Racism:

Racism

 

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This is the most satisfying print I have produced in my dark room class.  It is the result of a happy film accident.  I was shooting with Washi Z film, which is apparently quite thin.  I was in a hurry to take the second shot, and apparently didn't advance the film properly, so on the contact sheet I noticed that these two photos had the merest whisper of a gap between them, and looked like a purposeful diptych.  Beth Trabue Gorham helped me find a negative carrier that would work with two side by side 35 mm negatives - and when we looked at the photo on the enlarger easel, we were both pretty excited.  I made about 5 prints, each with slightly different dodging/burning. They were all FINE to tell the truth, but this one is slightly better IN PERSON.  Digitizing the print loses a smidge of its values, but thought it was worth sharing. 

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 Good to have nice weather and be back out hitting the trails.

Racism

 

 

Racism

 

Unexamined Nostalgia

This image comes from the Harding cabin on the Belle Meade Mansion property. 

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 <http://bittersoutherner.com/gone-with-the-wind-my-southern-education/#.W88wllVKhEY> 

Gone with the wind never existed

To embrace the antebellum South, to take such pride in one’s roots in the Confederacy, requires having a blind spot to what made that gracious world of leisure possible — the enslavement of a people stolen from their continent and forced into human bondage. You have to ignore the fact that what your Confederate ancestors fought for, what they killed hundreds of thousands of their fellow Americans for, was to maintain a way of life literally built on the backs of slaves.

  I have not been out with camera much since I moved 2 1/2 years ago. During a conversation with Mike a few days ago he asked that I post a couple I have taken since my move.

For Comment: This shot was made Tuesday of this week using a film that today is lable 400TX. The label on the version I used read Tri-X pan 400, what we just called Tri-X when I was just a kid. I am not sure when I acquired this film but I have had in the frig a long time. It expired in September 1988. The rule I was taught, with expired film, was that you halved the ASA ( today ISO) for every 10 years past the expiration date. Which theoretically would lower the ASA of this roll to less that 50. However, I was going to develop it in Diafine which is very unique developer in that it esentially compensates for whatever film speed you use. So with my fingers crossed I shot the roll at box speed, ASA 400.

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I recently met someone for lunch at Coco's near Charlotte/White Bridge Rd, and it's a quirky location - there was a 'back yard' behind a business that had 'classical' statuary amidst metal buildings and industrial-strength telephone poles. I found the contrast humorous.