Fogotten Whitworth

[cocker]

An overgrown grave - forgotten or not I don't know. But they all deserve remembrance. Leica III with a Summitar 5.0cm AGFA APX 400 @ 400

[lykoudos]

Hello,

a picture with atmosphere. To stone become eternity.

Greeting
Wolfgang

[cocker]

Thank you Wolfgang

[kakuschke]

Originally Posted by cocker

An overgrown grave - forgotten or not I don't know. But they all deserve remembrance. Leica III with a Summitar 5.0cm AGFA APX 400 @ 400

Dear Keith,

This photographs impresses me twofold: First it is - like Wolfgang already pointed out "Eternity turned into stone". The second reason is its technical brilliance. Perhaps one should not talk too much about the technical background when coming into contact with death and remembrance.
But on the other hand I cannot help being impressed by the sharpness and the brilliance of a photograph which was taken by a lens that is now appproximately half a century old. I have just before me a photograph taken by Cartier-Bresson "Russians in the museum" (a deeply moving picture from his book "Moscou", published 1955) made with the same equipment. But the then black and white film (by the way Ilford HP 3) was not able to reproduce the picture in such a quality as present day films can. My conclusion was: The quality of the Summarit was not too good. Your photograph shows that I was very much mistaken.
Thank you again and best wishes
Michael