Redscale Study IX (Film)
Camera: Nikon F3 with a Nikkor 35-70mm f/3.5 AI-s lens.
Film: Harman Red ISO 125 Redscale 35mm film.
Scanned by Walkens House of Film, Melbourne, Australia
The once mighty South Esk River used to run freely through the Cataract Gorge until it was dammed in the early 1950s for hydro power. We've had a lot of rain this spring, and after a few days of continuous rainfall the Trevallyn Dam overflows into the Cataract Gorge. Then we get an impression of what it was once like for the rapids to flow.
This new Harman Red film can give an apocalyptic touch to photographs, so it was an ideal situation to try it out. Here the rich reds, oranges and yellows of the redscale film stock produces a truly surreal outcome.
A TRIBUTE TO JANE GOODALL
I've just learned that the famed primatologist and environmentalist, Jane Goodall, has died overnight at the age of 91. This news has impacted me in a way comparable to when I heard that Carl Sagan (1934-1996) had died. The reason is simple: Both were extremely wise human beings, quite apart from being brilliant scientists and educators. Recently, Jane Goodall was warning us of the political consequences of uncivil societies, where we treat the marginalised and our most vulnerable people with disdain and cruelty. In much the same way, Carl Sagan left us with a dire warning of what he considered was an impending new Dark Age in his book, The Demon-Haunted World. In it he forecast the rise of perverse interpretations of religion which would seek to impose not only their worst theocratic impulses on the world, but would aim to undermine fundamentally all the gains we have made through scientific knowledge.
I remember hearing Jane Goodall speak in Melbourne early in the 2000s, and she was so eloquent in expressing her love for the natural world. She was able to draw lessons from it and apply them to our successes and failings as homo sapiens. Like Sagan, she was concerned about the growing anti-intellectualism which was starting to manifest itself in the world of neo-cons culminating in the so-called "war on terror". In the past week she spoke out about the way the United States is being plunged into an authoritarian nightmare. [Remember Christian Nationalists, power might be an aphrodisiac when your man is in power, but just wait for the fallout when this power-base essentially crumbles. You are doing untold damage to all religions and to civil society - as Sagan warned.]
The best way to honour Jane Goodall would be to stop listening to the online science-skeptics, the grifters and anti-intellectuals who are trying to dumb our society down. Why are they doing this? Because an ignorant populace is easily manipulated by power-hungry politicians and corporations who have no interest in the well-being of ordinary citizens.
Jane Goodall: 91 & Thriving
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4cGn-gm4MTI&t=163s
Rest well dear Jane.
Redscale Study IX (Film)
Camera: Nikon F3 with a Nikkor 35-70mm f/3.5 AI-s lens.
Film: Harman Red ISO 125 Redscale 35mm film.
Scanned by Walkens House of Film, Melbourne, Australia
The once mighty South Esk River used to run freely through the Cataract Gorge until it was dammed in the early 1950s for hydro power. We've had a lot of rain this spring, and after a few days of continuous rainfall the Trevallyn Dam overflows into the Cataract Gorge. Then we get an impression of what it was once like for the rapids to flow.
This new Harman Red film can give an apocalyptic touch to photographs, so it was an ideal situation to try it out. Here the rich reds, oranges and yellows of the redscale film stock produces a truly surreal outcome.
A TRIBUTE TO JANE GOODALL
I've just learned that the famed primatologist and environmentalist, Jane Goodall, has died overnight at the age of 91. This news has impacted me in a way comparable to when I heard that Carl Sagan (1934-1996) had died. The reason is simple: Both were extremely wise human beings, quite apart from being brilliant scientists and educators. Recently, Jane Goodall was warning us of the political consequences of uncivil societies, where we treat the marginalised and our most vulnerable people with disdain and cruelty. In much the same way, Carl Sagan left us with a dire warning of what he considered was an impending new Dark Age in his book, The Demon-Haunted World. In it he forecast the rise of perverse interpretations of religion which would seek to impose not only their worst theocratic impulses on the world, but would aim to undermine fundamentally all the gains we have made through scientific knowledge.
I remember hearing Jane Goodall speak in Melbourne early in the 2000s, and she was so eloquent in expressing her love for the natural world. She was able to draw lessons from it and apply them to our successes and failings as homo sapiens. Like Sagan, she was concerned about the growing anti-intellectualism which was starting to manifest itself in the world of neo-cons culminating in the so-called "war on terror". In the past week she spoke out about the way the United States is being plunged into an authoritarian nightmare. [Remember Christian Nationalists, power might be an aphrodisiac when your man is in power, but just wait for the fallout when this power-base essentially crumbles. You are doing untold damage to all religions and to civil society - as Sagan warned.]
The best way to honour Jane Goodall would be to stop listening to the online science-skeptics, the grifters and anti-intellectuals who are trying to dumb our society down. Why are they doing this? Because an ignorant populace is easily manipulated by power-hungry politicians and corporations who have no interest in the well-being of ordinary citizens.
Jane Goodall: 91 & Thriving
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4cGn-gm4MTI&t=163s
Rest well dear Jane.