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The light at the end of the trail. 🌲🔥
There’s something hypnotic about a path that leads straight into the sun. Nature’s way of showing the way home.
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Camera: Agfa Isolette III MK II (6x6 cm)
Lens: Solinar f/3.5 75 mm
Film: Kodak Tri-X 400, rated @ ASA 200
Exposure: 1/100 sec and f/8, hand-held
Film developed and scanned by MeinFilmLab
Edited under Adobe Lightroom
A narrow, winding dirt trail meanders through a dense, sun-dappled forest, inviting exploration. Tall trees with thick trunks and a lush canopy of green leaves create a natural tunnel, while sunlight filters through, casting intricate patterns of light and shadow on the path and vibrant undergrowth. The scene evokes a sense of peaceful solitude and the quiet beauty of an untamed woodland.
Everything is so lush and vibrant in the forest now. The bluebells might be over, but the new leaves form a beautiful rich tapestry of green, blowing in the wind. The Ashridge Estate looking stunning in Spring.
A lone figure walks toward fog-covered trees, lit by the soft morning sun. The composition highlights the warm tones and quiet stillness of the scene.
Camera: Rollei 35
Lens: Tessar f/3.5 40 mm
Film: Fomapan Action 400, rated @ ISO 200
Exposure: 1/125 sec and f/5.6, hand-held
Film developed and scanned by Foto Brell, Bonn
Edited under Adobe Lightroom
Fomapan Action 400 has a quite different look and seems to be a suitable alternative for specific intensions and photographic subjects. This classic film emulsion delivers more distinct grain, more sooty dark tones and some blooming of the highlights, which can emphasize the mood of a picture favorably. However, the sensitivity of this film emulsion seems to be lower than box speed, because the shadows tend to lose detail.
The more distinct grain results from the cubic grain structure of the emulsion. In contrast to the softer grain pattern of the tabular grain of modern films like the Ilford Delta or the Kodak TMax film series, cubic grain is more apparent. The softening effect by overexposure is said to result from a poor anti-halation layer. The light bouncing around causes halos and glowing highlights, creeping into the darker areas and tending to wash out the highlights.
The darkening of the foliage and the shadows seems to pretend the higher contrast. Fomapan Action 400 has much more sensitivity to the red end of the spectrum than in the blue and green region, so to speak a built-in orange or red filter. As a result, green leaves and shadows in general come darker in tonality. However, the contrast and graininess can both be reduced by overexposure. Meanwhile, I expose Fomapan 400 at ISO 200 (rather than rating the film at box speed) to open up the shadows for showing more detail.
This film definitely has a unique look, which is much appreciated by many photographers. Together with its deep black and the glowing highlights, Fomapan Action 400 can produce the beautiful and timeless look of classic film emulsions, different from other b&w films and quite different from digital rendering. This film and a vintage camera seem to be a good combo.
This is a path at the back of where the previous queen named Juliana lived at Paleis Sosestdijk, in a wood area named the Vuursche, i found it a pleasant view with this light and the leaves on the ground
A low-angle view of bamboo lanterns glowing with warm interior light along a leaf-covered forest trail during an evening illumination event.
Camera: Agfa Isolette III MK I (6x6 cm)
Lens: Solinar f/4.5 85 mm
Film: Kodak Portra 160
Exposure: 1/100 sec and f/11, hand-held
Film developed and scanned by MeinFilmLab
Edited under Adobe Lightroom and Nik Silver Efex Pro
I walk on this narrow path and it feels like the forest is watching me, or maybe I am the one being watched by my own thoughts.
The trees are thin, almost fragile, but they stand longer than any decision I ever made. It’s early Spring days, but leaves still remember me that here was the Autumn. they are not in hurry to reach the ground, unlike me pursuing for something I forgot or post…
It is calm here, almost too calm, like silence is saying something I cannot translate. You would think such place gives answers, but it only gives space for questions to grow taller. Strange thing, I came here to feel less alone, yet every step makes me more visible to myself. The light is soft, kind even, but it shows everything without asking if I am ready.
Maybe peace is not comfort, maybe it is just the absence of noise where truth becomes louder, so I can see more within myself…
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Cooper pauses on a forest path, surrounded by fallen leaves and a thin layer of snow. The air is still, the light soft and pale, typical of a January afternoon. His gaze is calm but attentive, as if listening to distant sounds in the woods. Curly fur catches the cold light while the background fades into gentle blur. A quiet moment during a winter walk, where time slows and the world feels simple and peaceful.
Camera: Agfa Record III (6x9 cm)
Lens: Apotar f/4.5 105 mm
Film: Ilford HP5 Plus 400
Exposure: 1/100 sec and f/16, hand-held
Film developed and scanned by MeinFilmLab
Edited under Adobe Lightroom
Camera: Agfa Isolette III MK II (6x6 cm)
Lens: Solinar f/3.5 75 mm
Film: Kodak Tri-X 400
Exposure: 1/100 sec and f/8, hand-held
Film developed and scanned by MeinFilmLab
Edited under Adobe Lightroom
For comparison, see the picture of this scene taken on Ilford HP5:
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Camera: Mamiya Six Automat I (6x6 cm)
Lens: Olympus D'Zuiko f/3.5 7.5 cm
Film: Kodak TMax 400, rated @ ISO 400
Exposure: 1/250 sec and f/5.6, hand-held
Film developed and scanned by Foto Brell, Bonn
Edited under Adobe Lightroom
Accidental background blur due to lack of film flatness, probably caused by unfolding the camera too rapidly. The fine-grain Kodak TMax 400 film delivers smooth tonal value transitions, especially in the blurred area in the center, which is framed by a relatively sharp border area. For some reason I actually like the look.
Autumn, also known as Fall in North American English, is one of the four temperate seasons. Outside the tropics, autumn marks the transition from summer to winter, in September (Northern Hemisphere) or March (Southern Hemisphere). Autumn is the season when the duration of daylight becomes noticeably shorter and the temperature cools considerably. Day length decreases and night length increases as the season progresses until the Winter Solstice in December (Northern Hemisphere) and June (Southern Hemisphere). One of its main features in temperate climates is the striking change in colour for the leaves of deciduous trees as they prepare to shed.
Although colour change in leaves occurs wherever deciduous trees are found, coloured autumn foliage is noted in various regions of the world: most of North America, Eastern Asia (including China, Korea, and Japan), Europe, southeast, south and part of the midwest of Brazil, the forest of Patagonia, eastern Australia and New Zealand's South Island.
Eastern Canada and New England are famous for their autumnal foliage, and this attracts major tourism (worth billions of US dollars) for the regions.
Our recent weather event of Jan 4'th was eerily reminiscent of the famous Ice Storm of Jan 5, 1998. This weekend we had 20 centimetres of snow followed by a rapid rise of temperature to +10C followed by rain, then a drop to 0 C with freezing rain, then high winds (at least 50 kph by my estimate) followed by clearing skies and a severe rapid drop of temperatures to -15C (-30C with the windchill). Back in 1998 a similar pattern of weather variation occurred but it was over several days with as much as 100mm (4 inches) of freezing rain destroying the hydro-electric systems of eastern Ontario and southern Quebec (up to 5 million people were out of power, some for as long as a month). Millions of trees were damaged or destroyed by the weight of the ice.