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From my project "Living Like This"

 

Madrasa in Bradford West Yorkshire UK.

 

Leica MP with 28mm Elmarit.  Film is Kodak TRI-X in D76 stock.

 

Paul, the whole series is an excellent example of documentary photography.  Presumably you have some form of publication (book, magazine series, etc) planned for it?

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All taken in France with the Zeiss Ikon Super Ikonta and 120 roll film.

 

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Keith - I was sufficiently moved by this image to check your link to “Emulsion Mania”.  Your photos of the English countryside are breathtaking.  

Then something caught my eye, and tugged at my memory - your reference to “The Ridgeway”.  

My wife and I love trekking the ancient trails: the Chemin du Puy from Le Puy en Valay to St Jean Pied de Port; the Camino Frances from St Jean Pied de Port to Santiago de Compostela: the Camino del Norte from Bayonne/Irun to Santiago de Compostela and - the shortest but toughest of them all - the Pennine Way.  

We find it difficult to explain to our friends who adore cruises how magical it is to be out in the countryside of France, Spain and the UK in hail, rain, sunshine, and snow - and how we become truly spell bound while following these old paths.  

Then we came across that magnificent book “The Old Ways” by Robert Macfarlane.  I started to read it to Anne at night, so we could both enjoy it simultaneously.  And it was Macfarlane who first alerted us to The Ridgeway (and to the story of the father of that wonderful English photographer James Ravilious).  

What a coincidence to see you mention this place in the captions to your photographs.

 

This photo “after the rain shower” looks similar to a couple in your blog.  Is the track in your post the same as in the photos in the blog? but on the other side of the hill which we see with the copse on the left?  Anyway, thank you.  We would like to do The Ridgeway sometime.

Thank you (again!) for your kind words.  Hackpen Hill and the Ridgeway are a less than fifteen minute drive away and in my decrepit state there are only some short stretches that I can manage nowadays. A little further away there are stretches of other parts of the Marlborough Downs that I can still make photographic forays on.  For anyone interested in the Ridgeway and/or the Downs, there are two books that I highly recommend (and indeed have been my source of inspiration at times):-

 

1) 'The Oldest Road: The Ridgeway by Fay Godwin (the wonderful landscape photographer) & J R L Anderson.  ISBN 0-905483-52-9

2) 'Exploring Historic Wiltshire Vol 1: North' by Ken Watts. Covers (amongst other parts)  Ridgeway Country - The central Marlborough Downs - Wansdyke - The Vale of Pewsey.  ISBN 0-948578-85-8.

 

I wholeheartedly agree with you about the joys of exploring long-distance paths!

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Really sorry Henry, my condolence for the loss of Your Mother.

 

Massimo , great thanks for your condolence

I begin to search her first pictures in the 1970's , fortunately I took in film

Best

Henry

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I just order some 20 rolls of Fuji Superia 200 at Macodirect.de.

I think it's cheaper (4,75 Euros) than Portra 160 (7,19E)  .

I'll post some pictures for you 

Back to Fuji Superia. Before I mainly use Fuji Superia in the

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No greenish cast

 

 

Here's  the first

The brown of wood is faithfully reproduced

 

 

Fuji Superia 200-Leica M7-Summicron 35 Asph

Time condition a little cloudy , not sunny

no correction  . Fuji dev in Tetenal by myself

 

 

 

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From my project "Living Like This"

 

Religious meeting in a house in Bradford West Yorkshire UK.

 

Leica MP with 35mm Summicron.  Film is Kodak TRI-X pushed to ISO 3200 15 Minutes in D76 stock.

 

 

Very nice Paul. I think you know them to have the possibility to photograph ?

because they don't like we take them in photo , my case !

Thank you

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Henry

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Massimo , great thanks for your condolence

I begin to search her first pictures in the 1970's , fortunately I took in film

Best

Henry

You have had a bad time of it with illnesses in family members, Henry, and you have my deepest sympathy. I'm sure your mother was very proud of you, and I would certainly like to see your photo of her.

 

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You have had a bad time of it with illnesses in family members, Henry, and you have my deepest sympathy. I'm sure your mother was very proud of you, and I would certainly like to see your photo of her.

 

Chris

 

Thank you Chris , words who touch me much

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Henry

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Second picture with Fuji Superia 200...

 

 

Leica M7-Summicron 35 Asph

No correction

 

Our City Hall , under clouds

 

 

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When speaking about Henri Cartier Bresson , this is his anniversary death to-day 

If he is still living to-day , he has 95 years old  :)

 

One picture of this great man with his M camera

... the eyes of a master

 

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I love RF mechanical camera system

 

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Henry

 

Thanks Henry,

 

Truly a great man, the essence of grace and civilization.

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More shrubs from Tasmania (this one catering for my dark moods).

 

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M5, 50, Ektar, ns

 

Rgds

 

C.

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Some lighter green stuff from Tasmania.

 

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M5, 50 or 35, Ektar, ns

 

Rgds

 

C.

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From my project "Living Like This"

 

Meat shop in Bradford West Yorkshire UK.

 

Leica MP  with 21mm Elmarit.  Film is Kodak TRI-X in D76 stock.

 

Last one for today - thank you for all who looked and commented- I do appreciate it!!

 

I know that my style of photography is not for everyone and even can be seen as depressing and I understand this. To me the Leica camera, that was born in the 1920's when photojournalism was still in it's infancy, blew all the "cobwebs" away and in the hands of the masters of the day made some of the century's most memorable and yes moving images. 

 

I try to emulate this with my Leicas because I want to make a statement through the lens of these beautiful cameras and without being silly I like to think of what  Phillip Jones Griffiths once said - "For every picture that I have ever taken I would have still been there but without any film in the camera"  To me the Leica is a an exquisite tool that transponds mere mechanics and lets you slip between the heartbeats to record the emotion of the scene before it's lens. Maybe OTT and it probably is but that is how I feel when I pick my Leicas up.

 

 

 

Nicely said, and thanks for sharing - your thoughts and your pictures. 

Needless to say that I like your brooding, dark depiction of reality.  

 

Rgds

 

C.

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More shrubs from Tasmania (this one catering for my dark moods).

 

attachicon.gif170412_1_M5_0019.jpg

M5, 50, Ektar, ns

 

Rgds

 

C.

 

Some lighter green stuff from Tasmania.

 

attachicon.gif170411_3_M5_0033.jpg

M5, 50 or 35, Ektar, ns

 

Rgds

 

C.

 

Cristoph , your series of Tasmania are great to watch

Very pleasant tone of Ektar . You dev yourself ?

Rg

Henry

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Cristoph , your series of Tasmania are great to watch

Very pleasant tone of Ektar . You dev yourself ?

Rg

Henry

Henry,

 

Thank you (and all others) for your kind words. I did not develop these films myself, but have started to develop colour films in the meantime. I'll post the results some time in the future.

 

My condolances and wishes to you and your family.

 

Best regards

 

Christoph

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