Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/07/31

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Subject: [Leica] another cold weather photo
From: kcarney1 at cox.net (Ken Carney)
Date: Sun, 31 Jul 2011 18:57:32 -0500
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On 7/31/2011 4:44 PM, Alan Magayne-Roshak wrote:
> On Sat, 30 Jul 2011  Ken Carney<kcarney1 at cox.net>wrote:
>
>> Here is one more I made, trying to recall times where the temp was below
>> 105.  These are sand dunes in southern Utah, covered in snow, at
>> sunset.  It was definitely cold.  Very cold.  Rodenstock Sironar 210mm
>> lens, TriX in D76 1:1.  I have some large darkroom prints of this on
>> Seagull, but if I print it digitally I think I'll get rid of the
>> footprints.
>> Ken
>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/kcarney/coral+dunes.jpg.html
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> If you don't like the footprints, why did you take the photo?
>
> Alan
>
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Alan,

That is a very good question, and the answer is a story I have never 
told anyone before, but I will share it with the group now.   I saw this 
scene as we were driving past the dunes at sunset, and immediately 
pulled over and set up my camera.   Somehow, though, I had misplaced my 
spotmeter but fortunately remembered the luminescence of snow in late 
evening, which gave the key to the exposure.  But there was far, far 
more.  As I stood looking over this vista, wishing the footprints were 
not there,  I had a vision of a time when photographs would not be made 
in the darkroom, and there would be tools of some kind that would allow 
us to reshape our pre-visualization of the scene.  I know this sounds 
strange, but it appeared as a large "window" of some sort in the ice 
clouds.   This led to a decision that I would leave my negatives to an 
institution where students would have undreamed-of technologies, and 
would be able to make better prints than I could.   But the vision came 
true sooner than I would have ever thought.  I thank God every day that 
I still have those LF negs of the St. Francis church with all the power 
lines.

Ken


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