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My main reason for making up the Agfa-12 developer was to try it out with the Foma Retropan 320. Supposedly a "retro" film and the Agfa-12 is supposed to be a soft working developer. Maybe films in the early 30's behaved differently - but the Retropan 320 is grainy! It is nice enough when it comes to tonal rendition - but gritty looking.
This is the chimney rock on Owl Creek Pass. This was shot from the spot the last shootout in John Wayne's True Grit was shot.
If you go one mile north of the stoplight in Ridgeway Colorado ( only stoplight in the county) you will see a sign for Owl Creek Pass Road. Cars do drive it, but there are some rough places on it.
Fort Smith Arkansas, the location of the novel True Grit. Photographed with a Canon EOS 3 and Tokina 28-70 f/2.8 lens on Ilford HP5+
Downtown Sampa - city maintenance workers. Shot into the Santa Ifigmia bus station. The pattern of the pavement tiles forms the shape of the city.
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Following on from the success of yesterdays post of Maria with skin like a babys bottom, I thought it was appropriate to do the male thing with myself as subject.
So I used far more botox than necessary, as males are not so fussy, and ended up looking like the skin on cold custard, so I went the other way and made myself tall, dark and handsome, and that's just the eyelashes.
Below is the original shot and the custard skin effect for your personal amusement.
The image has had a slight crop to get rid of some out of focus edges, but otherwise the size is out of the camera, shot with my 100mm macro at the closest possible focus range, using the swivelling LCD screen on my 60D and the infrared remote.
I sat the camera on a bag for some height and manoeuvred my eye to correct position and focus.
This is one of 3 shots.
LOOK if you dare ! !
I saw 2 female eyes in the pool so thought we needed some gender balance.
People theme
... yet still determined to march ... in Liverpool's 2014 Remembrance Day parade ... albeit, with some assistance.
He's a veteran off the 13th Battalion, the King's Liverpool Regiment, and one of Wingate's famous WW2 "Chindits.
The 77th Indian Infantry Brigade, otherwise known as the Chindits, was gradually formed in the area around Jhansi in the summer of 1942. Wingate took charge of the training of the troops in the jungles of central India during the rainy season.
Half of the Chindits were British: coming from the 13th Battalion, the King's Liverpool Regiment and men from the former Bush Warfare School in Burma, who were formed into 142 Commando Company. The other portion of the force consisted of the 3rd Battalion, the 2nd Gurkha Rifles (a battalion that had only just been raised) and the 2nd Battalion, the Burma Rifles (a composite unit formed from several depleted battalions of Burmese troops that had retreated into India in 1942.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chindits
As an aside, my paternal grandfather served, fought and died with The King's Liverpool Regiment in WW1's 'Battle of Passchendaele'. And, there in Passchendaele, my granddad's remains still lay.
NEW YORK, NY - JANUARY 11: Actress Hailee Steinfeld attends the 2011 National Board of Review of Motion Pictures Gala at Cipriani 42nd Street on January 11, 2011 in New York City.
This photo of MINE is now the wikipedia photo of Hailee en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hailee_Steinfeld
Owl Creek Pass Road some of the best aspens you can see. The road is fairly easy with some washboard areas.
While up there you can also where the final shootout of John Wayne's True Grit was filmed.
After a day of riding and exploring to Oregon Butte, Andy and I rode back to camp and took the two remaining horses to water down to the springs... We past these two, Grumpy old men sitting out enjoying the sun and having a,"cold one."
When we were visiting at Picket Springs I looked up and saw the shadows and these two grumpy old men staring out over the horizon we comented that this looked like something right out of an old western. I,"captured" this image of them unknowingly from the saddle...They could be a couple of old outlaw bankers from the upcoming remake of, "True Grit" due out Christmas Day at a movie Theater near you..."Fill your Hands Pilgrim" These two varmits have been hanging out at Bear Wallow Springs about six miles up the way, just below Diamond Peak. At dawn on this cold blistery moning they were Pack'n meat down the mountain. I asked to make them famous...but they declined...See the big one glaring at me...I think he is about to, "Reach for it"...
This is the location of the final shootout in John Wayne's True Grit. If you look to the right center of this photo you can see the large rock where Wayne's horse fell down by.
Up the road from here is the top Owl Creek Pass, where you would see a very large rock by the sign. That is the "Sleeping Rock", where Kim Darby slept under it in the movie.
If this isn't enough, there are beautiful scenery and lots of aspens on this road, but can be difficult to get there.
Bronze sculpture by Harry Jackson (1969), now in the collection of the National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C.
Marching at the 2017 Remembrance Sunday service & parade at Liverpool's St George's Hall.
www.royalnavy.mod.uk/our-organisation/the-fighting-arms/r...
Last Dollar Road is an unpaved road between Telluride and Ridgeway, Colorado. The road travels along the San Juan Mountains and was used as a mining supply route in the 1800’s. Along this winding road you will encounter majestic views of Mount Wilson and the ranch where the movie “True Grit” starring John Wayne was filmed.
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I have a photo up in the Jordan Faye Contemporary's True Grit, alongside the work of some of Baltimore's best documentary photographers. The show will remain up until November 1st so check it out!
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Fort Smith Arkansas, the location of the novel True Grit. Photographed with a Canon EOS 3 and Tokina 28-70 f/2.8 lens on Ilford HP5+
A star is born: Hailee Steinfeld is acting as the 14 years old Mattie Ross in the movie "TRUE GRIT" directed by Joel & Ethan Coen.
... and a blonde bloke.
I only know their names 'coz they're printed on their vest numbers. Heh.
A well placed group @ the 4 mile mark of today's Southport Half Marathon
English translation (from Latin) of pic's title is "Ready for Anything" and is the official motto of the British Army's Parachute Regiment.
The Paratrooper veterans seen above were attending Liverpool's Remembrance Sunday 2017 service @ the city's St George's Hall
Two of my younger brothers proudly served as Paras (paratroopers) and believe me, their regiment's motto could NOT be more apt.
My brothers (and the rest of their regimental comrades) HAD to be ready for ANYthing and they WERE, and their regiment still IS.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parachute_Regiment_(United_Kingdom)
**Take my tip and never mess with these men ; not even the older looking ones.
At Southport's Cenotaph today, commemorating Armed Forces Day 2014.
His beret & cap badge tell me he was in The Parachute Regiment and his red tie tells me he was in the 1st Battalion -- as was my late [baby] brother, Laurence : "Our Lar".
Judging by the above veteran's age, he probably fought in The Falklands War against invading/occupying troops from Argentina.
Fellow photographer, fellow Flickrite, fellow scouser and a 'serious' runner ( seen in centre wearing number 795).
He also runs full marathons, and I got a much better shot of him last year, also running in the Southport Half Marathon.
See comment & capture below.
(Btw, it seems we missed spotting each other this year. I hadn't even realised it was Tony 'till I saw my pics on my monitor when I got back home. These 'serious' runners definitely don't dawdle and have passed before you know it.)
Fort Smith Arkansas, the location of the novel True Grit. Photographed with a Canon EOS 3 and Tokina 28-70 f/2.8 lens on Ilford HP5+
This is Tunnel #6, the "Summit Tunnel" of the Central Pacific Railroad, which linked California to the Eastern US states for the first time, changing the history and destination of a nation in the process. Thousands of Chinese laborers carved this 1600ft tunnel with nothing more than pick-axes, mallets and gun-powder, They kept tunneling through some of the most extreme winters in the Americas, with progress averaging at a little over one foot per day. It was one of the most extraordinary engineering feats of all time. Abandoned now, the tunnel sits resolute as a monument to the vision and grit of the men who built it. There are some very unfriendly gates at the entrance warning visitors off, which is rather sad. Given that America has so little history, one would think that truly historic sites such as this would be celebrated. Of course, the upside is that if you do visit (and ignore the trespassing signs) you can have the site all to yourself.
Our challenge this week was to use backlighting, trying out different types of exposure and light metering. This was taken in the aftenoon in a West facing window. I used Kim Klassen's preset 'truegrit' in Lightroom and the texture 'simple1' in Photoshop. The font is 'roughtypwriter'.