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<p>What will you be photographing? Although limited to one lens, a Rollei TLR with a Zeiss Planar 2.8 lens is as good as it gets for your $700. TLRs are excellent for sitting portraits, suitably discreet for street and candid photography, and take a good landscape. They support a gamut of accessories, including close-up lenses, filters, and a prism. <em>Bon shooting!</em></p>

<p>What will you be photographing? Although limited to one lens, a Rollei TLR with a Zeiss Planar 2.8 lens is as good as it gets for your $700. TLRs are excellent for sitting portraits, suitably discreet for street and candid photography, and take a good landscape. They support a gamut of accessories, including close-up lenses, filters, and a prism. <em>Bon shooting!</em></p>

<p>If it's a flash/dust issue, this effect can be easily replicated, especially in places not considered haunted--it may even work outdoors. I invite others to submit photos to this effect.<br>

Otherwise, ....<br>

Happy Halloween</p>

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<p><em>"A Hasselblad smiles while a Nikon rejoices. Both shutter click in unison voices."</em><br>

Film and digital: <em>Vive le difference!</em></p>

<p>Think positively, lads ...<br>

Too much yinging and yanging about yin and yang.<br>

Great photos as artistic examples</p>

 

<p>Calling all Midwesterners, New Englanders, New Yorkers, and Mid-Adlantic types ...<br>

There is light at the end of the tunnel ... all that ice and snow will magically melt into Spring.<br>

Here's proof: McGill students sunning themselves late April last year.</p><div></div>

<p>Her photos speak eloquently beyond any comment I could make. A reflex camera at waist level gave her an advantage in catching her subjects unaware, in addition to the mastered art of being unobtrusive.</p>

<p>At my Xmas office party for the kids ....</p><div></div>

<p>I find the perfectly symmetrical square format, like well-rounded people, to be quite a bore. The rectangle is biased toward its object, and more interesting.</p>

<p>At the annual Santa Claus parade in Toronto ...</p><div></div>

<p>As above...</p><div></div>

<p>Oooh ... took this one on my way to work Monday morning.</p>

<p>As above</p><div></div>

<p>I may be "creepy", but, boy, it's worth it!</p>

<p>Hi. I'm a next-door neighbor, a Nikonian (D90). I can't help but notice that the Canon colors are more vibrant than Nikon. Keep up the good work.</p>

<p>A dancer cast in bronze. Main Street, Lenox Massechusetts, deep in the heart of "culture country."</p><div></div>

<p>In practically any city, there are impressive churches with beautiful stained-glass windows. This one come from a Catholic chapel on the University of Toronto campus. A no-brainer photographically, but a beautiful work of church art.</p><div></div>

<p>A young "swinger".</p><div></div>

<p>My two Nikkormat FT2's have been my workhorses for over 30 years, until I switched to a D90. The five (24mm/2.8, 35mm/2.8, 50mm/1.8, 85mm/1.8 and 200mm/4) lenses provide more-than-adequate image quality. I'll use this gear as long as film and processing are available at a decent price.</p><div></div>

<p>A diner on a hot Toronto summer afternoon.</p><div></div>

<p>There's nothing Torontonians like better than to eat. Food preparation at an Annex block party.</p><div></div>

<p>I define chaste as what is appropriate for a given situation. In photography (and less so in painting and sculpture) there is clearly a dichotomy (some would say a range) comprising sexual invitation and portrayal of the body as a pure abstract design statement. The former, in a public medium available to children and adolescents, is rightly to be frowned upon, whereas the body as a beautiful form (with a modest erotic element) is surely to be praised.<br>

As for this site, there are, alas, too many pictures that are overtly erotic and of minimum aesthetic value, and few accomplished expression of lighting and composition that define the body, male or female, as a design masterpiece.</p>

 

<p>Alfresco at the corner of Mount-Royal and Park Avenues, Montreal, Canada</p><div></div>

<p><em>Vox populi. </em>Montreal, Canada.</p><div></div>

<p>Good Friday at St. Joseph's Oratory in Montreal, Canada.</p><div></div>