Postcard Exchange Round 14 Results and Feedback ...

[Buster6X6]

This round brought a lot of new blood to the mix, nice. I already got four post cards,wow. Three cards received yesterday. Cara's Very nice dream like image, it would be interesting to know how you arrived at the final print.
Same with Johnny Walker's "Boat builder" it would be nice to know camera ,film , developer also paper and developer.It is very expressive image representing a craft and workmanship. Well printed. Last but not least" Jug in the cabinet" drpsilver Well balanced image with the dark back ground. Really well done.
I am going to print mine post cards this weekend. To busy at work.

Cheers Greg

 

[rst]

I received Darwins postcard yesterday. I like it a lot. It has the potential to be one of my favorites for this round, but who knows what is going to come ...

I printed my postcards yesterday evening. Labeling and writing for the weekend, so they will go out on Monday.

ciao
-- Ruediger

 

[Anke Drewitz]

next three cards

Got the next three cards from Adrian, JohnnyWalker and Darwin, thanks a lot for these nice ones.
Going to work on my cards at coming weekend.

Anke

 

[BWKate]

Half of mine are printed and need to spend some more quality time in the darkroom. Received drpsilver's postcard today. Well seen and printed. Good reminder to be open to wandering with a camera! This round I decided to try something a little different. We'll see how it is received.

 

[PVia]

Just finishing up my printing this afternoon...

Recv'd Darwin's jug-and-cupboard, beautiful tones, nice find...!

Also, Warren's Big Top came today...very, very nice. So simple, yet so effective...something you wouldn't ordinarily think of shooting, works great and a nice abstraction as well!

 

[drpsilver]

19 June 2008

Sile, Buster6x6, rst, Anke Drewitz, BWKate, and PVia:

Thank you for your kind words. I am glad you like the image. Most of my photography is done while I am "wandering with a camera". It makes photographing more fun and less work. I like it that way!

Regards,
Darwin

 

[rst]

I got Adrians Steam Fair XL card yesterday. Yes! Very well diagonal composition with sharp parts and parts with motion blurr, blacks and whites and nice tones in between. I like it. Thanks.

 

[sly]

3 more cards recieved - Cara's interesting blue-toned image, Adrian D's street scene - makes me eager to get back to the UK as soon as possible, and DRP silver's image of a jug on an abandoned window ledge - it would be a good entry into the MSA too.
My cards got posted today - it went more quickly than I expected. Once I had the exposure figured, it was just repititious.

 

[drpsilver]

... DRP silver's image of a jug on an abandoned window ledge - it would be a good entry into the MSA too.

21 June 2008

sly:

Thank you for your kind words. I am glad you like the image. A am not sure what you mean by "a good entry into the MSA".

Regards,
Darwin

 

[sly]

The monthly shooting assignment - a friendly "competition" here on APUG where you shoot for a chosen topic. Just go down the forum list to find it. The current one is "deteriortion". The winner gets to pick a topic for a future MSA. It's always interesting to see what other people come up with.

 

[KingJon]

Just got mine finished and mailed out. I hope you will start finding them in your mailboxes soon. Received Rachelle's just before I left and it is wonderful. I am looking forward to seeing the rest.
Regards,
Jon

 

[Mahler_one]

Will be a few more weeks before mine go out. Patience please!

Edwin

 

[Akki14]

Finally finished writing them all out today. Put them in the postbox but they won't get collected until tomorrow. I received drpsilver's postcard last week sometime if I forgot to mention.

 

[MenacingTourist]

I got one of David B's hand cramping 50. Love the image. I'm a sucker for catholic imagery.

Alan.

 

[Buster6X6]

Today I have finished labeling and addressing my post cards they are going out tomorrow. Sean and Simon are getting one, yes Ms. Helliar to.
Yesterday I received two nice cards from wazza and Adrian Dear Warren very interesting image, at first you have to really look to see which side is up. Creates an illusion of something else at fist. Well done.
Steam fair, as somebody commented before very nice composition with driver being sharp and the moving wheels in just enough blur to create feel of movement. Very nice.

Cheers Greg

 

[johnnywalker]

Received cards from drpsilver (old pump house) and wazza (big top) today. Thank you both, very nice and a pleasure to receive.

 

[MenacingTourist]

The cards going to my international peeps got mailed today. I'm all in.

 

[drpsilver]

24 June 2008

Received a beautiful card from Lillian (sly). I love the tight composition and wide range of tones. Thanks Lillian. This card is a potential favorite for this round, but who knows what is in the mail.

Regards,
Darwin

 

[Buster6X6]

I have to agree with Darwin, I also received sly's image today. Lillian you nailed it. Very tight composition well presented and printed. I like it a lot. I also like the choice of a stamp quite appropriate. It would have been nice to know what equipment you used to end up with this image .

Cheers Greg

 

[rst]

Sent.

 

[sly]

Wow! That was fast! Thanks buster and drp for your kind comments.
Good-on-you for noting the stamp buster - I held things up at the post office while the clerk rooted around in the back room to find enough Karsh stamps for all my cards. I will scan my card and post it with info next week - don't want to spoil the surprise for those who haven't recieved it yet.
I've recieved one card this week (so far) from Warren - I'd love to see a big print of this - it would be imposing.

 

[Mike Wilde]

Mike Wilde's cards are in the mail

After receiving a good seven or eight nice cards I got motivated to get mine together. Last night I printed, this morning I pulled the prints from the drying blotters, and at lunch I made up and addressed the backing cards.

Once I got the kids to bed I revved up the dry mount press, and 'glued' all the components together.

For me this was another 'blast from the past' image. We are coming up on Canada Day weekend in another day or two, so I dug back to see what was the earliest Canada Day images that were easily accesed. I found a few rolls that I shot when I was 18. Looking back on them 23 years later, wow, I am glad I stuck with it and at least somewhat improved, because my shooting technique as seen from what was on those contact sheets was awful. The next year I moved away to go to Uni, and seeing the world beyond my home town seems to have done my photographic eye the world of good. Contact sheets from just a few years later are a good deal easier to view from todays perspective.

The other blast from the past was using up another long outdated paper. Last fall I found a still sealed 25 sheets of 8x10 envelope of Kodabromide single weight finish E grade 3 paper, at my favourite camera store, for the grand price of $2, with no guarantees that it was any good. Lo and behold, it was good, little if any fog other than on the top sheet, and the grade today was about 2.5.

The last blast was using up the last of my old Ademco dry mount tissue. The packaging read ' made in Great Britain by the Adhesive Dry Mount Co. Ltd. 26 Stamford St London, SE1.' It had a batch code of 1-3351, and a packaging code of 4J 1251, so I think it was made all the way back in 1951. Instructions indicated that it should seal at 154-167F, but the shellac in this stuff is so dry by now, that I found that it worked best with still slightly damp prints, and with the press running at 315F to force some steam into the old stuff to breath a last gasp of adhesion out of it.

 

[drpsilver]

25 June 2008

Received a card from Akki14. You were looking for an "old-fashioned look", and I think you accomplished that goal. I wonder how this would look with a little sepia or brown tone. It might look really old-fashioned then.

Thanks for the postcard, and the remembrance of my trip to Oxford last year.

Regards,
Darwin

 

[Akki14]

Ah I am really anti-sepia. I am a weirdo. Plus, not all old photos went sepia and I don't really like how sepia now equates immediately to old. As demonstrated, there's other things that can factor into a vintage style. I'd suggest trying to tone it yourself but I'm not sure how happy the calligraphy marker would be in a water bath or toning bath...

I am SO bad, I've realised I've built up a pile of 6 postcards I've not mentioned receiving! drpsilver's old pump house. I love that old demijohn. I've had a strange fascination with those jars since I was little. For some reason there was one abandoned in between our house and our neighbours'. I wandered off when I was quite young to go look at it then wandered off some more... had half the neighbourhood looking for me. I think we did eventually rescue the jar in question and cleaned it out and I hatched a huge jar of sea monkeys/brine shrimp in it for a science fair project. Silly little story for you there

Next was David Brown's flea market photo. Lots of memories in this too, reminds me of the flea market I used to go to in Pennsylvania when visiting my relatives every summer. They went for hippy tiedyed tshirts with the grateful dead bears on them, though.

Warren's (wazza) Big top looks very fleshy... my husband thought it was some abstract of a human body at first glance. Sort of belly buttons and womanly curves.
Lillian's (sly) pretty snowdrops. I've only ever seen this picture online as your icon and as the background to an alt process exchange letter. I like seeing it in person now. Love all the little bubbles on the glass of the vase.

And today I got Mark Fisher's and rst's cards. I like the square format card from Mark... and interestingly the postal system has added a little white mark (scratched emulsion again) just next to the mark on the roofing felt(?) near the hinge of the door. I almost thought it was part of the image. Very cool little door. Rst - I like the bicycles. I might be getting my own soon and I like looking at all the different kinds. I saw millions of them in Oxford and no two were alike. I keep picking up little things in the background too. I thought the sign behind was empty but now I see it's a map, there's the closed up carousel too. It's just very interesting to look at.
Thank you all for your cards so far

 

[Síle]

What's not to love about the postcard exchange? Every morning I almost accost the postman to see what he brings.. and he hasn't failed me yet!
Between last and this week there's some beauties.

Adrian your foreboding landscape is really gorgeous, it reminds me of many an Irish summer.. Wazza I have to admit it took me a moment or two to work out what it was, but as soon as I did I loved it, very unusual angle. David I keep going back to your Jesus t-shirts, there's something about them I just love, really gorgeous shot.
Heather.. The old postcard style works just perfectly! It looks like something out of an old sci-fi movie, great photo! Mark I love the textures in your door, I could see a series of those and more like them going across my wall.. Lillian your snowdrops are amazing.. the print is so so clear, and the bubbles, I'm with Heather on this, they're just beautiful.
Rudiger I have to admit yours is my favourite of all so far, it looks like a carousel of bicycles and just keeps grabbing my attention time and time again.

This is all so much nicer than looking at the gallery isn't it?

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