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  1. Re: Brett Weston/Exhibition - Daytona Beach, FL - April 28, 2018 through July 29, 201

    Great to find this out! Thank you! I drove to Daytona last Saturday to visit the Southeast Museum of Photography for the last day of two shows there. It's an 85 mile drive from Jacksonville where I...
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    Re: Another article to irritate people

    One of the reasons I post here so rarely is that I simply can't stand the bickering that seems to arise so often. When is the last time anyone witnessed somebody actually change their mind, or...
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    Re: Another article to irritate people

    As a cellist, I know what long hours of practice mean to me. It's thinking technically and musically at the same time. The technique is the means to actuate expression, and it takes very...
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    Re: WARNING! - Light Impressions

    This thread reminded me that I wanted to cancel LI's email alerts that I get periodically, and always delete without opening. So...I did.
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    Re: WARNING! - Light Impressions

    I gave up on LI years ago. There are SO many better and less expensive places to order everything in the LI catalog that only a die hard masochist would continue to do business with them.
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    Re: Is the Jan/Feb VC out in stores yet?

    Does it matter?
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    Re: Awesome new weather website

    It's in beta form right now, but it looks like it will be very good when ready for prime time.
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    Re: Kosoff site updated

    I love the new work, Brian. I look forward to the book.
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    Poll: Re: Worst Photographic Buzzword

    "archival" It's used to suggest the thing will last forever, but that's not the actual meaning of the word which has entirely to do with being stored or collected. The piece of paper may be...
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    Re: ART and other things

    I love these two quoted statements:

    "The history of modern art is also the history of the progressive loss of art's audience. Art has increasingly become the concern of the artist and the...
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    Re: The Square Format

    Thank you, Vaughn.
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    Re: The Square Format

    I love square format and often crop to it regardless of the origin of the negative. This one is from a 4x5 negative made with a 250mm Fujinon lens.
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    Re: Portfolio Reviews

    From my experience, Ed's statement is particularly true of reviewers who are gallerists. If the gallery they are associated with has an on-line presence, or is close enough to visit, do so. You'll...
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    Re: Why Moonrise over Hernandez?

    The notion of "vintage" prints being more valuable than later renderings is still very much with us. The paradox (though not necessarily true for all photographs or photographers) is that later...
  15. Thread: Just Leaves

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    Re: Just Leaves

    Shen Hao 4x5, 250mm Fujinon
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    Re: post your trees!

    Here's one from last June. 250mm Fujinon, Shen-Hao
  17. Re: Unique exhibit at Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art - New Paltz, NY

    I'll be there; in fact I'm leaving for New Paltz in about half an hour. I'm looking forward to it very much. BTW, if you sneak away with that Bierstadt, I promise not to rat you out if Susan and I...
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    Re: post your trees!

    Shen Hao, 250mm Fujinon
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    Re: Stolen equipment

    I'm so sorry about this, Donald. It's an awful feeling. I used to think that a well known photographer friend of mine was overdoing it with a locked steel door to his darkroom, and all his gear in...
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    Re: The Latest View Camera Issue (March/April)

    Though it's not a "large format" magazine, LensWork manages to survive and seems to thrive without advertising, or even a news stand presence. It seems to do so, in spite of being a niche...
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    Re: The Latest View Camera Issue (March/April)

    It's been my observation that the folks who are involved in large format photography are exactly the people whose appreciation for excellent craftsmanship is considerably beyond the average and do...
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    Re: The Latest View Camera Issue (March/April)

    IIRC, Simmons more or less polled the LFPF community some time ago about doing just what you suggest. It's not as though he hasn't considered it. There was a lively discussion and a variety of...
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    Re: The Latest View Camera Issue (March/April)

    Sadly, and I mean really sadly because I liked the spirit of the magazine a lot, View Camera is one of the most amateurishly produced enterprises I've ever dealt with. I was once a subscriber, but...
  24. Re: Duet...Again! John and Susan Daly Voss Exhibition

    Thank you all for your kind support. The opening was a very happy event (and we even sold some work :D ). It was great to see Greg Miller there, and also a couple of folks from way-back who were a...
  25. Re: Masters Workshop with Mark Citret and Huntington Witherill

    I took a workshop with Mark Citret a few years ago and learned a lot from the experience...patient teaching, exceptional examples from his own portfolio, and interesting conversation about things in...
  26. Re: Dear friends: I urgently need your help today only

    #120 Good luck!
  27. Duet...Again! John and Susan Daly Voss Exhibition

    Hello all!

    My wife and I are opening our second show at the Wallkill Gallery in Montgomery, New York which will run the entire month of April. Susan's oil paintings, in the contemporary realist...
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    Re: Your Blog/Website

    My blog is below. I always feel a tiny tug of pressure to keep up with it, so it usually gets posted to at least a couple times a month.
  29. Re: How important is large format to your sales?

    In the last days of the Edward Carter Gallery in NYC, he had positioned a Toyo field camera on a tripod in the gallery entrance. At the time I visited there it never failed to get folk's attention...
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    Re: Where is the largest photography gallery?

    Here's a pretty thorough list of NYC photography galleries. If you spend some time on their websites you'll soon realize that the kind of warm, glowing scenic photography that Peter Lik does is...
  31. Re: Focus Mag has found the error... Apology attached

    It sure would be helpful if this thread had some elucidation. I haven't a clue to the origin of the problem. The OP has also been posted on apug, and is utterly opaque to me there as well, and I try...
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    Re: Large Format Landscapes

    While there may be some excessive fetishism among some of us who use large format (the magic of film developed in leprechaun sweat, and prints made on manna with the tears of fairies) I am constantly...
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    Re: Plate burner for alternate processes

    Exactly how we got ours. It was about $300 from a not too distant print shop. and they were happy to get rid of it. My wife uses it to burn polymer plates for photogravures. So far the largest has...
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    Re: Where have they gone?

    I was looking through some PM's that go back as long as I've been a member of apug (2004), and nearly every one of the early corespondents has moved on. There are some, who like Jorge G, have simply...
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    Re: how much of this is just opinion...?

    In our house prints are made three ways: as silver-gelatin B&W wet prints on FB air dried glossy paper by me, as color inkjets by my wife after she's tweaked them into beautifulness in CS3, and,...
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    Re: A question about framing photos

    Consider the Logan Dual Point Driver:

    http://www.artsuppliesonline.com/catalog.cfm?cata_id=10232

    It's half the price of other drivers, and works quite well. It does require that you use the...
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    Re: The ethics of modern day photography

    I think ethics become an issue only in the case of manipulations that distort or change an image in the context of the expected veracity of photo-journalism.

    Painters, pictorialist photographers,...
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    Re: Autumn photos, anyone?

    Here's one from a few days ago. It's a 'graph taken beside the Wallkill River in Orange County, New York in early October late afternoon sunlight. (Shen Hao, 210mm Nikkor)
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    Re: getting published

    I wonder if one's web self-published 'graphs on blogs or web-sites are considered a disqualification when entering contests that only seek "unpublished" work. Any opinions?
  40. Thread: Silvershotz

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    Re: Silvershotz

    My wife picked up Volume 5, Edition 1 today, and I really enjoyed it. It's sad that it's been sitting in the rack at Barnes and Noble for so long, but, it was there for her when she saw it, so...
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