MF (6x4.5,6x6,6x7,6x9,6x12) B&W film images sharing

[FrancisR]

Thank you Philip.

[John Layton]

Francis I cannot stop looking at that tree...hanging in there/standing up for itself, despite the odds implied by its surroundings. So very compelling (and inspiring)!

[FrancisR]

Thank you John. Yes this tree looks like the last living element of this place. This tells a lot about how we care about our environment...

[Martin Aislabie]

Fomapan 100. Mamiya 6, 50mm.

Lovely

Martin

[Daniel Unkefer]

Most Excellent Francis

[Willie]

Thank you John. Yes this tree looks like the last living element of this place. This tells a lot about how we care about our environment...

In what way? Some farming areas will get rid of anything but the crop. Others will let trees grow and in later years enjoy the shade as well as the bit of water they save when wind blown snow drifts behind them. Choices to make when one is raising food.

[austin granger]

This is powerful. I don't want to highjack this thread into prohibited non-photo topics, but when I look at small towns like this it seems it's no wonder that our society is so polarized. People in Winona and places like this really live in a different country. I hope you have a long-term goal of combining many of these images into a new book, along with your reflections on them.

John,

Thank you for the kind words, I appreciate that.

I am working on what I hope will become a book about the Palouse region of Eastern Washington and Idaho, and am doing some writing about my impressions and experiences there. Honestly though, the book is going to be more personal than political, partly because that's what I feel compelled to do, and also because I don't feel qualified to go much beyond that. I can't even attempt to diagnose our country's problems. I will say though, that it seems to me that people in both rural towns and cities are suffering, and that they are often suffering from the same problems (poverty, drug addiction, etc.). It strikes me that the people with wealth and power attempt to pit us against each other in part to distract us from considering the larger structural issues that are the cause of our troubles. Perhaps the divide, if there must be one, should be up/down instead of left/right.

Sometimes I think that America should institute a sort of foreign exchange program, except it would take place inside the country; send a Portlander to live with a family in Winona, and a person from Winona to live with a family in Portland. In my experience, it's hard to despise people once you get to know them. Most people anyway. :-)

Thanks again.

[austin granger]

Mary with Crow, Portland by Austin Granger, on Flickr

[John Olsen]

Austin: Amen to your thoughts, nice Mary shot also.

Here's a Wisconsin boardwalk through the marsh: TriX, 80mm lens, yellow filter.

[IMG]N12 Boardwalk LFF by John Olsen, on Flickr[/IMG]

[Corran]

That’s some dark and bloody ground y’all are treading, gents—the deep loess soils around Natchez were perhaps **the** prize in the great contest for the continent between the French and British in the first decades of the 18th C, culminating in the Fort Rosalie massacre in 1729 (basically a 9/11 moment for the colonists of Louisiana).

You've always got a great bit of history to share! We didn't visit Rosalie but did walk around the grounds a little. Lots of film yet to develop/scan!

We did explore the Trace up about 120 miles, and I shot this image up at the Cypress Swamp that I don't think could be more different than what JMO posted.

Pentax 67ii, Imagon 200mm, Delta 100 dev'd in Pyrocat: