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Film Photography Projects, Inspired By Series, Intersections, The Story, Themes

Secret Santa Superzoom: I’d like to Continue the Project

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My Gift had a story described in the Letter.  Important details below:

So now where are we?  The camera actually has a story the results of which can be viewed here:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/thetravellingsuperzoom/

Here is a summary from my introductory letter pictured below:

“….This camera has a bit of a history in that it’s spent the last few month travelling the length and breadth of  of the United Kingdom (and even got to the south of France on one leg of it’s journey) as a part of a project on an online photography forum. The camera was loaded with a roll of film, the first person shot five frames, and then the camera was sent on to the next person.  The process repeated (with a half-way set of photos when a second roll of film was loaded) until it eventually got back to me……….”

So I would like to sign up maybe 6+ people to help this Camera travel across North America….We’ll follow a similar format.  I’ll load a roll of film, shoot 5 pictures, and mailed to the next person on the list.  We can start a second roll if necessary. To protect everyone’s privacy, you return the camera to me and I send it to the next person.  In the end I will post the images on a WordPress Project Page.  So what do you think?

Intersections, Nature, Personal Vision, Portraits, Themes

LACDA Opening: Sacred Datura

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OK, you’ve seen this image many times before.  It’s my favorite Lomo Purple Image and I have sent it to LACDA Snap to Grid Open Exhibit.  It’s fun and they print and post all entries:

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Architecture, Interior Spaces, Personal Vision, Themes, Urban Landscapes

Last Recall from Holga Week 2013

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Also at the Lafayette Library.  They used to sponsor a very nice Pinhole Day event……

Holga Week Officially Starts Today for Postings.  None of mine this year were very spectacular.  But I will share them here starting on Sunday………

 

Film Photography Projects, Intersections, Landscapes, Nature, The Story

Lomo Purple Pinhole Time Test: When Does the Purple go?

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OK I was using an unfamiliar camera, so I did not get to expose the entire roll.  But as luck would have it I did capture the critical times, left to right: 20, 30 & 40 seconds.

 

We can see that at 20 seconds the purple is still holding on.  At 30 seconds we see that the purpleness is beginning to break down.  And by 40 seconds the purple is losing!  So this explains why my 1 minute exposures didn’t work  This also reinforces that this particular film is not suitable for Pinholes.  Now we can put that to rest and return to Portra for Pinholes!  The Lomo Purple Fettish has ended!

Contests, Film Photography Projects, Personal Vision, The Story, Themes

Rethinking the “Now Showing” Page, Does it Really Matter?

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A quote from Linda Ronstadt:

“You do it for the work.  If you are doing it for the prizes, you are in big trouble”

and a Quote from Cole Thompson:

“In the past I’ve considered those accolades as the evidence of my success, but I now think differently. My success is no longer measured by the length of my resume, but rather by how I feel about the art that I create. While I do enjoy exhibiting, seeing my work published and meeting people who appreciate my art, this is an extra benefit of creating, but not success itself.”

I’ve been through this thought process before.  But this time a different twist.  Now showing will be going dark for a while.  I haven’t deleted it.  Just hidden. As I mentioned before, I always get the sam level of award.  They know I’m good enough to deserve some attention, but my personal style and personal vision are obviously NOT in vogue right now.  So do I stick with what I enjoy or literally ‘shoot for the hip and trendy’?

My husband recently found an interesting blog post on this very subject by Ellen Borggreve. From “Photography is not a Competition”:

“Even though there are photographic competitions, photography itself and art in general is not a competition. In the creative process there is no finish line, no competitors, no comparison. All creative endeavours are in their essence subjective, personal and incomparable. Yet the modern digital reality has created this sense of urgency and competition which I feel is hugely detrimental to art.”

Honestly I wouldn’t know how to shoot for the ‘hip and trendy’ because I do photography to make myself happy.  As Comfort and a personal creative outlet.   I find online activities like the recent #camerachallenge add some spice and allow me to interact with more like-minded photographers.  I will be keeping my Publications Page, because that actually does matter.

If I enter a contest I will still post the results here.  But no more “Now Showing”  because I don’t want THAT to be my focus……..And what people on Twitter, Instagram, Blogspot or WordPress find interesting, may not be what’s interesting TO ME.

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Sacred Datura from my Garden; Kodak T-MAX 400; cropped from a Mamiya 645 frame with 80 mm Macro Lens.