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Nikon Wednesday 2014: #43


Matt Laur

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<p>While on my way to a lighthouse photo session last Saturday afternoon, I walked through a number of wedding parties and their photographers. This group's main photographer is out of sight in front of them, but I caught the second photographer shooting from the left side. The fun of the moment seemed to call for sepia B&W. (Larger view in my <a href="/photo/17888232">gallery</a>)</p><div>00cu9n-551982484.jpg.df0a2f79879017d10dcccb7575a2884e.jpg</div>
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<p>I just picked up a Panagor zoom slide copier for the princely sum of £5 (about $8 US), and used it to copy two slides. These are very old shots of the buildings that supposedly inspired J.R.R. Tolkein's story - "The Two Towers". They're within 100 yards of each other and very close to where Tolkein once lodged.</p>

<p>The view of the tower shown on the left (called Perrot's Folly) is now obscured by some nondescript housing. Visual vandalism of the worst kind IMO. The tower on the right (a nameless Victorian water tower) was taken from the top of Perrot's Folly.</p>

<p>Original camera IIRC was a Nikon FE. Film was Fujichrome 50. Duplicated using a D800 and the above mentioned Panagor duplicator.</p><div>00cu9w-551982984.jpg.a15087a289a6c6bbac4e5ff0c9078c8c.jpg</div>

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<p>Hello dear Nikonistas! I wish everyone is having a good time! Love your photos so far, mine are from our recent trip to Crete, visiting the famous Matala Caves.<br>

The <a title="Dugout (shelter)" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dugout_(shelter)">artificial caves</a> in the cliff of the Matala bay were created in the <a title="Neolithic Age" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neolithic_Age">Neolithic Age</a>. Matala was the port of <a title="Phaistos" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phaistos">Phaistos</a> during the <a title="Minoan civilization" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minoan_civilization">Minoan</a> period. In the year 220 BC. Matala was occupied by the Gortynians and during the Roman period Matala became the port of <a title="Gortys" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gortys">Gortys</a>. In the 1st and 2nd centuries the caves were used as tombs. One of the caves is called "Brutospeliana" because according to the legend it was frequented by the <a title="Rome" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rome">Roman</a> general <a title="Brutus" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brutus">Brutus</a>.<br>

Matala was then a fishing village. In the 1960s the caves were occupied by <a title="Hippie" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hippie">hippies</a><sup id="cite_ref-1" ><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matala,_Crete#cite_note-1">[1]</a></sup> who were later driven out by the church and the military junta. Now Matala is a small village living mainly from <a title="Tourism" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tourism">tourism</a>.<br>

Canadian folk singer <a title="Joni Mitchell" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joni_Mitchell">Joni Mitchell</a>'s experiences with the Matala hippies were immortalised in her 1971 song <a title="Carey (song)" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carey_(song)">Carey</a>. (from Wikipedia)<br>

All photos taken with D7000 and Nikon 16-35mm f/4, Enjoy!</p><div>00cuAK-551984084.jpg.0037e105bbcf0925c6cc9eccbcc57e05.jpg</div>

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