Photographs and thoughts on photography and camera collecting
Seen at Half Moon Bay in Croton-on-Hudson, NY. I liked the way this long, wooden pier zigzagged out into the Hudson. Also the textures of the wood. I find the branches to the top right of the picture distracting, but I couldn’t get this shot without including them and removing them in Photoshop was too much trouble.
Seen outside a restaurant in New York City. Reminds me a bit of Ted Cruz. Taken back October, 2012 when I had never heard of Ted Cruz. Same kind of almost supercilious sneer masquerading as a smile.
Taken with a Sony Nex 5n and Canon 50mm f1.4 S.S.C FD – a very nice lens.
For time to time I go through boxes of negatives from long ago looking for candidates for scanning. I say negatives, but there are also a few (very few) slides – this is one of them. I no longer remember what camera it was (probably a Canon AE-1 or a Minolta 7sii rangefinder), but it was certainly taken in the late 1970s early 1980s. The subject is, of course, my wife.
I like scanning slides. The quality seems to be so much better than scanning negatives, and many many times better than scanning prints.
Jean-Louis-Marie-Eugène Durieu (French, 1800 – 1874) and Possibly with Eugène Delacroix (French, 1798 – 1863), Draped Model, about 1854, French, Albumen silver print, 18.6 × 13 cm (7 5/16 × 5 1/8 in.), 35.1 × 27 cm (13 13/16 × 10 5/8 in.), 85.XM.351.9, The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
Not much text in this post (other than the extremely detailed captions), but some interesting early photographs.
France is one of the pioneers of photographic technology and advances — progressing it as art and as science. The works of French photographers Édouard Baldus, Gustave Le Gray, Henri Le Secq, and Charles Nègre helped the development of paper photography.
Opening on August 30, here are some of the photographs set to highlight in the upcoming exhibition “Real/Ideal: Photography in France, 1847-1860” at the Getty Museum.
Not a stunning picture. It was taken quickly and at a fairly long (250mm) focal length through one of our windows. At first I didn’t know what to do about this. There were two options depending on how the squirrel got there. If it jumped from the Japanese Maple behind then the solution would be to move the feeder far enough away from any tree that it wasn’t possible for the squirrel to jump so far. If, on the other hand, it was climbing up the pole then moving it wouldn’t help. In this case I’d have to buy a baffle to put on the pole or above the feeder (or maybe both?). I’ve been observing the situation closely and I’ve determined that the squirrel climbs straight up the pole so it looks like I’ll have the look into getting a baffle(s).