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I will pretty much do anything to eradicate this dreadful virus that has taken over our lives. Christmas has all but been cancelled here and that's OK. I can manage without the festivities, the gatherings and the parties if it is going to save lives. I don't like it but I will refrain from seeing my friends, which will be hard, and my family, even harder. I don't need to be running to the shops for all the frivolous extras one buys at this time of year. But I draw the line at not having Klejner with my coffee on Christmas morning! So today a batch was made. They have been sampled, approved and are now tucked away until the 25th.
"But if these years have taught me anything it is this: you can never run away. Not ever. The only way out is in." - Junot Díaz
One of those photos that wasn't ever really supposed to be anything. I was shooting through a test roll at work. It was a roll of Kodak VPL that had expired in the early 1980s and I had it in a consignment Mamiya C220. The goal was the exposed film, not to test the camera. Our darkroom at work has separate, special chemical lines geared toward developing old color film, both C-41 and C-22. Color film from the early 80s though has proven some of the tougher C-41 film to get consistent results from, so we are always doing test rolls to tweak the chemistry and see if we can refine it. Truth be told, it has gotten pretty good. It won't rewind time and undo letting the film cook for 30 years in a hot attic, but it definitely can help.
Anyway, I didn't have too much invested in this roll, I was just making exposures. Whenever I do test rolls I try to keep it somewhat interesting, to find that balance between making the same exposure across that whole roll and making an art project out of it that doesn't get done nearly quick enough.
So I got to the last two exposure and I was tempted just to wind through and unload the roll, how important were those last two exposures after all? But the photographer in me loathed wasting the film, even if it was 40 year old expired color film. So I spotted my co-worker Young David (not his given, legal name) and had him lean down to bring his face closer to my view through the waist level finder. And then I fired off the last two frames, this being one of them.
VPL is a tungsten balanced film, so it naturally has a blue cast. I was not really thinking about that when I made this image, but the film's color palette lent itself well to David's shirt and eyes.
Anyway, not a photo that was really meant to be anything but one that turned into something I quite liked.
Mamiya C220
Kodak VPL
In February 1954, Marilyn Monroe went to Korea for a USO tour to entertain American troops, performing 10 shows over four days for an audience of over 100,000 soldiers. She performed a show titled "Anything Goes," which helped her overcome stage fright, and she later reflected that the experience was the best thing that had ever happened to her, making her feel like a star for the first time.
Ah the 2014 - 2015 era of CN, when anything and everything would show up.
Here we have London - Toronto train A43431 16 about to pass under Garden Avenue with CN 2015, and CN 2563 on point
This old log house was jacked up for foundation work last month, they must have decided on a finishing ttouch
Just an older upload because I'm back at school (my last year!) and still camera-less, so I won't be uploading anything for awhile :(
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_______________1932 Cord E-1 prototype__________________
Although the car is rare, “pictures” of this car are anything but rare. Many fine pictures of this classic car have been recorded and posted on flickr (including one other that I had posted some time ago.) Actually I had totally forgotten that I had previously posted a picture of this Cord and continued to work merrily along my way in creating this artwork. (Again, I call this “artwork” but others may not agree.) This current picture of The Cord E-1 was recorded during a recent visit to the Auburn-Cord-Duesenberg Museum (the rather unpleasant experience of October 8, 20 to which I have made references.) Actually, I recorded this as a last minute impulse more out of mere desperation for some new pictures.
So why am I even posting it, you might think. Well, let’s just say simply for laughs and giggles. And the picture of this vintage actress as a back drop? Really no connection or association to the Cord - just a pretty face in the crowd one might say.
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Danielle Darrieux actress
Born ………………… May 1, 1917 in Bordeaux, Gironde, France
Died ………………… October 17, 2017 in Bois-le-Roi, Eure, France
Birth Name ………… Danielle Yvonne Marie Antoinette Darrieux
Danielle Darrieux was a French actress born in 1917 in Bordeaux, France. Primarily she starred in French movies. However, in 1938, she did (somehow-someway) get a part in a Hollywood comedy, The Rage of Paris but then quickly returned to Paris where she remained during the occupation, continuing to get parts in French movies. In 1970, once again returning to the U.S. she replaced Katharine Hepburn in the Broadway production of, “Coco”. In 2002 she made a triumphant comeback, playing Catherine Deneuve's mother in the international hit 8 Women .
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A VERY old work of mine revisited with some new tools. As you can see by the settings, I knew nothing about ISO, aperture, and all that so it's a miracle that I got anything usable xD
Make a wish and place it in your heart.
Anything you want, everything you want.
Do you have it? Good.
Now believe it can come true.
You never know where the next miracle is gonna come from, the next smile, the next wish come true.
But if you believe that it's right around the corner, and you open your heart and mind to the possibility of it, to the certainty of it.
You just might get the thing you're wishing for.
The world is full of magic. You just have to believe in it.
So make your wish.
Do you have it?
Good.
Now believe in it. With all your heart.
i wont tell you what i wished for.. :)
*Explored!*
I know that I said I wasn't going to post anything for the rest of the summer but I was really missing flickr and just couldn't wait that long to post anything. The kids and I have really been enjoying our summer and the weather has been perfect this last week and I was so excited that my kids let me take pictures of them the other night! We leave to in a couple of weeks to go and visit my sister and family, super excited! This is the longest we have gone without seeing them!
I hope that everyone is having a great week!
The National Gallery with some nice light on it, Thursday afternoon while on a walk on my lunch hour. The Christmas market is in front of it at the bottom, more for gullible tourists than anything else it seems.
Model: Kezia. Tools: Contax 167 MT, Zeiss 50mm f1.4, Kodak Portra 160. Process and scan by Exposure Film Lab. I have a decade worth of photos, check out my albums!
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HEARSE DRAWN BY TWO BLACK HORSES ON AN EAST LONDON BOROUGH SUBURB STREET ENGLAND . A BEAUTIFUL SIGHT BUT SUCH A SAD OCCASION WHICH WE ALL EXPERIENCE IN OUR LIVES DSCN0093 C
This was taken on Grand, between Greene and Mercer, in the SoHo district of Manhattan.
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This set of photos is based on a very simple concept: walk every block of Manhattan with a camera, and see what happens. To avoid missing anything, walk both sides of the street.
That's all there is to it …
Of course, if you wanted to be more ambitious, you could also walk the streets of Brooklyn, Queens, Staten Island, and the Bronx. But that's more than I'm willing to commit to at this point, and I'll leave the remaining boroughs of New York City to other, more adventurous photographers.
Oh, actually, there's one more small detail: leave the photos alone for a month -- unedited, untouched, and unviewed. By the time I actually focus on the first of these "every-block" photos, I will have taken more than 8,000 images on the nearby streets of the Upper West Side -- plus another several thousand in Rome, Coney Island, and the various spots in NYC where I traditionally take photos. So I don't expect to be emotionally attached to any of the "every-block" photos, and hope that I'll be able to make an objective selection of the ones worth looking at.
As for the criteria that I've used to select the small subset of every-block photos that get uploaded to Flickr: there are three. First, I'll upload any photo that I think is "great," and where I hope the reaction of my Flickr-friends will be, "I have no idea when or where that photo was taken, but it's really a terrific picture!"
A second criterion has to do with place, and the third involves time. I'm hoping that I'll take some photos that clearly say, "This is New York!" to anyone who looks at it. Obviously, certain landscape icons like the Empire State Building or the Statue of Liberty would satisfy that criterion; but I'm hoping that I'll find other, more unexpected examples. I hope that I'll be able to take some shots that will make a "local" viewer say, "Well, even if that's not recognizable to someone from another part of the country, or another part of the world, I know that that's New York!" And there might be some photos where a "non-local" viewer might say, "I had no idea that there was anyplace in New York City that was so interesting/beautiful/ugly/spectacular."
As for the sense of time: I remember wandering around my neighborhood in 2005, photographing various shops, stores, restaurants, and business establishments -- and then casually looking at the photos about five years later, and being stunned by how much had changed. Little by little, store by store, day by day, things change … and when you've been around as long as I have, it's even more amazing to go back and look at the photos you took thirty or forty years ago, and ask yourself, "Was it really like that back then? Seriously, did people really wear bell-bottom jeans?"
So, with the expectation that I'll be looking at these every-block photos five or ten years from now (and maybe you will be, too), I'm going to be doing my best to capture scenes that convey the sense that they were taken in the year 2013 … or at least sometime in the decade of the 2010's (I have no idea what we're calling this decade yet). Or maybe they'll just say to us, "This is what it was like a dozen years after 9-11".
Movie posters are a trivial example of such a time-specific image; I've already taken a bunch, and I don't know if I'll ultimately decide that they're worth uploading. Women's fashion/styles are another obvious example of a time-specific phenomenon; and even though I'm definitely not a fashion expert, I suspected that I'll be able to look at some images ten years from now and mutter to myself, "Did we really wear shirts like that? Did women really wear those weird skirts that are short in the front, and long in the back? Did everyone in New York have a tattoo?"
Another example: I'm fascinated by the interactions that people have with their cellphones out on the street. It seems that everyone has one, which certainly wasn't true a decade ago; and it seems that everyone walks down the street with their eyes and their entire conscious attention riveted on this little box-like gadget, utterly oblivious about anything else that might be going on (among other things, that makes it very easy for me to photograph them without their even noticing, particularly if they've also got earphones so they can listen to music or carry on a phone conversation). But I can't help wondering whether this kind of social behavior will seem bizarre a decade from now … especially if our cellphones have become so miniaturized that they're incorporated into the glasses we wear, or implanted directly into our eyeballs.
If you have any suggestions about places that I should definitely visit to get some good photos, or if you'd like me to photograph you in your little corner of New York City, please let me know. You can send me a Flickr-mail message, or you can email me directly at ed-at-yourdon-dot-com
Stay tuned as the photo-walk continues, block by block ...
Good morning Cricklewood! What do you think of my Goodies so far? Tim I'm really happy with, he's pretty much done, Graeme is fairly good but finding a face with mutton chops and glasses isn't easy, it seems to be the case that you either get one or the other, not both. Bill is the least convincing; he needs a yellow shirt under a black vest (did Han have one of those?) and his facial hair I'm not sold on. Maybe I'll try the goatee that he had. Any suggestions are most welcome.
This owl hunted a small meadow for nearly 4 hours and seemed not to be bothered by us being there. After an hour of handholding my camera my arms and shoulders started to hurt but didn't want to take the chance of missing out on anything. Finally I couldn't take it anymore and went back to the car to grab the tripod. I'm glad I did because the real show started later on.
This was taken on Sullivan Street, somewhere south of Houston.
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This set of photos is based on a very simple concept: walk every block of Manhattan with a camera, and see what happens. To avoid missing anything, walk both sides of the street.
That's all there is to it …
Of course, if you wanted to be more ambitious, you could also walk the streets of Brooklyn, Queens, Staten Island, and the Bronx. But that's more than I'm willing to commit to at this point, and I'll leave the remaining boroughs of New York City to other, more adventurous photographers.
Oh, actually, there's one more small detail: leave the photos alone for a month -- unedited, untouched, and unviewed. By the time I actually focus on the first of these "every-block" photos, I will have taken more than 8,000 images on the nearby streets of the Upper West Side -- plus another several thousand in Rome, Coney Island, and the various spots in NYC where I traditionally take photos. So I don't expect to be emotionally attached to any of the "every-block" photos, and hope that I'll be able to make an objective selection of the ones worth looking at.
As for the criteria that I've used to select the small subset of every-block photos that get uploaded to Flickr: there are three. First, I'll upload any photo that I think is "great," and where I hope the reaction of my Flickr-friends will be, "I have no idea when or where that photo was taken, but it's really a terrific picture!"
A second criterion has to do with place, and the third involves time. I'm hoping that I'll take some photos that clearly say, "This is New York!" to anyone who looks at it. Obviously, certain landscape icons like the Empire State Building or the Statue of Liberty would satisfy that criterion; but I'm hoping that I'll find other, more unexpected examples. I hope that I'll be able to take some shots that will make a "local" viewer say, "Well, even if that's not recognizable to someone from another part of the country, or another part of the world, I know that that's New York!" And there might be some photos where a "non-local" viewer might say, "I had no idea that there was anyplace in New York City that was so interesting/beautiful/ugly/spectacular."
As for the sense of time: I remember wandering around my neighborhood in 2005, photographing various shops, stores, restaurants, and business establishments -- and then casually looking at the photos about five years later, and being stunned by how much had changed. Little by little, store by store, day by day, things change … and when you've been around as long as I have, it's even more amazing to go back and look at the photos you took thirty or forty years ago, and ask yourself, "Was it really like that back then? Seriously, did people really wear bell-bottom jeans?"
So, with the expectation that I'll be looking at these every-block photos five or ten years from now (and maybe you will be, too), I'm going to be doing my best to capture scenes that convey the sense that they were taken in the year 2013 … or at least sometime in the decade of the 2010's (I have no idea what we're calling this decade yet). Or maybe they'll just say to us, "This is what it was like a dozen years after 9-11".
Movie posters are a trivial example of such a time-specific image; I've already taken a bunch, and I don't know if I'll ultimately decide that they're worth uploading. Women's fashion/styles are another obvious example of a time-specific phenomenon; and even though I'm definitely not a fashion expert, I suspected that I'll be able to look at some images ten years from now and mutter to myself, "Did we really wear shirts like that? Did women really wear those weird skirts that are short in the front, and long in the back? Did everyone in New York have a tattoo?"
Another example: I'm fascinated by the interactions that people have with their cellphones out on the street. It seems that everyone has one, which certainly wasn't true a decade ago; and it seems that everyone walks down the street with their eyes and their entire conscious attention riveted on this little box-like gadget, utterly oblivious about anything else that might be going on (among other things, that makes it very easy for me to photograph them without their even noticing, particularly if they've also got earphones so they can listen to music or carry on a phone conversation). But I can't help wondering whether this kind of social behavior will seem bizarre a decade from now … especially if our cellphones have become so miniaturized that they're incorporated into the glasses we wear, or implanted directly into our eyeballs.
If you have any suggestions about places that I should definitely visit to get some good photos, or if you'd like me to photograph you in your little corner of New York City, please let me know. You can send me a Flickr-mail message, or you can email me directly at ed-at-yourdon-dot-com
Stay tuned as the photo-walk continues, block by block ...
I've not posted anything lately because I haven't been able to make up my mind on what to post. Ever feel that way? To narrow the selection, I decided to select something from the last day or two.
I chose this pretty B&W Warbler that I found yesterday. It was especially nice to capture it in this pose. These bug hunters are usually spotted in a vertical position as they poke within the crevices of trees to find insects.
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Martin, W. H., 1865-1940,, photographer.
When we go after anything we get it
Kansas City, U.S.A. : Published by the North American Post Card Co., [1909]
1 photograph : gelatin silver print ; sheet 9 x 14 cm (postcard format)
Notes:
Photomontage on exaggeration postcard shows men in automobiles chasing and lassoing a larger-than-life rabbit.
Title from item.
Forms part of: Karen A. Stuart collection of postcards (Library of Congress).
Addressed to Mr. M.J. Ross, Selinsgrove, Pa. Postmarked Depue, Illinois, October 28, 1909. DLC
On recto: "Copyright 1909 by W.H. Martin."
Served by appointment only (Unprocessed). To make a request, see "Access to Unprocessed Materials," www.loc.gov/rr/print/info/022_unpr.html
Gift; Laura Kells ; 2019; (DLC/PP-2019:085).
Subjects:
Automobiles--1900-1910.
Rabbits--1900-1910.
Roping--1900-1910.
Format: Humorous pictures--1900-1910.
Montages--1900-1910.
Photographic postcards--1900-1910.
Photographic prints--1900-1910.
Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication.
Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
Higher resolution image is available (Persistent URL): hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsca.67975
Call Number: Unprocessed in PR 13 CN 2019:085 [item]
The Esses ( just coming off the highest point at Brock’s Skyline ) - Ginetta leading this pack at 7am in the morning at the Bathurst 12hr.......First time using the D500, straight out of the big mistake. I see 1/2000th which is wrong, anything from 800-1000th would have been fine.
Two homeless men outside an elevator in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. This is the second-to-the-last image of my Las Vegas series. I'll post the last one next week. All the Las Vegas images are here --->
www.flickr.com/photos/fotograzio/28240091221/in/album-721...