My photo of the week 25

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Escribano

Posts: 6415
Joined: Jul. 6 2003
From: England, living in Italy

My photo of the week 25

Christmas in Bath on a 1950s Bessa II, 6x9cm folding camera. They don't get much sharper than this.

Images are resized automatically to a maximum width of 800px

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REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Dec. 31 2011 18:54:45

Richard Jernigan

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From: Austin, Texas USA

RE: My photo of the week 25 (in reply to Escribano)

Very nice. I like the sharp, contrasty foreground against the more diffuse, gray background.

My older brother had a 6x9 folding Kodak, starting when he was in middle school--age 12. I accompanied him in his darkroom a few times while he developed and printed. I squeegeed his glossy prints onto the shiny ferrotype plates to dry.

When my brother was in high school, we lived in Anchorage, Alaska. There he was the photographer for the school newspaper, with the use of a 4 by 5-inch Speed Graphic. He had a few photos printed in the Anchorage Times.

While visiting over this Christmas I admired a few Alaskan snowscapes still hanging on my brother's walls, done with the Speed Graphic. Nothing beats the old large formats for tonality and sharpness.

While I was there we went through the memorabilia trunk of my mother, who passed away at age 97 a few years ago. I brought back hundreds of photos to scan, including some daguerrotypes and tintypes she inherited. I'll make CD's, or maybe DVD's for the younger generations.

I'm putting together a family tree so the kids and grandkids can identify people in the photos. The family tree goes back a ways in several English and Scottish branches, one to the Black Book of the Exchequer. We have books and charts, but I'm filling in data like places of birth and residence from the web. The web facilities for family research are better than I thought. It's like solving a big puzzle. I can see how people get addicted to it.

RNJ

REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Dec. 31 2011 19:38:09

gbv1158

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From: Italy

RE: My photo of the week 25 (in reply to Escribano)

....I am collecting your photos!
I'll put them up in my new office!

:-)

REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Jan. 1 2012 9:46:45

Escribano

Posts: 6415
Joined: Jul. 6 2003
From: England, living in Italy

RE: My photo of the week 25 (in reply to gbv1158)

quote:

....I am collecting your photos!
I'll put them up in my new office!

That's very flattering. If you need higher resolution and bigger versions, just let me know which ones from my Flickr pages

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REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Jan. 1 2012 11:27:10

Escribano

Posts: 6415
Joined: Jul. 6 2003
From: England, living in Italy

RE: My photo of the week 25 (in reply to Richard Jernigan)

Hi Richard,

Speed Graphic 4x5 is getting too rich for my resources. Need a new scanner for a start and the film goes up to $1 a shot.

As for genealogy, my name Shearston, is very rare and comes from the hamlet of Shearston in Somerset. By coincidence, my parents moved to a few miles from there in the 70s, my sister lives in Somerset and now me.

Just down the road, there is a relative, Arthur Sherston, buried at Bath Abbey on October 29th 1676.

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REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Jan. 1 2012 14:35:40