Black & White

picperfect · Apr 22, 2020

well done, great image! Anselm would approve!

just love yosemite. half dome is absolutely magnificent and one of my favorite mountains. climbed it 30 years ago with a young girl who is my wife now. So, very fond memories!

picperfect · Apr 22, 2020

Wheel of Fortune

The wheel of fortune
Goes spinning around
Will the arrow point my way?
Will this be my day?

Oh, wheel of fortune
Please don't pass me by

Kay Starr, 1952 (Song written by Bennie Benjamin/George David Weiss, 1951)

dpc · Apr 22, 2020

dpc · Apr 22, 2020

dpc · Apr 25, 2020

Tour boat leaving the Inner Harbour, Victoria BC on February 20th, 2020

dpc · Apr 25, 2020

Should've gone to the barber when I had the chance. Can't see a darned thing.

ValleyofCarbon · Apr 25, 2020

Warning - no social distancing here !

This was in Santa Cruz California, December 2019... prior to the madness. Taken with a Leica MP and an Elmarit 28mm Apo using Adox Silvermax. Scanned with a 5DSR quick and dirty...

Sporgon · Apr 30, 2020

A couple of B&W images to pass the time; first is shot on Canon 1n with Tamron 45/1.8 on film that was thirty years out of date - Ilford FP4, expired Sept '88, and the second taken on the 5DS with 40mm pancake.

ValleyofCarbon · Apr 30, 2020

Sporgon said:
A couple of B&W images to pass the time; first is shot on Canon 1n with Tamron 45/1.8 on film that was thirty years out of date - Ilford FP4, expired Sept '88, and the second taken on the 5DS with 40mm pancake.

Nice to see the comparison, film to digital. Never shot FP4, always the plus version. Always like trying the older stuff. I scored a 100ft roll of Ektachrome 200 that was made in 99'. Still looks great after all these years in the freezer.

dpc · May 2, 2020

Waiting for spring to really catch on

Sporgon · May 2, 2020

ValleyofCarbon said:
Nice to see the comparison, film to digital. Never shot FP4, always the plus version. Always like trying the older stuff. I scored a 100ft roll of Ektachrome 200 that was made in 99'. Still looks great after all these years in the freezer.

I believe that if film is frozen it can last indefinitely, but this FP4 sat in my loft for about thirty years ! It's gone a bit grainy and I think lost a little of its sensitivity, but otherwise it's recognisable as FP4. Here's a more genuine comparison between film and digital, although the film in this case was Ilford XP2 super.