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Taken on the outer Hebrides trip last year, we had some amazing start and end of day lighting. Sielabost looking over to Luskentyre.
Een ijzig begin van de dag, op een winterdag in februari.
Krommenie, Nederland
An icy start to the day, on a winter day in February.
Krommenie, The Netherlands
The day that started out foggy turned out to be pretty sunny by the time we made it to Washago. This is where the CNR's Bala Subdivision, Toronto to the West, crossed the Newmarket Sub from Toronto to North Bay and its connection to the Montreal-to-the-West mainline as well as the Ontario Northland to the north. The Bala was the former Canadian Northern and the Newmarket was the former Grand Trunk; they took opposite sides of Lake Simcoe north of Toronto and crossed here, north of the lake, to pursue their destinations to the north (Newmarket, ex-GT) or to the west (Bala, ex-CNoR.) Until 1921 the two railroads crossed each other at an interlocking tower; once the two railroads became one - Canadian National - the crossing was eliminated and other rearrangements of the two mainlines occurred as a result of highway changes to eliminate a bottleneck where the railroads lines were crossed. The Severn River crossing was also a factor in this re-arrangement. This is Train 220 (Winnipeg to Toronto) as it approaches the depot off of the Bala Subdivision. Mostly piggies, it has a "stock car in use" (my notes...I guess there were live ones in it?) first out behind the units. That wasn't an uncommon sight even well into the '80s out on the Canadian Prairies. The train had only 33 cars and van behind those three wide-cab GP40-2's, so I suspect it was pretty hot beef back there...and that is my friend's AMC "Gremlin" underneath the water tank. It seems to sneak into a lot of shots of mine!
A pair of knitting needles I have had for years. I don't knit, but used them as part of a decoration that consisted of a basket of yarn with the needles protruding. I am a crocheter and crochet hooks would have gotten lost in the basket, thus the use of knitting needles.
New Year's Day is always an outdoor day for me. I use to stay up late on NYE but over the years I have begun to favor an early bedtime in order to get a head start on the fresh year - generally heading out somewhere to be in nature. This year saw me hiking Silver Falls State Park. But I have talked about my New Year habits in previous posts over previous years. The thread of today's image is actually involving Harman Phoenix 200 - the film used to make this image.
I will say, I have not completely made up my mind on this film, though my opinion of it has evolved since my first roll with it. It is definitely interesting stuff and I am glad Harman is making it. How long it remains available is still to be seen though. But even if it is phased out, it seems like that will be just to make room for a newly evolved color film.
But it does surprise me sometimes how film photographers don't quite seem to realize how malleable a material film is to work with. I see it sometimes at work. Customers will drop off film and then be amazed to discover how much work we can do to an image at the printing or scanning stage. Some think the image is more or less baked into the film and there is only one possible way that it will come out of a printer. But this also happens online too, especially with the rise of home developing and home scanning. Folks will develop a film like Phoenix then scan it (sometimes poorly) and characterize it by the results they get as if those are the only results possible. One example of this is the fact that Phoenix has a purple base. Most color films have a dusky orange film base. But Phoenix must share technology with XP2, a black and white C-41 film also known for a blue-purple film base. This purplish base makes it trickier to scan since a lot of film scanners are calibrated to see, and negate, the orange film base. And since we are dealing with negatives where everything inverts, that purple base of Phoenix inverts into a yellow-orange color cast in the positive scans. That is to say unless you work to correct/calibrate for it. My initial tests with this film only had modest color corrections and I just kind of let it be yellowish. But then I saw some optical prints we had done in our lab where our printing tech had put in a bit more effort to see if he could correct Phoenix to something a bit more neutral. The results impressed even me and at first I did not even realize the prints I was looking at had come from Harman Phoenix. So having seen this as an example of what the film could do I spent more time scanning my next couple of rolls. Specifically I used the Nikon Coolscan's ROC (restoration of color) feature to automatically correct the color cast. It did an impressive job but also had a tendency to add too much contrast. So lately I have been dialing in the color corrections manually and ending up with results like this image and without the heavy yellow tinge of my earlier images made on Phoenix.
I guess my point is multi-pronged. One - be careful about rushing to conclusions, especially when you have relatively little evidence to work with. Two - don't believe everything you read online because the folks giving you info might be failing at point One. Three - Remember that you are blind to your own blind spots. Meaning you have them, but you cannot see them. And it is easy to forget about something you cannot see. I had begun to characterize my own expectations of this film without realizing it and it took the print work of our lab to make me conscious of the bias I was forming about Phoenix. Four - keep your mind open and be curious, don't stop asking questions and don't stop looking for the answers to them, even if you want to think you already know those answers.
Anyhoo, just some Phoenix-related thoughts that may or may not be applicable in other ways.
Hasselblad 500C/M
Harman Phoenix 200
Had to grab the first four books from my library to reread the stories. Now that I mostly know the plots, I will FINALLY be starting my Ranger's Apprentice series. And I've tagged a few people who seemed most interested/supportive.
"Life begins the day you start a garden."
- Chinese Proverb
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Male Anna's hummingbird just as he starts to flare his head feathers, switching them from lay-down dark olive to stand-up neon, day-glow, pink-red-purple colour/light riot. He seems able to align these feathers and focus the brightest view at whatever he's trying to intimidate.
Imbach / Krems 2010
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My apologies to Mr. Cave, who is 63, but the weekly theme in the 52-week project is "photos of elderly people." You're the oldest guy I took a photo of this week!
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I rarely post flowers and almost never link to any songs, but I am doing both today. Not sure why. Oh, yeah...it is Wednesday and I thought I should go for this bokeh thingy (HBW everyone!), but still have no explanation for the song. Other than I borrowed a title from it. So here it is.
Ho capito che valgo tanto quando ho deciso di mettere al primo posto me...
chiamatelo pure egoismo ma amare se stessi è il primo passo per amare il prossimo...
ora dite di me pure ciò che volete pure che non valgo un soldo bucato, ma fossi in voi mi farei un esamino di coscienza, e credetemi credo che nn basti la varechina per farla tornare pulita...
continuate pure a dipingermi come una stronza e mi raccomando esagerate perchè nn voglio Sfigurare... 😉
I actually like this cover. Its different from all my other covers. i wanted to try something cool. What do you think?
Metroline West Volvo B5LH/MCV EvoSeti VMH2570 (LA68DWW) is seen in Uxbridge at the start of its journey towards White City on express route 607.
This little one keeps me on my toes more than any other. Quinn is starting to look more and more like a girl and more and more like a little person EVERY DAY!! It amazes me!