The one about giant ants?

This reminds me of it. Taken with a Chatham Rectilinear wide open -- lots of coma. The day was just turning overcast.

George.

Hallo!

My project "Magic forest" is going on and here are some new ones. There where made with a P&S VQ IV.

Unless I have a terrific brainstorm between now and when I return this gem back to Santa Claus, these will be my first and last images from the Semi Achromatic Series I.  The Semi Achromatic are/have been very hard on my now 60yr old eyes.  I'm just now snapping out of about a 4 day headache from doing the last of these shots.  It's strange, I don't get headaches right after I shoot, they wait a day and then go crazy on me.  All in all though, Jim having the kindness to loan this lens to me was a blessing.  Again, thanks Jim.

My observations are that the Series I gives an image a sparkle and excitement that's the best of what the Pinkhams are all about.

The first of the 3 shots 'Apothecary' refers to the Apothecary type jars that pharmicists used to use to stockpile and separate their chemicals/various sundries.  This was shot @F11 because shooting wideopen produced nothing but detailess white.   A point of interest is that I used a beauty light from behind to illuminate the jar, but what you're seeing behind the jar is an almost perfectly formed disc of flare produced by the lens which obscures the light.

Metal Bowl was exposed between F6-8. and this was shot w/Ilford FP4.

Ever hear the phrase 'A light went on in my head' when somebody refers to the seemingly spontaneous generation of an idea?   This is what I was thinking of when I did this shot.   This is a 25 watt lightbulb.  exp. was also halfway bet. F6-8.   I used up my last 2 sheets of Polaroid doing this shot.  I sick about running out of Polaroid, but happy it was used up on this shot.

There's a trove of original negatives by Gertrude Kasebier at the Library of Congress.  The starting point is here:

http://lcweb2.loc.gov/pp/pphome.html

You then type in her name (or anyone else for that matter, Ansel Adams, Walker Evans) and up comes a trove. I put some at the large format grou:

http://www.largeformatphotography.info/forum/showthread.php?t=45272

but nobody seems interested (too bad for them). 

The last one on LFP should interest this group.  Jim!  What lens do you think took it?

George

Sean Connery stopped by the studio earlier this afternoon.  He heard I had a 'Smith' lens.