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Praktica MTL3
Asahi Pentax Super-Multi-Coated Takumar 35mm f3.5
Agfaphoto APX 400 shot at ISO 1600
Compard R09 One Shot 1+100 semi-stand development 70min at 19°C
Agitation 1min + gently at 30min
Helsinki, Finland 2024.
Helsinki, Finland 2024.
Edit: This photo is rather boring, but it doesn't matter to me. It's a perfect addition to my collection of photos featuring a lack of something.
Somehow it's still hard to see why I instantly lost two followers here after uploading this photo :D – maybe it's just a coincidence but if the photo really is that boring, it actually becomes even more interesting in my eyes.
Seriously speaking, this was also the first time I ever shot APX 100 at ISO 800 and from that point of view creativity is secondary - this photo is a proof of the film's technical capability. There are some dynamic range issues and grain is more evident but all in all there seems to be no problem pushing this film this far.
(This was also shot handheld at 1/30 s - still reasonably sharp considering the Praktica with its rather heavy shutter release and mirror slap)
Praktica MTL3
Asahi Pentax Super-Multi-Coated Takumar 35mm f3.5
Agfaphoto APX 100 shot at ISO 800
Compard R09 One Shot 1+90 semi-stand development 120min at 18-19°C
Agitation 1min + gently at 45 and 90 min
Helsinki, Finland 2024.
Praktica MTL3
Asahi Pentax Super-Multi-Coated Takumar 35mm f3.5
Agfaphoto APX 400 shot at ISO 1600
Compard R09 One Shot 1+100 semi-stand development 70min at 19°C
Agitation 1min + gently at 30min
Helsinki, Finland 2024.
Praktica MTL3
Asahi Pentax Super-Multi-Coated Takumar 35mm f3.5
Agfaphoto APX 100 shot at ISO 200
Compard R09 One Shot 1+90 semi-stand development 120min at 18-19°C
Agitation 1min + gently at 45 and 90 min
The National Archives of Finland
Helsinki, Finland 2024.
Praktica MTL3
Asahi Pentax Super-Multi-Coated Takumar 35mm f3.5
Agfaphoto APX 100 shot at ISO 200
Compard R09 One Shot 1+90 semi-stand development 120min at 18-19°C
Agitation 1min + gently at 45 and 90 min
The overt archaeological elements of this site emerged as the Romans started to leave the Iberian peninsula, and there is a chance that, with this hilltop's views over to the distant Ulaca site, this vivid mineral 'sculpture park' of wind, sun and time, was a clandestine refuge and vantage point for those involved with the defence of the Ulaca Castro from Roman attack. Did some women, children and elders hide under the Navasangil cracks following the principle of the toue? (www.flickr.com/photos/ajmitchell-prehistory/30690580365/i...). Did Ulaca 2 arise at the first opportunity - in memory of a past people, cultural mosaic and valley? Was Navasangil really simply Ulaca 2? More sacred stones and views over a people a valley and a landscape?
As the early periods of the dark ages progressed, a new invasion of Visigoths would arrive into Spain, adding their name to a period of history, even if their infiltration away from urban spaces is a question of degree that is open to debate.
AJM 16.09.21
Cnoc an t-Sabhail is a small settlement on the other side of the Paps of Jura and it was from here that the British author George Orwell finished works that included the novel '1984'. The settlement was also known as Barnhill.
The Paps are among the most loved and inspiring hills of the British Isles, but unlike other mythical or sacred ranges, they are rarely climbed by the greater public, more simple viewed and respected for the sensual frame that they offer as you navigate between the Inner Hebrides or scramble along the Kintyre or 'Kilmartin' coastline. The fact that the perspective comes from water and that no man can walk on water may be part of their aura.
I have never set foot on the Island, but it has a reputation for not being the easiest of Isles to master. Just one road, few chances of provision, fragile pathways and hills that draw in mist and rain. There is a "Jura fell race" at the end of May - 16 miles and seven summits, and with good kit and prep it can only be a marvel. At the thinnest part of the straits between Islay and Jura, there are just 727m, which is not so different from the distance between Iona and Mull. The straights of Jura are in effect an 11km loch that is open to the sea at both ends. A ferry shuttles back and forth - so near and yet so far.
The view from the top is listed as follows : "To the north can be seen Loch Tarbert, the northern half of Jura, the Garvellachs and Mull. to the Northwest is Colonsay, to the east, the whole of Kintyre with Arran beyond, Ben Lomond and the Cobbler. To the south the Isle of Islay and Northern Ireland."
Jura's sacred mountain of Beinn Shiantaidh rises 785m out from the sea, so is within the category of Corbett.
AJ
A high and tight ridge top to a mineral python has a wide throne carved into its edge - wide enough for one person with an elaborate costume, two people with a relationship or three people with a desire to talk as the view from the throne is perhaps not apt for viewing people or organised entourage.
On the crest, there was no room for a tripod, and my wife held my leg as I panned and rowed 12 or more shots using a 35mm Takumar. The final result is a boot sale of buff and blither, but worth posting to relay the essentials of the site element.
Whilst it doesn't show with this montage, the act of sitting on the throne leaves legs dangling many metres above the grind granitic scape, and I had far more vertigo sitting than I had scrambling for this perspective. I think that maybe one is used to jumping out of a chair to get something, and having a rocky fall rather than life's modern carpet turns the head...
Far below can be seen the river Tormes, which tends to be an east west river until it decides to be a north south river. It has passed through today's Salamanca and for people centred around the Iron Age Castro of Ulaca (featured in adjacent posts) a days walk west would meet with the river which in turn feeds to the important Douro valley - a confluence just 4km from the throne and visible as a valley-top high right on the above montage.
Behind the throne is a potential post hole and shade may have been procured between this structure, weave and tethers...
The surfaces cohere with late Neolithic and Bronze Age as much as Iron Age, and although the main stay of the greater site is Iron age, it is possible that some elements had quiet cultural pasts through the bronze age and even beyond.
AJM 30.07.21
Shot with an f2 35mm Takumar (with lens browning), on a Pentax K3 using its internal microphone.
A guitarist playing for living aside old walls and shade. Ten fingers, all with minds of their own, plucking lazy flamenco laments... An arresting moment where music stops time and anonymous viewers struggle for real change.
AJ
Helsinki, Finland 2024.
Praktica MTL3
Asahi Pentax Super-Multi-Coated Takumar 35mm f3.5
Agfaphoto APX 400 shot at ISO 1600
Compard R09 One Shot 1+100 semi-stand development 70min at 19°C
Agitation 1min + gently at 30min
Helsinki, Finland 2024.
Praktica MTL3
Asahi Pentax Super-Multi-Coated Takumar 35mm f3.5
Agfaphoto APX 100 shot at ISO 400
Compard R09 One Shot 1+90 semi-stand development 120min at 18-19°C
Agitation 1min + gently at 45 and 90 min
- Camera : Praktica PLC 3
- Lens : Asahi SMC - Takumar 35mm f 2.0
- Film : Fomapan 400
- Exposure : f 8.0, february, 2018
Takumar, Pentax and more. Some of my collection of manual lenses, these are my favorites, they all take different pics and have a different feel for sure.
Praktica MTL3
Asahi Pentax Super-Multi-Coated Takumar 35mm f3.5
Agfaphoto APX 400 shot at ISO 1600
Compard R09 One Shot 1+100 semi-stand development 70min at 19°C
Agitation 1min + gently at 30min
Helsinki, Finland 2024.
Göbekli Tepe and the greater Tas Tepeler sites are rightly currently domination conversations in prehistory. We see proto Neolithic monuments built, covered by man, rebuilt over the covering, only to be re-covered and so on, with a resulting layer-cake hill of chronology and symbolic evolution. When contrasting the monumental layers, it became clear to archaeologists that there was actually a deterioration in the quality of the stone craft over time, and that new generations issued the acts of 'refresh and renewal' of symbol, but with less attention to detail (I have not seen the Tas Tepeler sites, and the observation is by Jens Notroff). There exist several examples of verracos that also seem to lack the aspect of credible round mass, and which seem to have lacklustre details and atrophied scale. Rather than these being early examples that were later perfected, I would suggest that the 'fashion' and demand for successful verracos led on occasion to a decrease in quality and even a desire for a token object without the original function.
Normally the Iron Age sees a reduction in rupestrian basins as both iron reinforced wood and high temperature ceramic containers become the 'new'. Many Iron Age hill forts and towns do not have just such time consuming monolithic intervention - relatively common for late Neolithic and Bronze Age date ranges. Might this be a witness of pre iron age activity at Ulaca? The basins for the rites that drew people onto the hill top in the first place? Might the hill top have contained spiritual leaders keen to protect old ways, or might there have been a local iron age industry that enjoyed the qualities of granite? Natural chemical erosion can create and augment basins, but the above clusters within Ulaca's smooth splay of boulders and scrub, seem to have the rhythm and comfort of man in their guise.
AJ
Again from the museum in Carceres (from the Castro de Las Villasviejas del Tamuja), this Iron age Verraco has the build and large head and continuous neck of a Mastín dog, and a playfull stance that is also recognisably that of a dog. Other Verracos also have the legs forward stance and are certainly not dogs. Its front legs also seem long with very large front shoulders for a pig. Alas the face area is lacking detail and seems to have suffered - possibly with a mouth added over time? The Verraco is currently described as a pig from the 4th-2nd century BC. A vulva is visible from behind and the following link has photographs of all sides:
Mastín - or Mastiff dogs are described in Wiki:
"In medieval times, this dog has accompanied the herds of sheep crossing from northern to southern Spain, defending cattle from attack by wolves and other predators. The mastiff had the protection of chunky metal necklaces with skewers. Its function was primarily protective..."
90 cm. x 70 cm. x 30 cm
Around 2400 years old
Shorebirds of Ireland, Freshwater Birds of Ireland and The Birds of Ireland: A Field Guide with Jim Wilson.
www.markcarmodyphotography.com
St. Coleman's Cathedral in my hometown of Cobh, Co. Cork. It overlooks Cork harbour from a prominent position. Construction began in 1868 and was not completed until over half a century later due to increases in costs and revisions of the original plans. With the steeple being 91.4 metres tall, the cathedral is the second tallest church in Ireland. The tower contains a carillon which, with 49 bells, is one of the largest in Europe. An automated system strikes the hour and 15 minute intervals while it also rings the bells in appropriate form for Masses, funerals, weddings and events. The carillon is also played on special occasions and generally every Sunday afternoon by its current carillonneur Adrian Gebruers. (wikipedia)