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Minox · Apr 25, 2024

Nikkormat FT3, Rollei 80s

Alder Statesman · Apr 26, 2024

Very nice image.

Trask · Apr 26, 2024

Instructive re: what Rollei 80S can look like. I'm curious as to what developer was used?

Minox · Apr 26, 2024

Rodinal 1+25, 8 mins (30" inv, then 1 inv every 2 mins)

Sirius Glass · Apr 28, 2024

Where was the photograph taken? Which country for starters, please?

Minox · Apr 29, 2024

The place is called The Prislop Pass, in Romania.

pentaxuser · Apr 29, 2024

A nice picture They have some very dull monasteries in Ireland, made of brick, based in towns and cities and which look like offices. They were called monasteries of labour

Maybe that's a strictly British joke of nearly 50 years ago and not easily understood now. If so, I'll explain it if requested

pentaxuser

Ballinderry-Michael · Apr 29, 2024

Julian, did you use an orange filter?

Minox · Apr 29, 2024

Yes, indeed I did, although that nice contrast I wanted from this shot eluded me.

Minox · Apr 29, 2024

pentaxuser said:
A nice picture They have some very dull monasteries in Ireland, made of brick, based in towns and cities and which look like offices. They were called monasteries of labour

Maybe that's a strictly British joke of nearly 50 years ago and not easily understood now. If so, I'll explain it if requested

pentaxuser

I know the type, and many of them have rather nice architectural styles. I do prefer the older ones, with some good history, in the countryside, they do have more stories to tell Anyways, why monasteries of labour? Do tell, pls!

MattKing · Apr 29, 2024

Minox said:
Anyways, why monasteries of labour? Do tell, pls!

Do not encourage him!

(hint - it is a malapropism, of a sort)

Ballinderry-Michael · Apr 29, 2024

Minox said:
Yes, indeed I did, although that nice contrast I wanted from this shot eluded me.

To be honest, I think the contrast you got is pretty much perfect. The sky is just right, contrasting with the snow and white (?) buildings.

pentaxuser · Apr 29, 2024

Minox said:
I know the type, and many of them have rather nice architectural styles. I do prefer the older ones, with some good history, in the countryside, they do have more stories to tell Anyways, why monasteries of labour? Do tell, pls!

OK Matt nearly stole my thunder as the saying goes. Here goes.

A man is in a pub at lunch time and gets talking to a friendly person who is clearly not from the local area but who sounds Irish He asks him where he has come from. The Irishman replies that he has just come from the monastery down the road. The man was unaware of any monastery down the road and asks which monastery. The Irishman replies "The monastery of labour "

It turned out that he worked in what we in the U.K. used to call "The Ministry of Labour" which was responsible for helping people to find a job If you are Irish your accent can make the Ministry sound like monastery

It's a play on words and loses all its humour when it has to be explained. Some say its our strange British sense of humour

Here's another: A man says to his friend: "Who was that lady I saw you with last night?" and the friend says: " That was no lady, that was my wife

Finally two strangers get talking to each other in a pub. One asks the other where he is from and gets the reply of Liverpool so he says: It's a nice place Liverpool The wife and I used to go there to see the mother-in-law. The first man ask where in Liverpool his mother-in-law lives and the other man says : She doesn't live in Liverpool. She lives in Manchester but she looks better from Liverpool

We are truly a strange race in the U.K.

pentaxuser

Minox · Apr 30, 2024

pentaxuser said:
It turned out that he worked in what we in the U.K. used to call "The Ministry of Labour" which was responsible for helping people to find a job If you are Irish your accent can make the Ministry sound like monastery

It's a play on words and loses all its humour when it has to be explained. Some say its our strange British sense of humour

pentaxuser

Baldrick: Me father was a nun. Blackadder: How do you mean? Baldrick: Well, when the judge asked him if he had a job, he said: none.

Indeed, British humour, delicious but hard to understand for many

Minox · Apr 30, 2024

Ballinderry-Michael said:
To be honest, I think the contrast you got is pretty much perfect. The sky is just right, contrasting with the snow and white (?) buildings.

Thank you!

Minox · Apr 30, 2024

MattKing said:
Do not encourage him!
(hint - it is a malapropism, of a sort)

Too late now

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