“CONTEMPLATING INDEPENDENCE” 

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-- 5:30 AM on the Fourth of July found this meditative man sat staring out over the freshly gleaned and raked beach toward the sound.
-- Ocean Beach was spotless, the garbage and rubbish gone, new bags in the bins and all to be heard was the sound of one last person hosing down part of the board walk and the final little bit of beach being raked by a tractor in the distance.
-- All was surprisingly clean...
-- All was pleasantly serene…
-- With the soft click, pause, click, sound of my old camera. 
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---Nikon F2, Nikkor 28-85mm O56 Filter 1/120sec @ f8.
---Double-X @200 W/ HC110(H) Epson V700 Exp. 7-4-‘15
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COVID-19

STORE & SHOP FRONTS

PROJECT & GUIDE

HERE’S THE WWWW&H

I tried to pull this project from my end only

But it really doesn’t work without co-operation from the “models” and owners..

So….

Here’s a draft version of this project as it stands at the moment…

 

WHAT

             Documenting the stores, shops and Restaurants of New London during the Pandemic.

WHERE

             Right where you are.  Directly in front of your workspaces

 

WHEN

             I’ll post some useful helps (like for instance, don’t have your people heading right at  the sun..) but probably the most important thing is to do this at a convenient time for you.      Probably just before you start your work day, which can be 7:00AM or 1:00PM. 

 

WHY

             This is really an extension of a documentational project that I am doing in conjunction       with New London Landmarks.

             While this started with photographing the buildings themselves with LE500 (Live       Expectancy 500) style of HABS-like images       (https://www.habsphoto.com/Artist.asp?ArtistID=14047&AKey=E4VXE478&ajx=1#!asset21634) it       eventually evolved to logging the people who worked with those buildings themselves.

 

HOW

             When you determine the WHAT, WHERE, and WHEN parts I will enter into the How  part.  

                You will provide the models.

                Hopefully, appropriately dressed in your work clothes.

                Aprons, Jackets, “Corporate” T-Shirts or whatever…

                See the one above for example.

                Remember this is film..  We don’t take a million images… maybe a half a dozen at the most.  And the process is not super fast either usual I need a few seconds to change film for each image.

            

It’s really helpful if I know who all the players are.

 

FRANKLY, NOT THE SINGER, BUT FRANKA

Recognizing that almost any camera is really nothing but a black box, granted some black boxes fancier than others and some more durable than others my little Franka kind of falls somewhere in the lower portion of the black box range.

Most of the fussy bits, the lens and the shutter, was "built out" by some very prestigious manufacturers in Germany.

And, after all, the lens is the thing that mostly really gets the credit, and rightly so.

One of the things that endears me to this black is that it is a fold-able box.

I can focus the image on a piece of film up to 6 cm by 9 cm which means I can record a lot of "pixels" and fold it up into my pocket.

"PAUSING AT IT'S PIER"

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05.14.2020

-- Once in a while I limber my Franka

--The origin of my relationship with this wonderful little folding camera goes back about a year or so

-- I think I spent all of about $45 for it

-- These units originally were sold by Montgomery Ward just after the First World War.

-- And, as a result this camera was bit of a German mutt.

-- But they had a heart of gold…..

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-- Fort Trumbull, New London, CT, (USA)

---Franka II, Schneider 1:4.5, 1/100 sec @ f8+

---Kodak Tri-X EI 200 W/ HC110 (H) Epson V700

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 FROM THE RAILROAD, NEW HAVEN FILE

I'm going to attempt to transfer some of the approximately 500 annotated photographs that I have posted over the past years with FaceBook.

I've literally hit a wall with FaceBook and while I'm going to try to maintain my Sasqua Design, "ARTitecture" page and PP&O (PHOTO PEOPLE & OTHERS) posts I will try to slug along with the inevitable education curve that I have been avoiding for ages.

Hope yo will find me here in the future.

Babies, pets and politics only by accident.

I've been told the secret with this is to just keep posting so I will try, yet again.... 

“WAITING ON TRACK 12”

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06/16/’18

-- Having just arrived from New London

-- The signboard

-- Now updated

-- This SLE train, in its McGinnis guise

-- Waits to go back East to Old Saybrook.

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---New Haven Station, New Haven, CT, (USA)

---Minolta srT101, Rokkor 50-135mm, O56 Filter 1/125sec @ f11.

---Tri-X @ EI 200 W/ HC110 (H) Scanner Epson V700

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