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In my favourite and #1 market near the campus of Hefei University, where I lived and worked two and a half years. My students didn't like photos of this kind, because they didn't represent their kind of sense of Chinese developement and modernity they were so proud of. Whereas I detest this modernity, which makes every Chinese city centre look like a place that's been destroyed by an atomic bomb in the last war. In my eyes Chinese cities are the ugliest cities of the world.
Hefei is the capital of the Chinese province Anhui.
In June I find Moorhens or Common Gallinules with babies at various stages of developement. The tiny fluffballs are fed by mom or dad or sometimes an older sibling from a previous brood.
For over 30 years I have developed my 35mm and roll films myself. The films were placed in complete darkness on this spiral and then placed in the associated box with a light-tight lid. Then the light was switched on again, the developer was poured into it and the can was moved evenly for about 5 minutes. Finally, the development chemistry was distributed and replaced by the fixation. Move again for a few minutes. Then it just needed watering. In the end, always the exciting question: Did I take good pictures and made no mistake in the development. This tension no longer occurs in digital photography. Sometimes a pity!
Über 30 Jahre lang habe ich meine Kleinbild- und auch Rollfilme selber entwickelt. Die Filme wurden bei völliger Dunkelheit auf diese Spirale geschoben und dann in die dazugehörige Dose mit lichtdichtem Deckel gestellt. Anschließend konnte das Licht wieder eingeschaltet werden, der Entwickler wurde hineingeschüttet und die Dose ca. 5 Minuten gleichmäßig bewegt. Zum Schluss wurde die Entwicklungschemie ausgeschüttet und durch die Fixierung ersetzt. Nochmal einige Minuten lang bewegen. Dann brauchte nur noch gewässert werden. Am Ende immer die spannende Frage: Habe ich gut fotografiert und auch keinen Fehler bei der Entwicklung gemacht. Diese Spannung kommt bei der Digitalfotografie nicht mehr auf. Manchmal schade!
Housing developement has slowed just a little with the oil crash. It looks like he is checking out his old hunting grounds.
„Zückerchen“ mit Primotar 😛 (Bokeh- und Schärfe-Studie)
Rosa chinensis
China rose
China-Rose
pure raw-developement | reine Raw-Entwicklung
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The small farms in and around Boulder County are disappearing as more people move here. I'm sure this property is destined for developement.
Epilobium angustifolium
fireweed
Waldschlagweidenröschen
It's really rare to catch such a profane, bloody young beauty in such a shooting situation; nothing has been manipulated, pure raw development!
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Wirklich selten, so eine profane, blutjunge Schönheit in solch einer Aufnahmesituation zu erwischen; da ist nix manipuliert, reine Raw-Entwicklung!
2022-07-09_RAT4285, uncropped, pure raw developement
In 1983, the capital city of Malaysia has been a huge construction site. All the old residential and commercial buildings had already been torn down and the first new buildings were being built. Only a few historical buildings, possibly from the British colonial era, like this beautiful old railway station, survived.
I took this photo in November 1983 with my analog Nikon FE camera, and Nikkor 24mmm f2.8 lens, on 35mm Kodakchrome slide film, and now scanned with Nikon Coolscan 4000D film scanner.
©This photo is the property of Helga Bruchmann. Please do not use my photos for sharing, printing or for any other purpose without my written permission. Thank you!
These beauties are always so facinating to watch while they are floating in the water. In the "Darwineum" of the zoological garden Rostock they explain the developement of life, and there you can see really fascinating things and creatures, like this "Fried-Egg-Jellyfish".
male whitetail will get their first antler growth after their first year of life, so this is a 1 1/2 year old 'spike buck'....a lot of factors come into play for this guy as far as antler developement; genetics, nutrition, age..........mature growth at 6-7 years of age although few make it that far in life unless they are in a protected area.
Before we return to vast landscapes and monumental rock formations, I want to turn our focus today once again to the small and rather inconspicuous creatures of nature. And that's where this young fern, which I found while cleaning up my archives (I'm currently moving from Windows to Mac)) comes in handy.
What fascinates me about them isn't just the fact that ferns have existed for such an incredibly long time (360-300 million years), thus confirming the principle of "keep it simple."
It's also the way they grow that fascinates me.
At the beginning of their life, when they are still weak and vulnerable, their leaves are tightly coiled and protected by the petiole, which is armed with hairs or spines. They survive in this form throughout the winter.
But once the worst is over, they unfold at an impressive speed. I'm always surprised by how much leaf there is in such a small ball.
Bevor wir uns wieder weiten Landschaften und monumentalen Felsformationen widmen, will ich unseren Fokus heute einmal mehr auf die kleinen und eher unscheinbaren Geschöpfe der Natur lenken. Und da kommt mir dieser junge Farn, den ich beim Aufräumen meines Archivs gefunden habe (ich ziehe gerade von Windows nach Mac um) gerade recht.
Was mich an ihnen zu fasziniert ist nicht allein der Fakt, dass Farne schon so unfassbar lange existieren (seit 360-300 Millionen Jahren) und damit das Prinzip "keep it simple" bestätigen.
Es ist auch die Art, wie sie wachsen, von der ich begeistert bin.
Zu Beginn Ihres Lebens, wenn sie noch schwach und verletzlich sind, sind ihre Blätter eng aufgerollt und werden durch den mit Haaren oder Stacheln bewehrten Blattstiel geschützt. In dieser Formen harren sie den ganzen Winter aus.
Doch ist das gröbste Überstanden, dann entfalten sie sich in einem beeindruckenden Geschwindigkeit. Ich bin immer wieder überrascht, wie viel Blatt in so einer kleinen Kugel steckt.
I assume a lot of people who see this photo will relate to the circumstances in which it was taken - getting intel about a very interesting train, hopping on an overnight train journey in a normal coach for over 600km, going to the desired spot and finding out the train had already passed it. By sheer coincidence we managed to change course and chase it to a different spot.
Here a loaded sand train from Kotlarnia can be seen upon leaving the post EW (near the Rybnik power plant) while heading towards the station in Leszczyny. Machines on duty that day were 21D-008 (ex-TEM2-093) and 21D-006 (ex-TEM2-277). In Leszczyny, the train enters the public PKP railway network, and it will continue from there onwards to Katowice Murcki. The sand from the Kotlarnia mine will be used for construction works on the railway line, which suffered a slump due to the ongoing coal mining in the region. Such places, where terrain is visibly shifted or slumped are commonplace in Silesia and the railway needs to account for that by regularly maintaining embankments on the railroads. Such sand transports, leading out of Kotlarnia only happen less than 10 times a year and I have been lucky enough to have photographed a lot of them in 2024. Those pictures, along with their stories, you can see in our TEM2 album.
This post is a good occasion to talk about more developements in the Kotlarnia sand mine. The production there is still being scaled down and an end is innevitable. The quarry does no more night shifts (the pictured train has been loaded the day before and waited for the crew on the morning of 18.07.2025). Additionally, KPK has started selling a large chunk of its rolling stock (either for scrap or further reusing), and it seems like their main souce of income nowadays is lending TEM2 locomotives to various private carriers, who seek heavy diesel locomotives, which are now in high demand.
Photo by Piotrek/Toprus
Visiting Germany, the thing that always surprised us was the amount of mechanical semaphore signals still in use. We always looked up to Germany and their DB as the symbol of developement and overall technological advancement. Oh, how surprised were we to find out that so many stations in the land of our western neighbours still posess our favorite bits of railway infrastructure.
On the other hand, Poland seems to be really pushing forward the modernisation of railway safety equipement and new signals are placed everywhere day by day. Many of them in northern Poland, due to the total modernisation of many lines (the east-west mainline in Warmińsko-Mazurskie and the Gdańsk-Szczecin lines).
Branchlines are also getting a fair share of the new signals. The current objective of PKP PLK doesn't seem like eliminating mechanical semaphores completely, but rather removing the need for staffing two signal boxes per station, which is done by completely overhauling one part of the station and then remotely steering it from the other side, which is left almost untouched. In the past years, this happened to many stations on the old coal mainline - Serock, Lipowa Tucholska, Bąk and Somonino.
The infamous Ostbahn is now meeting a simmilar fate as many stations are undergoing a modernisation. One of the most surprising modernisations was Starogard Gdański and it came to me as a completely unexpected fact, which I had found out about from... one of Stefan's posts from last December!
Luckily for me, the western part of the station still has semaphores and an amazing climate, which served as the background for the evening ROS 55314 Hel-Chojnice hauled by the heritage unit SM42-523, as it was departing with a delay of 17 minutes towards Chojnice. It was 523's first train back to Chojnice after it got a repair and the new-old livery.
Photo by Piotrek/Toprus
Post scriptum - on the 25th of August 2022 I met some foreign railfan on the bridge on the other side of the station, greetings to you if you're reading this! :)
With all it's siblings completely unfurled, this part of the leaf had broken and was hanging down....forever curled?
Monterey, Ca
This house was just off of the famous 17 Mile Drive right by the Monterey Peninsula Country Club. My guess is that it predated virtually all of the developement that occurred in the late 20th century. I'm sure there is a fascinating history that I would love to know.
Using Google Lens, I was able to find that it is called "Casita de Lemos."
I originally titled this "abandoned" because when I took this image it was abandoned. I remember walking around the propery and peering into the windows.
Old Borges Ranch was established in 1899. Threatened with developement in the 1970's, citizens of the city of Walnut Creek moved to have nearly 3000 acres set aside to be permanently protected as open space to be enjoyed by all. The original ranch buildings are now on the National Historic Register.
It was a gloomy, misty morning. So out I went to shoot some film.... :-)
The Welta Perfekta is a camera from the years '30 that looks to me kind of bizarre. My version has a Meyer Gorlitz Trioplan 3.5/7.5cm lens. I like the camera a lot because of it's weird looks and because it's nonetheless a pleasure to work with....
Film: Bergger Pancro 400
Developement: T-max developer 1:9, 9min@20C. The negatives looked a bit thin so next time I try developing a bit longer.
Das Blatt (Objektivstudie mit Colorplan 90mm)
Testing lens & Affinity Photo v1.7.2 (pure raw developement)
(RAT8307)
I've dug through my hard drive to find and post this photo, sadly this photogenic group of trees has been sacrificed to make way for a nice housing developement.
double exposure
kodak 200
first camera: agfa silette lk
second camera: olympus trip 35
developement: rollei colorchem C-41
This is a test of changing exposure, differing silver nitrate quantities in the sensitizer application, and differing silver nitrate quantities in developement.
I was trying to figure out what varies the tone and density.
Lots of coating flaws and areas here.
Ag here means "Aceto-nitrate of silver" as described by Talbot.
"Lo Ag sens" means .03 ml Ag per 1 ml water.
"Hi Ag sens" means .06 ml Ag per 1 ml water.
"Lo Ag dev" means a longer gallic development followed by dev with 1 part Ag to 8 parts gallic.
"Hi Ag dev" means a shorter gallic dev followed by dev with 1 part Ag to 2 parts gallic.
Each image has +1 stop (left) and "normal" exposure (right).
A: Hi Ag Sens, Hi Ag Dev
B: Lo Ag Sens, Hi Ag Dev
C: Hi Ag Sens, Lo Ag Dev
D: Lo Ag Sens, Lo Ag Dev
Adamson's process (double iodide of silver), acidified Canson Marker paper. Washed in RO-purified water followed by tap water, then fixed in 5% hypo and washed.
Seen with a 60 year old projection lens :-)
Pure raw developement.
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„Flügelschlag“
Eingefangen mit einer 60 Jahre alten Projektionsoptik :-)
Reine Raw-Entwicklung
(8165017)
Tom Waits - Way Down in the Hole : www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xw2MjRcVO4g
Pentax P30 + Pentax-M SMC 35mm f.1:2.8 + Ilford FP4+ Caffenol C-L 50min@18°C (15g iodized salt) + Epson V600
Going down from a hike at Passo Falzarego, clouds were clearing up a bit after sunset and there was some interesting light and colourful sky: The afternoon until sunset the light was rather boring. I took 3 hand held shots with the Leica M11 and the 35 mm lens which were merged after careful developement in Lightroom. To bring some additional shine into the midtones, added an additional gradation curve via a layer in Photoshpo after stitching.
We can look at the impressive monolith of Tofana di Rozes with Hohe Gaisl and Monte Cristallo in the distance.
Trichogamma evanescens (wasp) have - if at all - extremely thin wings. Thus in coaxial light they show up a wonderful blue due to thin film interference. The wings have (almost) homogenously a thickness of about 0.2 Microns - which is less than half of the the wavelength of blue light. (In fact, the thinnest insect wings I ever measured).
Reflection spectrum is shown here
The wasp Trichogramma evanescense lays its eggs into the EGGS of moths (here: Sitototroga cerealella). The complete developement from the egg to the adult takes place inside this egg. Since moth eggs are quite small (ca. 0.4 mm in this case), adult trichogramma wasps belong to the smallest insects in the world (max. 0.5 mm). With only 10000 neurons, it has the smallest brain of any insect, yet this is enough to survive.
Mitutoyo 50x NA 0.55 tube lens TTL-165A (Thorlabs, 165 mm)
Illumination: Coaxial and oblique
Picture made with the simple bakelite years '50 Adox 66. I bought another one for almost no money. One shutterspeed, two choices for aperture, that's it.
The Adox 66 was made from 1950 till 1953. It is a pseudo-TLR.
It has a f/8 one-element (meniscus) lens and takes 12 square pictures on 120-rollfilm. Apertures are f/8 and f/11. Shutter speed something like 1/30th of a second.
The camera looks beautiful! And I really like what comes out, now and then....
Film used: Kodak Tmax 100
Stand-developement at home with Rodinal: pre-soak for 2 minutes, Rodinal 1:167 (3ml in 500ml water) at 20C for 1 hour, inversions first 30 seconds, then one inversion after half an hour.
I always have wanted to do one of these character evolution thingie, so I decided to do one of Cherrelyn, mainly because she is one of my oldest character and whom has evolved so much. So here you have it guys, from the upper left is were’s she started out basically to the lower right, how she is now.
This Comma has quite dark markings. My book says at this time of year newly emerged comma's are usually the lighter marked "Hutchinson's" form & this darker form does not usually appear untill late July. The darker ones have grown more slowly with part developement taking place in short day lengths
Seen with a 60 year old projection lens :-)
Pure raw developement.
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„Arbeitsteilung“ ;-)
Eingefangen mit einer 60 Jahre alten Projektionsoptik :-)
Reine Raw-Entwicklung
(8165018)
Lithprint
SE5 on old AGFA Brovira-Speed, 24 x 17 cm
40A + 40B up to 1000ml, 25 gr C. Ca 20 min developement time.
It’s hard to get the color right when I scan the original ...
The railway line 240 Świecie nad Wisłą - Złotów is, in reality, a mix and match of many different local lines in Northern Poland, which were constructed independently from eachother across the years. The first part of it which was opened was the local line Terespol - Schwetz in 1888, which connected to the Königlich-Preußische Ostbahn (the Royal Prussian Eastern Railway) in Terespol (which later underwent many name changes).
The line gained a bit of importance with the construction of the Celulose and Paper Plant in Świecie in the 1960s, which was a period of major industrial developements in wood processing facilities in this region. The siding to the facility branches out from the last remaining part of the line - Świecie Przechowo - Terespol Pomorski (3,5km of length) at the junction Konopat.
The passenger traffic to Świecie was suspended in 1996 and for the past couple of years the celulose plant has been the only source of traffic on this line. Sadly, almost all of the shipments are fulfilled by the Polish national operator PKP Cargo, which deploys its modernised 6Dg locomotives here. The only bit of variety here comes in the form of Transchem's T448p locomotives, which serve this branchline once every week or two.
Today I was very lucky to photograph this train. Taking into consideration that this service runs so rarely and that it most often comes in to Świecie at night, I had to take the gamble today. Having woken up at 3:30, I took an early InterCity train towards Laskowice Pomorskie and then a regio train to Terespol Pomorski. Having photographed the train with the T448p to Świecie, I moved spots and waited for the return. I hoped the loco would bring some wagons... but I was wrong :p.
Nevertheless, I took this picture of T448p-046 of Transchem, as it was returning from the celulose plant in Świecie as TMS 554014 Świecie nad Wisłą ZCiP - Bydgoszcz Główna Towarowa. The locomotive has passed the now closed junction Konopat minutes ago and will soon arrive at Terespol Pomorski. In the background lurks the panorama of Chełmno - a city on the other side of the valley of Vistula.
Photo by Piotrek/Toprus
The beau Brownie is a beautiful (as the name suggests :-)) small camera, made from 1930 till 1933. It has only one shutterspeed en 3 apertures and takes 6x9 images on 120 film. The two viewfinders are very very small; it is hard to compose your image. The lens is a fixed focus uncoated doublet.
The image-quality is not too bad. Of the series that I made, I like this one the most!
Film is Ilford FP4+@125.
I used the middle aperture (said to be about 16).
Stand-developement at home with Rodinal: pre-soak for 2 minutes, Rodinal 1:125 at 20C for 1 hour, inversions first 30 seconds, then one inversion after half an hour.
Greenland traditional
culture - Tupiilaq
Tupillaqs were originally not made figures like today, but a bunlde of sticks and feathers and some stuff to make it to a strong magic and then it was sent to the enemy of the maker and kill him. That was though not very safe work because if the reciever knew more magid it could be sent back and then much stronger than before and kill the original maker. When western people asked how the tupiilaqs looked like the inuits startet to make them more visible, by carving it out of bone or a reindeer horn. And that is how it started the its developement of souvenir visualizing the old magig spirits
After yesterday's post we return to standard railway topics, however still remaining near the cement plant "Kujawy" and the huge limestone mine. The facility contains one more curiosity, besides the previously mentioned cable car railway.
Me and Jarek have visited the station Wapienno a couple of years back and there was one thing I very vividly remembered from that trip. We were trying to find our way around the place to the station and searching for spots to photograph the limestone shuttle to Inowrocław. In doing so, we passed many places where a deteriorated track cut the street, and it was accompanied by a couple of lonely standing metal pylons. They very much looked like catenary poles, but what could they be doing here? I just thought they were taken from some tram network or used as lighting poles.
I later had gone on to disregard the topic completely, but a new breakthrough happened a few months back, when me and my friends were investigating the history and railway network of the Dębiec mining and metallurgical plant. We found it while browsing Open Railway Map, as it had an extensive railway network and was hidden deep in the forests of central Poland. We dug very deep in the internet and finally, in some remote corner of the plant's web page we found a picture gallery, showing the former glory of the local railways. Our jaws dropped in amazement, as we saw the network... electrified. Not only that, it featured pictures of the locomotives working there. They were the popular "Crocodiles" of the EL2 series from Hennigsdorf. "No way", we thought, "the locomotives only worked in the lignite mines", and quickly rushed to the EL2's Polish wikipedia page. There it was. "Apart from the lignite mine in Konin, the locomotives were delivered to the lignite mine in Adamów, the Dębiec plant and... the cement plant "Kujawy" in Wapienno". That's when I got a flashback from our previous trip and everything clicked. I knew I had to come back here.
I had to spend a couple more days, studying the cement factory's extensive railway network. By digging for a few more hours I found only a few pictures here aswell as one on Facebook which intrigued me even more. There I could read the comments of the former workers, which were very valuable.
The catenary, which covered the entirety of the complex - from Wapienno to Piechcin, used to look very crude. The wires were hanging from supports resembling those used on tram networks and the cables were very loose. Consequently, the pylons were placed frequently - between 25 and 30 meters apart, a third of the standard distance on normal railways. The catenary reached very remote places of the facility and spanned a total length - from my cude calculations - of around 9 kilometers. The remains of the catenary pylons are still there in many places and they fulfill the role of lighting poles nowadays, but wherever you see thin, long shadows, separated 30 meters from eachother. on aerial images, you can be sure that this was a part of the catenary.
This is exactly what we see on this picture. Further back there was a much more beautiful frame to be taken, but I really wanted to capture the remains of the catenary. Another reason for choosing this place is to talk about a now non-existant branch to the station in Piechcin (this picture shows the place where it used to be - the diagonal dirt path heading off into a curve and then later into the plant), which would have constituted a second track (to the right) in this very place. Catenary supports which we found lead me to believe that it also used to be electrified. Therefore PKP had two dropoff/pickup spots for trains to/from the mine and cement plant - in Piechcin and Wapienno. The branch also used to transport forced laborers from the very shortly lived prison camp in Piechcin (1950-1956) to the quarry near Bielawy.
On the picture is SM42-2083, heading to the place I call Masherbrum, which I will talk about tommorow. Congratulations if you managed to read through all this :D, I had no idea the text I had written would be so long. But when there is so much to discover... as far as I know, nobody had taken photographs of this place before me, because everyone always goes to the station Wapienno and chases the limestone shuttle to Inowrocław.
Photo by Piotrek/Toprus
In 2015, I travelled during one month in Madagascar, which is famous for its unique and sometimes endemic natural wonders. In reality, I have been more shocked and "interested" by the situation of the local people, living for most of them in the deepest level of poverty, without any reason to hope for a better future. I have read in different articles that, since then, the situation has even deteriorated furthermore and I cannot prevent myself from feeling terribly sad for this marvelous people. If someone doubts that political choices really matter, he can see here a proof that bad choices can lead to a total disaster, even for countries which had everything to succeed, like Madagascar. I cry for this people.
(Madagascar, Morondava, Aug.15)
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Over the weekend I noticed a major development with the Bluebirds. This female was spotted several times taking worms into the birdhouse - which can only mean one thing. There are hungry mouths needing to be fed!!
I'm still unable to get any shots through an open window, and even when I'm pretty much hidden behind a closed window they are still super skittish.
We are hopeful we'll at least be able to get clear shots of the fledglings when they start venturing out. This shot is more to document "the major development" than anything.
"Wide Rock", "White Mud", "Whites" and, finally "Limestoneville". Those are the sort of town names we see around here, roughly translated into English - for your convenience. This white substance is currently the main branch of industry, supporting the whole local economy. Welcome to Wapienno.
The local supplies of limestone have already been exploited by local peasants for centuries. Large scale mining only started in the 19th century, when a certain Wilhelm Roloff struck a very large layer of limestone while digging a well. Since then, the region started booming and production kept increasing. Consequently, facilities producing quicklime and slaked lime started appearing.
With the socialist era came a new wave of developements. In 1957, out of nowhere, a huge sodium carbonate plant appears. The population of the previously small spa-town of Janikowo quintuples between 1945 and 1992 (it reached around 9 thousand citizens), a couple of years later Janikowo gets township privilages, and the new factory demands thousands of tonnes of limestone. But how to supply it? By road? Rail? Conveyor? All of those options have some downsides. So what to choose?
The designers chose a rather unorthodox approach - a cable car. It was launched in the year 1960 and is currently the only operating cargo cable car railway in the entire country, with others having been closed down between the 1980s and 2000s. It currently has a length of around 7 kilometers, though its length used to be around 15 kilometers, back when the cable cars served both the Janikowo soda plant and the Inowrocław-Mątwy soda plant. They conveniently lie in a straight line, so that the station, where the loads were separated between Janikowo and Mątwy only required a short stretch of additional cable. Its placement in a completely flat area seems rather weird, given that cable car railways are constructed almost exclusively in hilly terrain.
I sadly could not stumble upon any information about the designer and manufacturer of the cable car line (all internet articles copy the same data over and over again...), however to my untrained eye, it strongly resembles those we would see in former Czechoslovakia, where many such railways operate to this day. This thought doesn't have to be far out from reality, as I assume there would be no domestic designers of such equipement (with the small number of them here), and Czechoslovakia was always an expert in this regard. I have no information about the cable car technology in other countries of the Eastern Block, but it might aswell come from East Germany, or USSR? Who knows...
This post is the first of a small trilogy about Wapienno that I'm going to publish in the coming days. The region has many more small secrets to explore!
Photo by Piotrek/Toprus