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13 hours ago, Arrow said:

There is a lot of mushrooms around there ... :)

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Thank you. I think this is a beautiful photograph, well composed and exposed, of a subject type that fascinates me. I will probably never own a Noctilux, but this is one of those rare photographs that make the reason for desiring one apparent. A blessing and a curse. :)

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19 hours ago, Kl@usW. said:

Thank you Rog, for your in depth thoughts. And to jump right into it: I know the constant query  too well-sometimes extending to the equivalent of a writers block. In the end I just give it a go and even If I come home with zero clicks--it´s ok. We have to be friendly and forgiving to  our creative mind. Btw: I have never seen your color fields as derivative--quite the opposite. 

Mary Ellen Mark has been one of my all time favorites and I bemoan my failure to attend one of her seminars.  But thinking of it: perhaps the new Steidl book is an adequate  compensation--I´m just trying to find an excuse for the price of the book 😱 . 

Stockhausen is an excellent choice --he lived, worked (  and loved) in Cologne. The WDR, the federal radio station, where he worked a lot is just opposite the cathedral and we can assume that he came along quite often.  To come to an end: Never saw Karl-Heinz, but quite often his son Markus Stockhausen. He blows a wonderful Jazz trumpet. 

Addition: I added the word "umlautlessness" to my collection of rare and beautiful words... 😀

I really appreciate your feedback, and your notion of equating writer's block to photography is very analog thinking, I think. With digital, just fire away. With analog, studied commitment. But then, I was looking at a DVD of HCB working a crowd in the street, very fast, almost mercurial, with his one leica in hand and no camera bag or gear. Robert Frank shot 27,000 pictures in one year working on The Americans and selected 83 images for the book if I remember. Anyway, I like your enlisting the concept of "photographer's block." 

Then, there's Mary Ellen Mark's The Book of Everything from Steidl, gulp. Diebenkorn's Raisonne clocks in at $400 for four volumes--can we put wheels on it and drive it? Of course, there's Richter's now six volumes Catalogue Raisonne at $235 to $375 per volume. Ernst Haas's Color Correction is $500 and up, though there's his new edition of New York in Color, 1952-1962 for only $40, a steal. No doubt, the back room discussion at Steidl deciding on marketing Mary Ellen Mark's 880 pages in one mega volume versus four volumes must have hinged on more than the cost of binding. Three 300-page volumes issued separately would have been easier on my tennis elbow. My Rothko book is just under 800 pages of physical therapy. There's Helmut Newton's all-time heavy weight Sumo from Taschen, tipping the scales in the first edition at 35.4 kilos and issued with its own presentation stand. 

19 hours ago, Kl@usW. said:

Cologne #3;      Aachener Strasse

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Shadows, shadows! E.H. Gombrich published a little book titled Shadows: The Depiction of Cast Shadows in Western Art.

2 hours ago, Kl@usW. said:

Cologne #4      Old harbor 

The turnbridge is Colognes oldest bridge over Rhine water--built in 1896. It was restored in 1984 and is still important: it connects the promenade with the island, on which you find the Chocolate-Museum 😍

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An effective play of shadows and steel girders, artfully framed.

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10 hours ago, John Robinson said:

More from the "dusty old negatives" collection revisited:  wonky street in an old town in South East Kent.

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Such an arresting sense of color here, warm pastels. I read an article in American Cinematographer (I think) about Edward Lachman's cinematography in Carol directed by Todd Haynes. It is a 1950's period film that Lachman shot in Super-16 to play off the pastel quality of the lighting and production design in a blow-up 35mm release print. I get the same cinematic sense in your image. Good show!

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1 hour ago, Wayne said:

Thank you. I think this is a beautiful photograph, well composed and exposed, of a subject type that fascinates me. I will probably never own a Noctilux, but this is one of those rare photographs that make the reason for desiring one apparent. A blessing and a curse. :)

Best,

Wayne

I am glad you like the photograph. I walked that way many times over the last years. A few days ago, the light was special and I took the picture. 

It took many years until I decided to finally go for this lens. I always thought one must be crazy to spend a fortune on a lens. Then ... one day I got crazy 😇

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1 hour ago, Sharif said:

Ice cream seller | M2, VC Apo-Lanthar 3.5/90, APX 100 in Rodinal

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Nice!

The CV 90mm Apo-Lanthar f3.5 is a superb lens, a real star in CV's early line-up.  Good to see!

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Fuji GSW iii 690 Portra 400

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Magical, indeed. Well done Christoph.

22 hours ago, christoph_d said:

A week ago we visited an enchanted wood near where Charles lives, in Autumn what you see there is magic!

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And this one is magical too. Lovely contrast between these two, so different yet somehow the same.

On 11/1/2020 at 6:14 AM, Arrow said:

There is a lot of mushrooms around there ... :)

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Really well spotted. Such depth (groan).

21 hours ago, S/W said:

(River)East Harbour

(Frankfurt/Main, Germany)

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I really like your series from Köln, Klaus. I got lost there in the 80s. We were on one of our drive-through-Europe-in-our-little-Fiat-131 four-week road trips and walked along the jam-packed pedestrian area near the cathedral. Took my parents hours to find me. I had apparently got stuck at the window of a shop selling Victorinox knives. 

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Another contrasty pair. JM's earthy, organic and somehow "human" and Klaus is bright, steely and Metropolis-like. Bravo to both. 

16 hours ago, JMF said:

A vintage local bar by JM__, on Flickr

Ektar 100 - M2 - 28 Summicron v1

 

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"They're only made of clay". Lovely scene Pritam. The mountain is lovely and the little people add a wonderful perspective, but it's the fine detail in the clouds that capture my eyes.

15 hours ago, Suede said:

Cyclists, mountains, Silvermax, 50mm, M6.

Very nicely done Sharif. I'd by lots of ice cream there.

14 hours ago, Sharif said:

Ice cream seller | M2, VC Apo-Lanthar 3.5/90, APX 100 in Rodinal

Sharif

I really like Wistman's Wood. Superbly executed and simply beautiful, easy on the eyes, like Grace Kelly. But this one holds such drama. It's almost solarised, and leaves it up to the viewer to figure out what's being observed. My first association, actually (and possibly weirdly), is that famous Capa shot of the D Day landing. Really excellent work.

14 hours ago, Ouroboros said:

South Harris.

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35mm summicron asph

Adox CMS20

 

😕 :D 

3 hours ago, Ernest said:

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Good shot Bo. I have several friends at that regiment.

On 10/30/2020 at 3:19 PM, Bo-Sixten said:

Dusty old negs revisited. Royal guard. Hasselblad, Tri X. Stockholm 1981.

 

 

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More from the "dusty old negatives" collection:  working beach in SE Kent, England, mostly abandoned.

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Ditto.  Should mention the beach faces due East, shots taken at sunset.

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Cologne #5    Groß St. Martin 

The romanesque GSM is one of the largest churches in Cologne. Earliest foundation from 960, actual church from 1150-1250. A heap of rubble after the war, then rebuilt.. The church rests on what archeologist think was a roman spa where the soldiers could relax in a large basin of warm water  and forget the barbarians ( not: Bavarians )  hanging around on the other side of the river.  😅

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Am 27.10.2020 um 15:53 schrieb Stefan2010:

III/Summaron 35/Kodak (?)

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Magnificiant again, stefan. Your remarkable style is identifyably between lots of pictures. I suppose it might be a Porta-Film. The smoothy colors show a little in its direction.

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