SiJ 2018 - Day Twenty Two.

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Hall of Famer
Location
Perth, Western Australia
Name
Bill Shinnick
“To photograph is to hold one’s breath, when all faculties converge to capture fleeting reality. It’s at that precise moment that mastering an image becomes a great physical and intellectual joy.”
Imogen Cunningham
1883 – 1976

Cunningham’s work was particularly forward-thinking and experimental for its time. Her extensive work included shots of flowers, portraits and nudes.
 
No story for this one. Its just a dead tree. Sometimes raptors hang out in it, whilst hunting small creatures in the grass.

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I’m really enjoying your B&W images this SiJ Barrie. Very nicely done.

Thank you kindly, and may I return the complement with your monochrome images. I'm getting more comfortable with processing the raw files in RawTherapee, today's was perhaps a touch overprocessed in an attempt to make the lighting just a little more dramatic which has blown out the cloud slightly. With a poor weather forecast for the next two days there might be an increase in the "challenge" aspect of this SIJ. I often find that having posted I am encouraged to return to the image and find different ways of tweaking it.

You seem to have mastered the idea of what I might call a "sombre black" in your images which reflect the mood of the season very well.

Barrie
 
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Day Twenty Two - the wrong combination

Walking to and from work today in the dark offered no photo opportunities that I could see. At lunch time I had the opportunity to go out but I only got as far as the coffee shop. Again no photo opportunities that I could see. To be fair I wasn’t looking. Me bad. I was just thinking coffee! So today’s offering turns out to be a lazy double exposure - a clip from a banksy calendar snapped this evening with the lx100 while I was making my supper and a photo from Iceland snapped in December with the nikon df.
 
Crappy weather yet again outside today. "An old friend". The greeting card in the background was from our older son and grandson.
. . . David
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I had a Rollei XF35 for a while, which I believe is basically the same camera. I had problems with the light meter (it tended to overexpose due to voltage differences with modern batteries), but still nice to use.
 
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