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Columbia, California is a preserved gold rush era (1850's) town. Most of the commercial buildings had iron shutters for the windows and doors, which makes sense in an area with a lot of gold and not much law. The town converted to brick construction after a series of disastrous fires in it's early years. It also has the advantage of being mostly bullet proof.
In the moment when I was about to press the shutter release button these two stepped out of the gate. I felt that they wonderfully completed the image. I always loved this very place which is within cycling distance from where I grew up. It's an medieval castle which bears the name "Haus Vorst". What you see here is the entrance gate and - in front of it - a stone bridge which spans the moat. (During the middle ages there was no stone bridge but a wooden drawbridge instead). As a student I loved to go there - you have to cycle (or walk) through the woods north of Opladen, and suddenly you find yourself in front of the castle which gives you a fairy-tale-like feeling.
I you want to learn more about the place go here: www.hausvorst.de/master.htm#
They are preparing an English version of their site too which unfortunately isn't ready yet.
These window shutters in various states closed to open caught my eye as I was walking around the town of Riva in Lake Garda earlier in the year.
As you may well guess I'm a bit short of fresh material at the moment on another gloomy Saturday.
Shutter Priority
Canon EOS 70D
ISO-100
F-stop - f/5
Exposure Time - 1/1000 sec
Exposure Bias - -0.7 step
No Flash
Focal Length - 26 mm
Shutter tore a hole in the space-time continuum during their set and the whole audience travelled through time for a month before returning for lunch
Blue shutters, open at all times, specially delivered straight from the Aegean archipelago to my friend GPS7!
Merry Christmas, GPS7!
Several of our Flickr mates are uploading images of classic film cameras. Some are even buying these as collectors items on eBay, etc.
And a few are shooting film along with their digital work, developing, scanning, etc., etc.
Well, you know what they say, 'been there, done that'... and I have. Some years ago, I sold off about a dozen film cameras, mostly rangefinders.
The Oly OM-1n was a find on eBay for $32- with the 50. Of course, I had it overhauled [CLA], and that was $100- including a new prism.
Note that most of our nostalgic presentations of film cameras in Flickr, are done with modern digital cameras ;-)
This shows the latch mechanism from a window shutter. This was on a work building at the Villa Gamberaia in Settignano Italy.