are we having fun yet ?

Alden · Jan 3, 2008

Svend Videbak said:
Actually, no. (Priceless!) You're trying hard to be morose, Alden, in your bio pic too, but I detect a big pierced tongue in cheek.

That's Hans Arp. And my statement is both true and a cause for hilarity. Both reside in the cauldron. And I can't even spell acheivment.

Gay Larson · Jan 3, 2008

Well I haven't had photographic fun since I was at the workshop in Montana last September...so it's time I had some and I plan to carve out some time for me!!!!!

Sirius Glass · Jan 3, 2008

Alden said:
Svend Videbak said:

Actually, no. (Priceless!) You're trying hard to be morose, Alden, in your bio pic too, but I detect a big pierced tongue in cheek. .

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That's Hans Arp. And my statement is both true and a cause for hilarity. Both reside in the cauldron. And I can't even spell acheivment.

Proper spelling is for the small minded. If the knowledge of proper spelling was important than G-d would not have put <control-L> on the keyboard!

Steve

Ole · Jan 3, 2008

Alden said:
... akin to a message in a bottle that resides in the tepid water of my own tub.

Have you read Stanislaw Lem, by any chance?

walter23 · Jan 3, 2008

This is supposed to be fun? I thought it was about trying to outdo everybody else by accumulating the most esoteric, huge and expensive photographic gear.

No... seriously - I'm having fun. Except when I don't have time to shoot (or when I've got 40 large format negatives waiting in the pile to develop - ugh! Better buy a JOBO tank and reels).

walter23 · Jan 3, 2008

Ole said:
Have you read Stanislaw Lem, by any chance?

Thanks for the reminder; I've only read a couple of his things. He wrote Solaris, didn't he? (Haven't read it yet)

My favorite in the sci-fi / spec-fiction genre by far is Theodore Sturgeon. He's got hundreds of unbelievable short stories (available in a collection of 12 volumes or so from your favorite online book sellers) and a handful of decent novels. More refined than P.K. Dick, more experimental than Vonnegut, and he explores a lot of genres and often omits anything sci-fi at all (example, a couple of good westerns, etc), but other times beats you over the head with it, albeit subtly and to good purpose (e.g. a saucer of loneliness & the man who lost the sea).

Alden · Jan 3, 2008

Ole said:
Have you read Stanislaw Lem, by any chance?

No but Kafka and I would have been roomates in college if it wasn't for the fact that we could never find the room.

Jussi · Jan 4, 2008

Needless to say as light only returns on February, I could print but I've just dragged a 'new' enlarger to my darkroom and I dont have yet VC filters...where on earth one finds 120x120 mm filters?

Sirius Glass · Jan 4, 2008

It seems that approximately 75% - 80% of the respondents are gruntled and about 15% are disgruntled.

Let the grunting begin!!

Steve

Thomas Bertilsson · Jan 4, 2008

Last night I had so much fun, I broke my own record and came out of the darkroom with eleven (11!) prints - and after reviewing them I decided I like them all.
Now that is so much fun I can barely contain myself, like I broke a record or something...

Alden · Jan 4, 2008

Jussi said:
as light only returns on February,

No THATS a mind blower. I wonder if these nations produce remarkable studio photographers?

Ole · Jan 4, 2008

Jussi said:
Needless to say as light only returns on February, I could print but I've just dragged a 'new' enlarger to my darkroom and I dont have yet VC filters...where on earth one finds 120x120 mm filters?

I was wondering about the same, until I discovered that a pack of AGFA CC filters I had all but forgotten about was a perfect fit in the filter drawer of my Durst 138S. Just pick a suitable Y or M filter density for your negative, and that's it.

Of course, printing on graded paper is much easier.

copake_ham · Jan 4, 2008

I'm having fun. On the "gear front" I've acquired a panoply of 35mm and MF gear to give me unheard of flexibility in shoot ops and styles.

Long way from when all I had was by Nikkormat FT-2.

Yet, more important, I've found this site. It is a key part of my "support group" to encourage my commitment to film photography.

I've shot more film in the past two years than I had in the prior ten. In large part because of the encouragement this site provides to go out and shoot.

So, yes, I'm having fun!

are we having fun yet ?