Eleventh Card in today. Howard Earl's - 'Barber Shop NYC'. Another card that has ongoing attention on the fridge for the family to comment on. Unfortunately no visitors coming or going for the obvious reasons to comment.
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I also received Howard's Barbershop. Very nice, it looks like a shop in a historic village. And I'm guessing the negative involved a mask when being contacted. I contacted a 4x5 neg onto some cards, but the non-neg part of the card was black, not white. Nicely done.
A few cards have been accumulating on my desk over the past couple weeks:
bedrof – Stay right there! - I’m not sure what the imperfections are that you are referring too – it looks pretty great to me. You’ve captured his expression and gesture at just the right moment.
awty – Self Portrait in Wire – Brilliant idea and very cheerful expression. It doesn’t seem like anyone else mentioned it, but I can distinctly make out a bird hanging on a perch, suspiciously positioned in the centre of the cranium! The surrounding wires that make up the head make for a nice birdcage. I think you’re perhaps a bit too harsh though – if you can figure out how to sculpt with wire and photograph it from an appropriate angle, then you must be cleverer than you insinuate! Lots to think about (and also to chuckle about!)
Wayne Frederick – Willard Beach – I really enjoyed reading about your process – sounds fun! The image has an interesting texture of speckled white spots – do you think this is a result of processing the film with the backing paper attached?
Rowreidr – The buoy wall and Fish Bar at Pier 81 in NYC – I like the square composition. Lots of interesting textures.
Thanks all!
bedrof – Stay right there! - I’m not sure what the imperfections are that you are referring too – it looks pretty great to me. You’ve captured his expression and gesture at just the right moment.
awty – Self Portrait in Wire – Brilliant idea and very cheerful expression. It doesn’t seem like anyone else mentioned it, but I can distinctly make out a bird hanging on a perch, suspiciously positioned in the centre of the cranium! The surrounding wires that make up the head make for a nice birdcage. I think you’re perhaps a bit too harsh though – if you can figure out how to sculpt with wire and photograph it from an appropriate angle, then you must be cleverer than you insinuate! Lots to think about (and also to chuckle about!)
Wayne Frederick – Willard Beach – I really enjoyed reading about your process – sounds fun! The image has an interesting texture of speckled white spots – do you think this is a result of processing the film with the backing paper attached?
Rowreidr – The buoy wall and Fish Bar at Pier 81 in NYC – I like the square composition. Lots of interesting textures.
Thanks all!
A classic piece of Americana!
Hi Terry S,
The photographic evidence of your anti-gravity water adventures makes for a nice little postcard with a nice little story.
I have been using my Olympus XA basically as a point and shoot for stealth and speed on the street and hope to get some good postcard material out of it too.
Your teaspoon formula D72 sounds very intrigueing. I have just ordered 4 liters of Ilford MG developer but wouldn't mind trying D72 for a change.
Thanks for your efforts and stay safe!
Bill
BSP
The photographic evidence of your anti-gravity water adventures makes for a nice little postcard with a nice little story.
I have been using my Olympus XA basically as a point and shoot for stealth and speed on the street and hope to get some good postcard material out of it too.
Your teaspoon formula D72 sounds very intrigueing. I have just ordered 4 liters of Ilford MG developer but wouldn't mind trying D72 for a change.
Thanks for your efforts and stay safe!
Bill
BSP
Thank you all for the kind words.
Received a few more cards. iandvaag orchids. Makes want to photograph my own. But I couldn’t do as good a job.
Also HWV’s Cubes, Lines, nice line up and grouping.
Keep up the great work.
Howard Earl Simmons
Received a few more cards. iandvaag orchids. Makes want to photograph my own. But I couldn’t do as good a job.
Also HWV’s Cubes, Lines, nice line up and grouping.
Keep up the great work.
Howard Earl Simmons
Yesterday, I discovered Howard Earl's Barbershop in my mailbox.
A very, very nice photo with many interesting details. I cleaned my glasses just to be able to enjoy all the details. I love the lighting into the barbershop.
What I like the most is that people are shown here. People who even smile at the viewer. Thanks a lot for that!
A very, very nice photo with many interesting details. I cleaned my glasses just to be able to enjoy all the details. I love the lighting into the barbershop.
What I like the most is that people are shown here. People who even smile at the viewer. Thanks a lot for that!
Same here. It really looks like a photo from ancient times. I wonder how old it really is. Best wishes to all the people in NYC and elsewhere in the world!
A bunch of postcards hit my letterbox in the last two weeks:
Drpsilver - Gooseberry Falls - I like the effect very much, when long exposure times convert the waterfall in a mystic place.
Iandvaag - Phalaenopsis - nicely photographed, in the meantime the garden season starts here
Graciemanison - Midtown Manhattan - I like the reflection of the buildingsin the shop window
hwv - 3 cubes, 3 lines, one arc - geometric shapes, but not positioned symmetric
Lucid - To Osa´s Island - a charming place. And the weather is not too bad, too!
Black Dog - pool in a field - a rural place to relax, arrived today
Twelfth card arrived yesterday and in an envelope. IanAndvaag - "Phalaenopsis". Very nice Orchids. Thanks.
I received iandvaag's nice low key orchid photo Phalaenopsis. A different approach, and very nicely executed. All I have to do now is learn how to spell and pronounce the title!
Phalaenospsis, my spell check wants to spell the word differently, but the photo is the final truth, and a few of the flowers in our garden have bloomed early also.
Thanks for the nice comments, everyone!
Thinking of X-ray films
+1 on that!
I hope everyone is keeping safe and well in these trying times.
My home office desk presently is the drop table from my De Vere 507. This is probably the most use it's seen in recent years!
I've received some very nice cards in the post. My thanks to all!
@iandvaag - A great image with an almost 3D quality about it. I love the highlights on the edge of the petals.
@Black Dog - It appears your subject was already social isolating before the rest us! A nice image and the colour postcard is refreshing.
@Howard Earl - Another great contact print in the current exchange. A well composed image with many details to enjoy.
I'm up to 13 postcards now. Keep em' coming!
Lucid
My home office desk presently is the drop table from my De Vere 507. This is probably the most use it's seen in recent years!
I've received some very nice cards in the post. My thanks to all!
@iandvaag - A great image with an almost 3D quality about it. I love the highlights on the edge of the petals.
@Black Dog - It appears your subject was already social isolating before the rest us! A nice image and the colour postcard is refreshing.
@Howard Earl - Another great contact print in the current exchange. A well composed image with many details to enjoy.
I'm up to 13 postcards now. Keep em' coming!
Lucid
Thanks-people just can't tear themselves away from their phones sometimes. Not that I'm complaining as it's a habit that can always yield interesting images.
Jake, nice view of the city below and the Sea.
Thanks! ISTR I sent you the horizontal version (and thanks to the girl in the cream jacket as well!)
Graciemansions-Reflections in a shop window. Exactly the kind of what is it or what else is it detail I appreciate, however often it may have been done before you can always find something else to see.
BSP-Posts on a beach. Totem poles or ranks of people perhaps, like the famous Anthony Gormley figures, Again another detail waiting to be noticed by an observant photographer.
Graciemansions-Reflections in a shop window. Exactly the kind of what is it or what else is it detail I appreciate, however often it may have been done before you can always find something else to see.
BSP-Posts on a beach. Totem poles or ranks of people perhaps, like the famous Anthony Gormley figures, Again another detail waiting to be noticed by an observant photographer.
Well, I've received a few more cards. A very nice train card from Mattis in Germany
A Toombstone of Chief Archie Blackowl from Austin TX
3 cubes and lines from hwv from Berlin
the Osney Town bridge from Lucid
The Gooseberry Falls, MN from Darwin
And the piece de resistance has to be the Phaleonopsis card from ianvaag in Canada
Thank you all
A Toombstone of Chief Archie Blackowl from Austin TX
3 cubes and lines from hwv from Berlin
the Osney Town bridge from Lucid
The Gooseberry Falls, MN from Darwin
And the piece de resistance has to be the Phaleonopsis card from ianvaag in Canada
Thank you all
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Folks, unfortunately I’m going to have to bow out of this round. I’m going to save the list and when taking part in the next round I’ll print double.
I am a high school photo teacher and I utilize our school darkroom for all of my work. With COVID and the extended closings around the country, we went from a distance model where teachers could access the building, to a complete shut down. I am barred from the space as each building has received a complete cleaning and disinfection.
My deepest apologies , every time I open my mailbox and see a card I feel elated and terrible at all once.
I am a high school photo teacher and I utilize our school darkroom for all of my work. With COVID and the extended closings around the country, we went from a distance model where teachers could access the building, to a complete shut down. I am barred from the space as each building has received a complete cleaning and disinfection.
My deepest apologies , every time I open my mailbox and see a card I feel elated and terrible at all once.
Sorry to hear that, but totally understandable-looking forward to having you back in the Exchange. Take care and stay safe!
How about mailing your negative to me and I'll print them for you and send them back. You'll not have made the prints, but you'll have sent prints out and not be able to feel bad (which you should not in light of the circumstances). Whaddayathink? Just an idea.
That’s not a bad idea but I’d certainly want to find a way to compensate for time and materials.
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