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After a comment on one of my recent pictures I decided to re-visit an old Lakeland haunt of mine to see how it was doing. I was pleased to find it still maintained its character.
The Sava Promenade in Savamala is a popular summer promenade with numerous bars and restaurants in the old warehouses – one of the old cranes from the time as a commercial harbour is also preserved.
An old abandoned factory.
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A bit of Venice in Detroit. Where the Rouge & Detroit rivers meet, the brown hues of the riverwater collide with the aquamarine-blue waters that dominate the Great Lakes, coloring the water with varying rusty & tropical tones.
River Rouge & Detroit River
Detroit, Michigan
Old School Sears in Santa Monica, California, across the street from Santa Monica Place mall, by the looks of of it, it's really Art Deco, which I like, wish I had gone in, we just stopped to use the restrooms at Macy's, now a Bloomingdale's!
Got this off eBay for 192 bucks shipped last week and it finally arrived last night from California. It is a Burke & James Orbit 4x5 view camera... pretty much the same as the Calumet CC400 series of cameras, which are the same as the Kodak Master View 4x5s. It is probably along the lines of 40 to 50 years old now, as I think they stopped making them in the mid '60s. BUT, it looks like it hardly ever saw any rough use or handling. Almost no paint loss, a perfect bellows, and came with a case, light cover, and about a dozen 4x5 film holders.
The lens is a 135mm f/4.5 Yamasaki "CONGO" which I researched online and can be below-average to above-average in performance depending on your sample. It has a little bit of oil on the aperture blades, but the oil does not seem to impair its functioning. 135mm in 4x5 translates to about 40mm in full frame "35mm" format, so not quite as wide as I'd like, but I'll play around with it and if I don't like it, I figure I can probably sell it for what I paid for it, and if I do like it, maybe upgrade the lens to a better 90mm (which is more like 28mm in 35mm format). I plan on shooting some landscapes with it when Jen and I head down the Blue Ridge Parkway in the fall. It is heavy, so I don't suppose I'll be lugging it very far into the woods, but on some of the great Parkway overlooks, it'll be fun to shoot.
I should mention that this was once owned by a guy named John Sullivan of Fresno, California. His name and phone number are spray painted on the case in that old "cargo" style lettering and he has old fashioned plastic labels on every film back. I think the guy I bought it from was an estate dealer, so I suppose John has passed on. But his camera will continue going to good use! :)
In Louisville... I think the name comes from the fact that the spaghetti is old. At least thats how it tasted to me.
this iron junk was lying beside the road... the rusty machine after an afternoon shower was so "texture-ous" that i had to take this photograph... (hand-held HDR)
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Oxfords finest, or should I say Germanys finest?? Who would have thought a cool 'British' icon from our friends from Germany? There has been a lot of debating among the ranks of the Mini purists that the (BMW) Mini is not a “real” mini, the purist will tell you the since the Germans got involved the Mini lost its soul, I’m not so sure about that but what I am sure about is it a very cool little motor. Lets be honest the old minis have had their day, even the ones which have been lovingly restored would struggle to accommodate anyone over 6ft tall… for this reason The (BMW) Mini - I salute you!
...with a new look.
I don't have much to say about this, other than that I received a great honor recently at work and was toying around with some ideas on how to spend the bonus associated with it. In the end, I decided to create more work for myself by buying some photo editing software I couldn't otherwise afford.
Ayrshire Baptist Church
Palo Alto County, Iowa
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