Postcard Exchange #29 Comments and Feedback

[akitakita]

Received a nice contact print of the Olympic Stadium Structure form Andrew. Unfortunately for me my wife found it outside the front door in a bit of a sorry state where it looks to have been trodden on and left for dead in the rain by the postman (I suspect he didn't realise he had dropped it as normally he is very good). I have rewashed it to get the grit off it but there are so many lumps and bumps in it from the gravel it could almost be a braille picture.

Ed- I have another small round of postcards to print for non-APUG friends, I'll send you another!

 

[Ed Bray]

Ed- I have another small round of postcards to print for non-APUG friends, I'll send you another!

Thanks Andrew, that's very decent of you.

 

[Oxleyroad]

4/30. Andrew Kitteridge - Olympic stadium. Amazing. I still remember as a child watching the 76 Games in colour, we had only had colour TV in the town where I grew up for two year at that stage. The stadium was always shown from either within or from a helicopter view point. There used to be a roof if I recall correctly that the cables shown I the picture could some how draw over the arena. Brilliantly captured the stadium.

 

[mooseontheloose]

Alright, I'm starting to fall behind in commenting on cards.

A lovely colour image from ndrs arrived today. I like the irreverant nature of the hat in the grass.

Uwe's thistles were the first to arrive. The toning/paper really works with this image.

Edward Bray's GWR Pannier Tank 6430 and Autocoach W225 is exactly the kind of train image I would like to take but can never really find (esp. here in Japan!)

I went to the Olympic Stadium on my first trip to Montreal in '96, I like the angle you decided to shoot it from Andrew. A nice take on a Canadian icon.

And Marco Santa Cruz's dreamy beachscape is an early favourite, I love the soft quality of the light, water, and shadows.

Great start to the round so far! I'm in the process of developing a huge backlog of film from my trip to Thailand and Laos earlier this year, hopefully something will reveal itself to be worthy of this exchange!

 

[Ed Bray]

Received a card today from Peter Schrader, many thanks.

 

[Oxleyroad]

5/30. Stephen Frizza - from the archives, arrived today in an envelope sealed with a finger print. Great card that has been claimed by my 5 year old daughter. She says if her brother (7 yrs old) can take photos why not a dressed chimp?

Thanks Stephen

 

[Fozzle]

Received a great card from Andrew Kitteridge, I really like the angle, it makes for a very interesting image. Thanks!

 

[Trond]

Peter Schrager's "Backlot" card arrived today. Interesting and slightly surreal!

Thanks,
Trond

 

[Ed Bray]

I received a great postcard today from Stephen Frizza with a portrait of me on it holding a camera.

Mine also had a fingerprint on the envelope.

 

[jvo]

time to get serious...

i've been playing with different images in my mind for this round - not really working at it though. lo and behold time marches on and i'm receiving cards!!!!

gwr pannier tank from ed bray

montreal stadium from andrew kittredge

beach view from marco santa cruz

and winter scene from uwe pilz

each inspiring and fun... now i gotta get down to it and print mine!!!!

jvo

 

[piu58]

Yesterday I received three card at once:
"Too many monkeys" from Steve Frizza
"Weathered Pillars" from (could not decipher the name)
"Backlog in las Vegas", including self portrait from Peter Schrager
It is always fun to find cards from you in my letter box.
~

One remark to my photo

> Uwe's thistles were the first to arrive. The toning/paper really works with this image.

The paper is not toned at all. It got the yellowish hue because it is 70 years old.

 

[Ed Bray]

Received 2 Cards this morning, 1 from Trond "Shore" and the other from Red River Coulee "Weathered Pillars"

Many thanks to both of you, both very nice images indeed.

 

[Stephen Frizza]

The First of my post Cards Have arrived in the Mail during this week...the first arrivals were Andres (ndrs) , Edward Bray, Andrew, Uwe Pilz, mesantacruz.

Some Comments:

Uwe Pilz : I got the Cheeta. I love that you printed this on such old stock and produced such a lovely result. Many thanks.

Anders (ndrs) : I think you picked a really good image to print on this paper stock its good to see it not wasted and is nice to get a colour card. I love that style of hat.

Edward Bray : Lovely image of a train, your postcard has a ton of detail in it.Thanks for the historical story with your image. I was really impressed by your ability to print on the back of the paper, As a pro lab owner I would love to know in detail about how you went about this as inkjets certainly do not work!

Andrew: Nice architectural contact print of a 4x5" shot of a stadium. I like your tones and the shapes in this.

mesantacruz: Your postcard of the beach scene at dusk fills me with nostalgia. I love the location and your rendition of the water in this.

Many thanks for the efforts you all put into making these cards. How lovely to think your images have come from so far away.

 

[Trond]

The card from Steven Frizza arrived today. Great card!

Thanks,
Trond

 

[Ed Bray]

Edward Bray : Lovely image of a train, your postcard has a ton of detail in it.Thanks for the historical story with your image. I was really impressed by your ability to print on the back of the paper, As a pro lab owner I would love to know in detail about how you went about this as inkjets certainly do not work!

I just put the postcards though my laser printer. I found that if I printed them in the correct orientation they came out with patches of light and dark areas so I turned the print in word upside down in a text box and put the postcards into the laser paper tray 'back to front'. All was well although I wasted a few on my trials.

 

[piu58]

Dear Trond, your card arrived today. Very nice view! I am canoeist and see such scenes with other eyes.

 

[jvo]

whoa!

The exposure was 8 minutes at f/22. My meter gave a spot reading of 4 minutes, so to account for reciprocity failure I did a 12 minute exposure as well. The 12 minute exposure looked a little blown out in the highlights so I printed from the 8 minute exposure. I think compensating for the long exposure with a little less time in the developer would have given a bit more highlight detail.. oh well. I hope you guys like it. Apologies for the bad handwriting!

now i got to appreciate a great photograph on a whole other level! thanks for the thinking/info behind an impressive piece of work!!!

and with uwe pilz! take insight, courage, or testing, (all three?) - very nice!

 

[ChristopherCoy]

I just wanted to check in...

I have received a number of absolutely amazing cards, and they are all sitting on my kitchen table waiting for more in depth reviewing.

For one reason or another, I have been traveling every weekend since April and have not been home, except for those few days off that fall in the middle of the week. Other than that I have been all over the State of Texas, and over to Louisiana more times than I can remember - and I'll be heading back again in three weeks. We've put over 5,000 miles on the brand new car that we bought on April 20th, if that gives you any indication.

I have every intention of completing an afternoon of intense printing very soon and hope to get things in the mail ASAP. Between this exchange and the FilmWasters exchange, I have something like 45 cards to print, and I insist on doing it by hand sooooo......

Anyway, thank you for your patience, and I apologize!

 

[piu58]

Yesterday I got a great print from Katrin Bechhold. It is a self portrait made form a collodion print. Something real special, very fine. My wife called it "real art".

 

[Ed Bray]

Yesterday I got a great print from Katrin Bechhold. It is a self portrait made form a collodion print. Something real special, very fine. My wife called it "real art".

I agree, I got my copy this morning. Very nice.

 

[Fozzle]

I received a beautiful card from Trond the other day, called 'Shore'. I really like the calmness it provides, thank you.

 

[Oxleyroad]

7/30. Two more this week.

Trond - Shore. Wonderfull detail, and well framed image.
redrockcoulee - Weathered Pillars. Great image of the water (snow), wood and water.

 

[ndrs]

I've just returned from a two-week trip to California and Nevada. My plan was to mail all postcards to US addresses from there to save on postage and ensure faster delivery. Unfortunately, British Airways managed to lose one of our suitcases. Sadly it was the one that contained an envelope with all the cards.

I'm no longer hoping to recover the suitcase. However, I'll wait for another week before deciding what to do about the missing cards. I have a few spares but not enough for everybody. This would mean some of you will receive a repacement print as I've run out of the expired Kodak colour paper it was printed on.

The rest of the cards will go out in the next few days after I've found time to go to the post office and buy stamps for them.

Sorry,
Andres

 

[Oxleyroad]

Andres, that's rotten news. But all part of the exchange. We will all look forward to whatever you decide to send out.

 

[viridari]

Oh wow, this sounds like a brilliant idea. I'm going to get up to speed before the next exchange begins.