Crispin's Glen Coe plantation ,and a forest of beautiful lichen covered trees.
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Crispins' card arrived on Friday - I love trees covered in lichen as well, only not so many in the city these days. 
Thanks for all the cards I've recieved so far
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!A few recent arrivals:
Polyglot's Early Bird: I love how theatrical the lighting is on this.
Rob Skeoch's Dusty Bikes: For some reason simple compositions of 'traditional' bicycles always appeal to me.
lorifrommontana's Fire Proof Hotel: This is great, I'm initially drawn to the signs on the side of the hotel, but then start to see the details in the reflections in the windows which keep revealing more details the closer I look. As well as the fantastic composition it's been printed perfectly to exploit the different lighting throughout the scene.
Matt King's Up Up and Away: Careful composition has made an everyday piece of concrete dynamic and graceful.
Karl Burke, has an eye for a great photo
Crispin
Polyglot's Early Bird: I love how theatrical the lighting is on this.
Rob Skeoch's Dusty Bikes: For some reason simple compositions of 'traditional' bicycles always appeal to me.
lorifrommontana's Fire Proof Hotel: This is great, I'm initially drawn to the signs on the side of the hotel, but then start to see the details in the reflections in the windows which keep revealing more details the closer I look. As well as the fantastic composition it's been printed perfectly to exploit the different lighting throughout the scene.
Matt King's Up Up and Away: Careful composition has made an everyday piece of concrete dynamic and graceful.
Karl Burke, has an eye for a great photo
Crispin
Ozphoto,I live in LA and half to settle for thousands of staples used for posting yard sell signs,not as pretty as lichenCrispins' card arrived on Friday - I love trees covered in lichen as well, only not so many in the city these days.
Postcards mailed today. Thoroughly have enjoyed the cards I have received so far. =)
This has been a productive week!
"Fiona's Eye" by Karl Burke -- an interesting composition and angle. I put all my postcards up on the wall so her eye will be following me around quite a bit.
KWhitmore's "broken windows" has a lonely and desolate feel to it. Still snow around in May, huh? Gotta love Manitoba.
I like Crispin's mossy tree from the Glen Coe plantation -- a nice play of light and dark in the image.
I also received Lori's "Yellowstone River". It has a lot of 'skid' marks over it -- not sure what the post office was doing, but it kind of adds the overall mood of the photo.
"Fiona's Eye" by Karl Burke -- an interesting composition and angle. I put all my postcards up on the wall so her eye will be following me around quite a bit.
KWhitmore's "broken windows" has a lonely and desolate feel to it. Still snow around in May, huh? Gotta love Manitoba.
I like Crispin's mossy tree from the Glen Coe plantation -- a nice play of light and dark in the image.
I also received Lori's "Yellowstone River". It has a lot of 'skid' marks over it -- not sure what the post office was doing, but it kind of adds the overall mood of the photo.
Got Rob's Bicycles. Where can we see your body of work for this, Rob? Will it be published? Great print.
Oops I forgot to mention my cards went out a few days ago. I know I've said this before but I've become a real slacker...sorry! I also wanted to say that I've received some really great cards so far this round. A BIG thank-you to all those early birds out there- Darwin, William, OMU, Allen, Roger, Chris, Rachelle, Rob and Crispin. Wonderful stuff, thanks!
Kathy
Kathy
Walked through the door. 'Dad, you got a postcard.' 'I wanted to tell him that!'
Got Mark R's IR photograph of the Colorado Capital. Alot of great backlit Woodeffect. This is yet another beautiful card. Thanks, guys and gals. Been a great round.
Got Mark R's IR photograph of the Colorado Capital. Alot of great backlit Woodeffect. This is yet another beautiful card. Thanks, guys and gals. Been a great round.
27 Nov 2009
Today the mailbox gave me a beautiful card from markrewald. I really like the intense IR effect. The perspective taken and the contrast of the building to foliage gives this image a 3-D effect. The semi-matt paper finish adds an "old world" feel to the print. Well done.
Do you have any idea how this film compares to the current Efke IR film offerings? What filter were you using to get the IR effect? Thanks for a great card.
Regards,
Darwin
Today the mailbox gave me a beautiful card from markrewald. I really like the intense IR effect. The perspective taken and the contrast of the building to foliage gives this image a 3-D effect. The semi-matt paper finish adds an "old world" feel to the print. Well done.
Do you have any idea how this film compares to the current Efke IR film offerings? What filter were you using to get the IR effect? Thanks for a great card.Regards,
Darwin
I haven't used any of the new Efke IR stuff yet. Most likely will get some since I am down to 2 rolls of this really outdated stuff (which on another shot the numbering on the paper backing came through to the emulsion Very wierd). The filter I was using was a Cokin infrared filter. Seems to work fairly well. Thanks all for the wonderful comments.
Mark the old stuff still works great,just got your card today and those leaves on the trees are light and heavenly.
Also received Sly's card,what a great period time set up,great pose and background.like the dark tone of the theocarbarmide toner .
Also received Sly's card,what a great period time set up,great pose and background.like the dark tone of the theocarbarmide toner .
29 Nov 2009
The post man delivered KWhitmore's card yesterday. I like the slight upward perspective, kind of draws me into the image. This looks like an abandoned house. I bet there are lots of neat photos to be had if one "wonders around" a little. Nicely printed and composed. It would be nice if the rocking chair stood out more from the background. Thanks for another neat image.
Regards,
Darwin
The post man delivered KWhitmore's card yesterday. I like the slight upward perspective, kind of draws me into the image. This looks like an abandoned house. I bet there are lots of neat photos to be had if one "wonders around" a little.
Nicely printed and composed. It would be nice if the rocking chair stood out more from the background. Thanks for another neat image.Regards,
Darwin
Well, finally I have time to comment on these postcards. I have been busy of and on all week , when not otherwise at work, and all day today fixing up my home studio in the basement family room for a weekend photo shoot that I have scheduled in a few weeks. I hope to have an image from that session to use in the next postcard exchange, which for me, I promise will be round 19 for real that time.
The comments are in the order that I have filed the image; they sometime pile up for a day or two before they get into my filing binder, and can thus not be sure to be based on the order in which they made it to me.
OMU- I really like the street photography feel of this image. The flashy car , the obvious wedding party, and no one paying the slightest attention to you as you took the photo. Their attention being elsewhere really makes this image work for me.
drpsilver - Nice viewpoint that you took this shot from, with all of the lines in the image heading off in the same horizontal vanishing point, yet absolutely no vertical convergency. Obviously a skilled view camera operator, as well as image perceiver.
Denis K The Badlands - oh, I want to go... Very nice balance of the grass to the weathered rock to the sky, and the bit of water or whatever in the side foreground gives the image depth and scale. Nice sympatico if you where not aiming carefully for the effect. My print has overprint of subsequent cancellation marks in the sky, and you can almost be fooled that the strata in the weathered rocks are actually scratch artifacts from the same postal sorting machinery.
polygot The image is quite striking. The tarp/awning protruding into the sky turns what would otherwise be quite an almost pedestrian image and gives it 'legs'. I would have liked to see a bit more detail in the tarp; it is there but you almost have to hold the print to a light source to pick it up. I might have dodged it a bit to give more separation to the texture.
mooseontheloose Oh the luck/skill you have with IR. The hulking shadows make your eye dash all over the frame to see what is happening around them. More images like this? Keep them coming.
ben taylor (i think) Very nice low key image. Good separation in the dark areas. Nothing is in 'zone1/2' here unless you wanted it to be. The image works for me.
crispinuk 35mm Delta 3200 you say. Wow. I would have not thought such good definition would be found in this film. I will have to be taking that sort of a dog for a walk in one of my old cameras soon. I like the little hints of forest that lurk in the shadows, and the great definition of the light toned moss all in the same print. I take shots like this all the time and never seem to get anything after the contact sheet is evaluated. I guess I need to sharpen my eye, because you show in this work what a 'grab' shot can do, and do well.
christopher walrath Very nice presentation of sun peeking out around the clouds. The water in the lower part of the frame grounds the image nicely, and the dock aids in establishing scale. No filter eh. Lucky timing, and the ability to pull over at the moment, on the way home from work none the less. Lucky bastard. My trip from work takes me though a mostly sterile and bland research park campus type setting, and only takes three minutes ( 20 if I walk). The funny thing is though, that I always can find something to capture that inspires me when I can find the time to walk. That in turn makes me aim to try to walk in a t least once a week if my family and work schedule allows. Glad you took the time to give us this image from the long way home.
lorifrommontana Pretty girl, nice portrait, under what looks to be mid day lighting. The tonal scale of the print is a bit short for my liking; it would probably be fine lighting for a colour print. I feel this print would have perhaps benefited from maybe a higher grade higher print contrast, or more preferably, more contrast in the image capture lighting. I do know how hard it is to get young folks to get up when the sun is coming up to get them into pictures the morning golden hour, and by the evening golden hour that are usually busy plotting what they are going to go out and do that night.
karl burke Oh very nice. Well executed and lit. The catch light in the eye kept me thinking for a second until I realised some of the image of the catch light likely came from the camera lens. Very well done. The warm tone paper works very well for this image also.
Rob Skeoch Very nice timeless image. I feel like this could have been lifted from a mid 50's time/life exotic foreign land photo essays. I enjoy all of the nice mid tone tonalities, and how while no one thing really jumps out at me, the image as a whole works well.
The comments are in the order that I have filed the image; they sometime pile up for a day or two before they get into my filing binder, and can thus not be sure to be based on the order in which they made it to me.
OMU- I really like the street photography feel of this image. The flashy car , the obvious wedding party, and no one paying the slightest attention to you as you took the photo. Their attention being elsewhere really makes this image work for me.
drpsilver - Nice viewpoint that you took this shot from, with all of the lines in the image heading off in the same horizontal vanishing point, yet absolutely no vertical convergency. Obviously a skilled view camera operator, as well as image perceiver.
Denis K The Badlands - oh, I want to go... Very nice balance of the grass to the weathered rock to the sky, and the bit of water or whatever in the side foreground gives the image depth and scale. Nice sympatico if you where not aiming carefully for the effect. My print has overprint of subsequent cancellation marks in the sky, and you can almost be fooled that the strata in the weathered rocks are actually scratch artifacts from the same postal sorting machinery.
polygot The image is quite striking. The tarp/awning protruding into the sky turns what would otherwise be quite an almost pedestrian image and gives it 'legs'. I would have liked to see a bit more detail in the tarp; it is there but you almost have to hold the print to a light source to pick it up. I might have dodged it a bit to give more separation to the texture.
mooseontheloose Oh the luck/skill you have with IR. The hulking shadows make your eye dash all over the frame to see what is happening around them. More images like this? Keep them coming.
ben taylor (i think) Very nice low key image. Good separation in the dark areas. Nothing is in 'zone1/2' here unless you wanted it to be. The image works for me.
crispinuk 35mm Delta 3200 you say. Wow. I would have not thought such good definition would be found in this film. I will have to be taking that sort of a dog for a walk in one of my old cameras soon. I like the little hints of forest that lurk in the shadows, and the great definition of the light toned moss all in the same print. I take shots like this all the time and never seem to get anything after the contact sheet is evaluated. I guess I need to sharpen my eye, because you show in this work what a 'grab' shot can do, and do well.
christopher walrath Very nice presentation of sun peeking out around the clouds. The water in the lower part of the frame grounds the image nicely, and the dock aids in establishing scale. No filter eh. Lucky timing, and the ability to pull over at the moment, on the way home from work none the less. Lucky bastard. My trip from work takes me though a mostly sterile and bland research park campus type setting, and only takes three minutes ( 20 if I walk). The funny thing is though, that I always can find something to capture that inspires me when I can find the time to walk. That in turn makes me aim to try to walk in a t least once a week if my family and work schedule allows. Glad you took the time to give us this image from the long way home.
lorifrommontana Pretty girl, nice portrait, under what looks to be mid day lighting. The tonal scale of the print is a bit short for my liking; it would probably be fine lighting for a colour print. I feel this print would have perhaps benefited from maybe a higher grade higher print contrast, or more preferably, more contrast in the image capture lighting. I do know how hard it is to get young folks to get up when the sun is coming up to get them into pictures the morning golden hour, and by the evening golden hour that are usually busy plotting what they are going to go out and do that night.
karl burke Oh very nice. Well executed and lit. The catch light in the eye kept me thinking for a second until I realised some of the image of the catch light likely came from the camera lens. Very well done. The warm tone paper works very well for this image also.
Rob Skeoch Very nice timeless image. I feel like this could have been lifted from a mid 50's time/life exotic foreign land photo essays. I enjoy all of the nice mid tone tonalities, and how while no one thing really jumps out at me, the image as a whole works well.
Some more received this week: lorirfrommontana's jeep, crispinuk's lichen (how on earth did you get that from 35mm Delta3200!?), rtbadman's Navajo Reservation (tank reminds me of "Fred's Tank", a similarly graffitied tank near where I grew up) and Karl Burke's Fiona's Eye - I just can't stop looking at it. There is something about the human eye that just draws you in and I'm impressed that you managed to get the iris so well focused with such narrow DOF.
I have received a few more over the last few weeks:
rtbadman - Navajo Reservation - When I saw this one, I had to do a double take. Sure that wasn't taken in outback Australia I love the cloud formations and it looks really good on the gloss. A few scuffs and a barcode, but hey, thats half the fun.
Crispen - Glen Coe Plantation - Agree with Polyglot above. ISO3200!! Nicely done
Rob Skeoch - Dusty Bikes... - Fantastic detail (keep looking at the wire basket on the first bike).
On a personal note, I got mine out of the door today. I was up till 2:00am Saturday morning getting them printed, finished with the writing and stamps after work today. I'll make some apologies now about my bad hand writing....
Cheers
rtbadman - Navajo Reservation - When I saw this one, I had to do a double take. Sure that wasn't taken in outback Australia
I love the cloud formations and it looks really good on the gloss. A few scuffs and a barcode, but hey, thats half the fun.Crispen - Glen Coe Plantation - Agree with Polyglot above. ISO3200!! Nicely done
Rob Skeoch - Dusty Bikes... - Fantastic detail (keep looking at the wire basket on the first bike).
On a personal note, I got mine out of the door today. I was up till 2:00am Saturday morning getting them printed, finished with the writing and stamps after work today. I'll make some apologies now about my bad hand writing....
Cheers
I got Kathy's card today. A very strong composition and will printed. I can imagine Samson standing beneath them, tapping his chin, thinking 'Now what can I do with these? Hmmmmmmm'
Thanks Chris! Montreal has some very interesting architecture...shamefully I think I haven't explored that enough. I tend to notice first the really broken down peeling dilapidated stuff.
-Kathy
30 Nov 2009
Today's post brought another wonderful card. This time it is from sly. I really like the composition of a man and is camera. The thiocarbamide toning really makes the photo "come alive". It must have been fun to talk about Crown cameras with someone that appreciates them. Very well done, and thank you for a "blast from the past".
Regards,
Darwin
Today's post brought another wonderful card. This time it is from sly. I really like the composition of a man and is camera. The thiocarbamide toning really makes the photo "come alive".
It must have been fun to talk about Crown cameras with someone that appreciates them. Very well done, and thank you for a "blast from the past".Regards,
Darwin
I received Sly's card yesterday. Wonderful composition of this portrait, and I love the tones of the print !
My wife was a bit puzzled, the camera looks SO antique (my own Tachihara has a very diifferent look).
Thanks,
Laurent
My wife was a bit puzzled, the camera looks SO antique (my own Tachihara has a very diifferent look).
Thanks,
Laurent
I also got Sly's fantastic print today. I usually don't go for heavily toned pictures, but this is different. Suits the picture well. Can't get over the skin tones (to quote my wife, Gorgeous!!).
Nw, Not being used to larger formats, would I be correct in saying that this is a contact print?
Cheers
Nw, Not being used to larger formats, would I be correct in saying that this is a contact print?
Cheers
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