MSA March/April 2015 - "Stone"

[TheToadMen]

Hi Sly,
I like this one even better. Nice perspective. As if you had put a small toy to a brick wall in your garden.

 

[TheFlyingCamera]

 

[TheFlyingCamera]

 

[TheToadMen]

"nothing remains but a stone and some memories"

Since Stone is gone, I wanted to keep his memory by photographing some head stones.

These shots are made with my new Mamiya C330f (80 mm) on a WWII cemetery in Geleen, The Netherlands.

The grave of L.A. Stone

The grave of E. Stones

The grave of N. Livingstone

And the graves of all the other unknown fallen stones, on which we built our freedom!

 

[TheToadMen]

More memories carved in stone:


(Fomapan 100 in Ilford DD-X)


(Fomapan 100 in Ilford DD-X)


(abandoned grave in the woods, Kodak Porta 160)

 

[NedL]

More memories carved in stone:

Hi Bert, I can't see these three.

 

[TheToadMen]

Hi Bert, I can't see these three.

I reposted these three images: how about now?

 

[MattKing]

I like how this is going

 

[mooseontheloose]

I reposted these three images: how about now?

I can see them now.

Great subject by the way - love cemeteries!

 

[NedL]

I reposted these three images: how about now?

Yes, thanks!

 

[macfred]

bakestone - from the german countryside

Fuji GA645Wi - FUJI Pro 160NS

FUJI GA645 - FUJI Pro 400H

 

[soncorn]

Contax G2, 45mm; Ilford Delta 400

 

[Bill Burk]

soncorn,

This is classic, beautiful.

 

[Robclarke]

Leica m6, 35mm summaron, fuji superia

CNV00035.jpg by biotecbob, on Flickr

 

[soncorn]

soncorn,

This is classic, beautiful.

Thank You

 

[TheToadMen]

Leica m6, 35mm summaron, fuji superia

CNV00035.jpg by biotecbob, on Flickr

Hi Rob,
Nice cemetery! I love these old grave yards.

 

[macfred]

... I love these old grave yards.

Me too !

FUJI GA645 - Kodak Portra 400 ( not a recent one - june 2014, so out of competition … )

 

[Robclarke]

Hi Rob,
Nice cemetery! I love these old grave yards.

Thanks!

 

[TheFlyingCamera]

 

[NedL]

Scott that granite torchèr looks neat!

I went out and just had fun with pinhole cameras today. It was a nice "tune up" for WPPD coming up at the end of the month. A couple paper negatives are drying right now, but here are a couple instant film pinholes:

Sonoma City Hall was built in 1908:

And here is part of a train depot that was originally called Los Guilicos built for the Northwestern Pacific Railroad in 1887. In 1895 the town and depot were renamed Kenwood. The depot was built from locally quarried basalt and was one of two stone depots in California at that time. This railroad ran from Santa Rosa to Napa Junction, and provided most of the stone used to pave the Embarcadero and Market Street in San Francisco.

 

[TheToadMen]

a story of 650 years old stones

From my first test roll shot with my Nikon S2, 50 mm lens (Fomapan 100 developed Ilford DD-X):

(castle Cannenburgh - since 1356 - in The Netherlands)

(BTW: just now developed, but image shot last November, so no entry for the MSA contest itself)

 

[Thomas Bertilsson]

Here is one of my contributions to this month's MSA: Columnar Basalt

It is some of the oldest rock on earth, and the purity of that is kind of mind numbing, how this piece of rock has been sitting there for millions of generations (human life equivalent). Takes my breath away. I wonder if some day the land masses on earth will be completely swallowed by the oceans, as the seemingly never ending energy of waves keep pounding on the coast lines of every continent.

More entries to follow.

 

[TheToadMen]

Here is one of my contributions to this month's MSA: Columnar Basalt

It is some of the oldest rock on earth, and the purity of that is kind of mind numbing, how this piece of rock has been sitting there for millions of generations (human life equivalent). Takes my breath away. I wonder if some day the land masses on earth will be completely swallowed by the oceans, as the seemingly never ending energy of waves keep pounding on the coast lines of every continent.

Excellent contribution. Lessons learned: in the end water will be stronger than stone.

 

[TheToadMen]

building stones like Lego

From my first test roll shot with my Nikon S2, 50 mm lens (Fomapan 100 developed Ilford DD-X):

(This one is an entry to this MSA competition because it was shot in March to - finally - finish the film in my Nikon S2)

 

[NedL]

Here are the two pinhole paper negatives from yesterday. I was driving by the Mission in Sonoma, on my way to a stone bridge when I looked out my window and saw a stone house, with a sign on the front "Stone House" which is apparently its name! So of course I made a picture. This house was built in 1906 and is next door to the famous Blue Wing Inn, across West Spain Street from the Mission San Francisco Solano. This is an 8x10 paper negative:

And here is one of 4 stone bridges I found yesterday. This one is in the little town of Glen Ellen, and crosses Calabazas Creek. It was built in 1900. The light was challenging with deep shade under the bridge but bright sky. 5x7 paper negative from a coffee can pinhole camera with some built-in rise:

I'm having fun with this assignment. Today I took my pinhole cameras to some large rocks near the ocean where woolly mammoths may have rubbed against them to make smooth shiny patches. The place certainly felt prehistoric, almost timeless. If the photos don't come out I might try again on WPPD, it was a good hike too. I've learned some amazing things doing MSA!