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Philip, I'm a professor of modern Chinese history.  My research is on Chiang Kaishek's Nationalist regime during the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937-45).  Chongqing (Chungking in contemporary English sources) was the temporary capital after 1939, so many of the records for this period are still in the Chongqing Municipal Archives.  Huge, vast oceans of documents, most never seen by anyone except the people who wrote them, received them, and filed them.  The trip in 2014 was to use the Chongqing Municipal Library, however, because it has an enormous collection of printed materials (the Roosevelt Library is housed there).   It was closed (to move into a brand new building) when I did my major archival work in 2006-07.  So I had to go back.  Managed to cram in a nice jaunt to Emeishan (Mt. Emei) and Chengdu with a good friend.  Photos are from that mini-trip. 

 

Kevin congrats for your exciting work.

Great series of nice b&w pictures

Thanks

Henry

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A point of historical interest in this photo (and I don't mean my daughter in the zorb thing). The fields in the distance on Afton Down (more specifically those to the right of the telegraph pole) were the site of the legendary 1970 Isle of Wight festival where an estimated 600,000 people saw Jimi Hendrix, The Who, The Doors and many many other great names take to the stage in various states of intoxication – an event which now seems to be one of those key markers that signalled the end of the 1960s (Hendrix himself was to die only 3 weeks later).

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Ian ,very nice green and your picture has something mysterious ,

may be because of the lady who pushes the ballon in this great space  :)

Thanks for posting

I think it's Kodak  film ?

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H.

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Lately I've been shooting medium format, would you like to see?

 

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Ilford HP5 - Spur HRX - Scan of the print.

 

Sorry for the late comment Charles :)

Ah, Ilford HP5 a great film

Wonderful portrait I like much . Cannot forget this smile !

An artistic picture in the true sense of the term.

A picture "with a soul"  as said a famous photographer

Soft lines of the face and the arm , not cutting like in digital.

Soft facial skin with pores skin visible (no smoothing px , plasticised aspect),it's important IMO

Best

H.

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Kevin first thanks for posting.

I agree with Philip this last picture is wonderful in b&w tonality, exposure

I see with only the Nokton and HP5 one of my favorite films

Good work you did in Sichouan :)

Nice series in b&w. The guy (picture 1) seems really glad to be a champion :)

Rg

Henry

 

 

Kevin congrats for your exciting work.

Great series of nice b&w pictures

Thanks

Henry

 

 

Thanks, Doc!  

 

I really like HP5+ too.  It has a mid-range that I really like.  At least at EI250 and souped in Xtol it's done that for me many times.  

 

I think the old man in the teashop was amused that I wanted his picture.  He didn't say a word (probably because he thought I wouldn't understand -- and perhaps he was right: I can speak Mandarin, but the Chongqing dialect is still very hard for me).  Just sat there as I snapped four or five frames.  Then I went back to drinking tea with my friends and talking with the proprietor and his 7 year old daughter.  Was a good afternoon, despite the 43-44 Celsius temperature.  

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Several times I've tried to develop this Kodachrome slide for screen presentation by different softwares.

Up to now Photoshop and HDR Efex seem to work better than earlier attempts.

But I would like to get rid off this still slightly gray haze. 

 

・  Leica M6  ・  Super Angulon 4.0-21mm  ・  Kodachrome KL200  ・  Nikon Coolscan  ・  Vuescan  ・

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Several times I've tried to develop this Kodachrome slide for screen presentation by different softwares.

Up to now Photoshop and HDR Efex seem to work better than earlier attempts.

But I would like to get rid off this still slightly gray haze. 

 

・  Leica M6  ・  Super Angulon 4.0-21mm  ・  Kodachrome KL200  ・  Nikon Coolscan  ・  Vuescan  ・attachicon.gif090900_Scan-120727-0007_Washington_M6_4.0-21_DNG_79.9MB_PSCC_HDR-Efex_frame440p_1280p_jpg_498KB.jpg

 

MNU, Kodachrome is sometimes difficult to scanner for some pictures.

If you have Light Room go to " developmentand adjust the "temperature"

and by adjusting the blue veil can disappear or is attenuated

Kodachrome is a very nice slide film IMO one of the best

Thanks for posting

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Henry

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Lol  Doc...you keep confusing me with Klaus.  I'll take that as a complement :)

 

hmmm..It now looks a much darker than the TIFF I created it from....need to check when I get home.

 

Funny picture and well framing Klaus

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Henry

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Several times I've tried to develop this Kodachrome slide for screen presentation by different softwares.

Up to now Photoshop and HDR Efex seem to work better than earlier attempts.

But I would like to get rid off this still slightly gray haze. 

 

・  Leica M6  ・  Super Angulon 4.0-21mm  ・  Kodachrome KL200  ・  Nikon Coolscan  ・  Vuescan  ・attachicon.gif090900_Scan-120727-0007_Washington_M6_4.0-21_DNG_79.9MB_PSCC_HDR-Efex_frame440p_1280p_jpg_498KB.jpg

 

 

Here your picture a bit corrected in LR as I said above. :)

I base myself on the "stone" of the Senate building at the bottom , the "red flag"

and the skin of demonstrators. The light blue cast is removed.

What do you think ?

 

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I hope you do not mind

Henry

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Lol  Doc...you keep confusing me with Klaus.  I'll take that as a complement :)

 

Sorry Marc :)

 

M6 - Tri-X - Nocti f/1

 

Upper East Side, NYC

 

I guess I'll start the next 1,000...,

 

 

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You know Marc , I love the ladybug seen on plants in nature  and your picture reminds me a big one :D

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Henry

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