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...is a good time to pray.
Secret #21- Jace has started praying recently. He's starting to really understand what it's about, and I have to say, it's one of the most beautiful things to watch such an innocent human being talking to God. There's nothing sweeter.
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Not trying to depress anyone, just felt the need to share that :)
Inspired by the amazing Nadia
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This poor old man asked me for some change for his grandkids. He lost his arm in an agriculture accident. Taken on the streets of world heritage site Trinidad in Cuba.
Excitement in the village of Shegerini (or Shigrini) as a visiting steam tour faffed around changing Mallet locos in the hope that the replacement engine would raise enough steam to make it up the gradient to Asmara.
All good entertainment for on-lookers and tour participants so long as no-one needed to be anywhere, anytime soon - and we didn’t.
Eritrea. December 2014. © David Hill
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To paraphrase a co-worker of mine, I think everyone should get to shoot a Hasselblad in their photographic lifetime. It is not because I think it is the perfect camera or that I am a being a camera snob about it, but it is always good to have a reminder of what a finely crafted mechanical machine, with superb glass and a well exposed piece of film can do, then to be further reminded that this particular camera has already been in existence for the past 50 years and it can be bought for about the same price as most mid-range digital SLRs brand new. I am not trying to pick on digital, but rather most new cameras these days in general, film and digital. It is often disheartening to see the current trend we are in to embrace lighter (more plastic), cheaper, more automatic (less required knowledge on our part) cameras. And so many of the cameras these days, again film and digital both, but mostly digital, are basically expensive disposable cameras. They will hopefully give you five years of good use and then break and it will not be economical to repair them, rather you throw them out and plunk down another 300 to 500 (or more) on the latest generation because they are constantly getting "better". Remember how excited we all got about those 2 million pixel cameras? And to be fair, there are a number of digital cameras these days that I really like, the Canon 5D for example, and use on a number of occasions when I can borrow one. Same with film, the Nikon F6 is a glorious camera, but their other still-in-production film body, the FM10 is certainly not.
It is not so much the progression of technology that bothers me so, it is the forgetting we do concerning the technology and equipment we already have, have had in fact for decades. In fact some could point out in terms of 4x5 and 8x10, we have been able to make super high quality photographs for about a hundred years moderately easily. It seems such a shame that a camera like the Hasselblad could one day become extinct because people just do not realize how nice a well shot piece of film can look when put through a camera that lacks auto-everything, in fact does not even need a battery. When in truth, this camera has a lot of merit, it makes exceptionally nice images, but because it does not have a 14 point autofocus ultrasonic motor, or plugs into a computer, it ends up being remembered by a small minority of people.
Some people still talk about film becoming extinct, though less so than they did a couple of years ago. I highly doubt that it will anytime in the next ten or twenty years at least and probably not for much longer than that. But at the same time, it is troubling to see just how rapidly we move away from the aesthetic of film grain and good optical printing on actual photo paper. How easily we let ourselves become accustomed to cheap digital printing, or cameras that have shorter lifespans and higher price tags. And yes to also see digital's effect on film. I have said often that a camera is a camera, and digital has its merits separate from film, but film has them too. That is why I posted this picture. I do not actually own a Hasselblad. I doubt I would even buy one unless I won the lottery as I already have my Pentax 67. But this camera has its strengths, its own characteristics, and that is why I took it out this weekend. I felt like shooting square, super-sharp, medium format black and white film and the Hasselblad fit that bill perfectly. Sometimes I feel like shooting pinhole, sometimes I feel like experimenting with digital infrared, sometimes 35mm film, and at others I will take out a digital SLR. The point is different cameras have different uses, and just because something is 50 years old and entirely mechanical by no means, means that is has become obsolete. And we would do well to remember that as we rush headlong towards the next big technological breakthrough in the camera world, that maybe we should spend just a bit more time looking back. Not necessarily most or even a lot, but just a bit more. We have made some exceptionally nice cameras over the years, just seems a shame sometimes to see them forgotten.
This was taken this weekend up at Timberline Lodge on Mt. Hood by the way. I love the windswept trees up there. In fact I seem to be developing a bit of a tree thing. While down at Crater Lake I was really fascinated by the gnarled white bark pines down there. Next on my list are the bristlecones of the Sierra Nevada. I have a small series of these trees, there is something about the stark nature of the shot and their obvious age and seeming permanence that really strikes me. Amazing to think of the conditions these trees have weathered over the years. Hardy things they are.
Taken with a Hasselblad 500C and Fuji Neopan 400.
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Expect to have hope rekindled. Expect your prayers to be answered in wondrous ways. The dry seasons in life do not last. The spring rains will come again.
I'd like to dedicate this to a lady photographer from Uzbekistan, Umida Akhmedova, who was found guilty of "damaging the spiritual values" of Uzbekistan and "slandering the nation". All because of pictures she took that, for me, are of a life rich in traditions that we all can learn from.
For us who live in places where artistic freedom is taken for granted, let us be thankful for this privilege and always remember that with this freedom comes responsibility.
I’m a high school lover,
and you’re my favorite flavor.
Love is all, all my soul.
You’re my playground love.
Yet my hands are shaking,
I feel my body remains,
themes no matter, I’m on fire.
On the playground, love.
You’re the piece of gold,
the flushes all my soul.
Extra time, on the ground.
You’re my playground love.
Anytime, anyway,
You’re my playground love.
Ugh I need some really good ideas. I hate my pictures again.
And I'm just having a really hard time in general.
And I want my effing strobe.