In Praise of 5x7... Post'em !

**jim kitchen** · 30-Dec-2009, 22:57

Originally Posted by gandolfi

Two portraits of Kristina.

Dear gandolfi,

Your natural talent certainly adds great value to Kristina's beauty...

Nicely done.

jim k

**Emil Schildt** · 31-Dec-2009, 06:42

thanks all.

this was one of my first attempts on 13x18..
Classic pose - liquid emulsion on heavy paper - hand coloured using silk colours..

**venchka** · 31-Dec-2009, 11:10

Originally Posted by Ken Lee

You guys are too kind. Many thanks. We all need encouragement !

Sandy is correct. Praise somehow seems redundant. Intimidated comes to mind. In my case at least.

Consider yourself the recipient of mass quantities of encouragement.

**Ken Lee** · 31-Dec-2009, 17:39

When my father retired, he returned to the Clarinet, an instrument he had played (well enough to put himself through school) back in the 1940's.

He found a teacher who was his age - a retired professional Clarinet player.

His teacher told him that the most important thing to work on, is Tone.

"People will enjoy just about any music you play" he said " - if the tone is nice".

**ROL** · 1-Jan-2010, 11:24

This, to Cedric Wright from Ansel Adams, following the catastrophic fire at Adams' Yosemite darkroom in 1937:

"Worst loss is about 5,000 negatives of Yosemite. I have to start all over again with pictures for [Yosemite Park and Curry] Co., self, and studio. Insurance ample in one way and very inadequate in others. I'll get 5X7 Juwell [camera] and go after Yosemite again with a new point of view. I have to do it for ethical reasons, but I would like to live far, far away, with a few friends, on milk and crackers, and try to get myself more into the essence of things, and say some of the things I feel way down deep I have to say."

- from "The Eloquent Light", by Nancy Newhall

Happy New Year.

**Ralph Miyashiro** · 2-Jan-2010, 08:12

Joe, I really like this one, the angles that the trees and your model creates, and I love those mushrooms!

**ljsegil** · 4-Jan-2010, 11:12

Canham 5x7, Kodak Portra 160NC, 150mm SSXL. Dawn over Lake Michigan.
Larry

**Vaughn** · 4-Jan-2010, 11:36

Three older 5x7 images

Scanned 5x7 prints.
Raja, w/ Deardorf 5x7 back
210mm/6.3 Computar

1) Falls, Multnomah Creek, Oregon -- carbon print
2) Two Redwoods, Emerald Creek Drainage, Redwood National Park, CA -- platinum/palladium print
3) Burnt Snag, El Capitan Meadow, Yosemite National Park -- carbon print

**Ken Lee** · 4-Jan-2010, 12:14

I really like the first one. It feels ancient and eternal.

**Vaughn** · 4-Jan-2010, 12:37

Thanks, Ken. The place feels that way also. Walls of basalt, ferns, conifers and the sound of water. The light flowing down the canyon and past the falls.