Looking at – and seeing – the world
November 20, 2020 16 Comments
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Autumn on the pavement. Beside the park railings. Caught by the rays of the rising sun.
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Technique: TG-5 at 100mm (equiv); 250 ISO; Lightroom, using the Camera Vivid film simulation; south Bristol; 10 Oct 2018.
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November 20, 2020 9 Comments
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Sunrise over the Maasai Mara Game Reserve, southwest Kenya; Nov 1977.
The low buildings may be at Keekorock Lodge in the southern Mara. Towering above is an Acacia thorn tree.
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Technique: OM-1 with 28mm Zuiko lens; Agfa CT18 colour slide film, rated at 64 ISO.
THE ARCHIVE KENYA SERIES
I’m re-posting photographs that I took in Kenya over 30 years ago. You can find more context here . Click onto the “Archive Kenya” tag (below) to see more of these film images from Kenya.
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November 19, 2020 13 Comments
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A cold morning, and the rising sun starts to burn through the mists over Whitchurch village, on the southern outskirts of Bristol.
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Technique: TG-5 at 100mm (equiv); 320 ISO; Lightroom, using the Camera Vivid film simulation; Whitchurch, south Bristol; 2 Nov 2017.
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November 14, 2020 6 Comments
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Sunrise over the Maasai Mara Game Reserve, southwest Kenya; Nov 1977.
Well, a 43 year old colour transparency that resided for over a decade in the heat and humidity of the tropics. The colours are altering slightly, a little too much purple or mauve in there now, I think. But does this matter, is this important?
I could refrain from posting this image because it is no longer a totally accurate representation of the scene – or simply enjoy it for what it now is. To me, the former option would be far more than a tad puritanical, somewhere on a long road to nowhere perhaps. Somewhere I never want to be.
Click onto the “early morning” tag (below) to see more images from the early hours of the day.
Click onto the image to open a larger version in a separate window – recommended.
Technique: OM-1 with 28mm Zuiko lens; Agfa CT18 colour slide film, rated at 64 ISO.
THE ARCHIVE KENYA SERIES
I’m re-posting photographs that I took in Kenya over 30 years ago. You can find more context here . Click onto the “Archive Kenya” tag (below) to see more of these film images from Kenya.
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November 5, 2020 12 Comments
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Moving cautiously westwards across Tadham Moor on the Somerset Levels, through fog turned incandescent by the rising sun.
The Looking at Cars series: looking back through the nine years of the FATman Photos archives (and some new images too), I’m posting pictures of cars in various contexts and styles. Earlier Looking at Cars posts are here: 1 (with context); 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 .
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Technique: X-T2 with 55-200 Fujinon lens at 305mm (equiv); 200 ISO; Lightroom, using the Provia/Standard film simulation; Totney Drove, Tadham Moor, on the Somerset Levels; 19 Oct 2018.
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October 27, 2020 3 Comments
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A wild morning – windy, angry and with the certain threat of rain. I was on foot, far from home, and the sun just rising.
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Technique: TG-5 at 100mm (equiv); 400 ISO; spot metering; Lightroom, starting at the Camera Portrait profile; south Bristol; 17 Sept 2020.
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October 23, 2020 2 Comments
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Walking towards the main road, with streetlights, tail lights, tall trees and a bus shelter, and sunrise starting to colour the sky.
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Technique: TG-5 at 100mm (equiv); 3200 ISO; spot metering; Lightroom, starting at the Camera Portrait profile; south Bristol; 10 Oct 2020.
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October 21, 2020 4 Comments
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Scene from a suburban driveway: status symbol with sunrise and heavy dew.
The Looking at Cars series: looking back through the nine years of the FATman Photos archives (and some new images too), I’m posting pictures of cars in various contexts and styles. Earlier Looking at Cars posts are here: 1 (with context); 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 .
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Technique: TG-5 at 100mm (equiv); 800 ISO; spot metering; Lightroom, starting at the Camera Portrait profile; south Bristol; 5 Sept 2020.
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October 18, 2020 10 Comments
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Walking into the sunrise, walking towards a van, walking home. At first the glare from the sun was totally dazzling, I was in a world of blinding highlights and impenetrable silhouettes. But as I moved into the van’s shadow, there appeared this view in through its dew-soaked windscreen.
The steering wheel is at lower left, and one of the black wiper blades at lower right. The circular black spot attaches the faintly seen rear view mirror to the inside of the windscreen, and there are also the vague outlines of seats with headrests and the illuminated panes of its rear windows – through which the sun is shining onto the inside of the windscreen.
The Looking at Cars series: looking back through the nine years of the FATman Photos archives (and some new images too), I’m posting pictures of cars in various contexts and styles. Earlier Looking at Cars posts are here: 1 (with context); 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 .
Click onto the “early morning” tag (below) to see more images from the early hours of the day.
Click onto the image to open a larger version in a separate window – recommended.
Technique: TG-5 at 61mm (equiv); 800 ISO; spot metering; Lightroom, starting at the Modern 01 profile; south Bristol; 9 Oct 2020.
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October 13, 2020 10 Comments
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Sunrise at the mouth of the Njoro River at Lake Nakuru, Kenya; Jan 1978. I showed this scene in colour in an earlier post – and that version is again shown, below.
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The colour version more reflects reality. The colour is a little “off”, but then this is a decades old colour transparency that spent many years in the tropics, often as a valued part of slide presentations.
The mono version is rougher, grainier. There is more structure in the mist, which I like. And rather more detail and contrast in the foreground which, again, does it for me. But what do you think?
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Here is the colour post’s text:
Early morning mists rise above the lake and, as the sun appears, everything is flooded by warm, golden light – a scene seemingly from long ago in the world that has always fascinated me. Here is something primeval, here we are an irrelevance.
The gaunt skeletons of trees out in the lake are Yellow-barked Acacias that were killed as the lake’s soda-rich waters rose up around them.
There are two types of birds here. Those holding their wings out to dry, and those perching on the dead trees, and those very faintly seen bottom right, are Cormorants – the same species as found in Europe. The dark scrum of larger birds at the lake’s edge are White Pelicans – one great head and neck can be seen as, preening, a bird reaches deep into its plumage.
Technique: tripod-mounted OM-2 with 400mm Vivitar lens; Agfa CT 18 colour slide film, rated at 64 ISO.
THE ARCHIVE KENYA SERIES
I’m re-posting photographs that I took in Kenya over 30 years ago. You can find more context here . Click onto the “Archive Kenya” tag (below) to see more of these film images from Kenya.
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