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23 hours ago, verwackelt said:

To come back to that Infrared dilemma with missing real IR films.
I found that video quite interesting. He mentioned that Rollei 400IR is quite good but very slow.
So tripod only…

 

You don’t need a tripod in the middle of the day in full sun, I used a F2 biogon with filter no probs 

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The little dog laughed

To see such sport...  [Silvermax 100]

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M-A Summilux-M 50 ASPH. BC Rollei Redbird & Fuji Natura

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20 hours ago, Kl@usW. said:

Rog, I´m still amazed ( after all the years ☺️) how you manage to get the 3rd dimension out of the plane just with hues and shades... great work

Thanks, Klaus. I'm just beginning to work my way through the chromatic kaleidoscope of color fields. Always a challenge.

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20 hours ago, Kl@usW. said:

Rog and Wayne and all the US-citizens looking into the LUF:  in my part of the world  the 4 th of July is about to end in a few minutes-- for you some thousands of miles away:   My best wishes to you all on this important day. May a lot of brain and compassion and a sense for the necessities of a community rain from the heavens on us all.... 

Thanks for your kind thoughts. The antidote to anti-social distancing.

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9 minutes ago, paulmac said:

Today - crossing Haworth Moor (of Wuthering Heights fame) on the way to photograph an old mill at Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire UK.

Leica 111A with a 35mm Summaron lens and viewed via a Leitz SBLOO 35mm finder. 

Agfa APX 100 (original) in Rodinal 1-25  for 8 minutes.

This location is locally known as  "Top o'th Stairs"  and is the old pack horse road from the West Riding of Yorkshire to Hebden Bridge where the Calder Canal was. Woven woolen cloth was once carried over here from the cottage weavers in nearby Haworth and Keighley to the canal barges at Hebden Bridge.

The actual name of the old road is "Stairs Lane" and hence the local name because this location is at the end of the climb out of the Worth Valley.

 

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I really enjoy looking at your photographs. They have that granite gritty grainy feel and the framing is always top drawer. Thanks for sharing here.

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vor 3 Stunden schrieb Ernest:

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Rog, this is an intimidating piece. Find yourself on a lonely beach after that cosmic event and know you are the last human living... the Geiger counter lying next to you is  running riot... 

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obviously the floor tiler was the brother in law of the local orthopedic surgeon... omg. 

vor 1 Stunde schrieb paulmac:

The old Mill at "Old Town" Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire, UK - July 5th 2020.

I had come to this location specifically to photograph the mill as the gates date right back to 1865 and needed recording as the mill is derelict and under conversion to living accommodation.

I've come here a few times and as the mill is under renovation the contractors have stuck a site safety notice onto these wonderful old Victorian cast iron mill gates.

Well today no luck - the sign is still there and so I thought that I better snap it before it's gone and so worked around the new Health and Safety Warning sign.

I was working with my Leica 111A and for these pictures I used an original version, non coated, 50mm F2 SUMMARIT lens and for the pictures with the sky in them I added the special Leitz Yellow Filter that was made specifically to fit this lens (it's an odd thread a bit v shaped and will only fit the Summarit)

It's a bit of a challenge using the 111A for this type of picture because the framing has to be exact as I absolutely didn't want any of the "modern sign" in to spoil the picture. The tiny 111A viewfinder takes a bit of getting used to but strangely (I never thought that I would) I prefer to use the camera just as it is with the 50mm lens and without the 50mm shoe mounted Leitz Viewfinder, that although giving a much bigger view than the one built into the camera, is actually not as nice to use! 

Maybe when the conversion is finished they hopefully will retain the gates and I will be able to take a picture showing them in full with the mill in the background.

Film was Agfa APX 100 (original) developed in Rodinal 1-25  8minutes.

 

 

 

 

Paul, very impressive as always.  My family on mothers side was running a wool mill until the fifties--after that it became a lost place. I do remember the large hall with the mechanical looms--powered by a huge Siemens generator, a later addition to the water-mill... unfortunately it all burned down in the 70s. Interesting perhaps is the history of the looms: my grandfather told me they were bought in England and were the first mechanical looms in the Rhineland area.   Must have been in early 1800.. 

So your pictures of the lost places of the english wool industry for me are even more interesting.  

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1 hour ago, Kl@usW. said:

Rog, this is an intimidating piece. Find yourself on a lonely beach after that cosmic event and know you are the last human living... the Geiger counter lying next to you is  running riot... 

This is what keeps me up late at night and all day, too. It's only color, I keep reciting. There isn't even any solace in that lethal vein of viridian that most tribes take as a signal of sustenance, rejuvenation. Not here, necessarily. Well, what can I expect when I give in to Leica psychosis and listen to what a lens can do privileging color as content, not content to capture somethingness, only surrendering to nothingness. This world is OOF. What a term: out of focus! Rollei Redbird out of focus. Woody Allen did Deconstructing Harry. Oh, the traffic of OOF. Given, we have (con)tent, shouldn't there also be (pro)tent? Silly. In California, there's a spike going on, and it's not in a drink. Don't travel downwind, even though the tribe is dancing anti-social distancing.

Signing off, OOF. I think you are going to get a greenlight, Klaus, for your dystopian drama. 

In the meantime, I think I should get in touch with Phil's talented son, Alex, and see what can he can do in the way of wrapping the rhythm of a Geiger counter reading into a soundtrack for Magnetic Meridian.

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1 hour ago, Ernest said:

This is what keeps me up late at night and all day, too. It's only color, I keep reciting. There isn't even any solace in that lethal vein of viridian that most tribes take as a signal of sustenance, rejuvenation. Not here, necessarily. Well, what can I expect when I give in to Leica psychosis and listen to what a lens can do privileging color as content, not content to capture somethingness, only surrendering to nothingness. This world is OOF. What a term: out of focus! Rollei Redbird out of focus. Woody Allen did Deconstructing Harry. Oh, the traffic of OOF. Given, we have (con)tent, shouldn't there also be (pro)tent? Silly. In California, there's a spike going on, and it's not in a drink. Don't travel downwind, even though the tribe is dancing anti-social distancing.

Signing off, OOF. I think you are going to get a greenlight, Klaus, for your dystopian drama. 

In the meantime, I think I should get in touch with Phil's talented son, Alex, and see what can he can do in the way of wrapping the rhythm of a Geiger counter reading into a soundtrack for Magnetic Meridian.

Passing that challenge on to Alex as we speak. I’d also add, Rog, that as well as (con)tent and your suggested (pro)tent we should add the third man of this little anti-distanced gathering: (por)tent, which I think most of us would agree your assemblages contain. 

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36 minutes ago, stray cat said:

Passing that challenge on to Alex as we speak. I’d also add, Rog, that as well as (con)tent and your suggested (pro)tent we should add the third man of this little anti-distanced gathering: (por)tent, which I think most of us would agree your assemblages contain. 

Oh, (por)tent! Leave it to you, Phil of Rapier Wit, to provide refuge for the poor. As for photographers portending a collapse into the calamitous, Trent Parke's latest work, The Crimson Line, looks like it echoes a distinctly dystopian portrait. Thanks so much for introducing his work to me. Talk about artists being the antennae of civilization, I am reminded of Thomas Cole's "Eden to Empire" series of five paintings (1833-1836), which Ed Ruscha reinterpreted with "The Course of Empire" (2018). There are two publications: Course of Empire for the United States Pavilion, 51st Venice Biennale, 2005, with an introduction by Joan Didion; and Course of Empire from the National Gallery.

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30 minutes ago, Ernest said:

Oh, (por)tent! Leave it to you, Phil of Rapier Wit, to provide refuge for the poor. As for photographers portending a collapse into the calamitous, Trent Parke's latest work, The Crimson Line, looks like it echoes a distinctly dystopian portrait. Thanks so much for introducing his work to me. Talk about artists being the antennae of civilization, I am reminded of Thomas Cole's "Eden to Empire" series of five paintings (1833-1836), which Ed Ruscha reinterpreted with "The Course of Empire" (2018). There are two publications: Course of Empire for the United States Pavilion, 51st Venice Biennale, 2005, with an introduction by Joan Didion; and Course of Empire from the National Gallery.

And in return I sincerely thank you for reawakening me to Cole’s wonderful multiple work and alerting me to Ruscha’s inventive and idiosyncratic  interpretation.

Oh, and just heard back from Alex - he’s accepted the challenge. Might be a while though, he’s finishing his degree, getting married 👰 and a whole bunch of things in the next few weeks...

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17 minutes ago, stray cat said:

And in return I sincerely thank you for reawakening me to Cole’s wonderful multiple work and alerting me to Ruscha’s inventive and idiosyncratic  interpretation.

Oh, and just heard back from Alex - he’s accepted the challenge. Might be a while though, he’s finishing his degree, getting married 👰 and a whole bunch of things in the next few weeks...

Wow! A full slate; I'll bet proud Dad's booked solid, too. Congratulations!

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1 hour ago, Ernest said:

Wow! A full slate; I'll bet proud Dad's booked solid, too. Congratulations!

Yes, extremely proud indeed. Tempered somewhat by the fact that we can't be there for the wedding in Seattle. Heck, we can't even go to Sydney. Hopefully, one day when the world returns to its senses (optimistic I know) there will be a second wedding...

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10 hours ago, Suede said:

The little dog laughed

To see such sport...  [Silvermax 100]

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In the meantime, I love this. That oh so wonderful little bit of childhood poetry:

Hey Diddle, Diddle!
The cat and the fiddle,
The cow jumped over the moon;
The little dog laughed
To see such sport,
And the dish ran away with the spoon.

 

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Some southern colours for a Monday afternoon.

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Rollei 35T,  Ektar100

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