W/NW Pic-O'-The-Week #45

Early bird. Happy Friday. Please post your faves for the week. In honor of Halloween (USA) or All Hallows Eve in others, I'll re-tread a past photo from New York City at close to this time of year. Please join in..

Now that's a good shot, Uhooru; very good. Mine are from I and my spouse's just returned holiday in Tasmania. The first, cradle mountain - the lake was not still, and it was windy. No reflections. The second, a canola field just outside of Ross. The third, of some tulips, part of the tulip festival at Windsor. The fourth, an oyster shucker from Bruny Island (regrettably, tasteless pacific oysters). The final, my mandatory good wife, and her niece at 'fish frenzy', Burnie (we stayed on into the evening to see the penguins come ashore). Tasmania: wet, cold, and overhyped. But would go back there in a minute. Regards, Arthur (apiarist1) ttably, tasteless, though fleshy, pacific oysters)

Should add, all with M type 240, and in these cases, summicron 50mm. Who knows what the f stop and speed was. I don't. It was holidays. Regards, Arthur

M10, 35/2 Summicron ASPH, Cade's Cove.

 

nor any drop to drink

Leica M-3 Summicron 50mm f/2

Leica M8.2, Leica Tri-Elmar (28mm)

Civil War battlefield. Benton, MO

Billblackwellphotography, if only Taney hadn't been Marshall's replacement (I still remember reading Marbury v Madison in my undergraduate days. We only see what we can now because we stand on the shoulders of giants). Perhaps there would have never been a Dred Scott decision, and your photo would never have been taken. To quote Martin Heidegger 'language calls', as if language always already came with a syntax of evocation. Billblackwellphotography, your photo does the same. It calls. And JD, love the irony. Carbon_dragon, thats a well managed shot - there must have been some tricky exposure balancing going on to produce that. Bravo. Regards, Arthur (apiarist1 - and as an aside, though we are languishing here in Oz in 35+C temperatures over the last couple of days - as one of my pig ignorant friends would say 'it's just the weather' - I got up early and managed to rob one of my bee colonies of a honey box - first time in two seasons. I'm stoked).

Butcher Shop, Havana, Cuba (Leica M6, 35 mm Summicron)

 

That's good, sergio_ortega|7. I think you may share an ethnographic impulse with another contributor here at this site. A chronicler of time. Your colours often astound me. Their brilliance, density, have been astounding. Something to seek after. Well done. Regards, Arthur (apiarist1)

M10, 35 Summicron. Main Street Vancouver.

Leica T

 

Leica M-P 240, 35mm Zeiss Distagon f/1.4 ZM

 

Leica M-P 240, 21mm Asph Elmarit-M f/2.8

Goldfield, AZ

Really like your last photo, Arthur....captured a feel good feeling.

Potomac River along the C&O Canal Towpath

Leica M8, 21mm f/2.8 Elmarit-M pre-ASPH, Hoya R72 IR Filter

 

Leica M8.2, Leica Tri-Elmar (28mm)

Benton, MO

Another from NYC. . .

M4, Wide angle Tri-Elmar, Tmax400, Xtol/Rodinal. Ann Arbor, MI USA

main street by bc50099

Leica x1

Should add, all with M type 240, and in these cases, summicron 50mm. Who knows what the f stop and speed was. I don't. It was holidays. Regards, Arthur

I think that combo is magical for you. Good move to go for it.

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Dutch Remembrance Day 2018

Leica IIIc with 7.3cm f/1.9 Hektor

Rick_van_nooij, an eloquent shot. We have remembrance day tomorrow, here in Oz. And then we'll grapple with what we are remembering. And hopefully, we will remember the stupidity of frolic wars (which we haven't, of course: Iraq and Afghanistan are only recent examples. But there are many more. The insult of 1939 to the idea that WWI was the 'war to end all wars' has had significant repercussions in western thought. European/Anglo civilisation, on both sides, sought to 'save civilisation', but in so doing, failed. My own interest is in the complicity of Christian faiths in the frolic of WWI and II - both sides deployed religious fervour for themselves: God on both sides. And in the WWI and II instances, it was the same God that was deployed to support their respective sides. In both WWI an II, most, but with some notable exceptions, Christian Churches, from their pulpits, urged on their national wars, and their killing). Now we appear to be in the same cycle: we now have the same God on different sides: Islam and Christianity. Both of Abrahamic descent. I worry about this renewed clash between Christianity and Islam. But that is an aside.

 

And of course, we continue to engage in wars of no real merit, or purpose. And, regrettably, celebrate them. We should forget the wars, and celebrate those who were in them: our veterans, survivors of these recurrent frolics, who deserve, basically, respect, recognition, and support. They took 'dulce et decorum est pro patria mori' at its merit.

 

My father, now dead, was in the occupation forces in Hamburg, post WWII. I remember him telling me about it. Quite frankly, older now, I remember his stories with horror.

 

You remind us of this frolic, Rick_van_nooij. Bravo to you. Keep your photos coming. Regards, Arthur )apiarist1)

Thank you for your eloquent words. The Dutch hold remembrance day on the 4th of May. Every year there is some uproar about some group trying to cause a disturbance during the moment of silence. It makes me angry that people would use this moment to make a political statement.

 

Normally I would visit Flanders on Armistice Day, but I fear this year it will be too crowded and touristy.

 

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Flander's Fields cemetery in Waregem

Leica IIIc with 5cm f/2.5 Hektor.

Thanks, Rick_van_Nooij. We here in Oz have the same issue around our national day; less about our participation in frolic wars. And I am more sanguine about 'political statement(s)'. For me it's called democracy - a diversity of views come into the public forum for debate. We have seen a narrowing of permissable ideas allowable into the public forum over the last few decades. Indeed, are not your, and mine, and others, photographs 'political statement(s)'? Certainly, your profoundly moving 'Flanders fields cemetery in Waregem' valorises some ideas of frolic war, nationalism, and sacrifice, and discounts others. Like every representation, is it not deeply partial and partisan?. I attach a link to a really interesting radio national (religion and ethics program) story in the lead up to our 100th anniversary of the armistice here in Oz. It raises the issue of the frolic of war and how we selectively remember war. It also, I think, quite sensitively, raises how we deal with the survivors of frolic war: ABC Radio. I hope the link works; cannot vouchsafe for it. Yours is a moving photograph, Rick_van_Nooij. Regards, Arthur (apiarist1)

“Frolic”?

 

Proposed Japanese invasion of Australia during World War II - Wikipedia

 

The appeasement of Hitler didn’t work.....