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Excerpt from www.mtr.com.hk/en/customer/community/art_archi_syp_st_sce...:
Art in station architecture
Artwork Title:
Street Scenes of Sai Ying Pun
Artist Name:
Tse Ming-chong and Hong Kong Youth Arts Foundation (Hong Kong)
Artwork Location:
Sai Ying Pun Station - Entrance/ Exit B1 and B2 Concourse
Form of Artwork:
Digital Printing on Self Adhesive Vinyl Film
Artwork Completion Date:
March 2015
Artist's Concept:
"Street Scenes of Sai Ying Pun" is a community arts project led by the Hong Kong Youth Arts Foundation and local photographer and artist Tse Ming-chong.
In recent years, the historical district of Sai Ying Pun has undergone huge changes. To help document these changes and create an archive of memories for the community, over thirty young people worked with the artist to create photo collages combining over 450 pieces of monochrome photos. The artwork depicts the unique and vibrant character of the neighbourhood and records the traditional shops, the heritage buildings and the daily lives of the local residents.
Excerpt from www.mtr.com.hk/en/customer/community/art_archi_hku_our_me...:
Art in station architecture
Artwork Title:
Our Memories of the Western District - HKU
Artist Name:
Photo winners from local community and MTR Corporation (Hong Kong)
Artwork Location:
HKU Station - Concourse
Form of Artwork:
Digital Printing on Glass
Artwork Completion Date:
December 2014
Artist's Concept:
The photographic competition entitled "Our Memories of the Western District" was the inaugural activity of the West Island Line Community Art Programme. Unique images of the HKU area were captured by local residents and the winning photographs from the champion, 1st runner-up, 2nd runner-up and merit award recipients were selected as the theme images for use in HKU Station. These photographic images were then pixelated using thousands of images collected from the community and then combined with monochrome graphics to create a panoramic collage, reflecting the uniqueness and culture of Western District with traditional buildings and daily life of the local community.
Excerpt from www.mtr.com.hk/en/customer/community/art_archi_hku_our_me...:
Art in station architecture
Artwork Title:
Our Memories of the Western District — Kennedy Town
Artist Name:
Photo winners from local community and MTR Corporation (Hong Kong)
Artwork Location:
Kennedy Town Station - Concourse
Form of Artwork:
Digital Printing on Glass
Artwork Completion Date:
December 2014
Artist's Concept:
The photographic competition entitled "Our Memories of the Western District" was the inaugural activity of the West Island Line Community Art Programme. Unique images of the Kennedy Town area were captured by local residents and the winning photographs from the champion, 1st runner-up, 2nd runner-up and merit award recipients were selected as the theme images for use in Kennedy Town Station. These photographic images were then pixelated using thousands of images collected from the community and then combined with monochrome graphics to create a panoramic collage, reflecting the uniqueness and culture of Western District with traditional buildings and daily life of the local community.
One of the traditional industries in Dundee is publishing (D C Thomson still has their headquarters, just across the road from the museum), and this old Intertype publishing press is a legacy of the pre-digital printing age in the city
Excerpt from www.mtr.com.hk/en/customer/community/art_archi_hku_our_me...:
Art in station architecture
Artwork Title:
Our Memories of the Western District — Kennedy Town
Artist Name:
Photo winners from local community and MTR Corporation (Hong Kong)
Artwork Location:
Kennedy Town Station - Concourse
Form of Artwork:
Digital Printing on Glass
Artwork Completion Date:
December 2014
Artist's Concept:
The photographic competition entitled "Our Memories of the Western District" was the inaugural activity of the West Island Line Community Art Programme. Unique images of the Kennedy Town area were captured by local residents and the winning photographs from the champion, 1st runner-up, 2nd runner-up and merit award recipients were selected as the theme images for use in Kennedy Town Station. These photographic images were then pixelated using thousands of images collected from the community and then combined with monochrome graphics to create a panoramic collage, reflecting the uniqueness and culture of Western District with traditional buildings and daily life of the local community.
Today, 5th March 2024, marks the official end of my full-time employment. It's a bittersweet moment for sure. I've worked almost without a break since I was 18. Though for the record, I'll be continuing to work for the same company for a while longer on a part-time basis.
I've very much enjoyed working and it has been rewarding and fulfilling. For those that know my story, I jumped from Uni into the photographic industry at an early age. Then as digital crept in, made the logical leap to the digital printing industry.
I thought it fitting to represent my journey with the image you see above.
This shows my first camera, the Pentax KM with 55mm f1.8 lens. As well as the new love of my life, the Nikon F100 with 50mm f1.8 lens.
This image also represents (hopefully) peak film cameras. To save you counting, there are 17 and I really didn't think I had that many. (What they all say). Alongside 45 interchangeable lenses. I could have added various enlarger, projector and micro lenses - however you get the idea.
So testing times ahead, as I run some film through those that work and sell quite a few of them back into circulation. Including some lenses. After all, I need to make way for more gear! Compared to some that I follow, this is a meager collection. However, since most were acquired since 2020 - given the trajectory, I was fast running out of room and not using them.
As I think back to that young lad of 18 just beginning work, his newfound love of photography and his focus on the future ahead.
He would be in disbelief that after all those years, the relentless march of technology, that he would still cherish 35mm film cameras and old manual focus lenses. Pleased that others do to.
In the end my pictures don't matter. It's the memories, the places, the people and the friendships that do.
The journey continues.
This picture consists of many images taken with the Pentax-M 50mm f1.4 @ f16.
Please don't use this image on websites, blogs or other media without my explicit permission... © All rights reserved...
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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.
If you are interested in pricing for my images, or just plain curious, more info can be found at my website: www.zebandrews.com
I got my MRU today, and I've got to say LOVE them! The finish is nothing like CB though, It's better! The Digital printing adds a raised texture that gives the figs way more Character.
From left to right
US Armored Infantry
101st Airborne Corporal
Australian cavalry
Afrika Korp troop
Volksgrenadier
Hedgerow Hell fighter.
I'm not thrilled with the new Fig Barf layout so I'm gonna mess with it during the weekend. Thoughts/Comments on how it could get better?
And Garret, I've got a new Slogan for you "Print Digital, Feel the difference" not bad, eh!
Edition of 75 numbered and signed copies
40 photographs
44 pages 14,8 x 21 cm (soft cover, staple binding, digital printing)
Point Pelee National Park, Ontario Canada
Announcing "Monochromatic Editions" by Jeff Gaydash
In conjuction with Joel Tjintjelaar's relaunch of www.bwvision.com, I am now offering my specialized B&W printing as a service to other photographers. I have partnered with bwvision.com to provide the highest standard in black and white photographic reproductions that will be made available through his website.
All my prints are made using Piezography, a high-end digital printing system utilizing carbon-based monochromatic inks and specialized software. I have an Epson 9600 using Special Edition K7 inks for matte prints and an Epson 9880 dedicated to glossy printing using MPS selenium toned inks. I also have a desktop system with Neutral inks for prints up to 13" wide.
I will also be offering print workshops for anyone interested in learning how to set up and print using Piezography.
For more information go to www.jeffgaydash.com/editions or contact me via Flickr mail.
Say hello to our newest custom minifigure, Pirate Assassin! Based on the popular game character, this fig features high quality 360 degree digital printing, custom made BrickWarriors accessories (a white Rogue Hood and Hidden Blades) - EXCLUSIVE TO THIS FIG, along with a BrickArms flintlock pistol and a Lego gold handled cutlass sword. As this figure and the awesome accessories have long been in development, it is with great pleasure I am able to share this preview picture with you all. I hope you like it as much as we did.
This is the first of five pictures I will add each day leading up to its release this weekend (pending shipping isn't botched). Coming next, pictures of the back printing, second face, close up of the hidden blades, and side print detail.
Be sure to add this picture as a favorite or comment to stay up to date on its release, as I'll announce it here on Flickr in the comments. Please let me know what you think of our first digitally printed fig...and first of our "Assassins."
Lastly, I'd like to give a BIG thank you to Ryan at BrickWarriors for his professionalism, his ability to collaborate so well, and for helping me bring my vision for this figure to reality. Without him, these Assassin figs would not have happened, so I want to thank him so much for his work on these amazing accessories!
McDonald's burger and chips special shape hot air balloon
PH-MCD built by Camerons balloons, Bristol England
The burger on this envelope is entirely digital printing
Taken with a Nikon D7000
This is what happens when: A) You leave your Holga on bulb and walk around taking hand-held 1/8 second exposures where 1/60 would have sufficed and B) You get lucky with the result. Actually I am quite surprised this one did not turn out blurrier than it did, but I really liked the effect of the overexposure on the print. That is one nice thing about film, you can get a negative that is dense enough to be bulletproof and you can still pull an image out of it, sometimes one that is even better because of that massive overexposure.
But in terms of the Holga, a quick tip for all those just getting started with them; tape that N/B switch down. Trust me, it is easy to have it slide over to B then you run around all day taking hand-held long exposures. Sometimes they turn out fortuitously, but often they do not. Even if you are a longtime Holga user like I am, it is still surprisingly (and frustratingly) easy to miss this. It has happened to me twice now. So, yes, tape that switch down and save yourself some grief later, then if you do want to shoot bulb, you can simply remove the tape and replace it. One of the best easy Holga mods you can do yourself. :-)
In related news, I saw a really amazing show of photography last night at Newspace. Susan Burnstine is currently holding down the fort with a solo exhibit of her work. If you are not familiar with her photography, you should be. She specializes in photographing her dreams, really. She writes down dreams she has, then goes out and makes them into pictures using cameras she has built by hand, including lenses she molds herself. She then names each of the cameras (21 so far) after various musicians based on the sounds they make when fired.
I was particularly impressed with this show not just because of the quality of the imagery though, but the printing too. She uses an archival pigment process which she then hand varnishes. Seeing her prints was as rewarding as seeing her images.
I have long been printing digitally myself, but only because I feel I can often make a better image on the computer, even if the majority of digital printing is still inferior to optical printing, in my opinion. But in the past couple of years I have seen (and done) some printing that has really helped quiet that complaint. There is little shortage of amazing photography out there, but it does seem mildly uncommon to see exceptional printing, at least done digitally. And so many of us get used to seeing the average digital print that we either forget or have little understanding of just how much better printing can look. So we get our digital prints and think they look great... until you see something on the level of what Susan is doing. Then you realize the bar is actually set much higher than previously realized.
So for those reasons, get down there. It will be up for the remainder of the month and Newspace keeps pretty generous hours.