What is your "Personal Project" these days?

[dick roadnight cotswolds]

I like challenging projects, like LF pictures of flying birds or ballet dancers or vaulters, using beam-triggered flashes to stop the wings/legs in the oblique plane-of-focus.

[www.graemehird.com]

Photographing my local area (Kalgoorlie, WA) for a book and print sales.

[silent1]

My current project is (still) getting all the bits and pieces together to start making images with my ~1935 Patent Etui 9x12 plate camera. I bought the camera on eBay for a lot less than it's worth, fully functional and with 3 plate holders (but no film sheaths). I'm fabricating film sheaths, putting together what I need to develop 9x12 sheet film, I've got a box of Fomapan 100, and all I'm really still waiting on is a changing bag or dark box.

 

I thought I'd be able to build the box this weekend, but I came to two realizations: first, I'm not capable of the kind of precision joinery needed to make light tight joints, and second, even after I design around my poor carpentry, the scrap wood I have is so bad even good joints might leak light. And if I have to buy all the wood, it might be cheaper to just buy a changing bag (though a box is, IMO, much more useful). Still working on this part...

[scott_walton2]

Printing/scanning the few hundred shots I took in New Mexico from a recent

trip. Managed to do a GREAT day at Tent Rocks and every 10' was another

beautiful image... unfortunetly due to the fast weekend, I was limited to one

RB and several lens but I got some great images!<div></div>

[scott_walton2]

I did have a Fuji 617 too which is a great format, on this weekend

[andrew_oneill]

For years I photographed the decline of the coal mining industry in the town I lived in in Japan. I came back to Canada last year knowing that I wanted to spend time in the Thompson Valley area between Lytton and Kamloops. This area offers unusual landscapes, and an interesting history. History is the big draw for me as it was with the mines in Japan. Some of those old buildings are 120 years old and were used until 1997! I'm also doing this strange project with a plastic deck chair....don't ask. I was making lots of money teaching English in Japan so buying film wasn't a problem. HP5+ in 8x10 wasn't available in Japan so I had to order it from home. I had a big show before I left (I'm still printing for customers!) and actually made money. I'll go back to Japan this November for 6 weeks for another showing of these mining photos and will be making stationery, postcards and calendars with a printing company. This was all unexpected but will be nice to get that extra income to help pay for film. I would also like to take this opportunity to thank all my former students who purchased my prints....

[lbi115l]

1) Printing

 

2) Getting money for a car, refitting the darkroom, and new lenses (not in that order)

[ian_greant]

One day while rushing out to the mountains I looked at the town I've grown up in and noticed everything was changing. The corner store I bought candy at was gone - condos lived there now. The hardware store my dad bought a wrench the day we fixed the old truck was a neon strip mall. <p>

The more I looked the more of the town I'd loved as a child disappeared. <P> A few remenants still remain. A corner store here, an flower store there. My project is to capture what remains before it's all gone to the strip malls, condos and franchises.<div></div>

[jim_galli4]

Been thinking about this post for a while. I have a pet body of work that keeps growing and I know it's important because the shots are always the ones I look forward to seeing. I guess for lack of a better name I could call it Nevada Time Warp. Pieces and parts of Central Nevada that have remained untouched for whatever reason and have their own personality that calls out to be photographed. These pics are very personal to me. They please <i><b>me</b></i> first and likely most. By the way if you're part of Kevin Bourke's list and I owe you a picture, look for this face to show up in the next week or so. 8X10 Deardorff. 121 Super Angulon in very close and distorted on purpose for the effect.<center><img src=http://tonopahpictures.0catch.com/01/BelmontChev121SA.jpg><br><b><i>Belmont Chevy</i></b></center>

[thomas_viscelli]

My immediate goal is to get back in to LF photography. When I was in school I did almost nothing but. Then reality intervened (family, job, etc.) It's been a while, but I'm slowly getting back into it.

 

I joined this forum to get inspiration/motivation, and I've been very impressed with the things I seen so far. Makes the motivation part a bit more difficult when I compare what I've done with what I've seen.

 

Anyway, the one thing I've always been interested in, and will continue to explore, is movement through time. I like to see what happens when long shutter times are used as things move through space. As we live and move we only see discrete images. Our existence is never experienced over a period longer than the 'Now'. My photos try to capture existence over a somewhat longer period. It makes me think about the idea that even though we live in the 'Now' our reality extends both before and after it. After all a 1/500 sec. shot of an athlete, say, is only that - a tiny fraction of that persons life. It's an artificial construct.

 

It also makes me think about how timing can make all the difference in the world (think about 2 cars moving through an intersection.) Look at a not quite relevant example - a man starts to climb a hill at exactly 8am, and reaches the top at exactly 8pm. The next day

he starts at the top at exactly 8am and reaches the bottom at exactly 8pm. How do we know if there is 1 point on the hill that he was on at the exact same time on both days?

 

 

They also make cool, abstract pix. ~;-)