W/NW 2020 Pic O' The Week #48

Hi all. Bill couldn't make it this weekend and asked me to start the thread. So here goes:

 

Taken with a Fuji Xero 2 and a Leica 35mm Summicron

Santa Ana River

Los Angeles Angeles River Los Angeles River - Leica M7 and 35 Summicron M7 35 Cron

Many thanks to Barry Fisher, who filled in for me this week. I was under yet another mandatory evacuation order - this time due to the "Bond Fire" in the same locale as the last brush fire around 6-weeks ago; in fact, some of the same area reburned! I'm back at home now, safe and sound.

 

My contributions this week are from my series in RPV, CA over the last several weeks. Hopefully you're not sick of these yet; I feel like I'm still finding some pics I really like. These were taken primarily with my M10-P and CV 40mm Nokton f/1.2 (the exception is the first one, which was taken with my 35mm Distagon ZM). B&W conversions are via Nik with Panatonic-X film simulation added.

 

Just a note: The last pic in this group is the exact spot (or so I'm told) in which Charton Heston realized he'd been back on earth during his entire experience on the "Planet of the Apes" - as if the fact the apes were all speaking and writing English shouldn't have clued him into that! In this shot, however, the Statue of Liberty is missing and presumably fully intact back on Liberty Island - east coast USA - where it belongs. ...

 

An older shot from June this year, sometime after the killing of Gerge Floyd and consequent social unrest in Minneapolis, MN.38th St. & Chicago Ave., the site of the infamous killing. Leica MP, 35 mm Summicron, Fujifilm Acros 100 (old, expired stock).

Edited December 5, 2020 by stric1975

not Arecibo

Canon 35mm f/2.8 lens, black and chrome ("Type 2") (LTM) on Canon VL2

Hey Bill, so glad to hear your back in and well and able to post these really nice photos. Was the last pic you mentioned at Portuguese Bend cove?

Hey Bill, so glad to hear your back in and well and able to post these really nice photos. Was the last pic you mentioned at Portuguese Bend cove?

I believe so, yes. There was a sign there warning people to stay off the rocks, but I cloned it out.

too hard

Leica C

Somewhere on a farm in Oregon. Leica M10 with 35mm Summicron ASPH.

Leica M4 w/ 50mm Summicron

Late afternoon around White Rock Lake on December 9, with the digital CL and 18-56 Vario TL.

 

 

 

Late afternoon around White Rock Lake on December 9, with the digital CL and 18-56 Vario TL.

 

 

 

The third shot is particularly evocative. Like it. Regards, Arthur

So my shots. Not good. The background: my mother is in a nursing home, dementing. It has been locked down due to covid 19 since about April this year. It is some distance from me (overnight travel there, a stay in a motel, and overnight travel back). I went there in October for her birthday and they wouldn't let me in. Just starting to relax covid restrictions now, so they let one family member in this last week for a 'christmas party'. Social distancing, masks, hand sanitisation, temperature checks, etc. So the shots, all with my monochrom and go to voigtlander 75mm lens (I have got to say, I've seen the future, and it's ugly):

 

My mum. She is non-ambulatory.

 

 

Her consort, Percy, who is in the same nursing home (there's a story there, about how they got together):

 

 

And the Santa. Nearly all the staff at this nursing home are Pinos, or from the sub-continent, or east Asian. or more recently, Somalis - they did a majestic job. So good, so caring. They did the whole thing proud. I could not but admire their care and attention. This Santa, I believe, hails from the sub-continent. He was so good:

 

 

I look forward to other contributions. Regards, Arthur

And for the sake of completeness, I'll add a shot (taken by one of the staff, again, so competent, again with the monochrom) of my mum and I. It is an indulgence. Forgive me. Regards, Arthur. As said before, I find the monochrom (the earlier version), a fascinating camera. It cannot handle highlights very well, and it's images do need 'tweeking'. But it's the closest I've come to Nikon glass with an F2 and FP4. I should have got permission for these shots - in my demurrer, it was public, and everyone consented by conduct to their photos being taken. Even me.

 

Edited December 10, 2020 by arthur_mcculloch|2