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I have more than double the images of Ragnar in my holding pen than I do of his twin sister, Freja. Rags is the extrovert, and makes his presence known whenever possible. He poses, while Freja doesn't like to stay still for more than a second. Even so, getting a close up of him can still be a challenge. Like my old cats that passed away, Squeegee and Barrymore, Rags will get right next to me while I'm on the computer, and will look like he's posing nicely UNTIL I go for the camera! Then, the head goes down, and he avoids eye contact. Nevertheless, I managed to get what I thought was a pretty interesting shot of Ragnar with Freja in the Background.
Lately the two cats have been sparring over who gets to lie on the ottoman. It was Ragnar's personal domain for a while, but Freja has been challenging him lately. Of course, being the bigger and more powerful of the two, Ragnar usually wins any confrontations, but that doesn't stop Freja from trying!
I finally finished my Tennessee pictures and have my book for my friends being printed, so I will be catching up as I can. Thanks to everyone for being understanding!
Looks like Esmee passed all of her O.W.L.'s... some just barely. Guess no more Astronomy or Transfiguration for Esmee Squeegee
On the roof of the South Melbourne Light Rail Station perhaps? Just thinking about finding lost things after all the guffuffle of Rio Tinto finding its small radioactive capsule in WA somewhere alongside the 1400km roadside! www.abc.net.au/news/2023-02-01/australian-radioactive-cap...
When I looked at this pic, it was almost as if I could reach out and touch my beloved pet. For 17 years, I looked into those lovely amber eyes with touches of green, and pet that distinctive bullseye on his side. Squeegee definitely targeted my heart. I've been missing him lately.
Not much was done to this aside from exposure, crop and a little bit of color boost. The camera captured him well this time.
For those of you in the Cats U Luv group, Squeegee is the group's icon. He passed away on Oct. 19, 2015.
For those in the Tigger The Gatekeeper's Garden Clubhouse group, Squeegee was Tigger's "brother".
This abstract is of my all time favorite kitty, Squeegee. Squeeks died on Oct. 19, 2015, and I miss him as much as if he was a human family member. Somehow I know I'll see my beloved pet again, but waiting is like being in an ugly dimension where the reality of your loved one is so close that some days you could almost reach out and touch them, but others, they feel a million miles away.
It's funny how while someone is alive, no matter how seldom we see them, or if we EVER do, there's a comfort in knowing they are out there somewhere. All that ends once the loved one moves into that other dimension that is out of our grasp. I will say one thing, and that is I treasured my Squeeks. There wasn't a day that went by that I wasn't grateful for him and glad to be with him. I should treat people so well! I have no regrets, but I still miss him...
The shot below was taken on March 13, 2011, almost five years ago to the day.
Looking across the River Derwent to the Nystar zinc smelter on the opposite shore.
Image taken from the cliffs of Bedlam Walls on the eastern shore. Beaten up old She Oak or Casuarina in the foreground has seen a few hard breezes down the river.
Let the big Texas Leica out of the bag for this frame. Lovely machine dating from ~1992. Sadly some developing marks on this image - probably the squeegee...
Fujifilm GSW690 III Professional, Fujinon EBC 65mm f/5.6. 1/250th sec at f/8, Kodak TMAX 400.
Cattails release their seeds in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. There are several stormwater management areas where wetland flora can thrive in the area.
Unfortunately, you can see a gentle scratch that was picked up on the scan of the film. I hate to squeegee my film after processing, since I very frequently damage the film. However, I always seem to keep making the same mistakes anyway. Old habits die hard.
Check out an album containing more of my photos shot in 2018.
Asahi Pentax Spotmatic 1
Asahi Takumar f4 300 mm lens
Manfrotto tripod and ball head.
Metered with a Sekonic L-358.
135 format Ilford FP4 Plus 125 ISO film.
Scanned using a Nikon Super CoolScan 9000 ED with the FH-835S 35mm strip film tray.
I've been going through all my old photos lately to see if I can improve them. Squeegee was hard to improve upon, but my shot needed a little help! I'm not sure what causes point and shoot cameras to produce faded out looking images, or if that is a result of the uploading process, but Squeeks was definitely a deeper shade of orange than what the camera captured that day.
It's been 6 months since he died, but I still miss my Squeeks. He was a part of my life for 17 years and there will never be another pet like him. This was Squeeks in better days, when he was in his usual, rare form! He was instigating trouble with Barrymore that day, and got beat up one of many times that sort of thing happened. He never learned, though, and kept provoking him until he started getting too old to care anymore, lol!
Now, Barrymore is the old one. He is going on 16, and failing quickly. It's been a tough year...
A man cleaning high windows being squeegeed out by an arm coming from the windows he is cleaning. fineartamerica.com/featured/squeegie-the-window-washer-ka...
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I had seen the ropes dangling all morning and knew that they were washing the windows, so I got my camera out and had it ready to go at a moment’s notice. When the window washer showed up by my desk I grabbed my camera and started shooting away. When he was nearly done squeegeeing one side of the window, he looked inside and was startled to find me photographing him. I paused, pointed to my camera nodding yes and gave him a thumbs up. He nodded yes back and continued to squeegee the other half of my window.
This is from a roll of Kodachrome 64 that I found in a Kodak Signet 35 Rangefinder camera. I don't know who shot the film or how old the shot is.
I developed the film as black and white in Rodinal 1:50. The following is the recipe for how I developed it. All liquids were at 20 degrees C.
1. Pre-soaked the film in water for a few minutes.
2. Soaked the film in a mixture of 50 grams of Sodium Carbonate in 500 ml of distilled water for one minute with several vigorous agitations. This will remove the rem-jet backing. Slowly mix the Sodium Carbonate into the water while stirring to get it to dissolve without crystalizing.
3. Rinsed and agitated in tap water at least 3 times.
4. Developed in Rodinal 1:50 for 20 minutes with continuous agitation for the first two minutes then 10 seconds every minute after that.
5. Water stop bath, 3 rinses.
6. Normal fix.
7 rinse in running tap water for 4 minutes.
8. Gentle squeegee between fingers under running water to get any remaining rem-jet off. You will see black soot on your fingers if there is still some remaining.
9. Hang to dry with a weight at the bottom to help get the curl out. This is old film and it will have a lot of curl to it.
Norman Rockwell met a budding artist and young soldier from Washington State stationed in western Massachusetts in 1960. With a furlough coming up, he wrote to his idol, Norman Rockwell, asking if he might be allowed to visit. Receiving an unexpected invitation by mail, he traveled to Stockbridge and was introduced to the artist. “You’ll do,” said Rockwell on seeing his visitor, and he was cast on the spot as a leering window washer. – From “Behind the Camera” by Norman Rockwell.
Pulled by a two horse team, a mechanical street washer, complete with sprayers, and a squeegee/roller at the rear.
If this unit has pumping action it's probably tied to the movement of the wheels with water fed by gravity from a tank over which the driver sits.
Of note is the piece of fire hose hanging from the rear of the tank used for hydrant refills.
-- Information found by jamica 1 (below)
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Photographer unknown,
from the New York City Municipal Archives
holga fisheye with bad developing. over-zealous squeegeeing.
for sean. I'm doing more whining and complaining here.
if anyone decides to do caffenol developing with no developing experience, email me. I've made, and am still making, every mistake known to man, and some not even discovered yet.
Lucky Boy restaurant in Albuquerque, New Mexico. I shot this just before lunch time. I should have gone in and tried it, but I had a plane to catch. Next time I’m in ABQ I will!
Apparently it’s been there for 40 years, and the interior looks like they have never redecorated. The Yelp reviews for this place are fantastic.
“The place really could use a thorough cleaning, but I so love it anyways.”
“The kitchen, which is just behind the counter, visible in all its crusty grease glory, can turn people off big time. “
“Don't let the look of the outside discourage you from trying this lovely hole in the wall! Burger was good. Chinese food is questionable.”
“Okay, don't judge a book by it's cover because if you do you would run out the door because the seats are old, the tile floors needs a cleaning, and walls well it would need some renovating. That out of the way, their food is good!”
“What would we do without Lucky Boy? The BEST Chinese food at around $3.00 a plate! The air conditioning lacks. The floors need a mop. The windows need a squeegee. The walls need paint. And the tables need replacing. But..."I just can't quit you," Lucky Boy! I just can’t!”
“The problem with this place is that, as much as I love the burgers, every time I go there (not that often), there is no way I can escape the feeling that maybe I shouldn't eat there because it just looks very unsanitary. It is run down, and I don't think the owners have put a penny into any type of maintenance, much less renovations, ever. Not even a paint job in over 30 years (or at least it appears that way).”
In other words, a classic dive!
A while back, I was contacted by an artist named Deb Bate from Australia who had found a photo of my cats, Tigger and Squeegee, taken the day before Tigger died, and asked if she could paint it. She'd been looking online for just the right photo, and liked the throw that I had on the sofa for color. I agreed, on the condition that she would give me first dibs on the portrait once it was painted.
Deb is a gifted artist! She captured the photo beautifully, with a few changes for artistic license. I offered her what I felt was a meager amount for the beautiful work she'd done, and she accepted my offer! The painting, which means a great deal to me, since both kitties are gone now, hangs in my hall where I walk by and see it many times a day, and love it so much!
For anyone who is interested in having their pets' portraits painted, I highly recommend Debra. She shipped the painting to me quickly, and it arrived all the way from Australia quite quickly! You can reach her at Pet_Portrait_Place@hotmail.com, and see her work on facebook.com/PetPortraitPlace. Her phone number is 0416 233 897.
The original photo is below.
Sorry... no Starbucks, sushi or espresso bars in this version of New York. (Hookers and windshield squeegee guys... yes)
a poor attempt at a sp was getting me down . . .
The driver in the truck next to mine, doing a little house keeping. My windshield needs more than Windex. I've murdered half the bugs in Texas, at least that's what it looks like. I head to a truckstop once I leave here and hit it with a long handled squeegee and sponge, and it'll be fine for about 10 miles.
It's been almost four months, but I still miss Squeeks as if he was a human being. When I look at his photos, he seems so real to me that I could almost reach out and touch him, but not. Nothing fills the gap when you really love someone, even a precious pet.
This shot was taken on March 4, 2013. I am grateful for every day I had with Squeegee.
From my personal Collection. Tintype, also melainotype and ferrotype, is a photograph made by creating a direct positive on a sheet of metal, usually iron or steel that is blackened by painting, laquering or enamelling and is used as a support for a collodion photographic emulsion.
Photographers usually worked outside at fairs, carnivals etc. and as the support of the tintype (there is no actual tin used) is resilient and does not need drying, instant photographs can be produced only a few minutes after taking the photograph.
An ambrotype uses the same process and methods on a sheet of glass that is mounted in a case with a black backing so the underexposed negative image appears as a positive. Tintypes did not need mounting in a case and were not as delicate as photographs that use glass for the support.
The process was identical to the wet plate process, where collodion is employed to produce a photographic emulsion where silver halide crystals (silver bromide, silver chloride and silver iodide) are suspended in the collodion, and are chemically reduced to crystals of metallic silver that vary in density according to the original light values of the original image.
When a photographic negative image on film or plate is very underexposed, it appears as a positive when viewed against a dark background. This is the basis of the process: a very underexposed image is produced on a collodion photographic emulsion on a dark metal backing; thus viewed the image appears as a positive. The fact that an underexposed image is required means that the effective film speed is increased and shorter exposures can be used, which is a great advantage in portraiture.
The process was first described by Adolphe-Alexandre Martin in France in 1853, and patented in the United States on February 19, 1856 by Hamilton Smith, professor at Kenyon College, in Ohio William Kloen also patented the process in the United Kingdom in the same year. It was first called melainotype, and then ferrotype (by a rival manufacturer of the iron plates used); finally came the name tintype. All three names describe both the process and the resulting photograph.
The ambrotype was the first wet-plate collodion process, invented by Frederick Scott Archer in 1851 and introduced in the United States by James Ambrose Cutting in 1854.
While the ambrotype remained very popular in the rest of the world, the tintype process had superseded the ambrotype in the United States by the end of the Civil War. It became the most common photographic process until the introduction of modern, gelatin-based processes and the invention of the reloadable amateur camera by the Kodak company. Ferrotypes had waned in popularity by the end of the 19th century, although a few makers were still around as late as the 1950s and the images are still made as novelties at some European carnivals.
The tintype was a minor improvement to the ambrotype, replacing the glass plate of the original process with a thin piece of black-enameled, or japanned, iron (hence ferro). The new materials reduced costs considerably; and the image, in gelatin-silver emulsion on the varnished surface, has proven to be very durable. Like that of the ambrotype, the tintype's image is technically negative; but, because of the black background, it appears as a positive. Since the tintype 'film' was the same as the final print, most tintype images appear reversed (left to right) from reality. Some cameras were fitted with mirrors or a 45-degree prism to reverse (and thus correct) the image, while some photographers would photograph the reversed tintype to produce a properly oriented image.
Tintypes are simple and fast to prepare, compared to other early photographic techniques. A photographer could prepare, expose, develop, and varnish a tintype plate in a few minutes, quickly having it ready for a customer. Earlier tintypes were often cased, as were daguerreotypes and ambrotypes; but uncased images in paper sleeves and for albums were popular from the beginning.
Ferrotyping is a finishing treatment applied to glossy photo paper to bring out its reflective properties. Newly developed, still-wet photographic prints and enlargements that have been made on glossy paper are Squeegeed onto a polished metal plate called a ferrotyping plate. When these are later peeled off the plate, they retain a highly reflective gloss.
This is my beautiful cat, Squeegee. I finally have a camera that can capture the colors in those eyes!
Explore #418, Nov. 7, 2007
Thanks, my friends! I'm always happy when my Squeegee makes Explore!
View On Black (Large)
The architectural coolness of this high-rise is exceeded only by the courage of the four window washers dangling precariously with their squeegees hundreds of feet above street level in Seoul, Korea
Shanghai GP3 100iso
120 Film
No Crop, No Filter. Big horizontal scratch on film removed with Photoshop. It was from the squeegee wipe after development. This film is super thin like Rollei Retro400s. Scratches easily but I still really like the tones in this film.
1955 Foitzik Trier
6x6 Folding Camera
Foinar 1:4.5
75mm
Made In Germany
f8 1/200
Depth of Field: 4ft away from camera.
Manual Focus is via Parallax viewfinder. Non TTL focus. So an approximation of the final image.
Focal Distance increments in feet(ft). You have to chose/select via eye and guess work. I do love the challenge.
Metering via Sunny 16 rule and my head.
Yes, I love cows and all farm animals so I like to photograph them when I get the opportunity to. When they let me. Hence, why there's quite a few photos of them in a series.
Development:
Ilford Ilfotec DD-X 10 minutes 1+9 24 celcius
Ilford Fixer 5 minutes
Adox Wetting Agent 1 min
Walter C. Jerome of Worcester, Massachusetts was a man possessed by a mission to make the world's safest car. In the end, he failed to advance auto safety but Jerome's segmented sedan might easily qualify as the world's strangest car.
Primarily concerned with head-on collisions, Jerome split his car in two, hoping the front section would absorb collisions, leaving the passenger cabin untouched. Using a heavily modified 1948 Hudson sedan as a rear section, he built a raised turret to provide the driver with maximum visibility, a goal he furthered with a 360 degree wrap-around screen that constantly rotated past built-in squeegees to wipe it clean. .......See older picture........
I know I posted a pic of Freja the other day, but she really deserves another shout out today! Last night, right before I went to sleep, I felt the symptoms of a migraine coming on. As any migraine sufferer knows, time is all important in stopping these things before they take hold, or life is impossible once they kick in. Freja proved to be a very special kitty shortly after I laid down to sleep.
Many of my contacts have heard about how my cat, Squeegee, used to alert me when I had a migraine starting. He would stand outside my bedroom door and squeek and howl incessantly until I got up and took my migraine meds, and then he would leave. When he first started doing it, I just thought he was griping about something he got for dinner that he wasn't happy with or just wanted attention, and he drove me nuts with his yowling! It didn't take long to figure out why he was doing it, though, as each time a migraine was coming on, and he was alerting me to the changes going on in my body that I was unaware of until I woke. Squeegee's intervention made it possible for me to overcome many of the migraines before they took hold, and that allowed me to get up and go to work the next day! Sadly, Squeeks passed away on October 19, 2015.
After Squeegee died, and even for a few years before, I seldom got the kind of headaches that used to incapacitate me. Still, since the symptoms of nausea, light sensitivity, heat intolerance, and noise intolerance played in, I was concerned that I no longer had my alert kitty to wake me before it was too late to alleviate the awful symptoms that I still sometimes had.
I got Ragnar and Freja as kittens. They were about six months old when I took them in. Freja was always the yacky one, but I never noticed a pattern until recently. Squeeks was still alive when I brought them home, but passed about one month later. As youngsters, the two rowdy cats were mostly playing or sleeping, and it has taken nearly 3 years to realize that Freja seems to have the same ability that Squeegee had to predict my migraines.
Last night, after I laid down, Freja was right at my bedroom door, meowing away loudly and even pawing the door to get my attention. She seldom bothers me when I'm sleeping, and I did notice that I was getting the migraine aura, which is for me lights and images that appear to be in front of my eyes, not in my mind, and can be quite colorful and electrical looking! Freja was alerting me, and this time, I thanked her. She left the door right after that, and I went to sleep relieved that if the headaches ever do come back the way they once were, my new little alert kitty will be able to warn me in advance if I pay attention to her! What a treasure this little one is! Besides having an adorable face and sweet disposition, God made her capable of helping me with something that can be horribly disabling. Now I have even more reason to love her!
This is from a roll of Kodachrome 64 that I found in a Kodak Signet 35 Rangefinder camera. I don't know who shot the film or how old the shot is.
I developed the film as black and white in Rodinal 1:50. The following is the recipe for how I developed it. All liquids were at 20 degrees C.
1. Pre-soaked the film in water for a few minutes.
2. Soaked the film in a mixture of 50 grams of Sodium Carbonate in 500 ml of distilled water for one minute with several vigorous agitations. This will remove the rem-jet backing. Slowly mix the Sodium Carbonate into the water while stirring to get it to dissolve without crystalizing.
3. Rinsed and agitated in tap water at least 3 times.
4. Developed in Rodinal 1:50 for 20 minutes with continuous agitation for the first two minutes then 10 seconds every minute after that.
5. Water stop bath, 3 rinses.
6. Normal fix.
7 rinse in running tap water for 4 minutes.
8. Gentle squeegee between fingers under running water to get any remaining rem-jet off. You will see black soot on your fingers if there is still some remaining.
9. Hang to dry with a weight at the bottom to help get the curl out. This is old film and it will have a lot of curl to it.
Without digital this ‘exptra’, extra exposure, may not have been tried, if it had been taken then it would have either seen me dancing in the lights of an enlarger fluttering and flittering like a Dark Room Moth adding and taking away light-fall on the sensitive medium before waiting for the baths and rollers and squeegees and pegs and drying cabinets to do their works, or me not dancing as I looked at the ‘exptra’ and in the deep dark of the little illuminated scene seen a mirror image of my defeat, of all of my defeats and decided not to use that face full on defeat reflection and projection for any further editing and for that exposure to stay in the back a drawer to be cleared out never.
Instead I saw a dark original digital exposure and whilst fitting too many coffee beans into my body via a cup I tried a few settings, I took a few paths and returned a few routes to see what was possible and to find out what I liked best with myself on trial and error as Adobe Photoshop Juried and Judged me accordingly all whilst seated in the light without a chemical whiff, with out a lingering sniff I made edits and remembered other times less full of seeing and testing what if?
I ail, I rail, I fail and something somehow finds a way to prevail. I have nothing special in me just a desire for photography. Just an idea that to look is not to see and that in defeat by light we can conjure another sight to wonder what is available if first we use tripod and remote cable.
Scenery by The Pentland Hills, Regional Park. If you could see a reflection in this image then you would see Upperside Limekiln, South At Gladhouse Midlothian Scotland. Without a Post Processing Reflection Mirror App you are able to see the Limekiln in person, or via it’s many outpourings on to the internet including some from myself and many more by more talented people.
© PHH Sykes 2023
phhsykes@gmail.com
Pentland Hills. The Regional Park...
Canmore - Upperside Limekiln, South
Window washers scuttle across the Honolulu skyline. Dangling in boatswain’s chairs at the twenty-second floor, they squeegee their way down to earth between glass and sky.
Matte Albumen on Hahnemühle Platinum Rag 8x10".
1:1 mixture of traditional albumen and arrowroot/salt solution. Applied with the total immersion/squeegee technic according to James. Double coating with 15% Silver Nitrate.
Toned in Thiourea-Gold and fixed in 15% Hypo.
Digital negative from July 2010, scene from Fjällbacka on the Swedish West Coast. Single layer of UV-blocking colour. Exposed 6 min in UV box.
...this 'perspective'.. this corner... is ALL about who you are, what you see, what you look at... and how.
This was taken on one of my daily walks during that strange period in 2020-21. Strange, and, in many ways, beautiful and under-appreciated. I am glad I walked and photographed, and that I am still able to pick through the negatives for things missed on the first pass.
There is a bridge in this image, believe it or not ...
Mist, lake, island, reeds, and a very well disguised bridge. February 2021. Zeiss Ikon Nettar, Novar Anastigmat 75/3.5, Rollei 400 RPX in ID-11. Some odd squeegee related marks removed in Affinity Photo.
Being inspired by some of Gerhard Richter's squeegee paintings.
© All Rights Reserved. Please do not use this image on websites, blogs or other media without my prior permission.
When I'm working in Denali, this is the view out the door of my "office" ..... when it's not raining... or snowing...
These are the days I feel very fortunate. On those muddy days, all of the bus windows have to squeegeed at every rest stop. And, then in 10 minutes or less they are covered in mud again. Makes for a very tiring day.
Two days ago, Squeegee had a very good day. He was eating and acting like he was recovering, and remarkably, Barrymore, his younger adopted brother, who had been refusing to eat, as well, began eating, too! It seems they were more linked together than I'd realized.
Yesterday, while Barrymore continued to eat like a wolverine, Squeegee began backing off again, and seemed a little more lethargic. Today, once again, he's a little better, but so very wobbly and weak that I wonder if he could get much better, even if he did begin to eat normally again. He's lost a tremendous amount of weight, as most kitties in kidney failure do.
I'm not ready to give up on him or on life, yet, and as even my brother noticed, Squeeks still seems to have the will to live, and is very responsive to me when I act "up" and cheerful with him, which is hard to do these days. When I pick him up or pet him, he doesn't feel like him anymore. He's all bones.
At the very least, I'm hoping that Squeeks can hold on until the end of next week, because I'll be taking a week off work, which I will need desperately, if I am to deal with losing him. Please pray that he will be able to hold on a little while longer, and that we can spend some quality time together before he goes. I am at work so much of the time, and right now it hurts terribly not being able to be with him. Ideally, I'd like to pray that he is completely healed, as has happened in the past when he's gone into kidney failure, even as early as 2 years old. At 18, though, Squeegee doesn't have as much strength to fight, and needs all the prayers and good wishes he can get! He needs a miracle. Squeeks has been MY little miracle since we first met, and I know that God loves him, too. Please remember him in your prayers.
He wasn't in much of a mood for photos this morning, but I was encouraged because he actually jumped up on the top of the loveseat to sun himself, which in his feeble condition is quite a feat! It told me he still has some gumption and is still trying. I will try my best for him, too..