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Photo of the Moyie Dam captured via Minolta MC PF-Rokkor-X 50mm F/1.7 lens. Kootenai Valley section within the Northern Rockies Region. North Idaho. Boundary County, Idaho. Early June 2021.
Exposure Time: 1/100 sec. * ISO Speed: ISO-100 * Aperture: F/8 * Bracketing: None * Color Temperature: 5750 K * Film Plug-In: Fuji Provia 100F * Elevation: 2,290 feet above sea-level
#93 -- Spectacles -- 119 Pictures in 2019
Reading glasses, bought at the Denver Art Museum.
Story by Alice Munro, known for both clarity of perception & of phrase.
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I met Giovanni on the Riva Ca di Dio, at the turning up to the Arsenale. He saw me spot him from some distant, and watched me walk the few hundred feet up to him with a sombre smile.
Whilst he was mid Sunday morning ritual - a walk up the Fondamenta Forni to stand and smoke looking out at the busy channel - he agreed to stop for a moment and allow a portrait for the project.
Not wanting to disturb his ritual I took a couple of steps to get a nice smooth background of Venetian building front. The chalky orange seemed to fit with his shirt and tinted spectacles neatly. I took a couple of shots straight on, but with the curve of the glasses it was impossible to avoid being reflected. A couple of steps to the side allowed for their reflection to shift to a nicely Venetian bridge - hence going with this shot without the eye contact.
A little while later walking back along the front I saw Giovanni smoking and we exchanged a solemn, but friendly, wave that made me feel a little 0.5% more rooted in this fantastic city.
Thanks Giovanni for allowing me to intrude on your morning - I hope you enjoyed your meditations on the lagoon.
This is portrait #18 of my 100 Strangers Project - check out the group page and get involved.
Apologies to my contacts for my sporadic presence - we're working quarter end at an Amercian company, so things are very exciting, but outrageously busy!
"Nice to see you"
My new glasses with a prescription for the computer screen. I also have a pair for reading, and progressives for everyday use.
Spectacles Bridge was constructed in 1634 and was Japan's first Chinese-style stone bridge. The bridge gets its name from its resemblance to a pair of spectacles when the arches of the bridges are reflected as ovals on the surface of the river (Source: Nagasaki City Tourism Guide).
Meganebashi (眼鏡橋?) or Spectacles Bridge, over the Nakashima River (中島川) was built in Nagasaki in 1634[1] by the Japanese monk Mokusu of Kofukuji Temple. It is said to be the oldest stone arch bridge in Japan and has been designated as an Important Cultural Property. It received the nickname "Spectacles Bridge" because its two arches and their reflection in the water create the image of a pair of spectacles. On July 23, 1982, a disastrous deluge washed away six of the ten stone bridges over the Nakashima River. Meganebashi was badly damaged but fortunately almost all the original stones were retrieved and the bridge was restored to its original appearance. (Wikipedia)
spectacles on book, window light, Sydney 2018. Nikon F80 AF Micro-Nikkor 60mm f/2.8D, Ilford HP5+ in XTOL 1+1. V700 scan.
the sadness of items left behind. these spectacles were on a window sill in an abandoned mine, covered in dust and spider webs. who wore them?
Glamour. The Fray Bentos photostream needs it desperately. Mrs B recently came across a cache of old negatives, taken when she was seventeen by her Portugese boyfriend Antonio. I have spent quite a few hours in recent weeks scanning the damn things and feel I have earned the right to post one or two. Antonio was not always an expert lensman, particularly in the matter of focus, but this is one of his better efforts.
"You sher got a purdy mee-ath", I drawled, with a repulsive leer, when Mrs B came to view the results.
"I can't believe how thin I was", she opined.
Me neither. Most people accept what they are told is fashionable. Twenty years later "stand-up" comedians start making "ironic" post-modern references to it and middle-aged people who wore platform soles and had their hair "layered" think how broad-minded, "laid back" and generally hip they are because they can laugh at it. Some contradiction here surely? The seventies were the decade that taste forgot and it is one of my minor boasts that I knew it at the time, when most people went along with flared trousers, droopy moustaches and all those ghastly orange and brown curtain fabrics. I disliked these terrible spectacles, with their huge lenses, when everybody was wearing them. Eventually they produced a reaction ...or, rather, it was decided that there should be a reaction... and lenses became small, even minuscule.
Just remember, people in the offices of fashion houses are, at this very moment, deciding what colours and styles you will be wearing in three years' time; and when the time comes you will believe you chose them yourselves.
A brunette lady with pointed eyeglasses enjoying the Sunday morning comics in a sun-drenched fifties living room. I purchased this lovely vintage photograph from an American online vendor.
Country of origin: USA