BLINT PRINT EXCHANGE BPX24 STATUS AND UPDATES

[anikin]

Last week I have received two wonderful Christmas presents:

"Blue Hosta" from Bob Slaughter. Great textures of the leaves, a quite special metallic look. Nice!
"Guardian of Darkness" from Mike Clark. This is truly one of the best prints I have ever received in this exchange. Very skillful toning gave this print a true 3D look. Very-very impressive! Thank you!

Eugene.

 

[anikin]

And here's the status of the exchange according to my records:

SENT:
1 Howard (howardpan)
2 Bob (megzdad81)
3 Uwe (piu58)

RECEIVED:
1 John (UKJohn)

NEITHER SENT NOR RECEIVED:
1 Andrew (Malinku)
2 Erno (onre)
3 Bert (TheToadMen)

SENT AND RECEIVED (YAY!!!!!):
1 Eugene (anikin)
2 Jake (Black Dog)
3 Mike (canvassy)
4 Mike (mike c)

Great job everyone! Let's get it complete by the New Year. Please let me know if I missed anyone.

 

[mike c]

Thanks Eugene, I am glad you like it. I kind of stumbled my way thru making it, but was worth the extra trouble when finished.

 

[anikin]

Happy New Year everyone! I wish you all happiness, prosperity and a lot of great new photos in the new 2017 year!

A bit of bad news. Unfortunately I had to dismantle my darkroom in order to build a wheelchair-accessible shower for myself. I will not be able to participate in the upcoming exchanges. If anyone would like to manage the BPX from now on, please step forward!

Eugene.

 

[piu58]

I wish all the best for the new year to everyone. I mailed with Eugene, and we decided that I keep running BPX in the future.
As far as I recognize the next round - BPX 25 - needs to be started now. We have this round not finished yet, three participants need to send their print. May I ask you to comlete that in January, or drop us/me a line if that is not possible?
I open the BPX 25 signup thread in teh next few days.

~

Some words about me: I live in Germany, in Leipzig, where I was born. I am married, have two adult children and two (and a half) grandchildren. I work in an hospital in the IT departement. Other hobbyhorses of mine are astronomy and making canoeing trips.

Leipzig ist my photographic main interest. Mostly I shoot 6x6, using a Rolleiflex 3,5 F or a Tele Rollei. When I need more extreme lenses I uses a Kiev 60 for which I have quite a lot of lenses. Sometimes I walk around with an old russian panorama camera, called Horizont. Rarely I shoot 35 mm, mostly with an old Canon 500. I love this body because it is feather light. The most lenses I use are old 42 mm lenses with an adapter.

In the lab, I used an Opemus 4 enlarger for 30+ years . Now I have a Dead Link Removed, which I love for its dichroitic multigrade filters. After decades of a "flying darkroom" I have a permanent lab now.

 

[howardpan]

Piu58,

Thank you for volunteering.

 

[TheToadMen]

Hi anikin,
Thank you for running the BPX this long. Good luck with the rebuilding of your bathroom.

@ Piu58,
Thank you for taking over. I will send my print in January.

 

[UKJohn]

Hi All,

Sorry for the delay but my prints that have been sitting around are now on their way to The Netherlands and Germany. They should be with my recipients within the next week.

Thanks for the patience.

John

 

[UKJohn]

I have received a couple of lovely prints from Black Dog. One a very soft and delicate photograph called 'Winter Remnants', its a very enjoyable photograph so thank you for sharing. The other a smaller Polaroid sized print exhibiting well considered focusing/shallow depth of field, and although soft it has a lovely depth and contrast that sits well against 'Winter Remnants'.

Thank you

John

 

[Black Dog]

I have received a couple of lovely prints from Black Dog. One a very soft and delicate photograph called 'Winter Remnants', its a very enjoyable photograph so thank you for sharing. The other a smaller Polaroid sized print exhibiting well considered focusing/shallow depth of field, and although soft it has a lovely depth and contrast that sits well against 'Winter Remnants'.

Thank you

John

Thanks for the appreciative comments-the 'Winter Remnants' was from a whole roll I took of a WW2 bunker in Normandy and was the most minimal picture from that day....very different from all the others and it didn't really fit in with the set I put together, though now I think I might be able to fit it in, maybe if I shoot a few more linking images. Various images from the series have surfaced in the postcard exchange and several were published in Ag magazine in 2009.

 

[howardpan]

Happy New Year everyone! I wish you all happiness, prosperity and a lot of great new photos in the new 2017 year!

A bit of bad news. Unfortunately I had to dismantle my darkroom in order to build a wheelchair-accessible shower for myself. I will not be able to participate in the upcoming exchanges. If anyone would like to manage the BPX from now on, please step forward!

Eugene.

Anikin:

I never got around to thanking you for volunteering earlier. I also hope you recover soon so you can set up your home darkroom again.

 

[piu58]

I just received a wonderful print from John Edwards. It shows an very interesting view of the Bryce Canon in Utah. I think taht a scan cannot tronsport the real spirit of the image, but look for yourself: