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It's as simple as that if you let it be. Then again, most everything can be and I am never quite sure whether that is a good thing or a bad thing. Here's what I mean. How many Ferris Wheels have you ridden on in your life? 1? 15? None? I certainly don't know, you will have to answer that yourself. Whatever the answer is though my next question is, when you see a Ferris Wheel how much do you think about it? I mean really think about it? Can you name when the first Ferris Wheel was built? How about the decade... century? (1893 by the way). Know who built it? (George Washington Gale Ferris...Jr., yes Jr. One of the cooler names ever). Why did he build it? (For the 1893 Columbian Exposition in Chicago. The expo's organizers wanted something daring, bold and unique... then told Ferris his wheel was too much those things and couldn't be built safely. He persisted and succeeded, obviously). And this is just scratching the surface of all the meaning and history packed into this one object. For example, the man who built this, G.W.G Ferris Jr. What was he like? How excited was he the first time he rode his wheel? How bitter was he in the aftermath as he spent the last three years of his life after the Expo suing to be paid what he thought was his rightful portion of the proceeds before dying of Typhoid Fever in 1896? One more good question: how would you describe a Ferris Wheel if you had never seen it before and were witnessing it for the first time?
I know I am a history geek. And I know one can easily get lost down these rabbit holes with just about anything out there. But that is kind of my point. There are things we encounter every day, or at least on a regular basis and we look at them... but we never really see them. We never really think about them or consider them and we never really realize that we are doing this. Think about your day today as an example. How much do you know of the story of the car that got you to work? Or the company you work for? The secret history of road building that stretches back millennia. The oldest known paved road in the world is 4600 years old after all.
One of the trickiest things about photography is perspective. We wear our perspective like a broken in pair of boots or an old coat. We know exactly how it fits and we are sometimes hesitant to get rid of it. Sometimes it is like a second skin and we don't even know it is there... but it is. And it is how we look at the world and think of the world. It governs what we can see and what remains invisible to our eyes. And yes, there are things other people can see that you cannot, just like there are things apparent to you that are completely invisible to others.
This is what I like about photography. At least for me it encourages perspective stretching and growth. It encourages me to see things, not just look at them. To wonder and ask questions. To contemplate. To try to catch what was and may still be invisible to me. To not just shuffle along in line, getting on the ride, having my thrills and then shuffling along.
Reality So Subtle 6x6 pinhole (upper pinhole) / Kodak Ektar 100
RealitySoSubtle 6X6 pinhole camera.
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RealitySoSubtle 6X6 pinhole camera.
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RealitySoSubtle 6X6 pinhole camera.
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Camera: Reality So Subtle 6X6
Lens: Pinhole
Film: Ultrafine Extreme 100
Developer: Xtol
Scanner: Epson V600
Photoshop: Curves, Healing Brush (spotting)
Cropping: None
Camera: Reality So Subtle 6X6
Lens: Pinhole
Film: Ultrafine Extreme 100
Developer: Xtol
Scanner: Epson V600
Photoshop: Curves, Healing Brush (spotting)
Cropping: None
Camera: Reality So Subtle 6X6
Lens: Pinhole
Film: Fujifilm Neopan Acros 100
Developer: Xtol
Scanner: Epson V600
Photoshop: Curves, Healing Brush (spotting)
Cropping: None
Reality So Subtle 6x6 with the upper pinhole exposed
Kodak T-max 100
Kodak HC-110 B
In November 2015 I was lucky to attend a five days workshop with the brilliant Bruce Percy, The Art of Adventure. It was a couple of days that really took my breath away with stunning nature scenery which was quite hard to catch in a way that for me made sense. I had a feeling that I should go there with only a couple of my pinhole cameras, but I really didn’t dare to, I just had to bring my trusty old Hasselblad with me.
But when all films finally was scanned, it was the pinhole rolls that spoke to me. As you all know by now, I’m the kind of person that just have to let my images rest for a while, to be able to see what I like and what I don’t like, so therefore it has gone some time….. ;-)
The Outer Hebrides, Isle of Harris, is definitely a place I would love to go back to, anytime, with a whole box of film with me…..
I just have to start with a for me new pinhole camera, the Reality So Subtle 6×6, which one impressed me a lot!
I hope you like this too!
RealitySoSubtle 6X6 pinhole camera.
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RealitySoSubtle 6X6 pinhole camera.
Expired Fuji Provia, cross processed in Rollei Digibase C41.
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I'd like to think that despite the close proximity of safety and the exit being but a toss of a stone's distance away these folks were unable to navigate the labyrinthine passages to safety. Don't worry, the Coast Guard were notified and they were airlifted from danger, still closer to the center than to the exit.
Anyway, a little bit of catch up tonight while I use the time to work on some more recent images.
Reality So Subtle 6x6 Dual Pinhole
RealitySoSubtle 6x6
Pinhole
Fujifilm Neopan Acros 100, 120 roll @100
Developed with: ID-11, 1+1, 7min00sec @24C
Epson V550 scan
RealitySoSubtle 6x6
Pinhole
Fujifilm Neopan Acros 100, 120 roll @100
Developed with: ID-11, 1+1, 7min00sec @24C
Epson V550 scan
It was quite a foggy and rainy morning when I made this image. I had to guess when to end this exposure because it got brighter and brighter as the fog burned off a bit. So, I was worried about over exposing. I also realized that I chose the top pinhole on this camera by mistake, which gives a rise effect to the image. However, I like the result. There is always a bit of chance involved with pinhole photography. It appeals to the improvisor in me.
Astoria-Megler Bridge
Astoria, OR - June 2017
Reality So Subtle 6x6 Pinhole
Fuji Acros 100
30 minutes
RealitySoSubtle 6X6 pinhole camera. Ilford HP5+.
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Here's to hoping this is the closest I ever come to seeing the jaws of a Great White.
Reality So Subtle 6x6
Kodak Ektar 100
The strange clumping pattern is rather unintended and did affect only the first two frames of the film. It makes the image somehow unique - film photography is always good for a surprise...
RealitySoSubtle 6x6, Pinhole f137, 55s, Kodak Ektar 100
RealitySoSubtle 6X6 pinhole camera, Fuji Reala expired in 2007.
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So, I think it is time to end my long series of images made in the River North neighborhood of Chicago. It was a great day of shooting and has inspired me to get into the city and make some more images. This is the second of two images made with my Reality So Subtle 6x6 pinhole. This is a great little camera, well made, easy to use and excellent image quality.
Reality So Subtle 6x6
Kodak Ektar 100
Looking for the bright side of the second period of snow and ice this Vancouver winter. Dev and scan by Canadian Film Lab.
Happy Worldwide Pinhole Photography Day. If ever there was a day to get out with a pinhole camera, new or familiar, today would be it. I'll be at a pinhole picnic this afternoon hanging out with some local pinhole photographers. I'll only have my Zero Image 2000 in tow, but only because all my other pinhole cameras will be loaned out.
Anyway, a pinhole shot I made with a different camera of mine, my Reality So Subtle 6x6 (upper pinhole) along one of my favorite stretches of the southern Oregon coastline.
Reality So Subtle 6x6 (upper pinhole)
Kodak Ektar 100
Camera: Reality So Subtle 6X6
Lens: Pinhole
Film: Ultrafine Extreme 100
Developer: Xtol
Scanner: Epson V600
Photoshop: Curves, Healing Brush (spotting)
Cropping: None
Kinetic sculpture in front of Art Museum Stuttgart.
RealitySoSubtle 6x6, Raise Pinhole, Fomapan 100, Rodinal 1+100, 1h Stand Development.
Sea lions. Every time I think of them I hear: arrrp, arrrp, arrrp, arrrp. Generally you hear them long before you see them. I have stood at railings countless times on countless trips to the coast to watch and listen. Lately I take a step or two back and watch those watching. Such was the case on a recent trip through Newport.
Reality So Subtle 6x6 pinhole / Kodak Ektar 100
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Camera: Reality So Subtle 6X6
Lens: Pinhole
Film: Ultrafine Extreme 100
Developer: Xtol
Scanner: Epson V600
Photoshop: Curves, Healing Brush (spotting)
Cropping: None
My images are © Copyrighted and All Rights Reserved. This image cannot be reproduced and/or used in any form of publication, print or the Internet without my written permission.
It occurs to me that these days one must go farther and farther up the trail to escape the crowds. I had a discussion recently regarding how larger and larger numbers of people are traveling and places are getting more and more crowded. In part this is driven by the internet and social media. It is easier to publicize a place and we are drawn like moths to a flame to the places that sites such as Instagram subtly tell us are the "it" places that one must visit in their life. Look at Iceland, look at New Zealand, sure. But even on a smaller, more local scale I see beaches and trails becoming more packed. I don't know what I think of this. On one hand I find it repellent and annoying to navigate crowds of people when my goal is to get somewhere away from people. On the other hand, I can hardly fault these people for wanting to get out into beautiful places. They are doing the same thing I am doing and I can no more fault them than I can, or should, myself. But at the same time the increasing numbers present issues. The more individuals through an area the more wear on that area, the more litter, the more people climbing through alpine meadows off-trail, or scaling sea stacks at the beach disturbing the natural bird life. We slowly erode that which we love.
On a photographic level the unwanted wanderer has long been a bane to the photographer wanting to get "the shot". I remember struggling with this in my early days, waiting patiently and sometimes not so patiently, for that man in the red slicker to get along his merry way and out of the frame I have been composing for the past ten minutes. But that was then. These days I rarely experience the issue and in large part that is because of the world of photography that long exposure has opened up to me. When you are making 10 second, or eight minute exposures, crowds not present much less an issue but actually they create an opportunity. So many times the interestingness of a particular landscape image to me is based on the unpredictable blur of people moving within the frame. Now my struggles laughably tend toward the opposite end of the spectrum. I set up to make a long exposure of people within a landscape and I get a minute into a four minute exposure and they get up and leave the frame, barely registering as ghosts at that point. I want to run in and tell them to not get out of my way. Heh.
The photographic aspect of this issue is a fun one to wrestle with, the non-photographic aspects of growing crowds though has me a bit concerned at times.
Reality So Subtle 6x6
Kodak Ektar 100