POTW 2010-08-14

[leo_papandreou1]

<p>To paraphrase Ken R., famous ph ... phather of two cute kids, a photograph is never about what it depicts. This, for instance, may look like a picture of the Old Port in Montreal but is actually about me acting like a tourist in my own city. “Fascinating, Leo, please continue.” OK. I had an unfinished roll of 160S in the camera from last week that I determined to finish Thursday, on the way to the lab, in time for (fanfare of trumpets) the <strong> Medium Format POTW</strong>. As it happens, the old port is on the way to the lab, and this is the view from the parking lot.<br>

<a title="20100813-PRO160S-002+3+4 by manual crank, on Flickr" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/manualcrank/4889525027/"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4123/4889525027_2821ed2fd5_z.jpg" alt="20100813-PRO160S-002+3+4" width="640" height="224" /></a><br>

Art? Better --- information. If your life depended upon knowing what the Old Port looked like Thursday around lunch, it looked like that. Three scans stitched together in PS. Pentax 67II, 200mm F4, Fuji PRO 160S. <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/manualcrank/4889525027/sizes/o/in/photostream/">Bigger</a> (4000x1400)</p>

<p>Lac Superior, one of myriad lakes in the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurentian_Mountains">Laurentian Mountains</a> in Quebec. Dusk, seconds before the deluge. Pentax 67II + 55mm F4, PRO 160S, 645 crop. <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/manualcrank/4890858777/sizes/o/in/photostream/">Bigger</a> (1600x1200).</p>

<p><a title="20100813-PRO160S-005 (crop) by manual crank, on Flickr" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/manualcrank/4890858777/"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4122/4890858777_3bf9ff1181_z.jpg" alt="20100813-PRO160S-005 (crop)" width="640" height="480" /></a></p>

<p>Warning, rant ahead.</p>

<p>As many of you must know, this part of the world was covered by the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurentide_ice_sheet">Laurentide ice sheet</a>. The ice that advanced over hard rock gouged small valleys that filled with melt, the result being so-called <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drainage_system_%28geomorphology%29">deranged drainage</a>: thousands of separate lakes, i.e. small local drainage basins that are not connected because there has not been time for the streams and rivers to develop that will eventually link and drain them. Note that south of the southern glaciations limit almost all rivers lead to the ocean and undrained sediment gathering lakes are rare. So this is a wonderful and special place in N.A. Unfortunately it is mostly inaccessible. Outside a few national parks, almost all the lakes in this gianormous forested margin of the Canadian Shield are ringed by private property --- vacation homes. I trespassed to take the photo above. Only a little, but still. If the Quebec government is reading this, can we talk? You own every lake and river in the province that was not transferred to a private person before 1918. To the first approximation, you own all of them. Your ownership extends from bed to high water mark and under your law freshwater is a “common thing” that cannot be appropriated or owned by anyone or anything. To landowners you extend some privileges, such as permission to build a wharf, but reject their right of ownership in water that runs over their land or that lies beneath it. So what gives? Why do I have to drive 150 km to Mont Tremblant to photograph a lake, skip a pebble across its surface or look for crayfish? Here’s an idea. Mandate a designated public area around watercourses (a very few municipalities have established such areas already.) It doesn’t have to be big. A picnic table, just one, and some gravel, just enough for two parked cars.</p>

<p>Thanks!</p>

[dave_wilson1]

<p>Wow Leo, awesome contribution. Mine is from an older project of abstracts where I was just using random items as they were found. This is some pool care tools shot with Hasselblad 500 c/m or 501 with older 80mm T* and 16mm extension. Film was Kodak 160 VC as far as I recall.</p>

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[ryan_long]

<p>That's an interesting situation Leo, and it reminds me of when I first moved to Alaska where the situation is very much the reverse. Of course, while we have many inland lakes and waterways and a very generally photogenic landscape, you do have to pay the price in sweat to get there. The good news is you don't have to trespass on anyone's land to do so. I live in the Tongass National Forest. It's actually quite liberating after coming from the Midwest and now being able to go out into the woods and go wherever I like.</p>

<p>Anyway:</p>

<p><img src="http://i206.photobucket.com/albums/bb311/longrya2/POTW.jpg" alt="" /><br>

Hasselblad 500CM 80mm Planar f/2.8 Arista EDU 400 Kodak HC-110</p>

<p>And this one was on a roll I was just burning up before I sent the body out for repair and CLA and, despite the scratch I like the result.</p>

<p><img src="http://i206.photobucket.com/albums/bb311/longrya2/POTW-2.jpg" alt="" /><br>

Pentax 67 45mm SMC Takumar Arista EDU 100.</p>

[borrel1]

<p>Or pressure them to enact a law of <a href="http://www.miljostatus.no/en/Topics/Outdoor-recreation/Right-of-access-/">"Right of Access"</a>.</p>

<p>- Børre</p>

[bogdan_nicolescu]

<p>Istanbul,Turkey</p><div></div>

[richard_]

<p>good morning. holga 120s - portra 160nc - straight neg. scan...</p><div></div>

[sasvata__shash__chatterjee]

<p>Good morning everyone, hoping everyone has (or, had) a wonderful Sunday. Posting a picture from the same trip that I posted a picture on last week's POTW thread. I wrote about the <a href="../classic-cameras-forum/00X3Qk">Rolleicord here</a>. Film was Kodak Ektar 100, scanned with Epson v600.</p><div></div>

[predrag_vranic]

<p>another week of pimpin' has begun, yaaay!<br>

nice work there, guys.</p>

<p>this week I shot lotsa rolls on various cameras and formats, and I took the time to scan some older stuff. took time to continue on one of my projects:<br>

<img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4077/4893947784_2fce98e1a6_z.jpg" alt="" width="640" height="477" /><br>

M645 1000s, Sekor 45/2.8 C, Fuji Pro800z (expired '09), scanned with CS8800F.</p>

<p>also, I bought a second hand cheap russian 77mm ND4, I don't if it comes from Arsenal factory or some place else, very hard to decipher from one logo embedded... so I had to test if it's causing any vignetting on Zenzanon 50/3.5 PS because SQ-As can't provide more than 94% frame coverage in the finder. I stuffed the camera with old expired ORWO film and now I'm regreting a bit for not using better film 'cause shots turned out actually nice!<br>

<img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4095/4885876551_5b8ab4d036_z.jpg" alt="" width="637" height="640" /></p>

<p><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4080/4889113012_c87c945969_z.jpg" alt="" width="640" height="640" /><br>

Bronica SQ-A, Zenzanon 50/3.5 PS, Orwo NP22 @100asa (expired god knows when), rusky ND4, CS8800F.</p>

<p>and, there was fun to take some candids, too!<br>

<img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4138/4892223202_4e36550f88_z.jpg" alt="" width="640" height="640" /><br>

M645 1000s, Sekor 45/2.8 C, Fuji Pro 800z, Cs8800F.</p>

[michael_dimarzio]

<p>I still have no new photos so the old shots continue.</p><div></div>

[martyryan]

Mamiya 645, 150mm and Neopan 400 film.<div></div>

[Tony Evans]

<p>An old one. Pentax 645 & Ek 64.</p><div></div>

[ondebanks]

<p>I grabbed this shot as I put the kids in the car (just over my shoulder), after spending yesterday afternoon at a little beach - the first summery day here in weeks. Today, it's back to pouring rain.<br>

Mamiya 645AFD, Kodak DCS ProBack645M at ISO 100, 55-110 zoom at 55/f11, 1/45 sec handheld, polarizer.</p><div></div>

[ondebanks]

<p>Crop of the above at 1:1. Note the inscriptions written in Irish (this is in a <em>Gaeltacht</em>, a small region where the spoken language is primarily Irish)</p><div></div>

[AlanKlein]

<p>Film taken ten years ago was Velvia 50 scanned recently with Epson V600. My RB67 has been sitting in the closet for years. I'm trying to convince myself that I want to schlep it around again. Am I nuts?<br>

Here's a 1600 pixel wide of the same shot below.<br>

<a href="http://masters.galleries.dpreview.com.s3.amazonaws.com/340773.jpg?AWSAccessKeyId=14Y3MT0G2J4Y72K3ZXR2&Expires=1282016842&Signature=795WDEts546AL22uTEv1G%2bqq9nY%3d">http://masters.galleries.dpreview.com.s3.amazonaws.com/340773.jpg?AWSAccessKeyId=14Y3MT0G2J4Y72K3ZXR2&Expires=1282016842&Signature=795WDEts546AL22uTEv1G%2bqq9nY%3d</a></p>

<p><img src="http://masters.galleries.dpreview.com.s3.amazonaws.com/476983.jpg?AWSAccessKeyId=14Y3MT0G2J4Y72K3ZXR2&Expires=1282016473&Signature=Yvom1cGfpjxXBqhDYJexWvuvdz8%3d" alt="" width="800" height="664" /></p>

 

[ondebanks]

<p>Alan, your link is giving me an "Access Denied" error.</p>

[AlanKlein]

<p>Don't know what I did wrong. tried loading differently here. Hope it works. Alan.<br>

<img src="http://g3.img-dpreview.com/1396F50125154421831A646048C757D1.jpg" alt="" width="800" height="664" /></p>

 

[AlanKlein]

<p>Don't know what I did wrong. tried loading differently here. Hope it works. Alan.<br>

<img src="http://g3.img-dpreview.com/1396F50125154421831A646048C757D1.jpg" alt="" width="800" height="664" /></p>

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[thomas_janik]

<p>Hi Leo:<br>

Coincidentally I passed through your part of the world last week: Hwy 401 east to 20 through Montreal and Quebec and 138 <img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_MuCFC81kV7o/TGviWkmHvkI/AAAAAAAAW1k/IhAKIwVBsYU/s1600/whale.jpg" alt="" width="1224" height="971" />to Paradis Marin campground just beyond Tadoussac. My wife and I went there for kayaking and whale watching. What a beautiful place. The shore is exposed rock of the Canadian Shield and many of the campsites are right on the shoreline and whales are so close to shore that you can hear them clearing their blowholes. Here’s a shot from my last trip there. Whale watchers on the shore</p>

<p>Tom</p>

[Brad Cloven]

<p>1938 Rolleiflex Automat with an uncoated Tessar Jena lens, and Velvia 50. This (and others at the link below) are from the outdoor flower and food market in Nice, France. <br>

<img src="http://d6d2h4gfvy8t8.cloudfront.net/11449234-md.jpg" alt="" width="680" height="775" /><br>

More here:<br>

<a href="../photodb/folder?folder_id=978193">http://www.photo.net/photodb/folder?folder_id=978193</a><br>

Enjoy!</p>

[Brad Cloven]

<p>One more:<br>

<img src="http://d6d2h4gfvy8t8.cloudfront.net/11449232-md.jpg" alt="" width="680" height="636" /></p>

[LMar]

<p>On the way up Deer Mountain, Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado. July 2010. Rolleicord III and Bergger @ 200 EI in D-76 (1:1).</p>

<p><img src="http://i275.photobucket.com/albums/jj291/Skopar/viewfromMachinsRMNP23.jpg" alt="" /></p>