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[Tin Can]

I hope my comments are NOT taken as political.

I looked up Bryan's images and found the Alabama memorial opened last April 2018, featured on 60 Minutes. Watched it today. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/60-minu...s-of-lynching/

I never knew of black people growing up in the 50's. In 1962 we moved near Philadelphia. I recall pointing at a person from our car. I asked my parents, 'What is wrong with that persons skin?' They explained carefully. I was age 11 from Edina, Minnesota, which only last year I discovered was a Sundown town. No blacks after sunset. When I came to Southern Illnois 50 years ago I recall the train station had separate bathrooms with signage. I think it was labeled 'Colored'. That changed shortly.

Turns out Sundown towns were everywhere, particularly in the Midwest and North. Last year I read the earlier version of this book. Sundown Towns: A Hidden Dimension of American Racism Paperback

The National Memorial for Peace and Justice (colloquially known as the Lynching Memorial) - Montgomery, AL

Leica M6, MS-Optical 35mm f/3.5 Perar or Voigtlander 12mm f/5.6 UW Heliar, Kodak XX, HC-110 dil. H

[Corran]

Randy, I must admit I've never heard of "Sundown Towns."

I might have some more to share later. Just finished another roll that I was shooting there. Thanks for the comments and story.

[Corran]

I hope you all don't mind 3 more images from this place. I am glad I got up at 4am to get on the road and make it here right when it opened - the light was spectacular for this style of image.

[Peter De Smidt]

Excellent!

[tuco]

Yes, sweet Bryan. I like the second one a lot.

[Ramiro Elena]

Along the same lines as the previous image, I tested a "new" film yesterday for my riverbank roots series: Svema MZ3, a 3ASA 35mmfilm. Yes - 3 ASA - you read that right. I shot this roll in my Kodak Retina IIIc (Schneider Retina-Xenon version), bracketing from 15 seconds to 6 minutes at f16, since I had ZERO information about its reciprocity characteristics (It seems to have very good reciprocity traits, as my longer exposures - calculated based on Ilford's Pan-F - were very overexposed). Its a curious film: it appears very contrasty on inspection, but in fact holds plenty of subtle detail and tone. I guessed at the development time for BER49 (Atomal49), since there was scant info about developers other than HC-110 (I don't have that), and processed it for 7.5 minutes. In the future, I would cut that back to about 6 minutes in the same developer.

Amazing series. Would love to see them printed at an exhibition. What time of day did you shoot? The light is just perfect.

[scheinfluger_77]

Those are mighty powerful Bryan.

[Corran]

Thank you Peter, tuco, and Steve.

Moving on...here's a shot from the NGLFP group meetup #3.

Brandon and the Bored Model
Leica M6, Nikkor 5cm f/3.5, TMX, FX-39:

[Scott Schroeder]

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[austin granger]

Ahu Tongariki, Easter Island by Austin Granger, on Flickr