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[Tin Can]

Beautiful decay Peter!

[Peter De Smidt]

Thanks, Randy! Due to work, I don't get to photograph much lately. I'll have even less time in the spring. Well, yesterday I had a spare hour, and so I grabbed a camera and went for a walk in the neighborhood.

[Tin Can]

Work!

[paulbarden]

A few photos from a recent wade into the Marys River, ten minutes from my home.
Made with the Hasselblad and standard Planar lens, using Ilford Delta 100 processed in PMK Pyro. Exposure data not recorded, but as I recall, I used f8.5 and exposures were between 5 and 21 seconds.







This next one doesn't fit the set as well, but I still like some aspects of it:

[Tin Can]

Paul this not a critique but addressed to all people that photograph this type of life

Have you seen ‘the upside down’?

[Peter De Smidt]

Paul, those are wonderful!

[paulbarden]

Paul this not a critique but addressed to all people that photograph this type of life

Have you seen ‘the upside down’?

No, I haven't, Randy. Are you talking ab out an episode of "Stranger Things", or something else?

[paulbarden]

Paul, those are wonderful!

Thank you Peter. High praise coming from you!

[Tin Can]

Yes, stranger things

Your images are wonderful and scary

No, I haven't, Randy. Are you talking ab out an episode of "Stranger Things", or something else?

[paulbarden]

Your images are wonderful and scary

If this is how these are being interpreted, then I've hit the bullseye! It is my goal to craft these images (Its been a summer-long set in the making) to convey a dark fascination: beautiful yet somehow sinister, threatening. In a sense, these are a metaphor for our current global situation.