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Stralsund-Hanseatic City; seen from the other side of the Strela-Sound

 

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MP, S´rit 2,4/90; Portra 400@200

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18 hours ago, stray cat said:

Rog, these Margin Tide components are exceptional. You've taken the lessons from Diebenkorn's Ocean Park series and explored greener fields (quite literally, in the case of this diptych). They also bring to mind Malevich's constructivist works. Above and beyond that they may bring things to mind, however, sits the truth that they are dazzling, playful, refreshing and wonderfully original. The combination of color and texture - the interaction of color and texture - is masterfully handled. These are, I feel, important works, works that have evolved to a high level and it occurs to me that you increasingly comprehend the significance and authenticity of them. These works should be printed (huge!) and displayed - they deserve a wider audience.

Your very charitable comments are truly humbling.  I feel caught in a riptide at times, swept along by the innovative thinking of artists who spur us to consider their unique perspective, whether with a camera or canvas. Still others, like Beuys, Serra, and Hesse, push the margins. Diebenkorn's monumental Ocean Park series underlines the intricacy of margins and the abstract play of color fields that challenges the "tyranny of the rectangle," as I call it, playfully. At once, Diebenkorn forces me to reconsider the notion of perspective(s) and the push/pull of color fields. Wayne Thiebaud's aerial perspective is also inspiring. Yes, to Malevich, bad boy, and I get Charles Scheeler, too, raising his hand for photography and painting in the name of Precisionism. 

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On 9/21/2020 at 1:43 AM, philipus said:

But whereas I can see why that one is called like that, I'm struggling with the meaning of Backwater Bright

This is an earlier version, which is darker, so when I turned up the volume on the color, I thought, "Oh, now, that's bright." Backwater has simultaneously two meanings; one is the stagnant current of a river, yet another meaning has to do with a peaceful place of quiet tranquility. I live next to the Colorado Lagoon, which has an outlet to the ocean. For a long time the ecology was mismanaged, but now it's a wetland sanctuary. The setting sun reflects off the water, and it's "bright." This is what kickstarted Backwater Bright.

Backwater Bright AP3
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So, won't bore you with the details, there is a complete treatise in the darkroom forum.

OM1 with 35-70

HP5+ in Caffenol C-H

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Tideland Reference Source
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Colorado Lagoon source for color field collage exercise

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5 minutes ago, gbealnz said:

So, won't bore you with the details, there is a complete treatise in the darkroom forum.

OM1 with 35-70

HP5+ in Caffenol C-H

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This is your first excursion into Caffenol? You'd have to be rapt to the eyeballs, Gary - or should be. The tonality of these is at least every bit as good as I'd expect to see with (even fresh) Rodinal with HP5+. Excellent photographs that have had complementary processing lending to the classic "old school" vibe. I like the performance of those Olympus OM lenses, too.

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11 minutes ago, Ernest said:

Tideland Reference Source
M-A APO 50 ADOX Color Implosion
Colorado Lagoon source for color field collage exercise

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Thank you, Rog, for this rare and privileged peek into the creative mindset that has led you to works such as the Backwater Bright series. There seems to be a reciprocal arrangement at work in that you've looked at the lagoon with an eye whose brain is considering an artwork, and you've constructed the artwork according to the formal arrangement of the photograph. This is fascinating.

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5 hours ago, stray cat said:

This is your first excursion into Caffenol? You'd have to be rapt to the eyeballs, Gary - or should be. The tonality of these is at least every bit as good as I'd expect to see with (even fresh) Rodinal with HP5+. Excellent photographs that have had complementary processing lending to the classic "old school" vibe. I like the performance of those Olympus OM lenses, too.

Yes Phil, to both.

First foray into the coffee brew, if only I could get my La Pavoni hooked up to my Paterson tank? I could never get Rodinal (or more correctly, the later equiv, R09) to give that result. So seeing these fresh out of the soup was a revelation, truly.

And yes, something about the old Zuikos, not as clinically sharp as the modern stuff, but perfect for film, and the "older look".

Gary

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11 hours ago, gbealnz said:

Beautiful Antonio, in Alberobello?
Gary

Thanks Gary. It's not Alberobello, it's a countryside trullo a few 5-6 km out of my hometown. It was owned by my grandmother and now by my uncle, who actually spent a lot of money restoring it. I told him he should rent it out to tourists in the summertime, but he won't do it!

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Am 25.9.2020 um 03:14 schrieb Ernest:

Margin Tide (Diptych)
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Right half of the diptych Margin Tide

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Rog, this is one of my favorites--the 3-D effect  is outstanding. 

 

Am 25.9.2020 um 07:38 schrieb christoph_d:

Metropolitan Landscape I

MP, 40C, Metropolis@100

oh yes, this brings me back to the happy bike tours of  the summer. Nice shot, Christoph. 

Am 25.9.2020 um 08:26 schrieb stray cat:

flop (covid-era) 2020

m6ttl, summicron 50mm, kodak portra 800

Phil, I love this. A humble and mundane tool to organize our daily life..caught in all its misery, amplified by the (intentionally ?? ) cut off negative..  Really good. 

vor 17 Stunden schrieb Arrow:

Rainy landscape

Nikon F2, Nikkor 50 1.8, Trix 400, Adonal 1+25, 7 min..

Content and appearance in a perfect accord.. Thats what the weather looks here right now... So no foraging mushrooms.. 

vor 15 Stunden schrieb bags27:

M4-P 50 Lux ASPH Acros ii in DD-X

Great tonality from the Acros --DD-X combo... 

vor 9 Stunden schrieb gbealnz:

So, won't bore you with the details, there is a complete treatise in the darkroom forum.

OM1 with 35-70

HP5+ in Caffenol C-H

Amazing Gary. One more product to explore for me.... 

vor 9 Stunden schrieb Ernest:

Tideland Reference Source
M-A APO 50 ADOX Color Implosion
Colorado Lagoon source for color field collage exercise

Thank you for the explanation. I did imagine something in that direction, but on the other hand I try not to push a meaning or a realistic background onto the fields- I feel it somehow does not justice to the colorfields  or even kind of amputates their range as they are art works in their own right. 

vor 2 Stunden schrieb Xícara de Café:

Scan of 17.8x24cm Ilford MG FB print. Leica IIIf, Summicron 5cm 1:2 collapsible, Ilford Delta 100 @ 80, PMK 1:2:100 10' 24ºC. Leitz Focomat 1c, Schneider Componon-S 2.8/50, Ilford Multigrade.

Very nice indeed. Do you feel that the scan of the print actually is more pleasing than the scan of the negative ? To me it seems so, but I don't understand why... 

 

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MP, S´rit 2,4/90 ; Portra 160@100

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48 minutes ago, Kl@usW. said:

Phil, I love this. A humble and mundane tool to organize our daily life..caught in all its misery, amplified by the (intentionally ?? ) cut off negative..  Really good. 

 

Thank you so much, Klaus, I really appreciate your thoughts. Intentionally? No. At first I was disappointed having the edge cut off, but as I worked on the scan I realized, as you so perceptively allude, that it only adds a je ne sais quoi to the weirdness. By the way, by your beautiful pictures you live in a wonderful environment, amidst such a green and fertile land.

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