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18 hours ago, stray cat said:

I completely agree with Pritam. You are a conjuror of colloquy, Rog, a wizard of words, a sorceror of syntax, an icon of idioms. Your beat poet stream of consciousness flow of ideas and associations is a joy to behold and a treasure that this thread hangs by, as it hangs by a thread. But are we here talking trash about rubbish? How to, how to, how to make it work when the work will not make it? How to edit the world reeling at 1/125 and keep it out of focus? Well, exactly.

I need to just go out and buy a new old camera and listen to what it has to say, no verbs or nouns, all verbs and nouns, just a chaos of calamity that speaks visual riddles, repeating the repetition that has already been repeated. Check, check and check on that one. To those of us who swore off acquisition of new toys, let us hang our heads, head into the new dawn before it fades, 1/125 sec at a time, develop, fix, rinse and hang. Hang hung hunger for new experiences, new visions, new stimuli. 

OMG. Where's the Tylenol?

A tip of the hat to you! Slaying the demon of dithering, you are indeed the King of Chiasmus, Aristocrat of all Alliteration as artful with the phonic as well as the filmic.

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10 hours ago, Kl@usW. said:

Actually I stood in the corner and tried to get the vibrations.. but too many giggling folks with their mobile phones... 

I did as you told me. Bought a new old camera.. and listened: here's what I heard: 

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Now, this is really a conversation! So deep, so dimensional, so sonorous, one can listen to this story and not be bored. It's the background that is the song of sirens.

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Winter trees.

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Leica M3, Summilux-M 50 ASPH, Yellow Filter, Ilford XP2 Super.

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Leica M2 Nokton 1.5 50 mm Kodacolor Cottbus

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This year seems quite busy in many respects. In spite of local lockdown work for a living as well as around the house seems to occupy me a lot, so photography takes a backseat for now. But I do manage to look at all those phantastic photographies here, too many to comment on (at least I try to scatter some hearts and smilies ...). In order for my contributions not to diminish too much, here's a photo from last autumn.

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M6ttl, 2,8/28III, FujiPro400H

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I tested a short strip of Kodak 2238 in Caffenol Delta Mix. Nice tones. I have to say, though, Caffenol is pretty annoying to prepare. And it smells.

Nikon N80, Nikkor 50/1.8 AFD, Kodak 2238 @ 12

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FM2n 50mm f/1.2, HP5+

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3 hours ago, AntonioF said:

I tested a short strip of Kodak 2238 in Caffenol Delta Mix. Nice tones. I have to say, though, Caffenol is pretty annoying to prepare. And it smells.

Nikon N80, Nikkor 50/1.8 AFD, Kodak 2238 @ 12

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LOL, yes, it does smell Antonio, but (so far) I like the tones, the cost, and the sheer "mixed my own chemicals" side of it. Excellent shot.

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Am 10.3.2021 um 22:58 schrieb gbealnz:

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Wonderful panos, Gary ! 

Am 10.3.2021 um 23:57 schrieb stray cat:

The yin and yang of the beautiful and the refuse - keeping in mind that the taoist interpretation is that there is a fundamental connection. 

detritus 1989

Phil, thank you for the Yin and Yang  picture; it nails it very good. And isn't it interesting, that all the discarded objects have a history of enjoyment and pleasure... to start with the champagne fastening and going on with the chocolate paper and the coke can... well the mittens just got lost. Is this more than just getting rid of refuse--a little bit of exorcism or at least distancing involved ? 

vor 11 Stunden schrieb stray cat:

bodie, california 1996

hasselblad, 80mm, agfapan 25

 

Phil, not bad for someone who never really gelled with the hasselblad... 😂

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Les Salines in Camargue, Rolleicord, Ilford HP5 (?)

 

 

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Ilford Delta 100 with 21mm f4 Nikkor-O Nikon F mount on Nikon SP 2005

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1 hour ago, Kl@usW. said:

Phil, thank you for the Yin and Yang  picture; it nails it very good. And isn't it interesting, that all the discarded objects have a history of enjoyment and pleasure... to start with the champagne fastening and going on with the chocolate paper and the coke can... well the mittens just got lost. Is this more than just getting rid of refuse--a little bit of exorcism or at least distancing involved ? 

Phil, not bad for someone who never really gelled with the hasselblad... 😂

Thank you so much Klaus. I’m glad that you got to at least stand in Penn’s corner - and in doing so became as one with the other people who have appeared in his wonderful photographs. 
Yes, revisiting the refuse pictures has, for me, brought up all sorts of questions such as you ask here. Photography is great that way - it doesn’t begin and end with the picture - it stays with you in your mind.

‘Thank you sincerely regarding the Bodie picture. Taken on a tripod, which is where I found the Hasselblad most comfortable due to its form factor. I tried it with a metering prism finder, too, but just always found it just that bit too “clunky” for my liking. Which is to say I liked it a lot but I didn’t often enough get too excited picking it up to walk around with. I’ve recently acquired a Rolleiflex 6008i which is, admittedly, heavy (2kg with 80mm) but it has a wonderfully designed outboard grip, everything is automated, bright, bright screen etc etc etc and I am very very happy with it. To me, it addresses enough of the things I was a bit lukewarm with on the Hasselblad to indicate that it will be a camera that I will thoroughly enjoy using.

And your new(?) acquisition- an OM4 - a stunning camera! Your last couple of pictures indicate, in the words of “Casablanca”:  I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship.

 

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