Hasselfake Fotografy

[Rob C]

Looked at the picture ... hmm, na ja, what does he want to say ... then read the title ... back to the picture ... ... ... SPROTZ!

Hey, Rob, you've ruined my keyboard!

;-) Harald

Maybe, but I've just sat back down at this keyboard with a head full of racing ideas. The problem is Detroit. I watched a BBC 4 rerun of Requiem For Detroit which is quite horrific. I remember seeing it the first time around and wasn't convinced I'd not imagined parts of it. Sadly, no, it was all there again.

Several  things popped into my head: I realised I would never have had the nerve to do that sort of urban exploring with or without cameras; I also realised that had one the nerve, then there must be a book in the ruins of the so recent past there. I also felt that the ruins would offer a tremendous range of sets for the motion picture industry if they were preserved as was at the time of filming the documentary and not allowed to deteriorate any further. But of course, that takes money and there ain't any going to those kinds of things.

I still wish for a '59 Coupe de Ville, though. In scarlet, or robin's-egg blue.

Rob C

[muntanela]

For anyone seriously appreciative of the square(ish) format, dig this guy:

http://www.chipforelli.com/

Often very cold (algidus), but not very fresh.

[Rob C]

Often very cold (algidus), but not very fresh.

Depends where you draw your temporal Plimsoll line.

Rob C

[Rob C]

As every schoolboy once knew, your mind can take you to places that your feet can't.

Here a little walk on the other side. Any further on the other side and I'd have been swimming, which is forbidden in this precise location because of the physical harm and fiscal damage that careless swimmers can render very expensive propellers; heaven forfend it happens with a Duoprop!

Rob C

[Rob C]

This was a little more difficult, because I have neither negative nor original print. I had to copy a machine proof print that is encapsulated in plastic... even with a polarizer I couldn't shake reflections, and so had to shoot obliquely which, of course, distorts. Wish I'd kept a shift lens all those years ago. Just as well I did the copying when I was a much more patient person.

Anyway, now one of those rare Hasselfakes shot on original Hasselfake 120 film.

http://youtu.be/j3e_y9Bc7hs

Rob C

[Harald L]

Power-Selling

I can't delete pictures and I don't think that I'll start with it until Moore's law is still valid. Here's a crop from the thrash-folder which I revise frequently to look for some nuggets.

[Rob C]

Power-Selling

I can't delete pictures and I don't think that I'll start with it until Moore's law is still valid. Here's a crop from the thrash-folder which I revise frequently to look for some nuggets.

I'd heard about showers of gold, but didn't think they really existed...

I've never been able to direct Nature like that - you must have friends in high places.

;-)

Rob C

[Harald L]

I'd heard about showers of gold, but didn't think they really existed...

I've never been able to direct Nature like that - you must have friends in high places.

;-)

Rob C

That's really sad. I've just imagined how your favorite subjects must be appear in this natural spotlight.

Harald

[degrub]

New Mexico ? I've seen spectacular rainbows driving from Carlsbad to Santa Fe.

Frank

[Harald L]

New Mexico ? I've seen spectacular rainbows driving from Carlsbad to Santa Fe.

Frank

Nope. Arizona, Interstate 40 somewhere between Kingman and Flagstaff (As far as I remember)

Harald

[Rob C]

That's really sad. I've just imagined how your favorite subjects must be appear in this natural spotlight.

Harald

I agree - sad. They'd look too small.

Nobody can compete with God.

;-)

Rob C

[petermfiore]

I agree - sad. They'd look too small.

Nobody can compete with God.

;-)

Rob C

Rob,

 The Creator made beauty, It's just he's not the best designer.
That's why I paint. LOL.

Peter

[Chairman Bill]

A creation of the Invisible Pink Unicorn (bbhhh)

[wolfnowl]

And a very lovely unicorn it is too!!

Mike.

[Eric Myrvaagnes]

And a very lovely unicorn it is too!!

Mike.

Agreed.

[Chairman Bill]

It's not a unicorn, but the pink is invisible

[Harald L]

Just a try to change the subject

[Chairman Bill]

There's clearly some pink in that shot. The IPU's divine pinkiness made manifest. Well done.

[Rob C]

There's clearly some pink in that shot. The IPU's divine pinkiness made manifest. Well done.

Isn't it more, well, fuchsia?

Rob C

[Cem]

Isn't it more, well, fuchsia?

Rob C

This has reminded me of the internet meme about men not knowing all the possible names of colors:

ALL men see in only 16 colors, like Windows default settings. Peach, for example, is a fruit, not a color. Pumpkin is also a fruit. We have no idea what mauve is.

Rob are you sure you are a man?