Thread: Images from the Archive

The "Image Thread" was started expressly for recent images, but perhaps it would also be nice to have a thread for stuff from "the archives" ... most of the film I exposed over the past 40 years is unavailable to me (it's a bit of a story) but I've found a few rolls from the early years of the century recently which have some pretty images on ... this one's from the
Top eco visitor attraction - rainforest, gardens & educational charity - Eden Project Cornwall UK in 2002 ... I'm very happy with the sharpness and detail in this scan, made with Silverfast8 on a plustek 7600i


Early Gentian by _loupe, on Flickr

Olympus mju-1, Kodak Gold Ultra 400,

I posted several some weeks ago from a trek in the Himalayas in late 1979, here's a couple of those recycled, I've got a print of one that I would like to post but haven't found the negative yet, I must have another look. In the meantime


Rosie Kerr, one of my walking companions


A Himalayan herdsman

Leica M3, Elmar 90mm, f/4, FP4

Barrie

Nice idea. All of these from a trip to Bermuda in July 2007 and scanned at the time of processing -
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Contax G2/21mm f2.8 Biogon/Kodachrome

sunrise-at-the-saltwater-pools by Multiple fragments of tissue, on Flickr
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Contax G2/35mm f2.0 Planar/Fuji Reala (this image was used in publicity material for the California Academy of Sciences, a non-profit museum in San Francisco, CA, my first official publication )

hull-repairs by Multiple fragments of tissue, on Flickr
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Contax G2/28mm f2.8 Biogon/Fuji Superia 800

hammock by Multiple fragments of tissue, on Flickr
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A determined search this morning has located the negative I wanted to post. Another from my 1979 Himalayan trek.


Leica M3, 35mm f/3.5 Summaron, FP4

Barrie

@Russ - "hull repairs" is splendid in composition - and those colours!
@Barrie - another straight from the pages of National Geographic

This was taken about 25 years ago using a Hasselblad with bellows on 21/4 transparency film. The scanned image before I reduced it was 461M. It is a burst open Milkweed seed pod.

This is my second ever photograph, the launch tug Wolsden of W. J. Reynolds Ltd, Torpoint, the tug company for the commercial part of the port of Plymouth.
This is the River Plym about 1 mile from where I grew up, the road crossing into Plymouth from the east with the old railway bridge for the Turnchapel and Yealmpton branch lines. Taken in about 1969 using a Voigtlander Bessa 1 6x9 folding roll film camera, Quite light and, when folded, reasonably compact.



Barrie

Taken in Abu Dhabi in 1976, probably late February. I'd sighted this shipyard from a helicopter as I came ashore from an offshore platform, so I was off round the back streets and byways to seek it out. A fantastic place with all sorts of craft being built with tools, some of which were described 2000 years ago.


Leica M3, looks like the 50mm, f/3.5 Elmar, FP4

Barrie

(sorry Paul, flooding this one a bit, but this thread has really got me going, thanks a bundle for starting it)

no need to apologise to me, Barrie ... it's not "my" thread ... ... the pleasure of seeing your photographs from that period is immense ... and Dan's Milkweed is a stunna -- wish I could see it printed huge

An Abu Dhabi shipyard workers toolkit as mentioned above. The two "sticks" with string round the end of them are used like violin bows to work the two drill bits that lie alongside them, all very ancient in concept.


Leica M3 with probably the 50mm f/3.5 Elmar.

Barrie