andy m. Posted November 17, 2005 Share Posted November 17, 2005 Opinions are going to vary, but maybe it is time for some variety. I bet there's a load on interesting stuff to draw on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
correfoc Posted November 17, 2005 Share Posted November 17, 2005 I haven't seen him post anything interesting yet. Why does anyone expect anything different? Decades of doing PR shots for local politicians and a few accidental snaps of musicians... yawn. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brambor Posted November 17, 2005 Share Posted November 17, 2005 Here is something only I care about <p><img src="http://www.widereach.net/rodina/images/1984/flasinet.jpg"> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
billsr Posted November 17, 2005 Share Posted November 17, 2005 Al, I'm enjoying these old shots very much. My ego doesn't suffer that you also have a life. Best regards, Bill Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paul_neuthaler Posted November 17, 2005 Share Posted November 17, 2005 Yours truly, Sept., 1945 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paul_neuthaler Posted November 17, 2005 Share Posted November 17, 2005 I was so little then, I didn't know how to do it: here I am. . .<div></div> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
james_baker6 Posted November 17, 2005 Share Posted November 17, 2005 Al's photos are kind of like personal history---I like them---they are certainly more interesting than many of the rather poor candid "street" photos I see posted on the site, usually taken with $5K worth of Leica equipment. Keep up the good work Al. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kevin m. Posted November 17, 2005 Share Posted November 17, 2005 Hey, I've unearthed some old family photos, too! I'll post one just as soon as I clean it up and make it presentable. Ah, what the hell, we're all friends, right? Here it is!<div></div> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paul_neuthaler Posted November 17, 2005 Share Posted November 17, 2005 I bet I know which is Kevin. . . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
squareframe Posted November 17, 2005 Share Posted November 17, 2005 Al seems like he has that 'glow' about him, and I don't think it is from Leica glass. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roland_schmid Posted November 17, 2005 Share Posted November 17, 2005 Helle Rene, to je v Ostrave? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
al_kaplan1 Posted November 17, 2005 Author Share Posted November 17, 2005 My biggest failing is a tendency to tell the truth. I DID inhale! I tried "nose candy" a time or three also. Since getting my Coast Guard issued boat captains' license 7 years ago I've been clean, but I still glow... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dford Posted November 17, 2005 Share Posted November 17, 2005 #4 is great. A midget wearing striped pants, paneling background, bell bottoms with a crease. Very nice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brambor Posted November 17, 2005 Share Posted November 17, 2005 Ano Rolande. Jak to vis? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
randy_santos Posted November 17, 2005 Share Posted November 17, 2005 The details of my life are quite inconsequential. My father was a relentlessly self-improving boulangerie owner from Belgium with low grade narcolepsy and a penchant for buggery. My mother was a fifteen year old French prostitute named Chloe with webbed feet. My father would womanize, he would drink, he would make outrageous claims like he invented the question mark. Some times he would accuse chestnuts of being lazy, the sort of general malaise that only the genius possess and the insane lament. My childhood was typical, summers in Rangoon, luge lessons. In the spring we'd make meat helmets. When I was insolent I was placed in a burlap bag and beaten with reeds, pretty standard really. At the age of 12 I received my first scribe. At the age of fourteen, a Zoroastrian woman named Vilma ritualistically shaved my testicles. There really is nothing like a shorn scrotum, it's breathtaking, I suggest you try it.<div></div> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patrick_jelliffe Posted November 17, 2005 Share Posted November 17, 2005 Todd, it's Chuck Close. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
todd frederick Posted November 17, 2005 Share Posted November 17, 2005 Al and I are about the same age. Actually, I'm his elder by one year, so I can tell him when to come home at night! But he won't quit smoking. At least he doesn't drink. Anyway, when I was scanning these photos they brought back some of my very personal memories of those days...very good memories. I think that this is one great use of a camera. It records bits of time. Whether it's a photo of a staircase (like Brad's wonderful Alcatraz photos) or a self-portrait (such as Al's), we all view it from our own special personal history. When I photographed in the 1960's I used an M3 and a Rollei, and my photography is still much different than Al's. I photographed objects and landscapes, Al photographed people. We both recorded our personal histories in what we photographed, and those looking at these photographs will relate to them in very personal ways as well, regardless of when they were taken. As an example I am attaching a photo I took in the late 1970's with a homemade 4x5 view camera and an antique 5 1/2" Paragon lens in an Ilex shutter exposed on Tri-X of a distintigrating AREO Speedwagon truck, on a cattle ranch I leased. To this day, this photo connects me with that time and that place. It may not do that for you, but may relate to other similar venues in your lives. Isn't that what photography is all about? For me, photography is a very personal thing.<div></div> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
todd frederick Posted November 17, 2005 Share Posted November 17, 2005 Patrick, yes Chuck Close. Do you live in my area? I want to see the exhibit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lee hamiel Posted November 17, 2005 Share Posted November 17, 2005 Great shot Todd Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob F. Posted November 17, 2005 Share Posted November 17, 2005 Al, that second shot shows you can really clean up good! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
todd frederick Posted November 17, 2005 Share Posted November 17, 2005 OT: Lee, thanks. I still have my 4x5 (a newer one) and I need to use it more. I do process the negs myself using the old tray method in HC-110, but I'm now scanning them using a method that gives me total control over contrast, and the black, gray, and white channels, much more than in the darkroom. I am making prints on Epson Heavyweight paper and they are gorgeous! They truly look like silver rich gelatin prints! The above photo was totally overexposed and just recently was I able to salvage it with PS. I am convinced that film and digital (PS) can work together just as the "...farmers and the ranchers can be friends..." (^U^) Thank you again, Todd Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jerry_lehrer Posted November 17, 2005 Share Posted November 17, 2005 Considering the very many e-mails sent directly to me, requesting photo contributions, I must say this: I have absolutely no digital photographic ability or capability. I have a pre-Pentium 486 computer, running Windows 3.1 with either 16 or 64 Mb of RAM(I forget which). I am a computer illiterate. My daughter has a cell phone camera which can send fuzzy pictures thru my computer, but it cannot send pictures of my photos. Sorry 'bout that. Jerry Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nowhereman Posted November 17, 2005 Share Posted November 17, 2005 Vintage photos? Vintage prints? "Vintage" is an awully pretentious word for these old snapshots which, to me at least, have not interest whatsoever, in any aestehetic sense, such as compostion, expression, emotion, print quality, whatever. --Mitch/Bangkok Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rj Posted November 17, 2005 Share Posted November 17, 2005 One things for sure about these picture posts from Al, they sure do elicit some strong emotions from other forumers. I'd say thats a small reason for keeping up the posting Al. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
todd frederick Posted November 17, 2005 Share Posted November 17, 2005 Friends, I have an interesting idea. Why don't we complete this thread by posting some of our own vintage photos? Leica or not! Whatever...self-portraits, travel, objects, nature...whatever. Hope you have some, and if you do, show us. I just obtained about 40 classic photo books from a friend from the 1960's and 1970's, including old Aperture Magazines edited by Minor White, and the images are wonderful! Please post some of your own personal "classics," and then we can move on to more current images and discussions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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