BPX 47 - status, updates, scans

[piu58]

Dear photographers,

My tiny pocket computer mixed again all of us. Everybody should have a got message from me with a pair of addresses. The first block contains your own address as given to me. Please, make certain that your own address is correct. PM me as soon as possible if a correction is needed to YOUR address.
Please don't mind the numbers, I need them while "mixing" us.

The second block contains the address of your partner: You have to send your print(s) to there. Please wait a few days before sending anything to allow time for corrections. Make sure you mark your box with your name and
BPX 47
on it.

If you are unable to complete your assignment, it is understandable - life often gets in a way of our hobbies. However, it would be very helpful if you let me know so that I could change the assignment to somebody else.

If something is or seems to be wrong, please PM me.
Our timeline: Please print and send your offering till end of November 2024. This means, you have 2 months for sending it.

If you received something: Please write a few words here. Besides this, I ask you to show what you got, we are all interested in it. A smartphone shot is sufficient.

How to avoid taxes / VAT / other problems

If a sending goes outside the U.S. (or more correct: outside your country) it should be a letter, and not a parcel or similar.

Everything you simply put in the letterbox should be a letter. Anything you give at the office may induce taxes. Everything with a custom declaration will induce taxes.

Please keep in mind what "counts" as a letter in your country. In the U.S. it needs to be flexible. In Germany, it may be stiff.

Addendum April 2024: It seems that you have to give a customs declaration sending from U.S. and Canada, even if it weights more than 50 gms – even if it looks like a letter:
https://www.usps.com/international/customs-forms.htm says
You do not need a customs form if you're sending First-Class Mail International® that weighs under 15.994 oz

 

[piu58]

My prints are in the mail.

 

[mfohl]

Sent.

 

[Don_ih]

Sent mine, also.

 

[BHuij]

Mine went out in the past few days.

 

[torleif]

My pictures was sent a couple a days ago

 

[bernard_L]

Sent my picture(s) today to an undisclosed recipient.

 

[piu58]

Mark visited Germany a few weeks ago. We met us here in Leipzig.
Now I got some of his prints of this travel. The large one is a tramway in Dresden. The monument is from Berlin.
I enjoy the prints very much. My favorite is the tram. Beautiful print!

All are made on baryta paper.

 

[mfohl]

Mark visited Germany a few weeks ago. We met us here in Leipzig.
Now I got some of his prints of this travel. The large one is a tramway in Dresden. The monument is from Berlin.
I enjoy the prints very much. My favorite is the tram. Beautiful print!

All are made on baryta paper.

It was a very good meeting, thanks Uwe! I enjoyed the short tour of Leipzig. And wet cobblestones and a Holga are a great combination!

 

[negativefunk]

Hello all,
I should finally get round printing mine next saturday, but meanwhile I received @torleif not one or two, but three nordic prints on Fb paper, two of which from a large format negative
Cascading water is a panorama of a few cascades dfrom hydroelectric power station which is quite unlike any I saw. I like the subject, I have a series of pics of power stations and this fits in nicely . The composition is well thought of with the diagonal lines conveying energy (well, indeed), and separating the darker from the brighter elements.

"mountain trough rock" is a view of mountains and glacier through a square hole (the reader later learns that the square hole is in fact part of a rock sculture. A classic composition with an excellent tonal range

"fishing harbour" is a view of an harbour from the ramp leading to it. The lines of the ramp drive the eye further on to the water and the mountain behind. I like how the sky turned out in the print, with the fewcloud streaks clearly visible on the darker sky

Thanks for the prints! More reasons to arrange a trip to Norway...

Edit - here a clumsy phone pic!

 

[Don_ih]

Mine should have arrived by now - it's been about 5-6 weeks. Hopefully, it's not lost in the mail.

 

[halfaman]

Mine should have arrived by now - it's been about 5-6 weeks. Hopefully, it's not lost in the mail.

Not lost, Don, but in the Spanish Customs administrative black hole for over a month (Postal service contacted me to provide them some documentation). I will pick it this afternoon.

 

[torleif]

Two very nice photos arrived safely from Bernard in France. Both pictures are from the French Alps, and are very well made on FB paper. The first show a cluster of birch trees in the snow. I like the tight crop and in particular the shadows that the trees make in the snow. We have a lot of birch trees in Norway and it is our primary source of fire wood for the winter - hence I feel the warmth - also from our wood stove just behind me. The second picture is also a birch tree, this time maybe the senior tree in the area. Weather beaten but still standing strong. Again I like the tight crop - in this case it conveys strength. I am also impressed how good the shadow details are in the photo. Bernard - thank you for the prints!
I´m sorry for the poor quality of my phone pictures.

@negativefunk - glad the pictures arrived and that you liked them

 

[halfaman]

And finally I received some very nice prints from @Don_ih. Two countryside pictures shown below.

Cow picture is perfectly executed on bright RC paper but my favourite is the barn print on multigrade fiber paper. I love the texture and pictorial look it has, resembling more a watercolor painting than a photograph. A truly remarkable result. Thanks Don!

I expect to finsh my assigment this weekend and put it on the mail next week.

 

[Don_ih]

Thanks

I'm glad you liked them. The barn photo was a bit of a labour of love.

 

[MToma]

EDITED because I misunderstood Dunga.
Both me (Mihai Toma) and Dunga (another Timisoara local) sent the prints, quite a few weeks ago. Only I received it really fast after it started. Not at home now for a a scan, it's on my "exchange wall".

P.S. Did our prints reach their final home?

 

[Don_ih]

No mail is moving in Canada at present. A postal worker strike has shut all of that down for the past few weeks.

 

[Trond]

I'm running late, but will get my photo underway soon.

 

[negativefunk]

Mine are out today, at last! Should however arrive fairly quick

 

[BHuij]

I heard rumors that the Canadian postal service was ordered back on the job. The 5 minutes I spent Googling didn't clarify much for me - does this mean they resolved the dispute and will start playing catch-up now? Or just that someone in government somewhere said "get back to work," and the workers will promptly say "no" and keep striking?

 

[Don_ih]

I heard rumors that the Canadian postal service was ordered back on the job. The 5 minutes I spent Googling didn't clarify much for me - does this mean they resolved the dispute and will start playing catch-up now? Or just that someone in government somewhere said "get back to work," and the workers will promptly say "no" and keep striking?

It's actually someone in the government said "go back to work" and they did, because they have to.

 

[MattKing]

I heard rumors that the Canadian postal service was ordered back on the job. The 5 minutes I spent Googling didn't clarify much for me - does this mean they resolved the dispute and will start playing catch-up now? Or just that someone in government somewhere said "get back to work," and the workers will promptly say "no" and keep striking?

It is a temporary back-to-work order. The contracts, that had expired, have now been revived and extended to May 2025, while other steps have been put into place to attempt to resolve the sticking points in the negotiations.
The union members can only legally strike, and the employer can only legally lock out, when there is no current contract in effect. So the extension of the previous contracts puts all possible job actions on hold.

 

[mfohl]

Besides, it's Christmas and they need the money ...

 

[spijker]

Just a quick update. Canada Post went back to work this week but they obviously have a lot of catching up to do after a 4 week strike. If anyone sent me a print, it's stuck somewhere in a warehouse and it may still take some time before I get it. I'll report here when it arrives. Canada Post starts accepting international mail again on Monday 23 Dec. My print is ready to go and will go out next week but it will likely only arrive next year.

Menno

 

[halfaman]

I have just left my print on the mail. Took me more than expected...