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Explored on 12th June 2016 #200
Samsung NX300 & Carl Zeiss Jena 'Pancolar' 50mm f/1.8 Lens | Wide Open | Manual Focus | Available Light | Handheld
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My recollection of seaside holidays in England as a young child is that whatever town we stayed in invariably had pretty gardens or flower-beds along the seafront. This is Morecambe in north Lancashire, which was once one of England's most important seaside towns. Morecambe once had two piers, but both have gone. The railway station on the promenade has also gone, to be replaced by one in the town.With Blackpool less than an hour away to the south the town certainly has lots of competition. I guess it still attracts the older visitor (like my wife and myself!).
Old Port of Montreal
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I liked the tribal vibe of her head dress, braids, and cool necklace, so I approached her as my next potential stranger candidate. Once I began speaking with her, there was something that struck me as vaguely familiar. I asked her if I the two of us had ever met before, and to her knowledge we had not. It wasn’t until she told me her name, Ivy, that I finally recalled our first meeting.
I first photographed Ivy two years ago, and she would have been my 62nd stranger. On that particular day I was searching for strangers in a staging area of a parade that was about to commence. Amongst all of the costumed parade participants I found myself drawn to a young woman dressed in a forest nymph type of outfit. Her costume consisted of all types of viney foliage and all of her exposed skin was covered with green body paint…hence her name Ivy was entirely appropriate and memorable. Unfortunately that image did not turn out very well for a whole host of reasons, so I decided to shelve it and not use it in my project. Double unfortunately is that the image was lost when my hard drive failed shortly after our first shoot, so I cannot share it now. Chalk that up as another lesson and reminder to regularly back up your hard drive.
I’ve been mentally struggling to figure out what to do with this street portrait with regard on how it fits into the realm of this whole 100 Strangers project thing I do. Is Ivy a stranger or not? In our first meeting, Ivy was entirely consumed with the parade preparation, so our encounter was very short and curt as she probably regarded me as a nuisance (one of the reasons the portrait was not good). Beyond exchanging names, there was virtually no personal interaction shared. In fact, after I explained our first encounter to Ivy, she still had no recollection of me or the shoot. So although our paths briefly crossed years ago, we know nothing about one another and are essentially still strangers.
On the flip side of that coin, as a moderator of the 100 Strangers Group I would probably take issue with the story that I just relayed. As a group of moderators, we work hard to keep submissions to the group within the guidelines and spirit in which the group is built upon. We believe that this ‘purity of spirit’ is one of the keys to the group’s success and is appreciated by a majority of the members. So even though it is the thinnest of threads that connect Ivy and I, second encounter portraits are a fundamental no-no within the premise of the group. Sure, I could have neglected to tell this story of our first encounter and no one would be the wiser, but honestly I am not so desperate to have my images viewed that I need to resort to deception.
That said, this portrait of Ivy is too good to pass on again. As I've grown doing this project, it has become rare that I do not use a portrait that I have made. This image represents an opportunity to get back a lost opportunity portrait from the earlier days of my street portrait journey. Therefore, my resolution is that I am not going to post this image in the 100 Strangers Group pool, but I am going to include this portrait of Ivy in my ongoing project as my 151st stranger. After all, Ivy was a total stranger the first time our paths crossed and for all intent and purpose, she was still a stranger during this most recent encounter. It just took me 708 days and 89 additional stranger portraits before I finally got the portrait of Ivy I wanted.
* Late 16th cent. (denoting gathering things together again): from French or medieval Latin 'recollectio' (n-), from the verb 'recolligere', which means to ‘gather again’.
Roma, Italia
EXPLORE-D (8 December 2011)
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[...] It is not that the child lives in a world of imagination, but that the child within us survives and starts into life only at rare moments of recollection, which makes us believe, and it is not true, that, as children, we were imaginative? [...]
-- Quote by Cesare Pavese (1908 - 1950)
Como, Italy (January, 2008)
I have a vague recollection of my taking this, one of my earliest pictures, on a visit to London in the summer of 1969. The driver of D1012 'Western Firebrand' obligingly poses before heading west, no doubt at the request of my father who was happy to talk to anyone, whether they wanted to or not! Does anybody recognise him??
Kodak Instamatic 126
Kodak Pan
RECOLLECTION:
"...И голос сиплый мой сплетаем с ветром
Терзаючи с надрывом струны сфер возносит требу:
"- Ты нас на свет привёл по облику и образу своя
И простирается над мною длань твоя,
И отворяя в этот мир глаза..."
Technical aspects:
I did not sharpen this image.
I processed the Raw (.RAF) image file in Silkypix Developer Studio Pro 9E, the software that Fuji prefers . . . which is equally quirky. I set the White Balance in one photo to Camera Settings and developed it and the other I selected Auto (Absolute) and developed, to a renamed file _DFS0755b. Then, I put both in Photoshop . . . Individually adjusted the toanl contast and reduced each to about 54% . . . looking for as much detail as possiblem without increasing shadows or darkening them. Then, I overlaid the second image onto the first and reduced Opacity to 54%, as I recall. Saved it as _DFS0755c. Then, Made a monochrome version by increasing structure 44% and overlaid that and reduced Opacity to 66% . . . Merged layers. Then increased Saturation to 61% and then Vibrance to 14%, to bring back original colors.
That is how you can see the detail in the leaves and the wood grain in the collapsed barn -and almost a three dimensional image, as if standing where I took the photo.
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Bielik zwyczajny
(Haliaeetus albicilla)
There were a pair of them in the area I stayed. I kept seeing them soaring high over the sea. Like all the birds in the Archipelago they are very wary of people. I took several hundred pictures of them but all from a long distance which resulted in only few keepers.