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5 hours ago, philipus said:

Believe it or not this is the door that leads to the main cellblock.


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Something far more devious – documents :D The building was constructed in the 1950s as the new HQ for a Dutch insurance company and this was one of the vault areas. As that little feeble wooden ramp indicates the door wasn't used for the cellblock, but was retained as the building had to remain in 'original condition' as much as possible due to its protected status as a 'rijksmonument'. I suspect it was kept also because it would not fit in the lift. The whole building would probably have to be dismantled to remove it :) 

9 hours ago, Kl@usW. said:

Wow, Philipus. Did they prepare for King Kong as an inmate ? That's a really intimidating sight.... Phew.... 

<scary voice>Well gentlemen...we have ways to make men talk</scary voice>

5 hours ago, Ernest said:

No matter what, I ain't talkin'. I ain't no snitch!

 

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vor 10 Stunden schrieb Kl@usW.:

Stefan, I´m sure Joseph would love it..  Great photo. Did they do an exhibition or is this more than temporary ? 

Thank you Klaus! He stayed there in 1981 and even wanted to do something with plants in Gibellina ;) But as far as I understood, it wasn't finished.

The exhibition on the piazza is permanent like many other pieces of art in the town but there are also several temporary exhibitions and events during the summer. In the winter they took place in Gibellina vecchia, which is more famous. 

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On 8/29/2021 at 4:48 PM, benqui said:

Not at all James!!!

 

On 8/29/2021 at 7:51 PM, rjans said:

I like both pictures.

Roger

 

On 8/30/2021 at 2:33 PM, philipus said:

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

Thank you all for your kind feedback!

 

 

On 8/31/2021 at 11:50 AM, Kl@usW. said:

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

It was close to sunset, actually...

 

 

On 8/31/2021 at 11:53 AM, Kl@usW. said:

Mountain life #7

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

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Another wonderful mountain landscape! I love this kind of pictures since I was a kid, as I had a puzzle with a similar scenery from the Italian Alps.

On 8/31/2021 at 4:48 PM, Ouroboros said:

Eilean Glas lighthouse last Tuesday evening, Isle of Skye beyond.

About 45 mins walk from home, more if you like to dawdle around the coast like I do!

Great place for watching marine mammals; dolphin and minke whale are regulars, Atlantic grey seals etc & huge moon jellyfish

My seabird sightings in the past couple of weeks include white tailed eagle, great skua, Arctic skua, great northern diver, red throated diver, gannets, black guillemot, eider etc.

Always something to see and endlessly lovely, whatever the weather!

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On 8/31/2021 at 6:29 PM, Ouroboros said:

The Sound of Taransay, evening.

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Your panoramic work with this Fuji camera is sublime, Steve! 

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And for comparison a Leica picture :)

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Leica Minilux - Agfa CT 100 Precisa

 

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Portra 800 - Minilux

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Welcome Mike, I'm happy you found this place. That's a nice photo, and a good scan too. I'm a navy guy myself so enjoy photos of all sorts of boats.

7 hours ago, MikeMyers said:

1960's, New York.  I was part of a "work study program" with the Brooklyn Navy Yard and the University of Michigan, studying Naval Architecture.  We learned that an aircraft carrier was coming into the port for work - I believe it was the Essex, CVS 9.  I went to the New York piers, and there was a boat loading professional photographers to get photos, and somehow I got them to allow me on board.  I took lots of photos of the Essex, and gave the photos to the people I worked with, as the photos showed things they were most interested in.  During the boat ride though, I also photographed things that I was fascinated by, knowing I'd probably never get another chance.  

This is probably a boring photo of a tugboat, but it's a style that is now extinct.  New tug boats are very different.

The negative somehow got something like "grease" or "oil" on it while sitting for half a century in the glassine envelope - I wiped it off, and amazing the negative cleaned off nicely.  I scanned it at the same settings I've been using, low contrast, and tried to adjust it in DxO PhotoLab4 so the histogram covered the full range - but it didn't look right, so I put it back where it was.  The "blacks" were fine, but the whites never reached the right end of the histogram.  As a test, I adjusted the highlights, to fill in the histogram, and this is the result.

It was a cloudy, hazy day, and I probably used whatever light meter I was using way back then.  The camera and lens were my Leica M2 and 50mm Summicron, as that's all I had back then.  I rather like the end result!

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This camera???   https://www.35mmc.com/23/05/2019/chinon-bellami-mini-review/

Wow!

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vor 7 Stunden schrieb MikeMyers:

Yes, exactly. The lens is quite sharp-if the program chooses an aperture small enough. I guess it´s a kind of Triotar lens. Since there is only the automatic mode its a good idea to take a fast film. 

Don´t think, shoot says the DNA of this camera. 

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