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"Logicians tell us that two Negatives make an Affirmative. Will somebody say how many Negatives make a Photographer ?"
Quote - Anonymous
Playing with the negative version of the photo I uploaded yesterday. ;-))
HSS everyone !!
Not knowing when the next wave is going to hit you, perhaps is your best chance to stay positive. The only way to survive is battling back even if you are feeling down.
Shooting with a GoPro Hero is a totally strange experience for me. Being an optical view finder guy, I have never gotten used to compose a shot with electronic view finders on my mobile phone, or even my Powershot S100. Now, imagine shooting in front of your subjects without using your hand, and instead, strapping and composing the camera with your head. You only get to see the results after pulling still frames out of a long video recording. This is weird and totally out of my comfort zone, but at the same time I feel this as another challenge to get something unique and fun.
D260 and three unidentified BRCW type 2s stand at Haymarket depot in Edinburgh in early 1960.
The medium format negative film that I scanned this from had no details of location nor date. D260 commenced service in February 1960.
D260 was the first of the English Electric type 2s to be delivered to the Scottish Region, joining the class BRCW type 2s that had been delivered for Scottish use from April 1959.
Taken by an unknown photographer, now part of my collection.
Here today sick and frail it was all i could do to not let him sail
away
in the wind
thin beyond thin
bone and fur was all he had been
for who knows how long
he came to me to survive
i tried
once i caught him for a hospital visit
but he bit me hard to the bone i feared
and my visit was for six shots all in the rear
so i fed him and kept him warm in winter
the best i could
now i fear he is gone
not come back for more
and so he is finally at home
with a hot meal and a good tale to tell
of life and hardship with a cat tale to sell
while hunting for another photo in my vast store of "stuff", I ran into the photo on the left. I don't know how, or when, or why, but I thought I'd to invert and see what was there. It's definitely me, I must have been working on making negatives at the time.
one of life's mysteries.
on the right is the inversion.
I tried searching on my stream, but it was quite a task. dunno whether I've used this photo before or not.
ah, I did find a version here from Sept 2016. I was working on oiled paper negatives.
**tonight I donated to Razom for Ukraine and World Central Kitchen.
please don't forget Ukraine. they still need food, clothing, and medical supplies.
NO MORE WAR! enough....
It's actually the back of the Carron Valley dam wall. But in my alternative thinking I saw it as a black and white film strip. Artistic or weird?
The Japanese concept of Ma has been described as “a pause in time”, an interval or emptiness in space. As a music teach once said "Leave space so the high notes can shine".
Ma is not the negative space we photographers utilize in our images, but an emptiness full of potential. It should be deliberate and of value, holding sustenance towards the entirety of the shot.
Western image making seems to suffer from "FTF" : Fill the Frame. where 'empty' zones are frowned upon.
Chinon Infrafocus 35F-MA
Kodak ColorPlus 200
I could have easily removed that vignette, but when I did the entire 'atmosphere' of this scene suffered...
the strangest thing about a hole is the edge.
If a hole is plugged, where is it?
And: and why are there no half holes ??
Tropical storm Typeo brought it.... a new perspective on an old craft. I thank you my friend!
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Here's Candor, thoroughly enjoying the fresh north sea air and finding nothing negative about the space to his left ;)
(we got back yesterday; sorry for not commenting all that much during our time at the seaside; I'll try to catch up!)
Wet Plate Collodion negative.
I have archival 9.5 X 12 inch prints of this image available for $50 each (plus shipping)! Contact me here or at bardenphotographics *at* gmail to inquire. The prints are quite beautiful, I promise you.
Camera: Intrepid 4x5
Lens: 113 mm f4.5 Kodak Color Printing Ektar, 1965, wide open.
Collodion: Quinn's Negative
Exposure: 7 minutes.