moment. Thanks, Bill.
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Geese
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Omar, the video operator, tonight just before the show when there was still some light...
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Then a little later, when the technical constraints were getting stretched just a little ;D
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Two great images Graham. The second one brings me to Sarah Moon thinking! Love the confusion of planes. You have a very keen eye!
Rob C
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Thanks Rob: it's funny how if the light is a little imperfect, I much prefer to go B&W. But once it's really putrid, it's best to roll with the lurid abstraction.
I actually wish I knew how all those swirly things happened in the background of the second; I was just sweating on getting some sort of focus in the near dark, the focus assist doesn't work too well with a 200mm.
Here's another, with a brighter palate:
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Thanks Rob: it's funny how if the light is a little imperfect, I much prefer to go B&W. But once it's really putrid, it's best to roll with the lurid abstraction.
I actually wish I knew how all those swirly things happened in the background of the second; I was just sweating on getting some sort of focus in the near dark, the focus assist doesn't work too well with a 200mm.
Here's another, with a brighter palate:
I don't think that 'bright' one has got it. Those burned out flowers in the foregrund draw the eye too strongly - maybe not for non-photographers, though.
I won't say any more because then I'd be abusing my own stipulations about this thread! I only said what I said above because you and I both know you have done some bloody good work across genres.
Rob
P.S. That's a very confusing neckline that outfit of hers has! I'm trying to figure out how you cross-dress a bra strap with a frock! But maybe it's all a single garment - a trompe l'oeil! Interesting.
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Definitely some weaving between bra and dress there, yes... :)
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From last month, reminding me I must get out more. (I don't think I posted it before, but you never know.) But hey, the terrace varnishing is finished at long last - did the outer face of the french windows this morning! All that remains now - for this year - is three outer sets of shutters (probably the windows, too...).
Actually washed the car the other day - must be the first time in at least three or four weeks - and found that it was still black beneath the brown. Two nights later, it rained. Sahara rain. I may do the windscreen tomorrow so that I can see the road.
(http://www.roma57.com/uploads/4/2/8/7/4287956/d-2614_1_orig.jpg)
Rob
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Ha, today I drove halfway to Geneva (well, more like 1/3) to pick up a printer. I had promised myself an pro1000 at the end of the year if I was good :)... and this one was for sale 300€ off, box never opened. The story: a Brazilian living in Geneva for 15 years started feeling the call of the sea, so he bought a boat.
And the engine broke.
He showed me his Mamiya C330 and his Nikon 6x9... hopefully they won't have to go when the mast snaps :(
But he had found my photos online and was happy to be selling to a photographer and not an architect. He seemed a very happy chap, in fact :)
I printed out the "bright" pic. Definitely less impressive than the darker ones, but I think it still works better at 13x19 than on screen: there seems to be a better balance between the green and the pink. That was after pushing and pulling at the curve a bit, although burnt is burnt. It's my baby of course, so I would say that ;)
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Ha, today I drove halfway to Geneva (well, more like 1/3) to pick up a printer. I had promised myself an pro1000 at the end of the year if I was good :)... and this one was for sale 300€ off, box never opened. The story: a Brazilian living in Geneva for 15 years started feeling the call of the sea, so he bought a boat.
And the engine broke.
He showed me his Mamiya C330 and his Nikon 6x9... hopefully they won't have to go when the mast snaps :(
But he had found my photos online and was happy to be selling to a photographer and not an architect. He seemed a very happy chap, in fact :)
I printed out the "bright" pic. Definitely less impressive than the darker ones, but I think it still works better at 13x19 than on screen: there seems to be a better balance between the green and the pink. That was after pushing and pulling at the curve a bit, although burnt is burnt. It's my baby of course, so I would say that ;)
What was that, when it was born? (Nikon 6x9.)
Rob
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No idea, I'd never seen one before. They were both in as-new condition. I was having a bit of a nostalgia trip, first time I'd looked through a double-image range-finder since my father's M3.
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So I keep walking around the print of the "brighter palette" and trying to decide if it works or not. From some angles yes, some no. Strange but interesting.
Here's another from the same series...
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Shower scene.
I haven't posted for so long that I had to look where the attach photo tab is!
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What was that, when it was born? (Nikon 6x9.)
Can't find any evidence that such a camera ever existed. Maybe I hallucinated that it was a Nikon? That it was 6x9 is certain, I was impressed by needing four strokes of the film-advance to cock the shutter. It was black and quite slim, without any sort of pop-out bellows..
I think it must have been the Fuji :
http://antiquecameras.net/fuji6x76x9.html
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Can't find any evidence that such a camera ever existed. Maybe I hallucinated that it was a Nikon? That it was 6x9 is certain, I was impressed by needing four strokes of the film-advance to cock the shutter. It was black and quite slim, without any sort of pop-out bellows..
I think it must have been the Fuji :
http://antiquecameras.net/fuji6x76x9.html
Yeah, I did the trawl too, and came up empty.
But you may not be hallucinating entirely: Nikon did seem to make lenses for other camera companies.
Rob
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Achenes of Carlina acaulis and Geum reptans.
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Lyon today...
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Lyon today...
Now that is ambiguity with a cool bokeh!
Rob
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So, a little more invasive that I like to be. A very austerely dressed women outside Cathédrale St George as mass came out and the faithful mixed with the tourists...
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Now that is ambiguity with a cool bokeh!
It's your passion for knitwear showing through ;)
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And a little bit of colour and motion blur... saw the woman coming on the bike, by the time I had the camera up she was next to me, took the photo en pleine pirouette :)
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I'm really enjoying these last three of yours, Graham.
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So, a little more invasive that I like to be. A very austerely dressed women outside Cathédrale St George as mass came out and the faithful mixed with the tourists...
When I stopped rating her legs, I moved to the guy's pants and realised I'm still into Levi 501s with 'normal' width; I had better move back to my 50s mode and go drainpipe again! 14" bottoms required minor foot surgery, but then I was always skinny and supple - still skinny but the physical suppleness has gone like it never existed - so I got away without the cuts. But the then old, sacrificial jeans didn't: had a mother willing and able enough to use her Singer on my youthful behalf. And then later, in the 60s, my wife did similar 'adjustments' and creations for me. I had a wonderful claret velvet cloak that she constructed from old curtains that I sometimes wore to parties (the cloak, not the curtains). Strange how normal it all felt, but how we now seem to have reverted to the pre-60s prison of conformity and subliminal fear of what others may think should drift from respecting the wider norm be apparent.
Maybe the pony's the last shout before the other curtain.
;-)
Rob
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Rob
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I'm really enjoying these last three of yours, Graham.
Thanks Eric. Rain is a real advantage: people fix their eyes forward, hide under their umbrellas. It was much easier than usual to just stand waiting for a shot to happen without anyone seeming to notice.
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Thanks Eric. Rain is a real advantage: people fix their eyes forward, hide under their umbrellas. It was much easier than usual to just stand waiting for a shot to happen without anyone seeming to notice.
As long as you have decent rain protection for your camera (the rest of you doesn't matter). ;)
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Achenes of Carlina acaulis and Geum reptans.
The second isn't a current presidential candidate from above, by any chance?
Jeremy
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When I stopped rating her legs, I moved to the guy's pants and realised I'm still into Levi 501s with 'normal' width; I had better move back to my 50s mode and go drainpipe again! 14" bottoms required minor foot surgery, but then I was always skinny and supple - still skinny but the physical suppleness has gone like it never existed - so I got away without the cuts. But the then old, sacrificial jeans didn't: had a mother willing and able enough to use her Singer on my youthful behalf. And then later, in the 60s, my wife did similar 'adjustments' and creations for me. I had a wonderful claret velvet cloak that she constructed from old curtains that I sometimes wore to parties (the cloak, not the curtains). Strange how normal it all felt, but how we now seem to have reverted to the pre-60s prison of conformity and subliminal fear of what others may think should drift from respecting the wider norm be apparent.
Maybe the pony's the last shout before the other curtain.
;-)
Rob
As a footnote:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wFWDGTVYqE8#t=130.709354
Rob
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Into the kitchen, I stopped and reversed right out. Why bother doing the dishes?
(http://www.roma57.com/uploads/4/2/8/7/4287956/d-2620_orig.jpg)
Rob
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Rob, you are truly a master of creative whimsy.
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Ah, I have a window by which I need to plant a wispy tree :) Unfortunately it's not on the ground floor, so there may be a short delay...
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The old drove road along the top of the Quantock Hills. Conveniently located to enable viking raiders to easily access Taunton from the coast, it's been in use since at least the Iron Age, and almost certainly long before that.
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Rob, you are truly a master of creative whimsy.
Eric,
At the moment, I'd be as happy winning the lottery, but I sense a compliment - so thanks!
;-)
Rob
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Ah, I have a window by which I need to plant a wispy tree :) Unfortunately it's not on the ground floor, so there may be a short delay...
I'm not on the ground floor either: what you see is the garden of my holiday pad atop a building overlooking Central Park...
No, I wouldn't buy that one either. But I could send you a cutting!
Alternatively, tune in:
http://player.warpradio.com/KLEB-AM/index.php
My constant companion each evening after 8pm European time.
Rob
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Something from the kitchen
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Really nice picture, Graham.
Just shows how much can be done without going anywhere. Home is a fantastic place in which to exercise the eye.
Rob
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And some wet weather colour...
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If you do that in the snow, then you'll be nicking Saul L's shtick!
;-)
Rob
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Really nice picture, Graham.
Just shows how much can be done without going anywhere. Home is a fantastic place in which to exercise the eye.
Rob
+1 as in Josef Sudek
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Re the washing up photo : it was taken with the "old" Sigma 85/1.4. Why anyone would suppose it needed to be replaced by something bigger and heavier is beyond me, although doubtless there are marketing advantages.
On the theme of sharpness and absence thereof:
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Re the washing up photo : it was taken with the "old" Sigma 85/1.4. Why anyone would suppose it needed to be replaced by something bigger and heavier is beyond me, although doubtless there are marketing advantages.
On the theme of sharpness and absence thereof:
Exactly. Why would it need to be sharp? The mood is what the mood is; the information you want to show is what you show.
I still envy you your model options... divine irony (ou rétribution que je dois souffrir). Either way, I don't enjoy it!
(Maybe that sentiment could be used to start Slobodan's Prima Donna thread?)
;-)
Rob
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Frankly, I don't see the interest in painting stripes on that face, but there you go.
The project this time was that he painted her face while she played Rameau's Invitation aux Muses with her eyes shut...
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Frankly, I don't see the interest in painting stripes on that face, but there you go.
The project this time was that he painted her face while she played Rameau's Invitation aux Muses with her eyes shut...
Stranger and yet stranger... was she wearing anything much else, or just the piano?
;-)
Rob
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Ah, we can but dream...
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Very nice Graham! Really enjoy your black/white work.
Rob
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Oh, translucent spikes! :)
And I found the sound track for Cynthia (recorded 3 months earlier on a decent piano):
https://soundcloud.com/cynthia-caubisens/rameau-lentretien-des-muses
(That makes two "record covers" for me, one as photographer and one as model. No doubt I'll soon be very rich)
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Wheelbarrow.
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A few from Turton Tower, Lancashire, UK.
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And one more...
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Passages~
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Ah Patricia, just as I see my own personal bridges that little too close yet so distant; a few moments here and then where? Alone again or united for ever? Yet, better alone than drowning in the party of fools, the noise of the rabble a weight more than lead.
How one's ideas about photography change, develop and slide further away from the reporting of what we thought valid towards that which always evades us just enough to keep us trying again and again. Our backs turn against the factual as the lure of the other presses ever more hard and increasingly urgent; gone the time when reporting the material, the physical seen was the achievement, a position to be replaced as a player reinventing that place as stage meant more until now, when even that conceit fades into futility, and one seeks further realities that might be as false as the others.
Rob
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Oh, translucent spikes! :)
And I found the sound track for Cynthia (recorded 3 months earlier on a decent piano):
https://soundcloud.com/cynthia-caubisens/rameau-lentretien-des-muses
(That makes two "record covers" for me, one as photographer and one as model. No doubt I'll soon be very rich)
That little reflection/highlight grouping makes it!
Rob
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As an afterthought, based on that cactus image, were mothers to inform their young daughters along those lines, there might well be fewer social problems for governments to face, patch and support.
Regarding Russ's image of the girl sitting on the rail: is she holding a mirror to the passers by or is it a washboard and musical attempt at prising money from pockets? If the former, then that is a very imaginative confrontaion by her. Even perhaps more personal than shooting street!
Rob
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Vaccinium microcarpum, the fruit (with remains of the flower, see the flower here http://forum.luminous-landscape.com/index.php?topic=75820.1720 (http://forum.luminous-landscape.com/index.php?topic=75820.1720) and the photo of Konrad Lauber here https://www.infoflora.ch/it/flora/831-vaccinium-microcarpum.html (https://www.infoflora.ch/it/flora/831-vaccinium-microcarpum.html) ).
SCI of Falck Hut, Eastern Grosina Valley, Valtelline.
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quote Rob: " just as I see my own personal bridges that little too close yet so distant; a few moments here and then where? "
Perfect illustration Rob, of reading as we do that which is revealed, with our own unique palette, knives and brushes. As I turned from west to check the path of that evening light, the passages appeared (where you see fragile [perhaps unwelcome] bridges looming.) Your take gives pause to my own, opportunity for path from which to leap, not as termination rather of risk, to open as the west is for dream, imagination, creativity. (Just because the Rothko explorations became so deeply dark in the end, did not mean (to me) that he had become less sensitive to the light, only that he had become more so. Always appreciate your take on my explorations. Best thing that has happened for me here has been the pitching of obsessing over 100% crops... just an excuse. No longer operating on the fear plane of an others J'accuse. Love and lumine Rob.
Patricia
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"No longer operating on the fear plane of an others J'accuse."
Only way to survive adulthood; don't let anchors do their thing when you have to sail onwards. No-one is obliged to follow your wake... there is no conscience, only hope.
Rob
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Don't know why - I just liked this vase.
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I would like to nominate Patricia and Rob for the position of Poets in Residence at LuLa Forum.
They are both poets of images as well as of words.
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Green box.
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I would like to nominate Patricia and Rob for the position of Poets in Residence at LuLa Forum.
They are both poets of images as well as of words.
Eric, whilst vanity assures me that a compliment lurks therein, my probably osteoporotic body couldn't bear the weight without completing the circle back to my ankles... responsibilty, when all I wanted was the clean bright smell of napalm-with-coffee in the serenade of bird morning, the tease of the senses the thrill of that chemical embrace, lifting me higher till I peep over my blanket to early autumn and consider the dares of the coming day, to shower or not to showerr, to be sweet or mature?
Particia needs no moral supporter: she can handle double by herself; I know these things: she's a woman.
Can I be PiR-at-large instead?
;-)
Rob
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Rob
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Nice balance in the lighting... I'm missing summer already.
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OK, Rob. PiR-at-Large for you, and PiR-in-Chief for Patricia.
Eric
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Nice balance in the lighting... I'm missing summer already.
Me too. We just switched from mid-summer to late fall in one day. :(
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There is no climate change: it's a plot by the reactionaries.
Rob
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Meanwhile in Lyon...
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Actually, I'm distorting the data... the sun is out again. Here's a rescued grab-shot that was over-expoed by at least 3 stops:
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Stern and stiff, yesterday afternoon. The lady, not I!
Rob
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OK, Rob. PiR-at-Large for you, and PiR-in-Chief for Patricia.
Eric
Whose gonna break this news to the guys on the board?
;-)
Rob
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Whose gonna break this news to the guys on the board?
;-)
Rob
I'm sure they all read every post in every thread, since everything posted is of such IMMENSE value, so just wait until they read it here.
Of course, since this thread is "Without Prejudice," they won't dare comment on it. ???
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Here's the shot I wanted in reply to Rob's sunny-walled café:
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Here's the shot I wanted in reply to Rob's sunny-walled café:
Graham, is that a vegetable on the right?
;-)
Rob
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Steptoe's sitting room?
;-)
Rob
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(https://c5.staticflickr.com/9/8655/29891562916_92450d5464_b.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/Mxq5fq)Hollywood Towers, hardest shot #2 (https://flic.kr/p/Mxq5fq) by tanngrisnir3 (https://www.flickr.com/photos/87368247@N00/), on Flickr
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Rob
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Rob
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Mjollnir, I like those stairs! Just enough irregularities :)
Rob may have a second career in ikebana :)
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Mjollnir, I like those stairs! Just enough irregularities :)
Rob may have a second career in ikebana :)
Oh well...
(http://www.roma57.com/uploads/4/2/8/7/4287956/d-2668_2_orig.jpg)
Rob
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armand, is that photograph of the Pyrenees?
Rob
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armand, is that photograph of the Pyrenees?
Rob
It's in the romanian carpathians mountains: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%C3%A2lea_Lake
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It's in the romanian carpathians mountains: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%C3%A2lea_Lake
Thanks, reminded me of work in a French photographer's (Francis Annet) book that I have.
I trust you carried plenty of garlic around your neck! It works: I've never yet seen one, I think, though I did have to expel a bat two nights ago. I'd gone into the kitchen to take my goodnight pills (the door is kept closed) and this bat flew frantically around the room. As the windows were closed, I couldn't figure how the hell it got in. The only possible route is a ventilation tile on the outer face of the wall where the extractor fan is fitted. I wonder why it decided to crawl in through the very small apertures in that terracotta tile. Anyway, I had to open the windows wide for it to fly back out; I'd opened half of the window and it seemed not to know or understand, but continued buzzing me until I opened the other half too, and it flew away into the night.
I'm not afraid of bats, but I do know that they sometimes carry rabies, so best not take chances. Surprising, though, that it took the second half opened for its radar to be any use; I thought they could catch flies by radar. Maybe that's a naturalist's fantasy, just more filler stuff for those wildlife documentaries.
Now that I think about it, the same thing did occurr quite some time ago, but then I hadn't had the kitchen door closed, and it meant the damned thing was flying all over the apartment before exiting the french windows. My daughter was staying with me at the time; she was terrified. Probably because of the rabies, too. I don't really like having to do anything fast.
Rob
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I think the Carpathians are north of Cluj-Napoca? Vlad's castle is further south, on top of a pass between Cluj and Sibiu...
Edit: Nope, I'm wrong, the photo was from east of Sibiu and getting close to the the castle. Better take the garlic after all.
For photographic relevance, Crina Prida is a photographer (and dentist) in Cluj. There is a certain vampiric flavour to her work...
http://www.crinaprida.com/work
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I think the Carpathians are north of Cluj-Napoca? Vlad's castle is further south, on top of a pass between Cluj and Sibiu...
Edit: Nope, I'm wrong, the photo was from east of Sibiu and getting close to the the castle. Better take the garlic after all.
For photographic relevance, Crina Prida is a photographer (and dentist) in Cluj. There is a certain vampiric flavour to her work...
http://www.crinaprida.com/work
Love her style - had a very brief peep but gotta fly for lunch; thanks for posting the link which I shall look at after I get back!
Rob
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That ridgeline looks an interesting proposition
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That ridgeline looks an interesting proposition
I went the opposite way. Most difficult climb I took so far, it feels funny now that some in my group thought we can be back in the same day and yet we barely made to a refuge next to the peak while there was still some light.
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A Payne's Day~
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I can smell the salt air and feel the wet wind on my face.
I think island living agrees with you, Patricia.
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I can smell the salt air and feel the wet wind on my face.
I think island living agrees with you, Patricia.
It used to do for me, too, but now I crave city.
Patricia's picture also has delightful framing, and isn't dull weather so much more interesting than travel brochure blue skies and red gold sunsets? I get atmosphere and emotion from dull; reminds me of autumn in Scotland, driving betwen Glasgow and Perthshire on days when the weather shared the mood in the photograph, watching the geese fly overhead on their pilgrimage, exactly as my wife and I would have been doing a week or two later on our road trip back down to the south and the Mediterranean islands. The world is us, and we part of it. I can't understand anyone who feels distanced from it: ashes to ashes is so true, but ashes rise and blow somewhere else again. It continues.
Rob
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Rob
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A Payne's Day~
That's the best landscape photo I've seen for some time.
Some very nice recent images from Rob too.
Oh forgot: This is 'Without Prejudice' - not supposed to comment. Oops.
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That's the best landscape photo I've seen for some time.
Some very nice recent images from Rob too.
Oh forgot: This is 'Without Prejudice' - not supposed to comment. Oops.
No; you can certainly comment! The only desire is that comments not be of the "you shoulda done this, that or the other; have you tried this etc. etc. etc." sort. In other words, please, no pointless and, for some, annoying second-guessing!
Enjoy!
Rob
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Watching the aspen turn up in the San Francisco Peaks near Flagstaff Arizona. Beautiful colors.
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Late comers... (the plants in the background are Chamaenerion (Epilobium) angustifolium like the one in the foreground).
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The other side or another name for "Two roads diverged in a yellow Wood" could be "Point Blank". Skies like that can promise too much.
Bruce
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The other side or another name for "Two roads diverged in a yellow Wood" could be "Point Blank". Skies like that can promise too much.
Thanks, Bruce, I think :)
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Psycho Drama aside your central white cloud seems whiter than white contained as it is by the yellow, and then plausibly framed by the continuing scene.
Bruce
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Or to return to psycho drama, the white light between the two tracks is a train bringing we know not what.
Bruce
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when some orientation sense helps
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Rob
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Nice
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Nice
;-) !
Rob
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Very well done Rob.
;-) indeed!
Rich
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Shadow season...
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Recent trip to the Drakensberg mountains.
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More shadows
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More shadows
Did you realise that as a thumbnail, the shot has a totally different message? Small, it shows a face looking downwards and enlarged is something totally different?
Rob
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Recent trip to the Drakensberg mountains.
VW rising post-scandal?
Rob
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Did you realise that as a thumbnail, the shot has a totally different message?
No, I don't see it: maybe it depends on screen size, or it was over-ridden by me having seen the big version first...
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No, I don't see it: maybe it depends on screen size, or it was over-ridden by me having seen the big version first...
That's more than possible; I find that even when I'm trying to figure out how to work a picture that I need to have it at lower than 12.5 percent on the monitor. If it's larger, I find I simply scan the entire thing over and over and can't see the wood for the trees.
Rob
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What with winter moving in, an' all...
Rob
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Well, what with winter coming in, an' all...
Rob
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Did you realise that as a thumbnail, the shot has a totally different message? Small, it shows a face looking downwards and enlarged is something totally different?
Rob
I don't see the face either. But enlarged I see a long-necked doggie looking up at the pedestrian light.
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Okay - the inner workings of the unsettled mind:
the dark shadow up top left is a rakishly slanted hat brim;
the rectangle with dark shadow up right is an eye;
the 'doggies nose' with the spike through it is the nose of the cubistic face.
I shoulda kept me silence! Explanations kill it every time.
;-) x 2
Rob
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I eventually clicked that the doggy sitting up to beg was the nose, so I was halfway :)
Here's another one... if you don't enlarge it, you won't see the point at all... :)
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Aha; vanishing point! Shadow Season, too...
;-)
Rob
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The paving crew did good work....
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First snow at Acqui Spärsi, Western Grosina Valley, Valtelline Valley.
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Type casting.
Rob
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Yes!
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Yes!
Thought you'd appreciate the - picture.
Truth is, I broke with my standard way and took out the D700 with my manual 2/35mm and blew several better poses because I just couldn't focus the bloody thing. I ended up looking for the green confirmation light and you can't do two things together that well - at least, I can't. (Breathing and walking are challenge enough right now! Imagine me flying an aircraft. No, not a good idea.) I didn't even click for the non-confirmed ones...
Rob
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I knew it years ago when three girls ran it... never easy, second-line in from the beach, small town.
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Rob
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A rainy day in Lyon...
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Rob
OH Rob,
This is SO game over it's killing me...
Peter
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"OH Rob,
This is SO game over it's killing me..."
Peter
...killing me softly~
Patricia
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red on the right returning~
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I wish I could write an appropriately poetic comment, Patricia.
This would go very well in the Abstract thread, too.
(And I even know what "Red Right Return" is all about. ;) )
Eric
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"(And I even know what "Red Right Return" is all about. ;) )"
Quote Eric
Moonlight is the hidden gift for later than anticipated returns. ;) (Pilot errorS) note the upper case "s")
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Moonlight is the hidden gift for later than anticipated returns. ;) (Pilot errorS) note the upper case "s")
Just be sure to avoid the New Moon. ;)
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Just be sure to avoid the New Moon. ;)
Eric, now you know why I opted for the relative safety of being LuLa Poet-at-large!
;-)
Rob
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;D ;D ;D
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Did you realise that as a thumbnail, the shot has a totally different message? Small, it shows a face looking downwards and enlarged is something totally different?
I must have Doctor Who on the brain 'cuz it looks like K9 to me. ;)
-Dave-
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Rob
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It rained the other night...
How did I miss this one?
(http://forum.luminous-landscape.com/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=75820.0;attach=148041)
I think I know: when I look in on the cellphone at lunch somewhere, some images often don't show.
Great shot - love bad weather: brings out the best in me!
Rob
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Funny thing, I suspect it may be the same umbrella as in a rather Saul-esque colour shot I posted earlier... but held by a different woman!
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Funny thing, I suspect it may be the same umbrella as in a rather Saul-esque colour shot I posted earlier... but held by a different woman!
I remember that one, I think I commented at the time.
Rob
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When all else fails...
;-)
Rob
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Something blue...
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And another from la manif...
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power lines
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power lines
I do like this Armand. I've seen shots like these but have never been able to bring it off like I think you have here. Love the lines.
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I do like this Armand. I've seen shots like these but have never been able to bring it off like I think you have here. Love the lines.
What David said.
Surprisingly, it works!
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power lines
Caught the light at just the right time :)
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What David said.
Surprisingly, it works!
Yes, great graphic! Makes me think W. Eugene Smith.
Rob
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A more cheerful, uplifting image from me this time:
(http://www.roma57.com/uploads/4/2/8/7/4287956/d-2737_orig.jpg)
;-)
Rob
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+2 Rob ;)
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+2 Rob ;)
Ah, David, we just have to carry on...
;-)
Rob
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Thank you. While it is close to how I wanted it, I didn't think much of it which goes to say what I kind of knew already, I'm not good at all at self critique.
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road
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A classic theme...
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Yes, I appreciate the personal tease in the lost, loose ponytail shot...
Doisneau, however, tells me he feels the urge to sue. ;-)
Rob
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I'm not good at all at self critique.
What's the purpose of self critique? If you are trying to sell the image, then you need to be able to see it though the eyes of a potential buyer.
If i's just to please you... it's more complicated. You like it or you don't but maybe you can understand what you like, what you don't like... not that you'll then be able to go out to make a photo with more A and less B... but tuck the information away in your subconscious.
Personally, when I read about someone struggling to get their print (or post-processing for the screen) "just right"... I kind of turn off. For me, post-processing can make a photo better, but it doesn't often seem to make something ordinary into something I love. That comes from content. So often, I don't see a photo in terms of "more this, less that"... but "oh, if that hadn't been there, if that had". In other words, the idea wasn't strong enough, it needed more. So the solution is to go out and take/make more photos based on my enhanced repertoire of ideas.
Which is one reason I don't submit photos for criticism: I'm sure there might be something to be gained from someone like Slobodan who is exceptional at spotting things that are "not quite right"... but the most important part is for me to internalise what works or doesn't, so that I get closer to taking the photos that I want to take.
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Yes, I appreciate the personal tease in the lost, loose ponytail shot...
The pink people? No, he's attaching the string that holds her uni-corn!
As for Doisneau, there are so many kissing shots out there, it will be a while before he gets around to me ;)
Here's what the kissers were looking at:
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When all else fails...
An unreasonably good last resort :)
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So here's an experiment: the photo of the brass band, really badly processed. Big chunks of saturated black and blown out white.
Does it look as good as the previous version? No... but it seems to me that the impact is finally not so different. Which is to illustrate my point in the comment on Armand's photo, that I wasn't that hooked up with the idea of getting the perfect print: it is maybe the finishing 10% after you have content and framing.
In thumbnail size it probably looks better! Which leads to the question of how some photos demand different formats, some only come alive printed at 13x19, some are doing just fine at A4 and going bigger doesn't add anything.
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The pink people? No, he's attaching the string that holds her uni-corn!
As for Doisneau, there are so many kissing shots out there, it will be a while before he gets around to me ;)
Here's what the kissers were looking at:
No, the previous shot, Post 1016. The girl with her arm around the guy's back: her hair just up in a tail or a bun... reminder of my angst-missed shot of the girl that had reminded me of Leiter's back 'o head shot of his friend's daughter.
Rob
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Ok, I have a different image of your ponytail event now. I first thought you meant yours ;)
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Ok, I have a different image of your ponytail event now. I first thought you meant yours ;)
You flatterer, you! Mine's but a rat's tail; it never even saw a horse in anger.
Rob
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A nice, inviting little doorway to the underworld. Just the ticket when feeling depressed! Cheers me up every time.
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Rob
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Behind this doorway there be dragons? Or maybe trolls (the Norse kind, not the Internet kind).
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Behind this doorway there be dragons? Or maybe trolls (the Norse kind, not the Internet kind).
I never ventured inside, Eric; I couldn't decide if the demons had fled, or were just lazy and overconfident about security on returning just before dawn from terrorising the tourists. (Might even be a Brexit-based decision.) It could explain the pavement pizzas, the kerbside kebabs. Either way, the rats and wolf spiders would be just as happy at the scent of fresh flesh.
Rob
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Rob,
You might want to post a sign on that gate that says "This way to Brexit!" ;)
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Rob,
You might want to post a sign on that gate that says "This way to Brexit!" ;)
That would mean getting closer in... but an excellent allegory, nonetheless!
Rob
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There are the gates of the ways of Night and Day,[2]
fitted above with a lintel and below with a threshold of stone.
They themselves, high in the air, are closed by mighty doors,
and Avenging Justice keeps the keys that fit them.
Her did the maidens entreat with gentle words
and cunningly persuade to unfasten without demur the bolted bars
from the gates. Then, when the doors were thrown back,
they disclosed a wide opening,
when their brazen posts fitted with rivets and nails
swung back one after the other. Straight through them,
on the broad way, did the maidens guide the horses and the car,
and the goddess greeted me kindly, and took
my right hand in hers, and spake to me these words:
Welcome, O youth, that comest to my abode on the car
that bears thee tended by immortal charioteers!
It is no ill chance, but right and justice that has sent thee forth to travel
on this way. Far, indeed, does it lie from the beaten track of men!
Meet it is that thou shouldst learn all things,
as well the unshaken heart of well-rounded truth,
as the opinions of mortals in which is no true belief at all.
Yet none the less shalt thou learn these things also,—how passing right
through all things one should judge the things that seem to be.[3]
[...]
Come now, I will tell thee—and do thou hearken to my saying and carry it away—
the only two ways of search that can be thought of.
The first, namely, that It is, and that it is impossible for it not to be,
is the way of belief, for truth is its companion.
The other, namely, that It is not, and that it must needs not be,—
that, I tell thee, is a path that none can learn of at all.
For thou canst not know what is not—that is impossible—
nor utter it; . . .
. . . for it is the same thing that can be thought and that can be.[4]
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There are the gates of the ways of Night and Day,[2]
fitted above with a lintel and below with a threshold of stone.
They themselves, high in the air, are closed by mighty doors,
and Avenging Justice keeps the keys that fit them.
Her did the maidens entreat with gentle words
and cunningly persuade to unfasten without demur the bolted bars
from the gates. Then, when the doors were thrown back,
they disclosed a wide opening,
when their brazen posts fitted with rivets and nails
swung back one after the other. Straight through them,
on the broad way, did the maidens guide the horses and the car,
and the goddess greeted me kindly, and took
my right hand in hers, and spake to me these words:
Welcome, O youth, that comest to my abode on the car
that bears thee tended by immortal charioteers!
It is no ill chance, but right and justice that has sent thee forth to travel
on this way. Far, indeed, does it lie from the beaten track of men!
Meet it is that thou shouldst learn all things,
as well the unshaken heart of well-rounded truth,
as the opinions of mortals in which is no true belief at all.
Yet none the less shalt thou learn these things also,—how passing right
through all things one should judge the things that seem to be.[3]
[...]
Come now, I will tell thee—and do thou hearken to my saying and carry it away—
the only two ways of search that can be thought of.
The first, namely, that It is, and that it is impossible for it not to be,
is the way of belief, for truth is its companion.
The other, namely, that It is not, and that it must needs not be,—
that, I tell thee, is a path that none can learn of at all.
For thou canst not know what is not—that is impossible—
nor utter it; . . .
. . . for it is the same thing that can be thought and that can be.[4]
That would be a perfect fit for the current impasse in "Young Love, Sweet Love" over in the But Is It Art section!
Rob C
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The title came first.
Rob
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There are the gates of the ways of Night and Day,[2]
fitted above with a lintel and below with a threshold of stone.
They themselves, high in the air, are closed by mighty doors,
and Avenging Justice keeps the keys that fit them.
According to Laurent Gaudé, there is a gate to Hell in a nondescript tower in between the two sides of an auto-route on the outskirts of Naples...
(La Porte des Enfers, Larent Gaudé, Actes Sud 2007)
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According to Laurent Gaudé, there is a gate to Hell in a nondescript tower in between the two sides of an auto-route on the outskirts of Naples...
(La Porte des Enfers, Larent Gaudé, Actes Sud 2007)
Leave it well alone; hope it's sealed with real, non-Mafia supplied concrete.
Rob
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Parmenides lived in Elea, not far from Naples..., but his gates opened the way to the realm of the light, i.e. of the Truth, and to the condition of its (of the truth) possibility: the principle of non-contradiction...
P.S. in Naples the Mafia may not supply the concrete, maybe the Camorra...
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Parmenides lived in Elea, not far from Naples..., but his gates opened the way to the realm of the light, i.e. of the Truth, and to the condition of its (of the truth) possibility: the principle of non-contradiction...
P.S. in Naples the Mafia may not supply the concrete, maybe the Camorra...
Sorry! Canon/Nikon complex...
;-)
Rob
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The novel is a reworking of a classical tale: a young boy is killed in Camorra cross-fire and years later his father finds the possibility to descend to hell and bring him back... at the cost of his own life, of course. Then the boy sets out for his own revenge, for his father, for his mother who has disfigured herself in grief.
The gate is safe however... it is supposed to have been closed by the earthquake provoked by the trespass.
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Little Queenie
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Chuck baby, you sure write fine!
Rob
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Hey Rob that's another great way to stop thinking about Brexit:
http://pmd.cdn.turner.com/tcm/big/tcmweb/FILMCLIPS/2010/07/gojohnnygo_littlequeenie_FC_133a_24f_mobile-baseline.mp4
Ritchie Valens with the girls.
Tony
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Nobody who digs Chuck can be all bad!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHfdJyOb5qY&feature=related
From Newport Jazz Festival '58. Funny to see the stuck up jazz musos doing nothing to help him out, apart from drum and, eventually clarinet.
But, the ovation: knocked the rest of 'em into the woods.
Went to the Cosmo cinema in Glasgow six times just to watch that segment... Apparently, Keef did exactly the same in London. Great times, great music.
Rob
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For fans of the French, comme moi, a little bit of café table:
(http://www.roma57.com/uploads/4/2/8/7/4287956/d-2739_orig.jpg)
Sorry, couldn't find the right type of ashtray.
;-)
P.S.
The reason I love Nikon's Matrix Metering. Straight reading.
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Did I post this before? Not Café Flore, but Café next to Métro Commerce, a Sunday morning a few weeks back:
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And then, when there is no café at all... Caffe Niente ?
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I like both, GrahamBy.
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And then, when there is no café at all... Caffe Niente ?
Sometimes you're better not having that cup.
The first one is highly redolent of a board game! Have you been to Rome?
The foot reminds me of Leiter's one of a foot on the opposite seat of a train, bus or whatever it was. My baseball cap bears the words Footjoy, which is actually, and innocently, something to do with golf supplies. I dread fetishists speaking to me about it.
I think I must begin to try out some rear takes too; far less stressful, I'd imagine, but even more intrusive? Not that I'm objecting, of course, as I'm now interested in seeing where it leads me. My problem will be memory: will I remember to do it? Think Cleese, Rob!
;-)
Rob
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Think Cleese, Rob!
+1. :)
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The first one is highly redolent of a board game! Have you been to Rome?
The foot reminds me of Leiter's one of a foot on the opposite seat of a train, bus or whatever it was.
No, somehow I've avoided going to Rome, other than the airport. Must do.
I confess I didn't notice the foot until I looked on the monitor... and then later I saw the Leiter pic and now, of course, I see it as the foot photo :)
Or the foot photo bis, since there is also this one:
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You sure do have a lot of fun with your cameras, Graham. Way to go!
Rob
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You sure do have a lot of fun with your cameras, Graham. Way to go!
Rob
+1.
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Rob
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Autumn snowfall at my favourite pool, last Sunday. Western Grosina Valley.
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Nice shot, but the very thing I used to dread about Scottish winters: ice. I have good reason for that.
Rob
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Looks great though...
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Juan at rest.
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Juan at rest.
Cute! But I thought cat photos were banned ;)
Jeremy
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Cute! But I thought cat photos were banned ;)
Jeremy
So did I, but have you ever been scratched by a cat?
Rob C
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So did I, but have you ever been scratched by a cat?
Rob C
LOL. Juan is more likely to cover you in fur than scratch you, that's for sure.
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Cute! But I thought cat photos were banned ;)
Jeremy
That's what I was going to say, but then thought better of it since anything goes (without criticism) in the Without Prejudice thread. ;D
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That's what I was going to say, but then thought better of it since anything goes (without criticism) in the Without Prejudice thread. ;D
True; however, we once found ourselves responsible for over twenty-three cats - each with its own name and instantly identifiable to us - after a female abandoned two female kittens beside out property. Cats are absolutely independent animals. They allow or do not allow you to befriend them as they see fit. They will use their claws to great effect whenever they feel you have strayed beyond their allowed friendship lines. One, which we had to bring into the house and bottle-feed as a tiny beast because she was very weak, grew to be small, but as fierce as hell. She would only go out at night on her own terms: picking her up to eject her from the room was an act of bravery.
I am certain there must be a future for cats in advanced, covert warfare.
Rob
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I am certain there must be a future for cats in advanced, covert warfare.
Funny you should mention that...
http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/objects-of-intrigue-rocket-cats
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Funny you should mention that...
http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/objects-of-intrigue-rocket-cats
It's rumoured here that goat and sheep owners used to set off illegal fires on the mountains in order to burn bushes so that the next season they'd provide fresh greenery for said animals to enjoy. Similar fires were supposedly started on desirable sites in the mountains (especially by the coast!) by landowners hoping to be able to get building permission for villa development. A preferred choice of starting these conflagrations was via the wild hare, who would be snared, have a fuel-soaked rag tied behind it, ignited, and thus create a trail of burning leaves wherever the poor bugger ran. Maybe the hare would still get away, but that was optional, I guess.
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Rob
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Shades of Gray
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(http://www.roma57.com/uploads/4/2/8/7/4287956/d-2787_orig.jpg)
Rob
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Autumn is here.
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(http://www.roma57.com/uploads/4/2/8/7/4287956/d-2787_orig.jpg)
Rob
Brilliant!
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Thank you, armand, I have these conversations with myself quite frequently; they run along the lines of this: well old man, what did you do for us both during your life?
The best I can tell the kid is this: I found the perfect wife for us; you must forgive me for everything else.
The kid smiles.
Rob C
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Thank you, armand, I have these conversations with myself quite frequently; they run along the lines of this: well old man, what did you do for us both during your life?
The best I can tell the kid is this: I found the perfect wife for us; you must forgive me for everything else.
The kid smiles.
Rob C
:)
(But it isn't the most adequate emoticon)
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:)
(But it isn't the most adequate emoticon)
Ah, muntanela, that's one of the tragedies of communication: words and graphics can't always express what our feelings do. Focussing a long lens manually is another such: using af to do the same robs one of that plastic feeling of change, of flight almost.
Rob
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Ah, maybe that's why I like my older af lenses, the focus is still slow enough to see it happening :)
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Ah, maybe that's why I like my older af lenses, the focus is still slow enough to see it happening :)
Your emotional response time must be faster than mine; I still need the hand of change to catch the buzz. It's what honest women have been complaining about since Eve: that's why she offered an apple whilst looking at a snake.
;-)
Rob
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Might be new here:
(http://www.roma57.com/uploads/4/2/8/7/4287956/7575737_orig.jpg)
Rob
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It is Samhain, Calan Gaeaf, Hallowe'en - a time to remember the dead. Light a candle, raise a dram of whisky to their memory. In time, we will become the ancestors too.
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Very nice picture, Bill. Bags of mood!
Rob C
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Great photo Bill
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Thanks, both. Much appreciated.
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Very nice picture, Bill. Bags of mood!
Rob C
What Rob said1
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reflection
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Nice shot, armand.
Rob
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I am hoping this is not a stretch for this section but while they are urban landscapes, I think they might get panned in the regular landscape forum - then again, they're likely to get panned here, too :-)
For those of you under 55ish, windwing or sidewing windows were a mainstay on almost all American cars, even though I think they originated with the guys across the pond.
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Panned? Not at all. And yes, they are not landscape (to me) but so what? They transcend what that genre can often come to mean, and get into the personal, which I enjoy.
As the actress said to the bishop, keep it up!
Everything originated across the Pond.
Rob C
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It is Samhain, Calan Gaeaf, Hallowe'en - a time to remember the dead. Light a candle, raise a dram of whisky to their memory. In time, we will become the ancestors too.
Superb shot, Bill.
Jeremy
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mix
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For those of you under 55ish, windwing or sidewing windows were a mainstay on almost all American cars, even though I think they originated with the guys across the pond.
Whatever box they fit in, I like them. Grew up with my father's collections of (General Motors) Holden trucks, all of which had the swiveling quarter-vent windows, excellent when you wanted a raucous blast of wind in the face on a hot Sydney summer's day. They were a weak point for breaking into a car, not sure if that's why they disappeared, or it was just to lower production costs, or because the manufacturers had to start building ventilation systems that were capable of defogging windscreens: they were gone by '68.
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A tongue-in-cheek pic for Grahamby:
(http://www.roma57.com/uploads/4/2/8/7/4287956/d-2816_orig.jpg)
Rob
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playing with some long exposures
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A tongue-in-cheek pic for Grahamby:
Extérieur ! It's better that way :)
Should be called "Rear View"
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Extérieur ! It's better that way :)
Should be called "Rear View"
I looked for the photographic trace-memory in Exteriors, but to my surprise, found it in the first book: Interiors! As I say, never trust pundits: they wing it like the rest of us. I would never have edited the two books like that. Nor, of course, had anything to do with making them so Lilliputian. Bah! Humbug!
;-)
Rob
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Anyway, with a nod to the Leica thread elsewhere, a reason I enjoy long lenses on reflex cameras. Would be nice, though, if they were a little bit smaller... In this case: D200 with 2.8/180 Nikkor wide open at 1/320th, ISO Auto (500). Tripodless, it's all a bit of a handful for me. I sometimes wonder why I bought the D700 and then, when I put on a wide angle again, I know. But still, on FF I would have required something at about 300mm to cover much the same area. Of course, if anybody wants to donate a pristine 2.8/300 Nikkor with af to me, then don't feel bashful - I won't!
;-)
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Rob
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Few more long exposures. One thing I encountered was that with the neutral GD and the polarizer it was very difficult to see anything when you were composing, more like guessing the lines and then adjusting based on the prior shot.
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A touch of colour, for a change. Reminded me of making lentil soup. It's one of my few culinary accomplishments, along with paella, that is.
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Rob
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Rob, please tell me they're sausages.
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I can't: I ran away straight after I made the shot.
Yon didn't think I'd hang about, did you?
;-)
Rob
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Whatever box they fit in, I like them. Grew up with my father's collections of (General Motors) Holden trucks, all of which had the swiveling quarter-vent windows, excellent when you wanted a raucous blast of wind in the face on a hot Sydney summer's day. They were a weak point for breaking into a car, not sure if that's why they disappeared, or it was just to lower production costs, or because the manufacturers had to start building ventilation systems that were capable of defogging windscreens: they were gone by '68.
Rubbish! Even on American cars they were too tiny for anyone tall enough to reach 'em to climb through!
;-)
Rob
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They sure don't look like lentils. But I like the shot.
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They sure don't look like lentils. But I like the shot.
This is true, Eric, but I use shorter versions - one being a sobrasada and the other chorizo, for lentil soup. These two get sliced - painful to contemplate - and thrown into an orange Le Creuset in which already resides a generous pouring of oil of pure virgins along with some apple vinegar, a couple of chopped onions, some cloves of garlic, several sliced carrots, an equally abused red pepper and several green ones too. A few potatoes also make their silent sacrifice here. Magical (variable according to the moment) measures of some various spices that my wife left behind for me play with at such times, as well as, always, a teaspoonful of Coleman's of Norwich mustard powder - only, ever, use mustard powder if you want mustard. (Avoid mustard that somebody else has prepared earlier for you in a factory; know that they despise your laziness.) If you have a leek, that can be thrown in too. Never forget the salt and some fine pepper, too. If you want exotic, drop in a couple of grains of dry chili, but this may well be overkill, as the chorizo can come in a hot version, too.
Boil and then simmer for about an hour. The lentils? Oh, they get added from a jar at the end of that time and simmered for another fifteen to twenty minutes. Longer, and they vanish. This works equally well with beans. Purists start from first principles and use uncooked lentils, I never do - take all day to do that. There'd then be no time to do anything else, not even eat.
Once done, the choice is between having a couple of bowls of this right away, or just storing it all in the freezer for those days when I can't bear the idea of eating out again, and am sick of making pasta or paella.
I have a lot of respect for lentils.
Rob
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Now you've made me hungry, Rob.
The best lentils I've had were some tiny ones we bought in Castelluccio in Umbria when we were there in 2005.
Here's a link to an article about them: https://www.finedininglovers.com/stories/castelluccio-lentils/ (https://www.finedininglovers.com/stories/castelluccio-lentils/)
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Now you've made me hungry, Rob.
The best lentils I've had were some tiny ones we bought in Castelluccio in Umbria when we were there in 2005.
Here's a link to an article about them: https://www.finedininglovers.com/stories/castelluccio-lentils/ (https://www.finedininglovers.com/stories/castelluccio-lentils/)
Thank you for the link, Eric. There are so many 'humble' foods around - could you but lay hands on them - that restaurants keep you well away from in their frantic hunt for your buck...
I don't know if the old Italian sleuth series Montalbano has hit the States, but looking at the food is enough to whet all my remaining appetities. That little family restaurant by the sea where he has - or attempts to have - his always interrupted meals does the most delightful things with shellfish and pasts... I firmly bel¡eve that honest, simple food is far more attracive than those works of visual art that some mistake as the heights of kitchen artistry. Even in little local places here where I eat lunch, they insist on three-course deals, when all I really desire is one good, filling course of something delicious, accompanied by a glass of good house wine (and usually it is good) followed by a coffee. No need at all for starters and sweets... eating alone is about finding one's happiness again and going out comfortably satisfied and, as bonus, with the anticipation of getting some images - should the camera not have been forgotten at home in the rush to get out in the first place. (Of course, this might all be ruined if you decide you'd fitted a lens that no longer matches your mood.)
Rob
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Rob C
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Something for Saul...
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And then back to the classics
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Saul's catchy... not sure about Warhol, though, but if you forget and forgive his multi-dupes then the portrait of him's pretty cool.
Nice catches. Nope, they wouldn't have been better on a Mono; don't torment yourself.
Rob
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No torment at all... anyway, I need to use up the yellow ink in my printer...
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Good stuff, Graham, the last two.
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Interesting technical thing in the Warhol: the top of that railing looks saturated, but it's not. Just very uniform reflectance...
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Interesting technical thing in the Warhol: the top of that railing looks saturated, but it's not. Just very uniform reflectance...
Maybe, but regardless, it matches the hair very well!
Regarding Lille-Mor: I think he did a spectacular job of her on Pg 74. And the grain: close to what I can fake using Noise. Any more, and Noise looks so, so false. Seems it works well either in very small doses, or really very OTT.
Rob
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Good stuff, Graham, the last two.
+1
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Here's a challenge... it's interesting that looking through the viewfinder it seemed obvious what was reflection, what was bill-board etc. Looking now, I have to stare at it for a bit to sort out the layers.
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Here's a challenge... it's interesting that looking through the viewfinder it seemed obvious what was reflection, what was bill-board etc. Looking now, I have to stare at it for a bit to sort out the layers.
Have you looked at this one in B/W?
Rob
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No, I was enjoying all those chocolatey winter colours too much, and I think the guy in the blue shirt moving chairs would be lost entirely. I'll probably have another look tonight.
There was another where I did hesitate between colour and B&W and for the moment I'm liking the mono... do you like waffles ? :)
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No, I was enjoying all those chocolatey winter colours too much, and I think the guy in the blue shirt moving chairs would be lost entirely. I'll probably have another look tonight.
There was another where I did hesitate between colour and B&W and for the moment I'm liking the mono... do you like waffles ? :)
Of course; I waffle about all the time! Bad for the eyes, though.
Rob
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Rob
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More Leitering
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Regarding Lille-Mor: I think he did a spectacular job of her on Pg 74.
Yep. there is some sort of coherence in seeing grain, low contrast and dark tones that says low light, intimacy, sombre mood. I wonder if we have learnt that from seeing grain when photos are taken in low light, or because the eye itself starts to work more impressionistically in low light?
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Yep. there is some sort of coherence in seeing grain, low contrast and dark tones that says low light, intimacy, sombre mood. I wonder if we have learnt that from seeing grain when photos are taken in low light, or because the eye itself starts to work more impressionistically in low light?
I think it might be a mixture of both.
I sometimes look at books, that I know to be well printed, under lowish (40W) table lamp lighting. To my surpise those years ago when I first noticed, the quality of b/white repro seems to improve a lot under poorish light. Not so much colour pages, but definitely so b/white. I can't decide if that's because of the colour of domestic bulbs putting some sort of yellow filter over the b/w repro, or just that it hides flaws.
However, back to Lille-Mor: I think the lighting makes for a feeling of intimacy, and in her case, who'd have complained? After all, that's the purpose of lighting a subject... if he lit or simply grabbed, that is, as I think Bailey used to do with Marie H around bedtime.
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Rob, "Outlet" is an eye-grabber. Well done.
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Rob, "Outlet" is an eye-grabber. Well done.
Thanks, Bob; I enjoy the darker side of photos... ;-)
Rob
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Rob
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At my favorite Kona café. Maybe explains why it's always so quiet.
Taken with iPhone.
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At my favorite Kona café...
Wrong thread.
This belongs to the election thread, Cafe Corner, in particular as an illustration for the anti-Trump post-election demonstrations. ;)
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Dirty Picture:
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Rob
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Dirty Picture
A bit of road tar and it could be one of Eric's. Corbyn would like the manhole cover, too.
Jeremy
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In "Nightmare" I like the central strolling gent who adds another witness to the calamity with who knows what point of view.
Bruce
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Wrong thread.
Nah, if I'd wanted to post a Trump-related pic I would've started a With Prejudice thread.
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Nah, if I'd wanted to post a Trump-related pic I would've started a With Prejudice thread.
A good one, Dave! 😊
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A bit of road tar and it could be one of Eric's. Corbyn would like the manhole cover, too.
Jeremy
Could it keep him down, do you think? Anything's worth a try!
;-)
Rob
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In "Nightmare" I like the central strolling gent who adds another witness to the calamity with who knows what point of view.
Bruce
Rubberneckers get everywhere...
I felt the same intensity, exposing the horrors of tourism, as did HC-B, Ronis and Doisneau exposing the horrors of the Parisian banlieue...
Amazing the connections that spring unbid to mind.
Rob
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Outdoor cafés are packing up.
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By invitation only:
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Rob
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You are on a roll, Rob!
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You are on a roll, Rob!
Which is cool, except that the edge is ever nigh...
;-)
Rob
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Which is cool, except that the edge is ever nigh...
;-)
Rob
The edge is for lemmings. You're not a lemming! ;)
Eric
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The edge is for lemmings. You're not a lemming! ;)
Eric
Now you tell me! Yhaaaaaa...
Rob
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The lid has been on much of today - just a short glimpse of light as the sun set
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Excellent one, Bill!
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Excellent one, Bill!
Ooh! Yes!
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Where oh where does reality live? Is it all reality, are there sections of it deemed more real or is everything a dream that we lose on wakening? And then, awake, what?
(http://www.roma57.com/uploads/4/2/8/7/4287956/d-2803_orig.jpg)
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On the way to a birthday party
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Where oh where does reality live? Is it all reality, are there sections of it deemed more real or is everything a dream that we lose on wakening? And then, awake, what?
Rob
I love this image very much...A crossed dream into reality. A devine fog!
Peter
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I love this image very much...A crossed dream into reality. A devine fog!
Peter
Thank you, Peter.
My fog is usually more the other kind... thing is, it's ever more present as time goes by.
I made myself lunch today, paella as most Sundays, but something was way wrong with the rice: more like a pudding than paella. It doesn't usually happen like this.
Anyway, after I washed the dishes, I made the mistake of climbing up a set of aluminium steps and looking at the top of the fridge; big mistake: I spent the next half-hour cleaning there and on top of another high surface I seldom inspect. Now I have a conscience about it that I didn't have an hour ago. But that's okay, the fog will return and I'll forget all about it until next time!
You see? There's always a bright side!
;-)
Rob
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Reference/ "the Paddler" "And then, awake, what?" / Rob C
Obviously profoundly aware... This one holds and demands turning over in the hand seeking the softly hidden facets...Love this.
Lumine!
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"Ahem, not to interrupt, but did I mention we are out of balsamic dear lady?"
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"Ahem, not to interrupt, but did I mention we are out of balsamic dear lady?"
Conversation piece?
Rob
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Conversation piece?
Rob
Very much so.
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Upon further reflection…
-Dave-
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Upon further reflection…
-Dave-
Love the simplicity of the wet one!
Rob
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I like the wet one too.
Though the blue line seems complex to me.
Bruce
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Upon further reflection…
-Dave-
The umbrella photo is elegant and subtle. Have you tried flipping it vertically?
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Have you tried flipping it vertically?
Hmmm, I like that…not sure if I like it better.
Thanks, folks.
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At work.!
Sent from my SM-G930F using Tapatalk
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Daniel, hope you got a model release!
Rob
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Daniel, hope you got a model release!
Rob
Four of the five dogs are womdering whether to sign one for that photographer. The fifth has already made up his mind.
Eric
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The other afternoon:
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Rob
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Cell pic, while having early morning coffee.
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Nice one; I must have more coffee.
Rob
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…I must have more coffee.
Preferably some delicious Kona coffee! No bitterness, just a complex herbal flavor.
-Dave- (posted from 37,000 feet up in the air…cool tech!)
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Rob
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Well, not always a belly laugh. But they are always deeply felt, Rob.
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Few recent cellphone snaps
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At work.!
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Excellent photo --- reminiscent of a 1930s movie still.
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Your website doesn't open for me; I'm told it has either changed name or doesn't exist.
;-(
Rob
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I love it when the wally season's over. Could do with it being a bit warmer, though; then, however, it might never end.
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Your website doesn't open for me; I'm told it has either changed name or doesn't exist.
;-(
Rob
Hi Rob.
Do you talking too me?
Have a look here if you want..
https://www.instagram.com/dannedahlmann/
I normally do landscape and still life but recently I have started out with some street photography so not so good yet...
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Hi Rob.
Do you talking too me?
Have a look here if you want..
https://www.instagram.com/dannedahlmann/
I normally do landscape and still life but recently I have started out with some street photography so not so good yet...
Yes, I couldn't get your 'signature' link to open.
Your street pictures already have a sort of look of their own; keep going and you will probably get a pretty good set.
I think that 'street' is just as revealing of personality as any other genre of photography; after all, as with the rest, it's about what we see or fail to see, with the added problem of courage to shoot or not to shoot.
Rob
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pomegranate
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pomegranate
Interesting, moody, good colour combo.
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Thanks
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The 60s today:
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Good one, Rob! Even the hair is just right for '67: long but not too long.
(Hey, the Beatles were just about to begin recording St. Pepper 50 years ago now. Strawberry Fields Forever, v1, November 24. Yow!)
-Dave-
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Good one, Rob! Even the hair is just right for '67: long but not too long.
-Dave-
Thanks, Dave; yeah, touches of Mary Quant up top.
Rob
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Funny thing: I bought this 180mm as the alternative to the only zoom I ever bought - the 2.8/24-70 G Nikkor. The zoom sucked, and the dealer wouldn't return money, just swap lenses for another, which in Spain with the 180mm being more expensive, meant I had to add money to the deal. It sat for several years, unused, but I was happy enough because I'd rid myself of the citrus fruit. Then Saul Leiter came back into my life after more than sixty years, and I love this thing on the D200 because it turns into a poor man's 2.8/300mm! (Almost, give thirty mms.) Anyway:
(http://www.roma57.com/uploads/4/2/8/7/4287956/d-2846_orig.jpg)
Rob
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Windermere, UK
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Mortirolo pass from Schiazzera, Valtellina.
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The other one in my Sergeant Pepper series. Series of two; mega series, then.
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Rob
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Thumbs up for Sargent Pepper series.
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Thumbs up for Sargent Pepper series.
Well, you can see the attractions for me... that's the purpose of red.
;-)
Rob
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Aw, pick on somebody your own size! ;)
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Barely worth getting the garlic butter ready.
Jeremy
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No garlic. No butter either. Come to think of it, we may not even have any bananas.
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"At Peace"...
(Remember: The subject is "Without Prejudice". ;))
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Man on the go plus a photographer's shadow:
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Take Off
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@bob in a similar vein
(https://c7.staticflickr.com/6/5719/31223198846_9428a2f331_o.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/Pz64dA)
mike
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@bob in a similar vein
mike
Ha! that's funny. The hill in my photo is the tallest peak in Sarasota. It's a landfill. Was your photo taken in the Southwest?
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Winning is the art of stand up again.
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Ha! that's funny. The hill in my photo is the tallest peak in Sarasota. It's a landfill. Was your photo taken in the Southwest?
India, near some Park which is meant to be full to bursting with Tigers. Yeah right. Nice day out though and I got to drive a Mahindra Jeep copy for a while. The telescope was used to locate wildlife within the park and that's why they are all pointing. They have seen a bison or something. I'm not a great lad for nature on the whole :) I think my wife looks very Imperial :)
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Winning is the art of stand up again.
I'll send it to italian (former) "young" prime minister Renzi... (But I really hope he will never stand up again... ;D)
Galata morente (Der sterbende Gallier) (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:0_Galata_Morente_-_Musei_Capitolini_(1).jpg#/media/File:0_Galata_Morente_-_Musei_Capitolini_(1).jpg)
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Somewhat religious image.
Ercolano, Naples, Italy (Near Herculaneum)
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Somewhat religious image.
Ercolano, Naples, Italy (Near Herculaneum)
Damned nice graphic image.
Rob C
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Damned nice graphic image.
Rob C
Absolutely
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Groyne Lighthouse, South Shields, Uk: My favourite building.
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The Parish Church, Kirkby Stephen. An interesting church. Wish I'd got the cross in focus - never mind.
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More from Windermere, UK.
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Todmorden Town Hall, UK.
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Black and white, as undigital as I can get it to look when it's finished! Creature of habit, I guess.
(http://www.roma57.com/uploads/4/2/8/7/4287956/d-2895_2_orig.jpg)
Rob
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Black and white, as undigital as I can get it to look when it's finished! Creature of habit, I guess.
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Rob
Smooth. Must be Panatomic-X. Sure ain't Tri-X. ;)
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Smooth. Must be Panatomic-X. Sure ain't Tri-X. ;)
Would you buy Nikon's FP4, processed in CCD, of course?
Rob
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Would you buy Nikon's FP4, processed in CCD, of course?
Rob
I never cozied up to Nikon, except for enlarging lenses. Maybe you mean Ilford FP4? That was nice stuff. I can't even remember what I processed it in. Maybe Kodak XTOL? I tried Rodinal early on, and D-76, of course, but in later years it was something from the big yellow box.
But that was all before I went over to the Dark Side.
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I never cozied up to Nikon, except for enlarging lenses. Maybe you mean Ilford FP4? That was nice stuff. I can't even remember what I processed it in. Maybe Kodak XTOL? I tried Rodinal early on, and D-76, of course, but in later years it was something from the big yellow box.
But that was all before I went over to the Dark Side.
I shall never cross-process a joke again. Promise. Not on LuLa, anyway! It's clealy too progressive.
Film, as in cassettes and rolls. I didn't like TXP in 135; I always used it in 120, exclusively, except when I had to do 120 colour, and then it was Ektachrome. On 135 I shot only FP3/4 and HP3/4; both, as well as the rolls of TXP 120, went through D76 1+1. Never used anything else when I stopped being an amateur. As an amateur I tried everything, all the time, and of course, didn't learn how anything worked. In the end, I realised that knowing one chemistry set well let you do anything you wanted to do. For colour, Kodachrome, when there was time to spare between shoot and holding the picture in my hand, otherwise, Ektachrome. I only used Velvia when I was doing non-people pics, which wasn't very often. Never had the opportunity to try Kodachrome on 120. Almost never used colour neg after I went solo. Almost nobody needed it, thank God.
I only used Schneider Componon enlarger lenses.
Rob
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I still use enlarger lenses. They work great with the Actus view camera. The EL-Nikkor 105 f/5.6 is a bargain. It's razor sharp, contrasty and is virtually free of CA and linear distortion. I have a Rodenstock Rodagon APO 80 f/4 N, which is comparable to an 80mm Digitar. My favorite is the Rodenstock Rodagon WA 60. I think that is about the sharpest lens I've ever used.
I use the Actus both with the Olympus E-M5 II and a Sony A7r. I purchased all but the 60mm on eBay. They are in mint conditions and were a steal.
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I have this exuvia (Vipera berus, I think) in a drawer of my nightstand. I found it in Western Grosina Valley last summer.
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I have this exuvia (Vipera berus, I think) in a drawer of my nightstand. I found it in Western Grosina Valley last summer.
The second one is very clever; gives me an idea for my old Ms Coke series! Now, if I could only locate a `Psycho' house!
In my nightstand, other than pills and socks, I would like a 9mm Beretta with a couple of full clips. I wish nobody harm, but feel totally helpless to defend myself should harm come calling some night - or even day - as I spend my time innocently at home. A snake? Not on your life: it would be as likely to kill me as anybody else I tried to point it towards, especially after being kept in a drawer for any length of time.
Rob
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Light-reading. And not a Weston in sight. For no certain reason I suddenly wish I had a Pontiac '73.
Rob
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Sunday mornings on those rare winter Sunday mornings I can face. Oh winter light-starvation! I hate getting up in the gloom and finding it already bleak at five in the afternoon. But hey, I remember that at three in the afternoon in Glasgow. So, small mercies, I guess.
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A scene from a certain Hitchcock movie? ;)
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I liked her confident stance...
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Rob
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A scene from a certain Hitchcock movie? ;)
Or from two of them together?
Jeremy
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Thing about being outsided and in the street, there's always a vestige of hope!
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Rob
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You can't hear the rain, though.
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1980s Kodachrome. Nikon.
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Kodachrome…lovely! I bet just about anyone photographing that scene today would want to open up the bottom half. IMO limited dynamic range has its pluses.
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Ah, Kodachrome!
Several years ago I borrowed a Nikon slide scanner and scanned a selection, maybe a couple of hundered, out of my collection of a few thousand slides. My aim then was to get digital versions that looked as much like the original Kodachromes as possible.
Just recently I took some of those scans and played with them in LightRoom to see if I could bring out more detail, and I was astonished how much I could pull out from some seemingly impossible-looking slides. But I suspect Rob will find that my reworked scans look too "digital." ;)
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Thanks, Dave; yes, there is a temptation to do that (open shadows), but there are also times when doing so adds little but a flattening of the idea, the impression.
I seldom did early 'morning glory' photography - the only other time I can remember in any detail was once in Cannes, if only because it was the only way we could get an emptyish beach to ourselves, life there starting way too early with beach-cleaners, trucks hosing down the roads etc. et-spensive-cetera.
The Formentor shot was indeed very early, and my son was with me, no doubt bitterly but silently regretting having agreed, the day before, to get up and go with me. The camera location is just up from a car park at a pretty high and precipitous sea-cliff - which most of that northern Mallorcan coast is - and that early it's quite spooky, with lots of gulls swooping and crying in the sky around one. I wonder what they all lament; perhaps they were once human. It is easy to believe anything up there.
Eric, I started my website with nothing but scans, and without Kodachromes there wouldn't have been one, most likely. But scanning is a pain, of that there's no doubt. I often think it would have been wonderful if the transition to digital had been as simple as changing the back on a 500 Hassy, for not much more money than a film back, and simply carrying on shooting on 6x6 format, but to a sensor, instead. Perhaps that would have been the ideal way: no slow, expensive and painful trawl through umpteen small incremental steps, but a straight swap into instant forty or fifty megapixies of back. Impatience is the problem, the entrepreneurial desire to get rich immediately. The product should have been fully developed and only then announced to the world. However, had Kodak realised where it was going to lead, perhaps it would never have been born.
Rob
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Almost all the "vintage" photos I've posted here over the past few years, like the one of my Aunt Anna & me, are re-photographed Kodachromes. I used an Olympus E-M5 with macro lens, a lightbox and a stable platform for the camera made of stacked Heliopan lens hoods. Some of my favorites have been underexposures that my dad kept even though he never showed them to anyone.
I've attached an outtake from my folks' wedding in June 1958. It's well underexposed, at least two stops, but with extra re-exposure via the E-M5 is actually quite okay. It would've been taken by dad's friend Ben (a pro journo-snapper), likely just reacting to the moment without time to adjust settings. It's also one of my favorite photos of my mom.
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These shots and talks are the reason why I keep coming back to LULA.
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No microwave ovens, but probably something else.
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Busted.
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Busted.
Interesting/weird character looking back... also, your establishments seem to be better-maintained than ours. ;-(
Rob
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It's on the main square, very bourgeois... not a place I'd eat :-) A little further south is a wealthy area between the two rivers, huge appartments with very high ceilings. These two came out of a voting centre for the Primary of the Right just in front of me.
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Yes, a sunset.
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Yes, a sunset.
And a pretty sunset, at that.
Jeremy
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After sunset, Christmas eve in Lyon
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Yes, a sunset.
Again, it's the great simplicity of content that gives it real strength; very pleasing picture.
Rob C
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December scene
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December scene
The other side of SPLATTT!?
Rob
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Closing time for a dress shop in Lyon, Christmas eve...
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Closing time for a dress shop in Lyon, Christmas eve...
I like this one a lot, Graham.
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Thanks Eric. Here's one of my recent favourites, I don't think I posted it here... I know someone somewhere said "you got the white balance wrong" ;)
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Nice shot, too. I like his body language and the barely visible head of the previous guy on the escalator.
Color balance? Looks a bit like what I might get, since I'm color defective. ;)
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Lol... it's actually pretty close to how I remember it, afternoon on a coldish December day... you can see the car headlights, it really was quite a blue day :)
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Graham, love your last two images. The BW has a wonderful ambiance steeped in fashion culture, both by the graduated light changes and the woman intensely engaged in her work. In fact, it looks like a photo of someone through a window looking at a person who is herself a window into her world. Really like it. And I did not miss the 'Channel' logo on her blouse. Perhaps deliberate?
The second image is striking in its point of view. Almost like a person is being let off an airplane into the middle of a city.
JR
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Closing time for a dress shop in Lyon, Christmas eve...
That's very good.
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Graham's last two images have a lot of the quality that Andrew Molitor speaks of in his essay on the main LuLa site: La trame.
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And I did not miss the 'Channel' logo on her blouse. Perhaps deliberate?
Well, I didn't phone her in the morning to ask her to wear that :) One accepts what chance puts in front of you... and it does work well in that setting. The lighting was just perfect, something I doubt I could have arranged by design.
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Well, I didn't phone her in the morning to ask her to wear that :) One accepts what chance puts in front of you... and it does work well in that setting. The lighting was just perfect, something I doubt I could have arranged by design.
Hope she hasn't just been to Spain: was a time all those 'designer' products were available for pennies; I think they still sell €25 'Rolex' watches in the market. I can't claim to have seen any fake Leicas, though.
;-)
Rob
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With a fixer stain? ;)
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With a fixer stain? ;)
Nah, the bloody glazer plate wasn't properly cleaned and the print stuck! Fire that assistant! Or, send her in to the darkroom beasts!
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Rob
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Just saw an abstract for a study of "dark-room disease" in radiology personnel... !
Anyway, from last weekend:
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Just saw an abstract for a study of "dark-room disease" in radiology personnel... !
Anyway, from last weekend:
I like that photograph: makes me think of quickly abandoned halls of justice; even takes my mind to the famous diner in New York that nobody could ever find after it was painted (Hopper's Nighthawks.) The people therein became even more famous than the ones in Doisneau's Kiss, and there has certainly been much speculation about their relationships! Sadly, Doisneau's offering turned out to demonstrate the truth that one should never believe a photograph.
Ain't art wonderful?
I really do enjoy pictures that mean a lot, or could equally mean nothing! A wonderful mental tease.
Rob
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But did you notice the ghost?
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But did you notice the ghost?
I can find at least three ghosts. Look quick or maybe they'll go away.
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I see one in the middle, and what could be one, wearing a headband, on the extreme right edge. But Eric's a mathematician, so his arithmetic is guaranteed to surpass mine.
I'm also intrigued by what you may have learned about darkroom ills re. radiology staff; maybe too close a proximity to X-ray machines - but in the 'privileged' nature of the info, I don't expect you to post!
Rob
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Nah, not one of our studies. If it was the radiation the effects would be long term and probably have no immediate symptoms.
Sounds more like a ventilation problem when you get to the end;
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3996102/
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But Eric's a mathematician, so his arithmetic is guaranteed to surpass mine.
Sorry, Rob, but I stopped being a mathematician about twelve years ago. Since I retired, I refuse to do arithmetic. When we eat at a restaurant, my wife (the English major) has to compute the tip.
And note that in another thread titled something like "Two Images," I was the only responder who didn't notice that there were actually three images shown (if I counted correctly...)
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Sorry, Rob, but I stopped being a mathematician about twelve years ago. Since I retired, I refuse to do arithmetic. When we eat at a restaurant, my wife (the English major) has to compute the tip.
Does she have to compute it, or just choose from the pre-calculated options at the bottom of the bill?
Jeremy
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I was a mathematician before I demoted myself to statistician, but it was waiting tables in a restaurant where the staff were required to know all the prices and add them in their head that taught me to be good at arithmetic!
Anyway, you beat me, I could only find two...
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I was a mathematician before I demoted myself to statistician, but it was waiting tables in a restaurant where the staff were required to know all the prices and add them in their head that taught me to be good at arithmetic!
Anyway, you beat me, I could only find two...
I wouldn't trust on-the-wing addition too far: you began from a point of mental advantage most waiters never know. But, a more impressive trait of experienced waiters is how some can remember an order without writing it down, even on a busy day. However, I fear that skill will vanish soon: the trend now seems to be the use of horrid little electronic 'aids'... and you know what, I've repeatedly been offered the wrong order in places that use those devices; incredible but perfectly true. I only go to those glitzy, overpriced joints when somebody wants to be kind to me and drags me off for a coffee and cake. If only there was some polite way to point out that they simply don't understand, that I have my own routine that keeps me truckin', places I frequent because I have grown to enjoy them and the company of the staff and owners, mostly the same folks!
Ah... !
Rob
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Does she have to compute it, or just choose from the pre-calculated options at the bottom of the bill?
Jeremy
You'll have to ask her. I don't like to look at the bill. ;)
And most of the places we eat out don't have the fancy software to print suggested tips on the bill anyway.
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You'll have to ask her. I don't like to look at the bill. ;)
And most of the places we eat out don't have the fancy software to print suggested tips on the bill anyway.
Very sensible.
I thought the printing of calculated tips on the bill had become universal in the US. It certainly seemed that way when i was last there, a couple of years ago.
Jeremy
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back to photos (although still peeking through windows):
I think she's just happy to see you, as Mae West once said.
Saul owes us! Or is it vice versa?
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Saul owes us! Or is it vice versa?
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I want to break free
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Peppy little guy, isn't he?
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1285
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Poor harvest today... it was cold, but finally the snow never settled.
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I like that.
Jeremy
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Very good. I spend a lot of time trying to get shots like that.
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Poor harvest today... it was cold, but finally the snow never settled.
But not a totally ruined harvest! Actually, I was thinking about you in Lyons today as I watched some news footage about conditions further north in Poland; I didn't know if it had been going down white in your France, but if so, wondered if you'd found a lady with a red umbrella to model for you...
;-)
Rob
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I thought I'd make a musical post today.
Rob
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I thought I'd make a musical post today.
Rob
Rob,
"Just like a young girl should"...
Peter
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Rob,
"Just like a young girl should"...
Peter
I have two favourites by them: Brown Sugar and Honky Tonk Women.
I recently reread Keef's bio and I have to say, he's been on quite a journey. But, as with the Beatles, my real appreciation of them was when they were still cutting Berry covers. Whilst the Beatles did seem to manage to stretch into pastures new and original, I never felt the same about the Stones. I love 'em all, but feel (possibly as might many of my era) that I like the early work best.
Great to see you posting again - time you rested the brush for a few hundredths of a sec. and made a few snaps like the rest of us artistically-challenged mortals have to do!
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Rob
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Maybe I shouldn't have cut off his head, but that's how I framed it, so that's how it is. Somehow it feels right that heads are removed at each end of the leash.
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A few from Heptonstall Octagonal Chapel.
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A BW from Heptonstall
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~the things you look at change...
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~the things you look at change...
Neat, I imagine it was some work to get it done.
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Mirrors
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Neat, I imagine it was some work to get it done.
Not with power steering!
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Rob
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Today...
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This too. Shooting from the hip and for once managing to get it straight.
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And down again...
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And down again...
That gives me a good chuckle.
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I wonder how he sleeps?
In fact he was a photographer, he had what looked like a FF Nikon and some fast glass:
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And down again...
You need to run 'em together!
Rob
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I wonder how he sleeps?
In fact he was a photographer, he had what looked like a FF Nikon and some fast glass:
More to the point, how does she? Carefully, as with a hedgehog?
Like the oof background!
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More to the point, how does she? Carefully, as with a hedgehog?
She looked rather grumpy in the other photos, so possibly not well...
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She looked rather grumpy in the other photos, so possibly not well...
A row of shackled birds on the left looking at another bird chained to a human. The damage we do to wildlife!
Rob
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But you can rescue them! It only requires a credit card...
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But you can rescue them! It only requires a credit card...
That's what they all say!
Rob
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And the world just keeps on...
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I think his name was Charlie
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In the current wildlife idiom:
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He looks tired...
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He looks tired...
Tired? Poor mother's just hangin' on in there by a thread!
(Which makes two of us...)
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Rob
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Your eyes are better though.
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Your eyes are better though.
They should be by tomorrow when the new specs are supposed to be ready. Looking forward to seeing the optician again - though she'll probably be attending to somebody else's problems. No, not what you think: when I was there on Monday, a girl of about twenty or so was sitting at another bench as I came out of the testing room, and as I passed her she said hello as if we knew one another. I replied in kind, but didn't have the foggiest idea who she was. She could have made a mistake - I often do, and feel a chump when I realise I've waved at a stranger - but the thing is, she also gave a big smile and greeting as she left. Maybe the optician knows who she is and can set my recollections right!
It reminds me of a vid about Harri Peccinotti, where he says that in today's world, and unlike the old days, where you used the same models a lot, you seldom get to work with the same people twice! The problem for him is that should he think he sees the girl somewhere - say the Metro - he's afraid to say hello in case he's mistaken for a DOM and at the same time, he realises that if he's right and it is the person he thinks it is, she'll then think what a shit! he won't even acknowledge me!
https://vimeo.com/70816321
Rob
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Ah, know that problem. For years I was teaching classes of hundreds of undergrads, who of course could identify me more easily than I could spot them. But then I also have problems identifying people, even if I know them quite well. Once I even waved at and started speaking French with a woman I was sure I knew, on a street in Melbourne: she of course thought I was a complete sleeze, and told me so. Oh dear.
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Regarding the Peccinotti video: if one looks closely at the face of the model, then it becomes obvious that there is nothing sleazy about that kind of shoot at all - if anything, the girl's having fun and enjoying the game of her own good looks and how to turn them into a picture; which is so nice. Of course, there is another, darker side without doubt, but that lives in an underworld of which I know zilch, and long may it so remain.
It also underlines why girls should always have an agent and only accept bookings via that agent. In my experience, they usually know what's what and who is who.
Rob C
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A study in bad lighting:
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the girl's having fun and enjoying the game of her own good looks and how to turn them into a picture; which is so nice.
So when did it become de rigeur for cat-walk models to look as though their mother died just before the show? I assume it came about as a follow-on from the heroin-chic look? The few "high level" fashion photos I see seem to demand that the models be completely blank under the make-up so their emotions can be added in post, but they look positively radiant compared to those in some video from major fashion shows. Is it just that they are so young that pouting and looking deeply troubled are the only directions they can be trusted to follow, or is it somehow part of the marketing theory?
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So when did it become de rigeur for cat-walk models to look as though their mother died just before the show? I assume it came about as a follow-on from the heroin-chic look? The few "high level" fashion photos I see seem to demand that the models be completely blank under the make-up so their emotions can be added in post, but they look positively radiant compared to those in some video from major fashion shows. Is it just that they are so young that pouting and looking deeply troubled are the only directions they can be trusted to follow, or is it somehow part of the marketing theory?
Mary Quant certainly didn't go for grim: her shows had girls dancing etc. but I suppose that the top haute couture designers - as against the yoof ones of the day - didn't like the idea of having the models express anything at all because the women buying the stuff would, I suppose, have to be a lot older in order to be rich enough to be able to blow invest thousands in a shirt. Not only on what goes into a shirt, but the shirt... If the girls express nothing, then they don't inject themselves too much into the event by competing with whatever the 'story' of the show might be, the makeup (and obviously the clothes) doing that part of it; better yet, they don't compete with Mrs Client but sell her a dream of sophistication at all costs.
Rob
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Sometimes you happen to have the camera pointed in the right direction.
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And something with colour
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Sometimes you happen to have the camera pointed in the right direction.
... with just the right shutter speed.
Nice.
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And something with colour
, nicely placed, and just enough colours.
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Sometimes you happen to have the camera pointed in the right direction.
You're gonna break stamper's heart! This is only supposed to happen in Glasgow or NY.
Have you shot any future prime ministers in Lyons yet? Is that, in fact, one such?
Rob
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And something with colour
It's usually inside a backpack - but a long lens is still a good idea. Can't be too careful these days.
;-)
Rob
P.S.
You're making me feel guilty. I haven't felt the power to take the camera for a walk in quite a long time. I don't like these times of spiritual drought; it makes me wonder if Mr Mojo has gone away - or even if I've just lost interest.
I cetainly hope not; not much else to do with my time other than eff about in the kitchen or - as recently - try to rescue a hedge that the paid gardeners have neglected and is now dying a slow death from being strangled by weeds that they never remove. That's the problem with refusing to remain as community president for yet another few years: new brooms begin to hire UK people who, of course, are often here to milk those other UK folks who refuse to learn foreign languages... As a result, and in keeping with John Ruskin's credo: "There is hardly anything in the world that someone cannot make a little worse and sell a little cheaper, and the people who consider price alone are that person's lawful prey."
I hate being anybody's prey... But, when I seem to lack the motivation to hunt pictures, responsibility for looking after a community is out, too.
Maybe it's just the winter effect that's getting to me.
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try to rescue a hedge that the paid gardeners have neglected and is now dying a slow death from being strangled by weeds that they never remove.
Delicate issue. My neighbours have sent me a registered letter demanding that I cut the 8 trees planted along our boundary by the previous owner to the legal limit of 2 metres. They are currently over 6m... Apparently they want me to be able to see into their bedroom again.
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Delicate issue. My neighbours have sent me a registered letter demanding that I cut the 8 trees planted along our boundary by the previous owner to the legal limit of 2 metres. They are currently over 6m... Apparently they want me to be able to see into their bedroom again.
Well, perhaps they think they have invented something new they'd like to let you see... However that conceit's usually the preserve of teenagers, but the latter wouldn't send registered letters - they'd tweet or text or do something more "modern".
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Rob
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Future prime ministers are usually too busy learning the ropes of sucking and blowing at the right times to hang about in Lyon, and they rarely seem to go anywhere on foot. The previous justice minister was a counter-example: she rode her bicycle to work. Maybe being a black woman put her sufficiently outside the desperate chase after prestige that she truly didn't care. She also had the decency to declare that a state of emergency lasting over 6 months (now heading for 15) was a scandal, then to resign in protest. And really resign, not just skulk off to round up the numbers to attempt a coup as per the Westminster Tradition.
But she wasn't from Lyon.
Here is a B&W version of not-quite the colour one above. I can't bring myself to clearly prefer one over the other.
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I think you need the bomber suspect in the shot.
Rob
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Well with the Ikea-bomber, it has to be colour to contrast the orange and the blue. In any case, the B&W works better with the woman-in-orange isolated. In my auto-authoritarian opinion, anyway.
Have some bread then...
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A friend came for a portrait session... and there was a technical disaster: the flash didn't fire, or fired late, or half-fired. Lots of black frames on the card despite changing batteries in the receiver, swapping the transmitter, swapping the entire flash head...
It eventually turned out that both transmitters had low but not dead batteries. Anyway, of the few frames where there was some light, the results were not too bad:
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Ah, remote triggers!
I bought a pair of Pockets (sans pantalon) about a year ago when I did my two-part shoot with a local girl I thought might turn out interesting. They were purchased just at the time I imagined I'd want to do a third session, of which the second disabused me when it became obvious that she hadn't understood what it was about: pleasing the photographer, not the model. This had been clearly pointed out before the first session, and I thought understood. So, I didn't arrange a third session. Funny how quickly some ladies like to assume command.
However, the Wizards performed very nicely when tested at home - even from a hidden location (well, from another room with open doors) and I have no doubt that they would do as well on location somewhere. With luck, before I get too old to try again, I shall have the opportunity. One more reason to hope this apartment sells soon!
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Rob
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Apparently they want me to be able to see into their bedroom again.
Will you be posting photos?
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Will you be posting photos?
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I might offer them for exclusive sale first...
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I might offer them for exclusive sale first...
That might be construed as mail in black! I'd get a formal, written invitation to snap first - were I viewing life from within in your apartment.
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Rob
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Which reminds me... last week I went to an event that involved tasting things while blind-folded and trying to identify foods by the noises they made. Interesting stuff. The surprise was being asked to sign a model release!
Moreover I'd met the facilitator while photographing her in a very near to naked state, exceptng a coat of black paint, and I had to find a quick alternate story when her mum asked how we'd met...
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Which reminds me... last week I went to an event that involved tasting things while blind-folded and trying to identify foods by the noises they made. Interesting stuff. The surprise was being asked to sign a model release!
Moreover I'd met the facilitator while photographing her in a very near to naked state, exceptng a coat of black paint, and I had to find a quick alternate story when her mum asked how we'd met...
Graham, are you slipping slowly into an alternative society?
Instead of signing a model release (you didn't did you?), you should have lodged copyright on whatever you made the vegetables say. I remember that during the era of the Playboy Philosophy all sorts of interesting vegetarian options were suggested in the publication as being fun, but totally opposed by the NLOD - or was that the CLOD? - in fact, in some states, you could have been sent to prison. I wonder if those were swing states?
Strange and dangerous land, best observed through a magazine.
Rob C
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In statistical jargon, the Alternate is opposed to the Null... and the conventional society is becoming ever less friendly, so the occasional sojourn in an alternative reality is attractive. But no incantations were spoken over the vegetables and they were taken only orally. Some extreme-right local councils have tried to make consumption of pork compulsory in school canteens, but we're not there yet. As for the other side of the Atlantic... I wouldn't want to give them ideas.
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Another view from the traboule
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Another view from the traboule
On its own, perfect, but when compared with the first, single person turning in, not as compelling; but that's only because of the alternative, earlier offering. Saying which, reminds me that Mr Trump has taken the age-old linguistic trick of tautology and converted it into his very own figure of speech: the trumpeat.
Rob
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not as compelling; but that's only because of the alternative, earlier offering.
The age old problem of having to compare one's children :-(
(depressing political observation typed then effaced).
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The age old problem of having to compare one's children :-(
(depressing political observation typed then effaced).
Don't go there!
(Curiosity spiked re political observation! Everybody needs the blues; it balances those lives of boring perfection; the ying and yang of ups and downs.)
Rob
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Now here's an old Kodachrome pulled from a set I did at the shooting of Agatha Christie's Evil Under The Sun up at the top end of the island, at the Formentor Hotel. The purposeful walker in period costume is my son - an extra (not extra son, extra as in actor). It must have been around May of 1981...
Ironically, until that damned shoot he had lovely long and curly hair... never grew back quite the same, and anyway, he eschewed it as statement. Kids. Don't know when they have it all.
The painter was a local, eccentric artist living up in Pollença. Only decades later did I discover that, with time, we all turn a little odd. It's probably our saving grace, the shot that takes us happily out.
;-)
Rob
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Charming shot, Rob. Great nostalgia.
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Great colours and nice hats. Maybe if your son had a straw hat too, he'd have kept his hair ?
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Great colours and nice hats. Maybe if your son had a straw hat too, he'd have kept his hair ?
As I didn't keep much of mine, he'd better not keep too much of his either!
;-)
Rob
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Paris Café, rive droite.
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What happened to Parisian ladies!? Anglo-Saxon influence or... a tourist? ;)
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The real Paris ;-)
The incredibly tall and beautiful young women were a couple of km downstream and seemed to speak mostly Russian...
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On the other hand...
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In the morning though, it was just too cold...
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In the morning though, it was just too cold...
Queues remind me of how it used to be in the 80s here, buying bread. Today, our old baker only opens during the tourist season and stays closed all winter. Daily bread, as in prayer, comes out of the supermarket, and is often a reheat. Reheat baguettes are not much good if you try to toast 'em: the crusts break off like razors... a new baguette toasts beautifully, and does wonders for hard-boiled egg and tomato bocadillos.
I just love progress. Things will progress so much that nobody will ever need to leave home and go somewhere else. We will be born numb.
Rob C
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I just love progress. Things will progress so much that nobody will ever need to leave home and go somewhere else. We will be born numb.
Rob C
My son in London gets all his main shopping delivered to his door having ordered on line. He even gets fresh fish that way. He does still do some shopping but they plan their week's eating and get it delivered.
Like you I'd prefer to go out daily and buy what I fancy - but that's a luxury of having more time. In actual fact living in a small village with one shop I can't do that either :)
I feel for your baker.
Mike
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Note that this is rue Mouffetard in Paris. There is no lack of choice, but the French are still very addicted to queuing at their boulangerie (or butcher in this case, the bakery queue was on the other side of the street and less photogenic) for their favourite bread, which they fervently believe is better than the bread their friends buy elsewhere. At least on the weekend, for Sunday lunch...
Of course in central Paris their are no truly big supermarkets, which are out in the suburbs.
And there is a large element of fashion at play, but it's true that when the new bakery opened across the street from work, it was easy for the crowd to abandon the one around the corner because it was rather crap (and the crowd didn't even know about the rats from his flour store that came to live in the basement of one of our buildings).
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And we were so critical of the Soviets ;)
Meat line:
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When was that Slobodan? And what was the allowed ration? My Mother can remember rationing in the UK post war and I can recall the free bottle of orange juice we would get for under five's I think to keep us strong and healthy.
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At a quick guess, 1990 ;)
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Dear Lord no wonder I didn't get that proof reading job :)
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At a quick guess, 1990 ;)
My compliments on your Russian ;)
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Or my Arabic :-D
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Reminds me of the famous HC-B shot in Shanghai, winter '48/'49 during the last days of Kuamintang, as gold was being distributed to the people because, I think, currency had disintegrated...
People queue for all sorts of things; I was told that during WW2 British women would join any queue that they happened to see, simply because they always needed more of whatever the shops might actually stock.
I wonder if there were similar queues in the US, outwith the normally poor areas; I'm reminded, too, of the joke about the old USAF base in Prestwick, Scotland, where the PX store stocked nylons:
Prestwick panties: one Yank and they're down.
Funny, but also very sad because reality often ain't that far removed. One thing's for sure: that PX store sure sold a helluva lot of Zippos! I wonder what the trade was for those?
Rob C
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... I wonder if there were similar queues in the US, outwith the normally poor areas...
There is a burger joint in NY, famous for long lines:
(http://www.foodsmackdown.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/shake-shack-madison-square-park-nyc-new-york-b-line-610x272.jpg)
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Paris is all about queues now... the one to get into Notre Dame is ginormous even in winter.
Anyway, quite a lot of the locals are still getting out and trying not to acquire that anglo-saxon look:
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There is a burger joint in NY, famous for long lines:
(http://www.foodsmackdown.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/shake-shack-madison-square-park-nyc-new-york-b-line-610x272.jpg)
I wouldn't queue anymore. It's just a sign of understaffed businesses.
Truth to tell, I think that the catering industry is one of the worst types. Tipping is from the bad old days, and should be consigned to history. Staff should be paid a reasonable wage, and customers not put into the position of having to pay more than the menu asks them to pay. It's simply a form of psychological extortion working on pity, sympathy, a sense of obligation or any other form of negative emotion (in that situation) you might like to name. I detest it. I expect staff to do their best all the time, not because they see a nice watch or dress, a bit of gold here or there, pìck up on signifiers and think one might be a mark for an added smile. I expect a smile and a greeting; I always give the waiters/waitresses a smile and a little bit of friendly chat when we first communicate. It's natural, not a forced act and, as I say, I want no less in return without the spoiling thought that it's just for a fatter tip later on; then there's the thing with changing staff shifts... That all tips get split from a common pot is not always true: I personally know two guys who kept all the tips and the staff got zilch.
You're going to pay the same in the end; why not make it a pleasant, straight transaction devoid of the demeaning serf-symbolism it inevitable invokes, like it or not? It's not about the bill, it's about the unwanted pressure. Of course, I expect there are people who like to feel superior to those who serve them.
Rob C
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You would appreciate that aspect of many parts of Asia - no tip expected, at least where Western culture is not too strong.
Frank
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You would appreciate that aspect of many parts of Asia - no tip expected, at least where Western culture is not too strong.
Frank
Hi Frank,
Yes, we found that to be the case in Singapore, with some hotels stating that on their café price lists. It also seemed to be the case on airlines way back in the 60s: I recall attempting to tip a stewardess on a BEA flight and she politely refused... I felt stupid!
Rob C
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You would appreciate that aspect of many parts of Asia - no tip expected, at least where Western culture is not too strong.
Frank
American culture.
Systematic tipping died out 30 years ago in France. It was never part of British/Australian/NZ culture and so far as I know it has long been gone from northern Europe. In all cases one might occasionally give a little more, but in no sense do servers depend on it: putting waiters etc into a situation where they need tips to survive is reducing them to beggar status. it's practically feudal, a sign of grossly exaggerated financial inequality.
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American culture.
Systematic tipping died out 30 years ago in France. It was never part of British/Australian/NZ culture and so far as I know it has long been gone from northern Europe. In all cases one might occasionally give a little more, but in no sense do servers depend on it: putting waiters etc into a situation where they need tips to survive is reducing them to beggar status. it's practically feudal, a sign of grossly exaggerated financial inequality.
That's news to me.
Rob C
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That's news to me.
Oh, I guess then that I offended some people while blundering through my visits to the UK. Or maybe it was/is specific to the haunts of the gentry? I never stayed at Claridges ;-)
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Back to pictures... café sur Place d'Italie
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Back to pictures... café sur Place d'Italie
At first glance there seem to be no people there. But then I see the lone figure approaching from far away.
For me, that little detail really lifts the image.
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... and she was the one piece of manipulation: I brought up the magenta so that her jacket would be lighter against the background :)
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Fairly intimate modelling on those seats...
Don't you dare sit a bit to the side!
;-)
Rob
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I'm enjoying this series of photos by Graham very much!
-Dave-
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I'm enjoying this series of photos by Graham very much!
Thank you !
So here's a man in a boulangerie on Saturday morning :
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I'm enjoying this series of photos by Graham very much!
-Dave-
I am, too!
Eric
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In the Jardin des Tuileries...
(Yes, shouldn't have chopped the woman on the right in half... oh well).
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I'll bet she didn't feel a thing. ;)
Actually, I rather like it just the way it is. You need something dark at the right edge to balance the darker left side, so I think she is just fine as she is.
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In the Jardin des Tuileries...
(Yes, shouldn't have chopped the woman on the right in half... oh well).
So, tell me, did the terrorist on the extreme left (as some often are) fire that weapon at anyone?
Rob
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So, tell me, did the terrorist on the extreme left (as some often are) fire that weapon at anyone?
Rob
Maybe he was the one who cut the woman on the right in half.
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Melbourne
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So, tell me, did the terrorist on the extreme left (as some often are) fire that weapon at anyone?
Thing is, there are now so many armed soldiers on the streets in Paris that I assumed it was a gun while looking through the viewfinder. Pretty sure it's not...
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Nice shot! Where is it exactly? I left Melbourne 9 years ago...
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Reminds me of Bela Lugosi in the famous clip!
Rob
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Daniel, that is fine work, especially like the guy walking amid all the shadows.
JR
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Thanks guys. :)
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Just after a kiss: the mid-kiss photo feels a little too invasive, or a little too obvious, so...
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Just after a kiss...
"OMG, sweetie, did you have garlic in that sandwich!?"
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He to her: you shouldda washed your hands! Come back when you have; until then I'm watching the scenery.
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That is an image that invites captions!
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'Did you have to lick my nose ?'
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That is an image that invites captions!
That's why Russ keeps on telling you about ambiguity!
;-)
Rob
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That's why Russ keeps on telling you about ambiguity!
;-)
Rob
And I'm sure there is a thread on LuLa where folks argue passionately about the precise meaning of ambiguity.
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And I'm sure there is a thread on LuLa where folks argue passionately about the precise meaning of ambiguity.
Good one!
Rob
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No ambiguity here... is there?
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Depends what the guy's carrying in his left hand. Is it a saw? Is it a cut-off shotgun? Is it a bunch of flowers?
Rob
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Depends what the guy's carrying in his left hand. Is it a saw? Is it a cut-off shotgun? Is it a bunch of flowers?
Rob
Can't work it out, actually. There you go, ambiguity creeping in everywhere...
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Can't work it out, actually. There you go, ambiguity creeping in everywhere...
Clever!
Rob
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Can't work it out, actually. There you go, ambiguity creeping in everywhere...
This one has focused ambiguity.
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As HC-B claimed for geometry, I claim it (on your behaf) for algebra: it's a quadratic equation, with the left ones who have but don't need them balanced by the one on the right who does, but hasn't got one.
Isn't mathematics wonderful? I was never any good at it, but my wife was. Another perfectly balanced equation.
Rob
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Clever!
Made me LOL (in coffee shop) once I realized…
-Dave-
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Made me LOL (in coffee shop) once I realized…
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Dave, it's a cool trick: if you laugh loudly and madly enough, sitting all by yourself, they gently usher you out and there's no need to pay! Works best in a large city with a wide range of coffee shops. Use a written down, planned order of attack.
Rob
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Going through some old shots
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Dave, it's a cool trick: if you laugh loudly and madly enough, sitting all by yourself, they gently usher you out and there's no need to pay! Works best in a large city with a wide range of coffee shops. Use a written down, planned order of attack.
Loudly critiquing the photos displayed for sale in a gallery-café doesn't work so well: or I was brusquely advised that one doesn't criticise art in a gallery :)
(The cake was better than the photos, anyway).
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Loudly critiquing the photos displayed for sale in a gallery-café doesn't work so well: or I was brusquely advised that one doesn't criticise art in a gallery :)
(The cake was better than the photos, anyway).
So, you actually got to have your cake, and eat it too!
Congratulations!
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So, you actually got to have your cake, and eat it too!
It's actually poorly phrased in English, isn't it? The French version is clearer: "Le beurre, l'argent du beurre et le sourire de la crémière" : "The butter, the money for the butter, and the smile of the woman selling the butter."
There are other, lewder versions based on replacing "smile"... :-)
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I've been having problems with the hi-fi system - started off as all B&O in the 70s - but as time and humidity took their toll, it changed bits here and there, the only original parts today being the two speakers. I recently had to add a CD player because the old one had apparently blown parts within; the dealer looked at it and quoted a repair price higher than I was having to pay for a simple replacement, so I replaced. However, I realised that I was getting no sound from the right speaker, so I had to unload tons of heavy stuff (books and discs) and drag the damned unit out and investigate the bloody wires festooning the back. Easier said than done, trust me.
Anyway, I tested everything I was likely to use, and it eventually worked. Today I decided to try the turntable, and hit a new problem: the bar that moves the arm upwards and downwards from the records lifts at the end of play, but won't retract to allow the head to touch the surface of the disc when I want to start the music again, so feeling a bit pissed at it, I forced the bar downwards. It popped into the base of the deck, and now I can play records too. They do end at the right place, the arm lifts and returns to the holder post and switches off, but the next time, I have manually to press the bar down again to engage needle with disc.
However, I did play some discs I haven't heard in years. Quite an emotional experience, really. Anyway, Abbey Road sounded out of this world, and now I understand why the Beatles may be better than the Stones... love ya, Keef, but!
Guess I proved to myself again that music generally beats the hell out of photographs for emotional punch.
(http://www.roma57.com/uploads/4/2/8/7/4287956/d-3049_orig.jpg)
At least it broke my barren period, and I made a snap of something other than a heap of garden refuse.
Rob C
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This is the first time I've worked in black and white in a long long time. It's an entirely different aesthetic. These mini-sheds reminded me of my home state, Nebraska. They're sitting in the lot at a pool and patio store in Sarasota, FL.
In my opinion, the image is not as pleasing as it would have been if I'd shot it with film. Or, maybe I need to learn a different workflow for black and white digital conversions.
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Guess I proved to myself again that music generally beats the hell out of photographs for emotional punch.
And even though I'm a hard-line engineer-type when it comes to CD's vs vinyl, there's no doubt that playing a 33-tours visually beats the hell out of a CD, or worse, streaming from a HDD.
I'm actually doing a series of portraits of women reading at the moment: this one is not part of it, but maybe having the theme helped me see this.
(Everyone always asked me what I'm working on, what is my project, and they never seemed happy with "making pictures". So I had to make something up).
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And even though I'm a hard-line engineer-type when it comes to CD's vs vinyl, there's no doubt that playing a 33-tours visually beats the hell out of a CD, or worse, streaming from a HDD.
I'm actually doing a series of portraits of women reading at the moment: this one is not part of it, but maybe having the theme helped me see this.
(Everyone always asked me what I'm working on, what is my project, and they never seemed happy with "making pictures". So I had to make something up).
I'm happy that you did, and a very good initial image for the series!
The problem with 33 is that it's over so quickly - fifteen, twenty minutes or so and hell, back to the machine!
And to think that it used to be part of a removal policy/technique often allied with alcohol. It's clear that the changer stack was invented for that very purpose: allowed a decent time for the removal of unwanted materials and the muttering of the required number of little no!s that led to everyone feeling content and having kept face. Maybe eight-track was better, in the long term.
Good olde days.
Rob
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Nadège...
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Great bones! Love the jaw/light.
Rob
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Nadège from another angle...
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You might have waited until she'd finished her scratch, you villain you!
Or is she just holding her book (out of shot)?
;-)
Rob
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Ah, ambiguity :)
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Ah, ambiguity :)
Of course, what else?
;-)
Rob
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I'm going to have an Ambiguity Button installed on my point-and-shoot.
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Another one from the reading series...
(believe it or not, she's reading a story about cabbage).
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Another one from the reading series...
(believe it or not, she's reading a story about cabbage).
Love is where you find it.
Rob
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We had some snow overnight
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In honour of Fujifilm, Nadège nue.
(Not reading about cabbage, in this case).
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In honour of Fujifilm, Nadège nue.
(Not reading about cabbage, in this case).
The lady reads erotica!
You can tell by the knees.
;-)
Rob
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The first flowers at the end of the second very arid winter in a row. (Hepatica nobilis Schreb.)
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Melbourne CBD / Chinatown
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I really don't like my reflection of me in the window ,But besides that I like it.
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Can't remember of I posted this earlier - if I did - sorry!
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Can't remember of I posted this earlier - if I did - sorry!
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If you did, you're forgiven.
Charming.
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I really don't like my reflection of me in the window ,But besides that I like it.
Sometimes it's hard to avoid: man-up and assume your reflection, I say ;D
Here you go, let's play spot the photographer:
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Okay - I'll play:
in my shot above, photographer holding his own and making a right tit of himself.
:-)
Rob
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;D
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Sometimes it's hard to avoid: man-up and assume your reflection, I say ;D
Here you go, let's play spot the photographer:
just follow the finger...
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Sometimes it's hard to avoid: man-up and assume your reflection, I say ;D
Here you go, let's play spot the photographer:
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Yeah, spot the photographer, y'all :)
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So now this is the "Selfies without prejudice" thread. ;)
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So now this is the "Selfies without prejudice" thread. ;)
Could be, Eric.
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Could be, Eric.
Delightful, Graeme!
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There is also the ominous shadow-selfy...
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I don't think I'm visible here...
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I don't think I'm visible here...
Even if you are, I wouldn't notice. My eye immediately goes to the little figure on the downpipe.
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Even if you are, I wouldn't notice. My eye immediately goes to the little figure on the downpipe.
I was just going to say, "Isn't that you on the downpipe?"
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I was just going to say, "Isn't that you on the downpipe?"
My ears go out, not up :)
In this one, I think I'm there...
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You mean just at the bottom left corner of the triangle?
Rob
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Try the vignetting in the upper left. I was shielding the lens with my hand. I think there is a bit of my sleeve there...
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Hands are Us, then:
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You mean just at the bottom left corner of the triangle?
Rob
No! I think it's the small, lighted figure near the top, just a little right of center.
Eric
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No! I think it's the small, lighted figure near the top, just a little right of center.
Eric
Lol! I should re-do her in green :)
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Nice portrait :-)
A few years ago I was surprised to learn, via a post-card from Porto, of my connection with the Spiritous Liquour industry...
http://www.decantershanghai.com/images/exhibitors/features/grahamsport_logo_300x220[1].jpg?1444042911
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Consumerism
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Consumerism
:) Very nice graphics!
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:) Very nice graphics!
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:) Very nice graphics!
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Obviously giving Gursky a run for his money here... ;-)
Actually, it is meant to be in the same vein as Rhein II. In the back of my mind a project is brewing:
The local municipally apparently decided at some point to reopen the local canals for boattraffic (not in Amsterdam mind you), and has invested substantially in infrastructure to include new bridges etc... That's fine and all, but this image would be a good example of part of what you'd float by; local industrial boredom, as well as some other extremely boring cityscapes like outskirts of the city etc...
So, I'd like to take images all along the canalroute like the one displayed here, and make it into a series.
As the saying goes: watch this space for more...
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Sorry, Oscar, couldn't resist: :)
But in all seriousness, it sounds like an interesting project. And not far, conceptually from the Rhein II.
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Sorry, Oscar, couldn't resist: :)
Hahaha, absolutely.
There was a docu about a Belgium photographer who lived right along the border. It never ceased to amaze him how different the housing and building looked, even when immediately crossing the border. In Belgium everyone can apparently build according to one's own taste, so you'll find different colors and styling in adjacent and even directly linked houses and gardens. It creates an interest all of its own, so he is photographing exactly that. But as soon as you cross the border, there would be none of that. Everything is neatly confined to squares, rectangles, and some undetermined buildingcodes, making for rubberstamp duplicity. Rubber being the operative word here, to stay in line with the picture at hand...
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Walking into a wall on a dreary day
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Walking into a wall on a dreary day
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Walking into a wall on a dreary day
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2 missed opportunities
When i arrived at the scene it apparently had just grabbed something very dusty which gave wandering dustclouds thru which the morningsun projected its rays on the excavator, giving the entire scene a truly apocalyptic quality. Obviously, by the time i parked the car nothing of the sort happened. They prepared for taking a break. i took a couple of shots. Was about to leave because they parked the grabber and noticed it hanging at the exact position that it looked like it was grabbing a co-worker. My camera was in skimpingmode...
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Walking into a wall on a dreary day
This one appeals a lot, as do the shopping carts and tires on the dock. Here where I live, there are fewer tires, and most are being put to use. :)
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That's a good illustration of the Fisherman's Tire Knot.
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Back to idle dreams of yet more dreams:
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Rob
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As a passing wonder: I realised on downloading my last set of snaps to the computer that the colours seemed strange. Of course, my instant reaction was to curse Microsoft, but deep in my heart I suspected that in this case, they were innocent of blame. So, I took the camera out of the hiding place and opened it up to explore possible cause. I couldn't believe it: the thing had set itself to flourescent light! As I almost never access the hidden bits, and as it was set to daylight years ago, I have to wonder what the hell's going on. Are the machines already taking over? Do they read the gossip on LuLa and realise that, fully ready for it or not, it's become a matter of now or never for them?
:-(
Rob
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This one appeals a lot, as do the shopping carts and tires on the dock. Here where I live, there are fewer tires, and most are being put to use. :)
Ha, nice one.
On the other hand: if this is the intended use for the tires, then how many visiting vessels do they expect in our canals??? :-\
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As a passing wonder: I realised on downloading my last set of snaps to the computer that the colours seemed strange. Of course, my instant reaction was to curse Microsoft, but deep in my heart I suspected that in this case, they were innocent of blame. So, I took the camera out of the hiding place and opened it up to explore possible cause. I couldn't believe it: the thing had set itself to flourescent light! As I almost never access the hidden bits, and as it was set to daylight years ago, I have to wonder what the hell's going on. Are the machines already taking over? Do they read the gossip on LuLa and realise that, fully ready for it or not, it's become a matter of now or never for them?
:-(
Rob
Yeah, that would be detrimental to your images. However, if 2012 was involved as well, it seemed to work there just fine?
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Back to idle dreams of yet more dreams:
(http://www.roma57.com/uploads/4/2/8/7/4287956/d-3075_orig.jpg)
Rob
YES! That's a beauty. I also sense a fake hassy crop in there somewhere. Is that thread still alive?
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YES! That's a beauty. I also sense a fake hassy crop in there somewhere. Is that thread still alive?
Thanks - enjoyed playing around with it. It's one of the 'flourescent' shots, BTW.
I'd rather introduce 'errors' all by myself than have the camera decide to do it for me, though.
Hasselfakes is as alive as anyone wants to make it: unless locked for some reason, it's waiting for folks to contribute -
That's one beauty of posting pictures online as compared with printing them: you can do a lot of stuff that looks good small, but that doesn't travel well up the sizes trail. I did make a print, square, on an A3+ sheet, cropped from a small part of a tranny, and with lots of added false grain it worked nicely. But I'd think that there's probably a limited range of subjects where that would work well.
Rob
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... the thing had set itself to flourescent light!...
Don't tell me, Rob, you are shooting jpegs? ;)
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Don't tell me, Rob, you are shooting jpegs? ;)
Only when I used to fight with the cellphone - why do you ask?
Everthing on the cameras is always RAW. (NEFs)
Rob
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Only when I used to fight with the cellphone - why do you ask?
Everthing on the cameras is always RAW. (NEFs)
Rob
In which case the white balance set on the camera doesn't matter much.
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In which case the white balance set on the camera doesn't matter much.
That's the theory, as I've always read it to be online! The reality, at least on this happy old D200, is something else: the entire lot of images from the recent shoot, in differing lights, has looked strangely pinkish to me. I should have checked out the balance in Nikon's Capture NX2, through which I have to convert the NEFs into TIFFs, because there's a selection of stock colour balances that can be clicked, but I didn't bother doing that for some reason - perhaps because I almost never do have to use that function, so it wouldn't be first thing on my mind.
As I write this, I have just had a look into the menu system of the camera, and the Flourescent setting is positioned directly above the Direct Sunlight setting in the menu.
Now, I always have that set to Direct Sunlight largely because in most cases, that's the area I'm likely to be found with the camera. However, I have a mixture of old lenses and a new 50mm G Nikkor that self-adjusts with the camera when it's being fitted to it, whereas the old lenses have to be keyed in via a menu in order to function with the metering. As I seldom change optics since buying that 50mm (it acts as 75mm on the cropped body) which seems to fit much of my shooting desires these days, my friendship with the menu system is less than carnal, as you can imagine, and so I do admit to having to run through a variety of the damned things to find the one that allows the old lenses to be mated properly. It's perfectly possible (for me!) to have inadvertently bumped the setting of the light balance in my frustration as I run through from menu to menu trying to find the one I need for something. I sure hope it's been my fault and nothing to do with the thing that lives inside the camera!
Nonetheless, in theory, why did that menu setting accident affect the RAW NEFs if only jpegs are meant to be affected by the setting in-camera? That camera has no memory of being used in jpeg mode.
Rob
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... the balance in Nikon's Capture NX2, through which I have to convert the NEFs into TIFFs, because there's a selection of stock colour balances that can be clicked, ...
Nonetheless, in theory, why did that menu setting accident affect the RAW NEFs if only jpegs are meant to be affected by the setting in-camera? That camera has no memory of being used in jpeg mode.
Capture will likely default to the camera whitebalance as recorded in the NEF, so the RAW is not affected, but the processing in Capture defaults to the accidental setting.
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Still some experiments with wide-angle close-ups around RR 1:2 and Hepatica nobilis.
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Capture will likely default to the camera whitebalance as recorded in the NEF, so the RAW is not affected, but the processing in Capture defaults to the accidental setting.
Thank you!
Now that explains the problem. And to think that folks imagined analogue photography to be difficult and beset with hidden problems!
Merci!
Rob
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Rob,
I think you need a "Don't mess with my settings" button on your camera. I would dearly like one on mine.
-Eric
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Staircase
(Although i don't think it actually is, but i'm planning a series which i might call as such because once you look for these they're everywhere).
Image stabilisation did amazing job. This is not rotated in post.
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Nicely seen. I have a bunch of staircase photos, too. They vary from straight line geometric/graphic to curved or spiral. Sometimes there is important shadow structure, as with this image.
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Very nice, Oscar. If I point my camera either up down, straightening in PP is inevitable. I used to leave most of my images untouched, but when publishing or doing slide shows, I straighten where appropriate. Many times doing nothing works fine also.
JR
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(http://www.roma57.com/uploads/4/2/8/7/4287956/d-3083_orig.jpg)
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Staircase
I like it :-)
Here's my completely unrelated image (the pigeon was really difficult to direct):
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YES! That's a beauty. I also sense a fake hassy crop in there somewhere. Is that thread still alive?
Okay - just for you, from the same five minutes!
(http://www.roma57.com/uploads/4/2/8/7/4287956/d-3084-bw-reallysquare-sacrifice_orig.jpg)
;-)
Rob
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A dog's life...
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A dog's life...
Excellent.
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Okay - just for you, from the same five minutes!
(http://www.roma57.com/uploads/4/2/8/7/4287956/d-3084-bw-reallysquare-sacrifice_orig.jpg)
;-)
Rob
The combination of my fading eyesight and ever smaller pixels makes me see a female figurine at the top right???
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Staircage ;-)
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Staircage ;-)
Love it!
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Since it looks like there is no exit at the bottom of the stairs, is it fair to assume it was built as a welcoming entrance for Turkish diplomats? ;)
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Since it looks like there is no exit at the bottom of the stairs, is it fair to assume it was built as a welcoming entrance for Turkish diplomats? ;)
"Terror escape"?
Or maybe it spirals down, aaaaaaaalllll the way down under, and it should be called: Ozzie's return?
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The combination of my fading eyesight and ever smaller pixels makes me see a female figurine at the top right???
Obviously, and she's playing the piano at the seashore, doing a thundering interpretation of a Jerry Lee Lewis interpretation of Sea of Love, based on the King Canute fable foretelling the disasters of Brexit. I think her name is Nicola, but what with the heavy Ayrshire accent and the roar of the sea, it was hard to be sure...
;-)
Rob
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Skyscraper...
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Obviously, and she's playing the piano at the seashore, doing a thundering interpretation of a Jerry Lee Lewis interpretation of Sea of Love, based on the King Canute fable foretelling the disasters of Brexit. I think her name is Nicola, but what with the heavy Ayrshire accent and the roar of the sea, it was hard to be sure...
;-)
Rob
:D :D :D
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And the odd thing is, you hardly ever see anybody walking there even though it is near citycenter and part of an apartment complex. The text at the top is an eyesore as the entire structure is gray but the text is printed on screaming purple and green canvas (for selling apartments). I think i'll remove the text in a final version but leave the arrow in...
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Yes. I'd leave the arrow but clone out the text.
Fine shot.
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Into the blue
Again in 2x1 (ish) format. Portraitorientation to emphasize height. This silo i pass at least weekly, and today was a good day to take a stab at the ladder for the project...
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Smaller steps get equal love and attention. This one is close next door, i can walk over each day. Would like it perfectly light by the sun which would have been an hour later approximately. This the right time of year since the shade at the opposite site ((not visible here) is exactly equally slanted as the handlebar. There is enough additional wall to do some wider shot with something symmetry-ish
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It's infectious:
(http://www.roma57.com/uploads/4/2/8/7/4287956/d-3068_orig.jpg)
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Oh, lovely...
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Now, that's geometry! :)
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Oh, lovely...
+1
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Wiretap!
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It's infectious:
A disorder, i'm sure. In your case one we all can live with, but still. These days i can no longer walk the sidewalks normally for all the possible patterns i see. Soon they will have me committed...
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Extreme Narcissism
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Oh, lovely...
+2.
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Wiretap!
Getting a little political, Oscar? ;)
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Extreme Narcissism
Excellent!
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Getting a little political, Oscar? ;)
One this forum i wouldn't dream of getting political. This is just a normal and completely healthy doze of paranoïa...
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It's infectious:
Really lovely, Rob!
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It's infectious:
plus, maybe even multiply
Bruce
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Not quite abstract...and not quite as eccentric as some recent postings, but I will start giving it a try.
(https://photos.smugmug.com/On-a-winters-day/i-pn6LZqg/0/L/Feb%206-11%20Caledon%20005%20copy1000-L.jpg)
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Not quite abstract...and not quite as eccentric as some recent postings, but I will start giving it a try.
(https://photos.smugmug.com/On-a-winters-day/i-pn6LZqg/0/L/Feb%206-11%20Caledon%20005%20copy1000-L.jpg)
Nice cartoon face, John.
The curly mustache is especially endearing.
Eric
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From a recent walk through New Cathedral Cemetery in Baltimore, Maryland. These simple stones touched my heart, amidst so many massive monuments. - Bob
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Thanks for the kind remarks about Bar Graph, somewhere above! I quite like a limited tonal scale for some shots, and maybe this one's quite limited too:
(http://www.roma57.com/uploads/4/2/8/7/4287956/d-3096_orig.jpg)
Rob
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Thanks for the kind remarks about Bar Graph, somewhere above! I quite like a limited tonal scale for some shots, and maybe this one's quite limited too:
(http://www.roma57.com/uploads/4/2/8/7/4287956/d-3096_orig.jpg)
Rob
Limited to just the tones needed.
Nice, as always.
Eric
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How about that, I can still hand-focus in the 51,000 iso dark... (or I got lucky)
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Dressing room, before the show...
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Dressing Room's a cracker!
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Tomorrow, Magnum!
(http://www.roma57.com/uploads/4/2/8/7/4287956/d-3094_orig.jpg)
Rob
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Given the crap that is coming out of Magnum recently... they would be beneath you! :)
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Given the crap that is coming out of Magnum recently... they would be beneath you! :)
+1.
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Tomorrow, Magnum!
Rob
Enticing us with puppies now, are you?
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Enticing us with puppies now, are you?
It's a subtle way of teaching maths!
When I get good at maths I may start to teach; basically, it shouldn't be a problem as I have a complete set of fingers and toes.
Rob
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Sorry if it's flown already:
(http://www.roma57.com/uploads/4/2/8/7/4287956/d-2896-copy_orig.jpg)
Rob
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Sorry if it's flown already:
Rob
You must have been hungry for something...
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Staircases that likely wont make the cut...
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speaking about staircases, ...
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speaking about staircases, ...
Cool, interesting shape and setting
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speaking about staircases, ...
Scary!
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Great shot, Les, compositionally and tonally. Would love to see it in pure b&w.
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Thank you Slobodan, attached is the pure BW.
Actually, I like at least a splash of color, so it was a choice between the algae on the railing or inserting a macaw parrot exactly in the intersection of the upper and right thirds.
In the original photograph, half of the wall was covered with a green algae.
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Hundreds of millions of algae can't be all wrong.
And I like it too.
The Macaw might need to be pretty strong to compete with this.
Bruce
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Verging on being out of balance (the composition, not the stairs)
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Nice and clean, I would just try to open up the shadows slightly.
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Nice and clean, I would just try to open up the shadows slightly.
Yes, good point. Maybe even just selectively in the rh corner, so as to preserve the graphic impression overall...
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Sorry if it's flown already:
Venemous colors invite her to take a bite from the forbidden fruit, with a hint of gardenbeauty. And this was shot on Mallorca of all places?
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Inspired by Rob
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Venemous colors invite her to take a bite from the forbidden fruit, with a hint of gardenbeauty. And this was shot on Mallorca of all places?
If not Mallorca, then a perverse Garden of Eden somewhere.
Yes, Puerto Pollensa, at the entrance to a small bar/eaterie. So far, I only have the odd coffee there. Well I suppose most coffees are odd, especially when they take the caff out of 'em which process may make them worse than the straight! But, it's our duty, as snappers, to brave these challenges to the greater glory of our art.
;-)
Rob
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Inspired by Rob
That's a novel experience for me! But really, thank Saul instead; he's the man!
But beware: it can become compulsive.
;-)
Rob
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A bit of colour. Went to Lausanne to see a production of Faust, and stayed in the directors appartment :)
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Organic mess in the chestnut groves of Tiolo (Crocus vernus subsp. albiflorus)
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Then some more black, white and mirrors.
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Then some more black, white and mirrors.
Nice one; funny glass edges always do it for me. There was - probably still is - a great set of them in the front door(?) at Glasgow's Pollok House, where I did a few fashion shoots as well as one calendar one. I think they also were present in other places within the property. It had the odd distinction of requiring two separate sets of pemissions-to-shoot: one from the body looking after interiors, and another from the good folks covering the gardens.
I think I owed my hunt for them to Sarah Moon: catch the model at the edge of bevel and main glass plane, and you get a double part-image that can be fascinating, especially in colour. Isn't diffraction amazing?
That'll be two hundred bucks, please!
;-)
Rob
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No diffraction here, I'm afraid.
(http://www.roma57.com/uploads/4/2/8/7/4287956/d-3080_orig.jpg)
Rob
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No diffraction here, I'm afraid.
Washing your hands in innocence, no doubt...
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Washing your hands in innocence, no doubt...
But the keys aren't crossed... innocence may be a bit far away by now.
I, of course, am totally innocent.
;-)
Rob
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Innocence knows no morals.
Anyway... a piece of Cynthia from her concert last week.
A side-light, I found myself sitting alongside another photog, working for the venue. She is an "erotic photographer", or personal pornographer if you wish: she takes photos of people doing things they wouldn't want their mother to see. Possibly another niche that will resist technology :)
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Innocence knows no morals.
Anyway... a piece of Cynthia from her concert last week.
A side-light, I found myself sitting alongside another photog, working for the venue. She is an "erotic photographer", or personal pornographer if you wish: she takes photos of people doing things they wouldn't want their mother to see. Possibly another niche that will resist technology :)
Aren't you overlooking the ubiquitous selfie? Imagine one covering both acts... best not go there.
;-)
Rob
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The Luminous Townscape:
(http://www.roma57.com/uploads/4/2/8/7/4287956/d-3012_orig.jpg)
;-)
Rob
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The Luminous Townscape:
;D
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Another reading portrait: Danièle
(who is a photographer, btw).
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Or from the dark side:
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Graham,
How I envy your young subjects, all of whom can read without having to put on their spectacles!
I can vaguely remember what that was like for me, many years ago.
This is a fine series.
Eric
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Graham,
How I envy your young subjects, all of whom can read without having to put on their spectacles!
I can vaguely remember what that was like for me, many years ago.
This is a fine series.
Eric
Eric, all you need's glaucoma: until I was 44 I used no specs at all. Then, I realised I was playing imaginary trombone with books. But distances were no problem whatsoever, so I bought reading specs.
Came glaucoma and everything went ass for elbow: now I can read perfectly well sans glasses, but distances require their own set of spectacles. You couldn't make it up. You wouldn't want to! I'd rather need specs to read but not to drive.
But hey, if you want sad, hear this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FNMkeMRCaKE
Specs aren't the worst deal to get thrust upon one; angels can bring problems too!
Rob
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How I envy your young subjects, all of whom can read without having to put on their spectacles!
Thanks Eric :-)
It's funny, the other day I was thinking that there seemed to be a very high proportion of spectacle wearers here... but then I've somehow managed to recruit from the others without realising it :D
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Thanks Eric :-)
It's funny, the other day I was thinking that there seemed to be a very high proportion of spectacle wearers here... but then I've somehow managed to recruit from the others without realising it :D
Oooh!
In some societies you'd be stoned for being non-PC and not giving everybody an equal chance: for ever model wot gets snapped, an unphotogenic sister must get the same number of snaps. I hate politcal correctness. It wastes resources such as film and digital energy. If you let it.
;-)
Rob
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Welcome home! I hope the trip was good in all senses of the word.
Not a bad entrance to a loo!
Looks like some fairly high-powered food has been consumed over the years. I think that's perhaps an electrical connection dangling at the end of its cable? In Mallorca, the loos in bars seem to suffer from a very short automatic timer system: I've lost count of the number of times I've had to finish off in the dark. Guess it's the source of the ditty: no matter how you shake your peg, the last drop always gets your leg. Having said which, the things (lights) are at least usually connected, which must say something about the Spanish economy v. the Moroccan!
I remember on a motorway in France stopping at one of those 'aire' places (without fuel and shops) for a rest, and using the loo. No seats over which to hover (you need good legs to perform the hover trick or, like myself, be very light), but two footprints on which to stand - a bit as in parts of India. Also, there appeared to be no flushing device, but the moment I opened the door to escape, a flood of water shot out towards my feet. You have to know the house rules to use these places.
Rob
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Rob, thanks, yes, a wonderful trip.
The entrance is actually to apartments within a large old building within the Mellah or Jewish Quarter.
;-)
Rob
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I remember on a motorway in France stopping at one of those 'aire' places (without fuel and shops) for a rest, and using the loo. No seats over which to hover (you need good legs to perform the hover trick or, like myself, be very light), but two footprints on which to stand
Ah, a squatter... they used to be very common in public places, like railway stations etc. The first Parisian hotel I stayed in had them, back in 1984. They were particularly low maintenance, no amount of bad aim or vandalism could take them out of service. Now they're rare... the unfortunate thing is that they haven't been replaced with anything. France has a particularly barbaric attitude to the provision of public conveniences :(
There was still one in Singapore airport a few years back: knowing the technique meant avoiding the queue for the two "western toilets" :)
Mind you, the opening scene of Trainspotting, where the hapless (anti-)hero finds himself in "the worst toilet in Scotland"...
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Mind you, the opening scene of Trainspotting, where the hapless (anti-)hero finds himself in "the worst toilet in Scotland"...
+1
the best representation of a trip you will ever see in a movie, as well as the best metaphore for life and/or the story that unfolds. That scene alone should have won an Oscar.
As for squatters: go visit China, still ubiquitous there, and then find out, on the spot, that they don't do toiletpaper in China...
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Toilets: There's a scene in one of the Tarantino movies - was it a Mexican setting one with Banderas and the delightful Salma Hayek? - where the disgusting can is the route into another area via a moving wall? (Desesperados?)
But this is all about Fake News: we are really chatting about the entrance to a block of apartmemts from hell. Which in turn could be further Fake News, because here in Mallorca, lots of exteriors look really dowdy but, get past the closed doors, and you are into beautiful courtyards! The Moorish influence remains strong here, so why wouldn't Morocco, souce of much of said influence, be exactly the same?
Secret courts, secret lives and loves, secrets that would fill novels; pleasure gardens of the mind and for ever just that invitation out of reach.
Much of life seems lived with the nose pressed always against the outside of the windows.
;-(
Rob
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I have some colleagues who work in Iran... the contrast there between the private and the publique is enormous, since historically it is a country with a high level of education for women, who have therefore expectations of what life should offer not at all like those offered by the men controlling politics.
Anyway, happier thoughts, another shot of Danièle
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So, i'm scouting a staircase i saw the other night, but the light wasn't right, the sun would not be moving in a favourable position, trees are in the way that also cast unwanted shadows, there are some odd signs and structures in the way, and after about 10 minutes walking around the premiss i turn around to go home and see this!?
Probably won't make the cut, but notice the serendipity of being there at the exact right time...
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That image almost wants a triangular format! Well, I guess not.
I like your staircase series.
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Well, as with most of these projects, once you dive into a subject for a while, you start to notice the oddities, and perhaps even grow a weird kind of fondness for the unremarkable and silliness of some of these structured.
This one has just about everything wrong with it that could be wrong. It's going to remain a colorversion, because, well, even the colorscheme is wrong. Or what about the left and right handlebar? Or the fact that it is mounted off-center in front of the garagedoor? but apparently not to center with the door above? Even the shadow seems to know a better mounting position? And why is it even mounted outside?
That's just a start of a lot of questions for such a mundane structure...
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I love it :-)
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Constantine Bay, Cornwall
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I love it :-)
Me too. Even a static scene can have ambiguity.
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Constantine Bay, Cornwall
That's my kind of place!
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Well, as with most of these projects, once you dive into a subject for a while, you start to notice the oddities, and perhaps even grow a weird kind of fondness for the unremarkable and silliness of some of these structured.
This one has just about everything wrong with it that could be wrong. It's going to remain a colorversion, because, well, even the colorscheme is wrong. Or what about the left and right handlebar? Or the fact that it is mounted off-center in front of the garagedoor? but apparently not to center with the door above? Even the shadow seems to know a better mounting position? And why is it even mounted outside?
That's just a start of a lot of questions for such a mundane structure...
So true! It got me hooked, besotted on reflections and I'm the happier for it. I didn't ever imagine the day would come when I mentally grade the excitement quotient within a shop window that is not about the display itself, but what it has a chance to become.
You have really hit upon a promising theme that shouldn't run out of material very rapidly!
I'm trying to read between your lines, but had you decided to do this thing mainly as black/white or colour, or are you being forced by opportunity to do it both ways? I'm there too, in a way, but still prefer the black/white route for my own stuff.
Rob
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So true! It got me hooked, besotted on reflections and I'm the happier for it. I didn't ever imagine the day would come when I mentally grade the excitement quotient within a shop window that is not about the display itself, but what it has a chance to become.
You have really hit upon a promising theme that shouldn't run out of material very rapidly!
I'm trying to read between your lines, but had you decided to do this thing mainly as black/white or colour, or are you being forced by opportunity to do it both ways? I'm there too, in a way, but still prefer the black/white route for my own stuff.
Rob
A shoppingwindowfetish, while understandable for a photographer, could get you in serious trouble. At least i can pretend to be documenting something for purposes of real estate management or something.
I initially intended to do B&W only, in 2x1 and 1x1 format. I want it to be about the light, the graphics, and the (wall) textures. Monochrome better emphasizes those elements and its a lot easier to shoot around noon in harsh light but with interesting shadows.
I believe yours sometime dictate color as well; blue and jeans go together like ..., like... I don't know? Pistache and icecream? (You may need a blender, though).
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A shoppingwindowfetish, while understandable for a photographer, could get you in serious trouble.
You know that the French term for window shopping is lêche-vitres, window licking? :-)
So here's a window reflection from one of Lyon's oldest restaurants, which happens to appear in one of the Lumière Brother's first colour demo shots, using autochrome. I used a Sony sensor in a Pentax box, boring...
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Did a shoot recently for some friends with a burlesque troupe. Two portraits:
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Did a shoot recently for some friends with a burlesque troupe. Two portraits:
Nice going, you always manage to find those saturated colors, no?
I like nr 1 better for the theme, but find the portrait better in 2. Perhaps nr 1 would also work well rotated 90deg?
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Slobodan,
I should have such friends. How skewed this world that I get dirty windows!
;-)
Rob
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Oh well, no adults in this one, just dangerous dolls.
(http://www.roma57.com/uploads/4/2/8/7/4287956/d-3007_orig.jpg)
Rob
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...you always manage to find those saturated colors, no?...
No, it is the exact opposite: they always manage to find me ;)
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Yesterday's central market.
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No, it is the exact opposite: they always manage to find me ;)
Burlesque for Slobodan:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDPR5EoYqOs
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I can't match Slobodan's saturation, but here's a bit of brightly coloured geometric urbanism:
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And another window shot...
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I like the simple colour combination... combine that with LPs and you might be pretty close to heaven.
;-)
Rob
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Cynthia in the Reading series...
I wasn't able to dissuade her from wearing make-up... it's a shame, it screws up the skin tones with the natural light and looks almost solarized. But there you go, maybe I'll get another chance.
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In 3716 I can see what you mean about the makeup.
However, 3704 is so strong any problems from the makeup are swamped. And or, because 04 is more formal, the makeup fits in better.
She doesn't look like someone who would be all wrong.
Bruce
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I'm used to photographing Cynthia at 51,000 iso, where subtlety doesn't count. And yes, she definitely knows her way around a piano...
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Cynthia in the Reading series...
I wasn't able to dissuade her from wearing make-up... it's a shame, it screws up the skin tones with the natural light and looks almost solarized. But there you go, maybe I'll get another chance.
Oh come on Graham, she doesn't look that bad. ::)
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Oh come on Graham, she doesn't look that bad. ::)
;D
Here's the result of some brief (hopefully non-invasive) stalking:
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;D
Here's the result of some brief (hopefully non-invasive) stalking:
Just you wait until she processes the latent image resident within the clip!
I base the expectation of a latent image upon the well-founded theory that to every action there is an equal and opposite reaction.
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Just you wait until she processes the latent image resident within the clip!
Or the glasses...
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Or the glasses...
Now your fate is truly sealed: Hi-Def confirmation.
Clever shot!
Rob
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Here's the result of some brief (hopefully non-invasive) stalking:
I used to live in one of the most ethnically diverse cities in North America (Toronto) and took public transit everywhere. During "rush hour" one got a very close look at fellow travelers – you couldn't help it! I often marveled at the fabulous variety of skin tones, and facial structures, and hair styles, and accoutrements such as jewelry. Such beauty, and such care taken to show it off (mostly with the women, but occasionally with men). I thought one could do a whole book just on ears and earrings alone. But it would have to be studio stuff to really capture all the wonderful tones, and I had neither the setup (at the time) nor the personality to approach the subjects.
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Or the glasses...
Is this still Cynthia? Would be cool if it showed pianokeys in the glasses. It sort of tells us how she is seeing the world. For a musician it would be music of course.
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Is this still Cynthia?
No, just some random woman waiting to cross the road. Hence the stalking comment: I spotted her about 50 metres earlier as she crossed the river ahead of me and I scooted up behind her.
(PS for Rob: no tea was drunk).
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No, just some random woman waiting to cross the road. Hence the stalking comment: I spotted her about 50 metres earlier as she crossed the river ahead of me and I scooted up behind her.
(PS for Rob: no tea was drunk).
I'm glad you mentioned that: what with all the scooting going down behind I was getting concerned.
Oh Jeanloup, what have you done? Can an entire sentence be a neologism or just a catchphrase?
;-)
Rob
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The Fortress
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An experiment in hi-key
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In silhouette 1
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In silhouette 1
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In silhouette 2
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"In silhouette 2" is my favorite of these.
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"In silhouette 2" is my favorite of these.
Yep, it's got the mojo. ;)
-Dave-
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Soze, its enda Mahrch, eh? En heer we goze uh-genn wit-da snow'n'ice. D'wife en me jumps in cahrr, en takes a liddle drive. It were sum priddy, eh? Got hit onda head a cuppla times wit ice cummin owtuh trees. Yep, dats spring on sout' shore Nova Scotia.
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Soze, its enda Mahrch, eh? En heer we goze uh-genn wit-da snow'n'ice. D'wife en me jumps in cahrr, en takes a liddle drive. It were sum priddy, eh? Got hit onda head a cuppla times wit ice cummin owtuh trees. Yep, dats spring on sout' shore Nova Scotia.
brrrr.
Temperatures are finally hitting something reasonable here, then you come with this...
I like nr 1 for its composition, but don't like the muddy color of the sky with hdr halo, in nr 2 that seems better.
I like nr 3 for the perceivable depth.
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Nr 2 seems to do well in 2x1 format, not that i would want to suggest cropping for fear of Russ' wrath, but it just so happened to open up in a separate window with that crop and it seemed to nicely emphasize the width of the scene.
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Hey, this is Without Prejudice!
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Hey, this is Without Prejudice!
You are, of course, entirely right, sir. My apologies.
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You are, of course, entirely right, sir. My apologies.
Well, you're right about number 1 in particular. Working too fast on some shots that I consider snaps, but thought it would be fun to share. No offense taken or apologies needed.
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You are, of course, entirely right, sir. My apologies.
;-)
Rob
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Let's file it under enthusiasm. It's infinitely better here than in the coffee corner atm.
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Fun snaps.
I trust most of the snow will be gone by the time I spend a week in Lunenburg, NS, in late July.
It's snowing today in Boston. We had our spring days (70 degrees F) back in January, not March.
Eric
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I trust most of the snow will be gone by the time I spend a week in Lunenburg, NS, in late July.
Most definitely. Are you coming to take pictures, or is that a secondary pursuit? The Tall Ships won't be in to Lunenburg until August 10. The Lunenburg Folk Harbour Music Festival runs from August 10-13. That will be the busiest week of the year for Lunenburg. But there's still plenty to see in this area of the South Shore at other times.
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Most definitely. Are you coming to take pictures, or is that a secondary pursuit? The Tall Ships won't be in to Lunenburg until August 10. The Lunenburg Folk Harbour Music Festival runs from August 10-13. That will be the busiest week of the year for Lunenburg. But there's still plenty to see in this area of the South Shore at other times.
Now you are teasing me!
I'll be mostly at the Boxwood Music Festival (fifth or sixth time) the last week of July. I'll be mostly playing flutes, but I'll also take time to do some photographing before and after the festival, including that shack at Blue Rocks and the rocks themselves. Plus a few spots on the coast between Lunenburg and Yarmouth, where we take the new Cat ferry to/from Portland.
It is a beautiful area, with great food, too.
Eric
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Haven't posted in ages, life gets in the way sometimes.
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Nice one, Riaan!
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A desire for heaven
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Even this one relates to your staircase series.
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Encouraging results: HX60 at full zoom (720mm eq),
3x burst of 10 shots, stacked.
offset between each burst is about 80 pixels. (i.e. during the time it takes to write the 10 images to the card, the moon has moved about 80 pixels).
Crop is 1000x1000 actual pixels from full image.
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Nice, but couldn't you get the staircase a little sharper? :D
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Nice, but couldn't you get the staircase a little sharper? :D
Haha, i know they are there somewhere! Or maybe you gotta jump: it was one small steps for men...
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Haha, i know they are there somewhere! Or maybe you gotta jump: it was one small steps for men...
Don¡'t be silly: for that you need to go to the Mojave or Lanzarote.
I think the tripod holes still exist, along with the tractor tracks.
;-)
Rob
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Don¡'t be silly: for that you need to go to the Mojave or Lanzarote.
I think the tripod holes still exist, along with the tractor tracks.
;-)
Rob
Then I guess we just need to send John R over to area 52. We can at least be sure he comes back with blurry images, no? ;-)
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Then I guess we just need to send John R over to area 52. We can at least be sure he comes back with blurry images, no? ;-)
Yes, but what else will come back, clicking away inside his watch?
Rob
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Been away for a stressful trip to Amsterdam, didn't even take a proper camera. This was left over from a week back though...
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Oh, I did make this with my telephone...
BTW, interesting experience in a chain hotel: check-in via a touch screen, check out the same. In the room, you could press a button to signal "Do Not Disturb" on a panel outside. So after a loooonnng meeting yesterday, I profited by sleeping in a bit this morning, then pressed the said button on the way to sit on the loo.
Except it didn't seem to work, since a man with a vacuum cleaner wandered through the door while I was enthroned. Plus, me still being a bit foggy, I started asking him to leave in French. Didn't work. Eventually I got the message across...
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Been away for a stressful trip to Amsterdam
I thought people visited Amsterdam to chill out. :D
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People who pass me by on the walking trail must wonder when they see me peering into ditches.
Shell Ice:
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I really go for these, John. Especially the second.
First class Ditch Photography!
-Eric
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Drunk
(Shot thru a glass vase to stay more or less within the window pane reflection theme)
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I really go for these, John. Especially the second.
First class Ditch Photography!
-Eric
+1
The second has a lovely subtle colorcombo and interesting waves.
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I just liked the multi-colored vases…
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I just liked the multi-colored vases…
As do I. Nice shot.
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As do I. Nice shot.
+1.
A B&W version wouldn't quite make it.
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The influence of St Saul spreads ever wider!
Rob
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+1.
A B&W version wouldn't quite make it.
So true! :)
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(http://www.roma57.com/uploads/4/2/8/7/4287956/d-3073_orig.jpg)
Rob
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Graffiti - Miami area
Just found this!
Lovely colours in that top shot of the paint!
Rob
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Graffiti - Miami area
Lovely colours in that top shot!
Rob
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Spring, and the fanfares (brass bands) are out. Dress codes are rather different to English colliery bands...
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Sunday I dared to walk in Western Grosina Valley for the first time after the serious mountain accident that had happened to me last november.
I found only Crocus vernus at the Brata hut, Daphne mezereum near the hut of the "Spelas" and many Pulsatilla vernalis at the beginning of the path to Läch di Piän (or Lake Malghera). Here three shots of the "Pulsatillae". In the second one I couldn't avoid the shadow projected by the lens on the tepal, I had removed the little shade but it wasn't enough.
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Let me follow that theme :)
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Or cramp it up a bit:
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Candid shots from a friend's birthday party in Le Touvet
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Haven't seen a post from Rob for a few days. ( He's usually quite active on this thread ).
You OK Rob?
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Was wondering, yes. Maybe he just got fed up and went away to do his thing for a bit. That happens...
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Or his computer broke, as it does from time to time.
I'm sure we all wish him well and hope he's back soon.
Eric
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Last Active: Today at 09:22:11 AM as of er today.
Down the pub I expect :)
Mike
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I received a message from Rob to say that he's OK it just that he doesn't feel like taking part in the forum at the moment.
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I received a message from Rob to say that he's OK it just that he doesn't feel like taking part in the forum at the moment.
Just enjoying the latest publishing success, I guess :)
http://leicaphilia.com/on-making-pictures/
Congrats, Rob!
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Just enjoying the latest publishing success, I guess :)
http://leicaphilia.com/on-making-pictures/
Congrats, Rob!
Thanks for finding that for us, Slobodan!
It's a very nice essay, pure Rob C, with a nice set of images.
My congrats to Rob, too!
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Congratulations Rob. Your viewpoint came through loud and clear.
JR
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Da Beat goes street:
"Counterweight"
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Francis
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Da Beat goes street:
"Counterweight"
Well seen!
Jeremy
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Just enjoying the latest publishing success, I guess :)
http://leicaphilia.com/on-making-pictures/
Congrats, Rob!
Congrats from me too, Rob. Well written and enjoyable.
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Market square café in Crest (pron Kray), near Valence, 22 April 2017
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canyons
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I have sooooo found my new fav location for carphotography.
I initially intended to call it "cloud factory" but didn't take the time to wait for the clouds to actually fill more of the frame. Cool place though, and completely free of grafitti.
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Flowers of Pulsatilla vernalis along the path to the Rugiai (Western Grosina Valley), last monday, when weather was finally worsening (or,better, improving) after months of drought. Today they are under 20 cm (or more) of snow...
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Paris twilight (and no, I didn't fix the white balance, and the blue cast is party of the evening ambiance for me so I have no interest in fixing it).
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And a waiter... reflecting.
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I mentioned how they want to make the canals accessible for boating again.
This is next to the pile of tires. Completely Burtynsky territory.
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And no, I'm not saying my eye is anywhere near as good as his, or that the pictures have anywhere near the interest. It's just that kind of industrial area where you could create an image full of rich detail with a specific mood.
Next to the pile of rubble:
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... Completely Burtynsky territory.
There is also some of that New Topographics feel.
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Ah, the joys of Scenic Boating!
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There is also some of that New Topographics feel.
Yep, "Manufactured Landscapes", although it is of course not quite of similar scale as say an average australian mine-pit.
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From Kirkby Stephen, Uk , last November.
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Today was another gray day, so excellent atmosphere for more "scenic canal" images. I have yet to process those images, but I noticed that serendipity had strikken again. Apparently the crane in the previous image was there only for (un)loading a shipment. When I drove by yesterday a ship was mored, and today the crane is gone...
Unfortunately, the previous images were shot with the little WX350 on a tripod, and the image stabilising seems to have been confused by that, so the pixels aren't quite what they could be, despite stacking. However, for the book I'm imagining, it likely is usable anyway.
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This precedes the previous scenery.
At our town the canal starts with a split, clearly indicating which direction you'll be heading in. So i would like to create a book that opens in the middle, and you can either page your way left, or right, with pictures of the corresponding direction and a bit of background about what is shown in the picture.
I think that first building is possibly supposed to represent domino pieces...
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Considering Edward's pepper, every photographer should have his/her odd vegetable. I came across this union yesterday. Really, i'm not crying. (I can see the lens CA even at this size, so maybe i am crying).
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Great shot...But unions always make me cry for so many reasons.
Peter
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Oxalis acetosella L. (forest road Piaz-Bainoghi) and Clematis alpina (L.) Mill. (near the ravine of "The Crosc")
Valtelline side of Mortirolo.
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The phantom cat observed my camera technique. I spotted him and thought he was an apt subject for experimentation on a nice clean green background of grass.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Pictorials/i-xg6pqtS/0/9b908b07/M/July%2016-12%20Breukner%20park%20270%20copy1000-M.jpg)
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Pictorials/i-FDQKRvL/0/86c531dd/M/July%2016-12%20Breukner%20park%20219%20copy1000-M.jpg)
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This little sucker managed to sneak inside. After a long struggle I managed to get it outside unharmed but he was so exhausted that he stayed for a pose for quite some time. I finally got to use that Tamron 150-600 which has been collecting dust. I'm sure tomorrow my left shoulder will remind me of today ;D
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An artist and photographer, admiring her installation. She prefers the crop:
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Electric avenue. Hydro towers isolated. And the original scene, located on Niagara Falls roadway.
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Niagara-Region/i-hwtmLK8/0/3ebaf36a/M/May%209-%202017%20Niagara%20Tour%20068%20bwcopy1000-M.jpg)
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Niagara-Region/i-m8TWW3c/0/ff1deeb9/M/May%209-%202017%20Niagara%20Tour%20008%20copy1000-M.jpg)
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Not sure what to make of this but I thought I'd post it anyway.
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Another oddball.
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Primula hirsuta All. Near the Brata, Malghera, Western Grosina Valley.
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Row upon row. Eerie.
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Oakville/i-ZQNBmJ3/0/898d4d92/M/May%2018-%202017%20RBG%20and%20cemetery%20013%20bwifcopy-1000-M.jpg)
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An artist and photographer, admiring her installation. She prefers the crop:
I like the way the two look together--stacked.
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I'm pulling an obvious slobodan here...
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:)
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The striped cone is a nice touch.
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Somehow Cynthia had the idea do a Michelle Pfeiffer, but with the piano open. It was apparently very uncomfortable, but she seemed to enjoy it :)
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On the other hand, she played better in this position:
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Somehow Cynthia had the idea do a Michelle Pfeiffer, but with the piano open. It was apparently very uncomfortable, but she seemed to enjoy it :)
Ouch!
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On the other hand, she played better in this position:
Ah!
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I have to say it was a very pleasant Sunday: a composer friend bought the old (1836) village store in Passins, about 50km east of Lyon. The big downstairs room that used to be the shop now houses a Bosendorfer, on which he gives lessons and occasionally invites friends to perform in front of 30 or so locals and friends from the city. After, picnic in the courtyard... and from time to time someone would wander inside to play something.
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I have to say it was a very pleasant Sunday: a composer friend bought the old (1836) village store in Passins, about 50km east of Lyon. The big downstairs room that used to be the shop now houses a Bosendorfer, on which he gives lessons and occasionally invites friends to perform in front of 30 or so locals and friends from the city. After, picnic in the courtyard... and from time to time someone would wander inside to play something.
Life à la Penrose in deepest Provence...
I always knew Mallorca had been a mistake; a Gordian knot beyond scissors. It should have been Rome.
;-)
Rob
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I have to say it was a very pleasant Sunday: a composer friend bought the old (1836) village store in Passins, about 50km east of Lyon. The big downstairs room that used to be the shop now houses a Bosendorfer, on which he gives lessons and occasionally invites friends to perform in front of 30 or so locals and friends from the city. After, picnic in the courtyard... and from time to time someone would wander inside to play something.
It does make me want to get to Passins.
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Oooh, a Bösendorfer. I've had my hands on one of the 90+ key models. Big, deep, rich sound!
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I think this was a more standard model... it wasn't a full concert-hall sized beast.
Fascinating though: the concert was opened by a young (teens) student who played Claire de Lune, and I was gritting my teeth a little because something about the room was creating a harsh resonance somewhere around 500Hz.
Then Cynthia took over, and despite playing much louder, the harshness almost disappeared: the skill of listening and adapting to the sound of the room.
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Gagea fragifera (Vill.) Ehr. Bayer & G. López
(Brata hut)
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Gagea fragifera (Vill.) Ehr. Bayer & G. López
(Brata hut)
Here and in many of your photos, I enjoy the out of focus areas. Your abstracting of relatively distant vistas, as in Primula hirsuta, are additional, worth seeing, pictures within a picture.
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Modern equivalent of an old theme?
The scene actually extents another set of windows to the right, but too bad, the moment i tried to take a picture, some really heavy dude drives up with his scooter and parks it dead smack in front of me and throws me one of those "fucku" looks.
I decided not to ask politely...
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I think the scooter adds something to the image in more sense then one
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But if you don't want the scooter, it could easily be removed with one stick of dynamite or else Context-aware Fill in PS. ;)
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But if you don't want the scooter, it could easily be removed with one stick of dynamite or else Context-aware Fill in PS. ;)
No, I did want this scooter, nicely complementing the green, patiently waiting to be captured. Not the other one being parked right in front of me just when I was aiming to shoot. Had to recompose for this shot...
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Yes, I was there.
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pictures within a picture.
This could be a very good definition of the wide angle close-ups. I'm experimenting, during the next months I will continue in this kind of wild flowers photographs. (But it is physically and technically challenging...)
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Yes, I was there.
Delightful :-*
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Modern equivalent of an old theme?
The scene actually extents another set of windows to the right, but too bad, the moment i tried to take a picture, some really heavy dude drives up with his scooter and parks it dead smack in front of me and throws me one of those "fucku" looks.
I decided not to ask politely...
A bit of tweaking for a fine image...
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A bit of tweaking for a fine image...
Yes, that's a possibility. The vignetting I originally used doesn't work in this image, which I initially edited on the i-device with a kazillion lumen backscreen. At home I decided not to use it, and give it a bit of Slobodan treatment instead. This is what I ended up publishing.
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...This is what I ended up publishing.
I like the strong graphics effect in your latest version, but I also like Bob' scooter. Combine them (while keeping the sidewalk as-is)?
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Quite frankly I had forgotten that harsh light can often create very good high contrast bw images. I was leading a walk in Toronto's High Park on a bright sunny morning. Very harsh light. But I did notice that rhythmic patterns of light and shadow were created as the sun shone through the trees. So I encouraged people to look for such patterns and try to assemble them into an arrangement. Here is one sample.
(https://photos.smugmug.com/High-Park-Toronto/i-t7MTQGt/0/8ac188a0/M/Sept%2011-%202016%20High%20Park%20Outing%20051%20bwcopy1000-M.jpg)
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Gentiana acaulis L. near the Brata hut (blending of three exposures, flash).
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Eating al fresco, looking up...iPhone
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Gentiana acaulis L. near the Brata hut (blending of three exposures, flash).
Very nice!
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Quite frankly I had forgotten that harsh light can often create very good high contrast bw images. I was leading a walk in Toronto's High Park on a bright sunny morning. Very harsh light. But I did notice that rhythmic patterns of light and shadow were created as the sun shone through the trees. So I encouraged people to look for such patterns and try to assemble them into an arrangement. Here is one sample.
I like that, John.
Jeremy
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Very nice!
It was for you, indeed ;). I remembered that you like the blues...
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Cragside House Northumberland, UK.
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Cragside House Northumberland, UK.
Very nice. Is that some kind of Orton treatment?
JR
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Very nice. Is that some kind of Orton treatment?
JR
Thanks John
I had to google Orton treatment.
Lightroom settings for this image:
exposure +20
contrast +80
highlights -100
shadows +82
whites +14
blacks -4
clarity -73
dehaze +8
In the detail panel sharpening, masking & noise reduction settings are high. ( Shot at ISO 6400, about as high as I can go on my camera ).
Graeme
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Eating al fresco, looking up...iPhone
All praise to the camera that you have with you :)
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Another concert. There was a theremin... actually a therasyn, which works by measuring the capacitance around its antennae and responding with tone and strength. You modify those capacitances by placing you hands near the antennae.
You might imagine such an instrument is sensible to stray magnetic fields, from say the lighting. You'd be correct. It was ISO25,600 dark and I was focusing manually, using whatever was bright enough to get a fix on: a small red led on the side of the theremyn, the sparkly bracelet on the pianist's wrist, plus hope and luck.
Anyway, lens flare can be cool :)
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Thanks John
I had to google Orton treatment.
Lightroom settings for this image:
exposure +20
contrast +80
highlights -100
shadows +82
whites +14
blacks -4
clarity -73
dehaze +8
In the detail panel sharpening, masking & noise reduction settings are high. ( Shot at ISO 6400, about as high as I can go on my camera ).
Graeme
After you posted your settings, I think I know what created the 'orton' effect. It's the combination of dehaze and clarity. Never use those as I seldom use Lightroom or PS. Lovely image- and effect is perfectly suited for the subject matter.
JR
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Geum reptans L., Pian del Lago, Western Grosina Valley.
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A less than exciting-sounding field of potatoes
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Unedited. And corny.
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Unedited. And corny.
But Minimalist, and therefore, by definition, Good. ;)
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Unedited. And corny.
I like it. BW version?
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Another one from Cragside.
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I like it. BW version?
Being it's jpg out of the camera, I'm looking forward to working with the RAW file in PhotoShop. I am 1,600 miles away from my workstation. So stay tuned; this photo will reappear...
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A less than exciting-sounding field of potatoes
Surprisingly impressive photo then :)
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Surprisingly impressive photo then :)
Thanks. I'd rather be photographing dogwoods along the Merced River, but potatoes in Somerset will just have to do. Ansel Adams never had to suffer like this for his art :-)
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(http://www.roma57.com/uploads/4/2/8/7/4287956/3733186-orig.jpg)
Rob C
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I noticed this morning that 13 pages of this thread - 'Without Prejudice 2' have been deleted. This was not an Admin action, so I need to ask if this was intentional on the part of someone or a mistaken thumb twitch. I would like to re-instate those pages.
I suppose it is also possible that the thread has become too long for the forum software. I have opened Without Prejudice 3 (http://forum.luminous-landscape.com/index.php?topic=118771.0)
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I noticed this morning that 13 pages of this thread - 'Without Prejudice 2' have been deleted. This was not an Admin action, so I need to ask if this was intentional on the part of someone or a mistaken thumb twitch. I would like to re-instate those pages.
I suppose it is also possible that the thread has become too long for the forum software. I have opened Without Prejudice 3 (http://forum.luminous-landscape.com/index.php?topic=118771.0)
Certainly not on my part, Chris, though I did attempt to post a picture today. It appeared at half its proper size; should have been 810 pixels wide, so as it looked far too little to make sense, I deleted that post, but only that one.
I haven't been posting much recently, so there wouldn't have been any of my stuff I'd want to remove. I sometimes do a cleaning out of old images of my own, because they just take up LuLa space and serve no further useful purpose on the site. However, I usually do leave the written part of the post to posterity.
Rob
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Thanks Rob!
I will attempt to put back the multiple pages that were deleted this morning (it looks like a major database glitch), so you may have to housekeep over again...
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Locking this topic now. Please head to Without Prejudice 3 (http://forum.luminous-landscape.com/index.php?topic=118771.0)