Monday, April 14, 2025

[Dave]

Sorry I've been AWOL for so long.

My internet access provider's equipment failed on April  6 and they finally got around to sending out a tech this morning. Got connected again about an hour ago.

Here's a shot of the nearly fully developed nestlings, taken April 10. The next day they left the nest for good. My wife insists that they are still hanging around the front yard.

   

I hope all of you (all 4 or 5) are doing well

[Don]

Good afternoon Dave. Good to see you "back on the air". It has been pretty bleak around here lately... maybe it will pick up.

Nice image of the hummingbirds. I've seen a nest from a distance but never that close.

Here are a few B&W images I took with my old Yashica TLR a few weeks ago. I've got what looks like some kind of light leak I'm afraid. Not all the negatives, just a few. I need to shoot another roll and see if it is the camera or just me being careless with processing.

The first one is an intentional double exposure of one of the covered bridges we visited. The next is the covered bridge that was at the state park where we camped, the longest one in Georgia. You can still drive across it. I think it is 299 feet long or so. Last is a nice tree that was in a historic cemetery close to the state park. Not really happy with any of the images as I mistakenly underexposed by 1 stop and tried to compensate by increasing the development time.

[Dave]

Hi Don.

Very fine B&Ws.

1) For some reason I've always found it hard to appreciate obvious double exposures. But your restraint created an image that I really like.

2) 299 feet! Basically a football field in length. I'm impressed by your value control in this one.

3) What a grand tree. Nice.

Thanks for your comments on my photo. We've been blessed to have had nesting hummers near the front door 4 times. (I think one was a returning mama hummer who freshened up the same nest she used for her first clutch.) Of the 4 times, only once did they fail to raise 2 nestlings; that one exception something (I suspect a cat) got to the eggs.

I have 2 photos from the wetlands and 2 or 3 shots of roses ready to post.

[Man From Ironbark]

^ Agree with what Dave said. Love his angle on the hummingbirds as well.

Speaking of double exposures. Some can be deliberate but in the days of film it was possible to wind a film back, forget to take it out of the camera or deliberately ... and start taking photos again on the same roll.



   

[Dave]

Thank you, MFI.

Your double exposures, deliberate or not, are quite intriguing.

[Don]

Yes, intriguing indeed. My old Yashica TLR makes it easy to double expose, either deliberately or not. I try to make it a habit to immediately advance the film to the next shot as soon as I click the shutter, because it requires the user to manually arm the shutter before taking the shot. So if you forget to advance the film and take the next shot, you will have a double exposure. I've mistakenly done that more than once when I first started using this camera. The above double exposure was purposefully done though.

[Rich]

Dave, an excellent hummer photo!

Don, negs developed good. You salvaged them!
Quite a long bridge.

Peter, interesting doubles. First one has a lot of interest!

I have a triple exposure from the film days I will have to find and post.

[Man From Ironbark]

The first one is a photograph of an artwork which was done from the wreckage of the old bridge that had been hit by a truck. It was meant to symbolize the Aboriginal community somehow and I happened to shoot it over an image of some flowers in my garden. I believe they are Sturt's desert pea.

[Dave]

Thank you Rich.