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5 hours ago, JoshuaRothman said:

This thread is such an inspiration. It may be the best thread I've ever encountered on a photo forum!

Here's a simple one from the backyard last weekend.

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What a wonderful portrait, Joshua!  The thread will only get even better with your contributions.

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This hiker was with her family, and she allowed me to take her picture as her family also was. Mamiya 7 43mm Portra 400 in Unicolor. The lens was too wide for the distance, but I hesitated to intrude so it's severely cropped.

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On 10/20/2022 at 5:05 AM, stray cat said:

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I thought more about this photo late last night and part of what it represents about photography. It was taken 36 years ago. These two girls--should both still be alive (a somber, but honest thought)--would be middle aged now. Maybe with families? Professions? It's (literally) a snapshot in time, an intimate moment that, unless one stays in touch, drifts off from the warm engagement to only a tiny negative or slide testifying to it. The photographer might recall the moment; the subjects probably forget it. But there is nothing beyond it. The girls are frozen in time. Sort of Pygmalion in reverse.

Time for deeper thoughts from others (and maybe bibliography from Rog?)

BTW, I finished the story for myself by imagining them as cousins who remained close, had families, and all together moved across the world. One day, they saw their neighbor outside sorting through his photos, and they said: that's us, Phil!

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Thank you so, so much, Ken, your thoughts have totally brightened my day. As Joshua observes above, this may be the best thread on the internet. Not only because of the consistently high quality of the photography, but because people here are so constantly supportive of one another and willing to engage in conversations that go far and away beyond what is pictured or the gear or whatever.

Like you, I often wonder at "what became of" people in photographs. It would be wonderful, wouldn't it, to attend a party where all the people you've photographed were in attendance and to talk with them about what happened subsequently? There are lovely stories in the history of photography, such as Nick Ut keeping in touch with  Kim Phuc, who he photographed and for who he sought urgent specialist medical attention, for her body was burning with napalm; and Steve McCurry seeking out Sharbat Gula in Afghanistan years after taking the haunting, famous picture of her with her intense green eyes. As an aside, Gula was evacuated from Afghanistan to Italy just at the end of last year due to the Taliban threatening or intimidating high-profile women such as she had become due to the photo and subsequent history.

Then there is the wonderful photo - one of my all-time favourite pictures - by Bruce Davidson from his "Brooklyn Gang" series of a beautiful young woman combing her hair at Coney Island, using the shiny metal of a cigarette machine as a mirror. Decades later Davidson caught up with Cathy O’Neal when Cathy had her own teenage daughter, and she told him how much his interest in the gang had meant to them, as no-one else ever gave them anything let alone the respect he had given them. Some time after that, tragically, Cathy ended he own life with a shotgun.

But, yes, time passes and each of us travels whatever road takes us on our own journey. 1/125 of a second probably doesn't count for much in the bigger picture, yet there that moment lives, ostensibly forever.

Thank you again, Ken.

 

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55 minutes ago, stray cat said:

Thank you so, so much, Ken, your thoughts have totally brightened my day. As Joshua observes above, this may be the best thread on the internet. Not only because of the consistently high quality of the photography, but because people here are so constantly supportive of one another and willing to engage in conversations that go far and away beyond what is pictured or the gear or whatever.

Like you, I often wonder at "what became of" people in photographs. It would be wonderful, wouldn't it, to attend a party where all the people you've photographed were in attendance and to talk with them about what happened subsequently? There are lovely stories in the history of photography, such as Nick Ut keeping in touch with  Kim Phuc, who he photographed and for who he sought urgent specialist medical attention, for her body was burning with napalm; and Steve McCurry seeking out Sharbat Gula in Afghanistan years after taking the haunting, famous picture of her with her intense green eyes. As an aside, Gula was evacuated from Afghanistan to Italy just at the end of last year due to the Taliban threatening or intimidating high-profile women such as she had become due to the photo and subsequent history.

Then there is the wonderful photo - one of my all-time favourite pictures - by Bruce Davidson from his "Brooklyn Gang" series of a beautiful young woman combing her hair at Coney Island, using the shiny metal of a cigarette machine as a mirror. Decades later Davidson caught up with Cathy O’Neal when Cathy had her own teenage daughter, and she told him how much his interest in the gang had meant to them, as no-one else ever gave them anything let alone the respect he had given them. Some time after that, tragically, Cathy ended he own life with a shotgun.

But, yes, time passes and each of us travels whatever road takes us on our own journey. 1/125 of a second probably doesn't count for much in the bigger picture, yet there that moment lives, ostensibly forever.

Thank you again, Ken.

 

Thanks so very, very much, Phil, for that inspiring accounting of the meaningful connection between photographer and subject. 

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Real Street Again
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The notion of flat space and what's color mean.

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Shop #2,  Leica MP, 50 Summicron APO, expired Tri-X

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I still found some Kodachrome slides for you Phil 😀

Kodachrome 64-Leica M7-35 Summilux Asph

Scan Nikon CS5000 option Kodachrome in TIFF . Kodachrome dev in US Kansas Lab

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Henry

"Gris" Nez Cliff  France... you can see in background "Blanc" Nez Cliff  (Gris is "Grey"  and Blanc is  "White" ) Nez is nose 😀

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M-A, Apo 50 and Adox Color Mission 200. If you have good light, this film is really a stunner

 

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14 minutes ago, Doc Henry said:

I still found some Kodachrome slides for you Phil 😀

Kodachrome 64-Leica M7-35 Summilux Asph

Scan Nikon CS5000 option Kodachrome in TIFF . Kodachrome dev in US Kansas Lab

 

Dwayne's Photo in Parsons, Kansas?  The last lab on the planet to process Kodachrome.  

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Leaderfoot viaduct over the Tweed, Scotland. Cinestill 800, M3, superangulon 21mm f4 vers. 

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A rainy day in Coney Island, 2022

 

 

Hasselblad XPan, 45mm f/4, TMax 400 long expired, HC-110(B)

 

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6 hours ago, Doc Henry said:

I still found some Kodachrome slides for you Phil 😀

Kodachrome 64-Leica M7-35 Summilux Asph

Scan Nikon CS5000 option Kodachrome in TIFF . Kodachrome dev in US Kansas Lab

Best

Henry

"Gris" Nez Cliff  France... you can see in background "Blanc" Nez Cliff  (Gris is "Grey"  and Blanc is  "White" ) Nez is nose 😀

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Lovely photo and absolutely beautiful, classic colours of Kodachrome - thank you Doc. There’s something about the way it gives density yet separates colours as in the foreground grasses here. A unique and glorious film, very much missed since 2010.

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