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6 hours ago, Wayne said:

the yellowish color, whatever its official name, is pretty overpowering. it seems to permeate everything. Even the blue, to some extent. I think it might drive me mad if I had to be enclosed in it for an extended period of time.

Perhaps that is the reason...........................?

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4 hours ago, Ernest said:

This is one of your images that has been haunting me for nearly the past month, something alien passing this way. David Lean would have waited for it. That asphalt demarcation in the foreground, perhaps a Tarkovsky Stalker safe zone where safety is only an allusion playing to the murmur of those thirsty diesel engines groaning for their turn at refueling. Omar Sharif dances in mirage out of the dust storm. Lawrence anticipates with compass in hand. 

This is how it translates at the border for me:

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Thank you so much Rog. And thank you doubly for your image of Omar Sharif (how opportune that our “I Love Film” friend Sharif posted a wonderful photo - with an Alfa Romeo no less - just after this!) appearing as a spectre from the heat haze, your inimitable desert sands describing an alternative Tarkovskiesque “safe” zone. It is apt that the very possibility of the concept of such a space is queried - surely our world cries out for such! But, back to your wonderful picture, any allusion to Lawrence, Sherif Ali and so on is always most welcome and appreciated!

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Actually the yellow colour, which is used in all holding cell areas (I'll show the two other areas later) was selected because of its purported soothing characteristics. Interestingly it is also used in some staff areas, like in all the interpreters' booths...

22 hours ago, Wayne said:

the yellowish color, whatever its official name, is pretty overpowering. it seems to permeate everything. Even the blue, to some extent. I think it might drive me mad if I had to be enclosed in it for an extended period of time.

Delightful photos. Make me hungry.

On 8/29/2021 at 2:09 PM, leicamour said:

Cucumbers, courgettes, melons and pumpkins.

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What a scene, and what a strange impression that lake gives, as if the mountain rises above some green-screened computer effect.

On 8/29/2021 at 2:10 PM, leicamour said:

Grimselsee

Leica M6 - 35Summicron - Velvia

I like this one too James, in part because it almost ooks like you're kayaking on ice.

21 hours ago, Sparkassenkunde said:

Another picture of the tip of my kayak. In my opinion it has not the quality of the picture I posted before, but it is not too bad, either. What do you think?

Leica Minilux - Agfa CT 100 Precisa 

 

 

 

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MP, 28mm Summaron with yellow filter. Ilford Pan400.

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4 hours ago, bags27 said:

Interested to know how you took this fine portrait.

Would like to say I took it while she came over for dinner one night; but I can't. 

It was at some panel discussion event I was covering that I believe was held in Lincoln Center NYC. Christopher Reeve was also there along with his wife. The media presence was low so it was a low key, relaxed time.

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On 8/29/2021 at 3:37 AM, philipus said:

I had to look up 'scrim' and learnt that it, and scrimmage, come from skirmish, which happens to be one of my favourite words. One association I get seeing this is graphs. It seems to me that our lives the last year or so have been guided to a large extent by graphs, on infection rates, mortality, survival rates, R numbers etc. I'm not saying that this is behind the construct, but it seems to me that there's some form of conversation going on here between the upper and lower halves and I'm wondering what it's about. I recently read a piece in the Economist on how the last few decades' search in physics of a unified theory of everything may have had the unintended drawback that other theories have not been developed, but that now some are coming. A leading contender apparently is entropic gravity which I can't say that I understand at all, but the idea is that at very very low levels of gravity, like at interstellar distances, that force begins to decay linearly with the distance rather than according to the inverse square law of the distance. It supposedly has big impact on how things with mass, like various particles, interact and relate to each other. Fundamentally it's about order-disorder, I believe. Perhaps the two halves are two sides of this somehow – messy, chaotic and alive versus harmoniously structured, organised, and dead. 

You had to look up "scrim," so I will have to look up "entropic gravity." Anything entropic has to be delicious feast for the mind. I am certainly nominating you for the front office to parse images and their allegorical subtext privileged or not by textual signifiers. Do the words illustrate the image, or does the image illustrate the word. Such is a title and the flavor of the text. Rauschenberg entertains and provokes with titles like Horsefeathers Thirteen and Cardbird, text at play with frustrating simple either/or signification. So it is with "Scrim Twin." It's a poetic melody of language meant to signify a dismantling of acuity. Scrims are used in theatre stage design often to reveal an image layered behind another image, like a montage effect if you will. There is a blurring at play. "Scrim Twin" pertains simultaneously to the two abstract forms at the top right and the kind of diptych division of the color fields, top and bottom. There is repetition and replication implied here. I was thinking of the allusion to clarity cast in a veil of ambiguity that pricks the imagination to play. Such is the gulf between text and image, the province of nuance and allusion. The palette? This is a messy COVID landscape, red scumbled, the evidentiary staining of blood blurring borderlines. Color, muted, dirty palette, can groan from back alleys. Maroon, the color of dried blood. Maroon, simultaneously to strand or abandon. Maroon, scrim twin. The emotional valence of color. The bio-chaos of COVID. There's no furniture, here. It is always a challenge to resist too much furniture. I recall Boris Vian using the term "furniture" to signify people in The Empire Builders.

I must turn to your entropic gravity, now. I like the idea of gravity. Galileo and gravity. I like the notion of keeping our feet planted on the planet. I like the fact that you're on the planet to bat the shuttlecock of ideas back and forth over the LUF net.

Rog

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Am 27.8.2021 um 20:54 schrieb Wayne:

Butterfly at very low ISO

Rolleiflex Orignal Model; long expired Verichrome Pan; Rolleinar Close-up lens

I love this picture, Wayne. Dipsacus is a fascinating flower. Useful and aesthetically interesting. And the haptics of course.   I've bought a Rolleinar lately and am surprised how simple and effective it is. As you show us.  

Am 28.8.2021 um 10:46 schrieb Sparkassenkunde:

A moment of tranquility in my little kayak:

Ricoh GR1s - Agfa CT 100 Precisa 

James, beautiful ! Seems it was an early trip, the mist still over the water... 

 

Am 28.8.2021 um 21:22 schrieb Ernest:

Scrim Twin
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Rog, I had to look up "scrim" too. But in the end I just enjoyed to look at the colors, the texture, the balance of the planes.... Very enjoyable ( in the sense that it tickles my neurons... ) 

Am 29.8.2021 um 10:38 schrieb Doc Henry:

...  for those who believe in the film like me and to thank the friends like James , 3ooB , Gary , Philippe , Phil .... I have on this forum who don't call me "can's worms", here are some pictures of poppies taken with Kodak Portra 800 film developed by myself - home lab - in Tetenal (because I only like film and only believe in film) Leicaflex SL camera (no need to look for a digital SL to have such a beautiful and natural color) and R Elmarit 135 lens + tripod Gitzo ... TIFF scan size 120 MB  > No Correction

Best regards

Henry

the one who opened this thread in 2013

Henry, as someone who found the thread only quite recently: thank you for kicking it off !  And beautiful poppies. 

Am 29.8.2021 um 15:42 schrieb Wayne:

the yellowish color, whatever its official name, is pretty overpowering. it seems to permeate everything. Even the blue, to some extent. I think it might drive me mad if I had to be enclosed in it for an extended period of time.

The psychology of color.... an endless theme.  Apparently there are many factors that tie a color to an emotion. But I think there is a basic concordance, at least in my amateur anthropology-psychology:   Blue--water; green--grass, pasture, food. ; red--blood, emotion, heat. Yellow--heat, dryness and for a certain shade of yellow for me: toxicity.... see cadmium..So I agree with you, the color is disturbing.  See Phil´s phantastic  sandstorm picture... not so calming the situation. 

I´m sure, @Ernest can quote a couple of scholarly works on that subject..

Am 29.8.2021 um 20:51 schrieb Ernest:

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Wow, I love the transition of the red to the carmine, balanced by the yellow green. 

vor 14 Stunden schrieb Nachtmsk:

Angelica Houston

NYC  ~1990

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That's a really nice, flattering and classic portrait.   

vor 8 Stunden schrieb Ernest:

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Rog, I don't need to read the papers any more. Just looking at your work will update me sufficiently .

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Mountain life #7

Croci, May 21. The snow has just gone.     Click for better resolution

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MP; SEM 3.4/21, Ektar 100

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F100 50mm f1.2 with close-up filter, Tri-X 400, HC110b

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On 8/29/2021 at 10:38 AM, Doc Henry said:

...  for those who believe in the film like me and to thank the friends like James , 3ooB , Gary , Philippe , Phil .... I have on this forum who don't call me "can's worms", here are some pictures of poppies taken with Kodak Portra 800 film developed by myself - home lab - in Tetenal (because I only like film and only believe in film) Leicaflex SL camera (no need to look for a digital SL to have such a beautiful and natural color) and R Elmarit 135 lens + tripod Gitzo ... TIFF scan size 120 MB  > No Correction

Best regards

Henry

the one who opened this thread in 2013

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Great to see you back - with your signature poppies...

Rgds

Christoph

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