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Posted 04/03/2010 - 16:30
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Oh Time... sounds like a wonderful memory. I wonder if it's nightmarishly touristy these days? Hard to imagine it being as busy as, say, the Valley of the Kings.
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Best wishes,
Andrew
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Andrew
"These places mean something and it's the job of a photographer to figure-out what the hell it is."
Robert Adams
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Posted 04/03/2010 - 17:00
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From what I understand it was quite touristy even back then (we're talking 20 years ago). That's why she snuck in before dawn, to get the full effect without the other tourists (and to see the sunrise of course). I can't remember how she got in, I think they (her and a girlfriend) found a gap under a chainlink fence - which in itself suggests it must be quite touristy.
Tim
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Posted 04/03/2010 - 18:02
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Sadly I have never been. There are lots of places I want to visit in the eastern Med but have never had the chance (Palmyra, Krak de Chevalier etc.)
Lawrence of Arabia did his undergraduate dissertation on Crusader Castles and visited many of them, on foot, carrying a half plate camera and a tripod. His photographs were so good that Oxford gave him his dissertation back (not usual) and it was published in the mid 80s.
Best wishes, Kris.
Lawrence of Arabia did his undergraduate dissertation on Crusader Castles and visited many of them, on foot, carrying a half plate camera and a tripod. His photographs were so good that Oxford gave him his dissertation back (not usual) and it was published in the mid 80s.
Best wishes, Kris.
Kris Lockyear
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It is an illusion that photos are made with the camera they are made with the eye, heart and head. Henri Cartier-Bresson
Lots of film bodies, a couple of digital ones, too many lenses (mainly older glass) and a Horseman LE 5x4.
Posted 04/03/2010 - 18:27
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Now that's what I call dedication to the photographic arts... I didn't know Lawrence was into photography just Vincent Black Shadows and blowing-up trains!
(Makes me ashamed to think of the times I've clipped my compact to my belt because I couldn't be bothered to carry the SLR!)
Regards,
Andrew
(Makes me ashamed to think of the times I've clipped my compact to my belt because I couldn't be bothered to carry the SLR!)
Regards,
Andrew
Best wishes,
Andrew
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Robert Adams
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Andrew
"These places mean something and it's the job of a photographer to figure-out what the hell it is."
Robert Adams
"The camera doesn't make a bit of difference. All of them can record what you are seeing. But, you have to SEE."
Ernst Hass
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Posted 04/03/2010 - 18:27
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Well he did have a masochistic streak...
K.
K.
Kris Lockyear
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Lots of film bodies, a couple of digital ones, too many lenses (mainly older glass) and a Horseman LE 5x4.
It is an illusion that photos are made with the camera they are made with the eye, heart and head. Henri Cartier-Bresson
Lots of film bodies, a couple of digital ones, too many lenses (mainly older glass) and a Horseman LE 5x4.
Posted 04/03/2010 - 23:25
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I have had a go at scanning the negative myself. I can get a much large version than the commercial scans, and perhaps more contrast and tonal range. Best wishes, Kris.
Kris Lockyear
It is an illusion that photos are made with the camera they are made with the eye, heart and head. Henri Cartier-Bresson
Lots of film bodies, a couple of digital ones, too many lenses (mainly older glass) and a Horseman LE 5x4.
It is an illusion that photos are made with the camera they are made with the eye, heart and head. Henri Cartier-Bresson
Lots of film bodies, a couple of digital ones, too many lenses (mainly older glass) and a Horseman LE 5x4.
Posted 05/03/2010 - 01:30
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thoughton wrote:
From what I understand it was quite touristy even back then (we're talking 20 years ago). That's why she snuck in before dawn, to get the full effect without the other tourists (and to see the sunrise of course). I can't remember how she got in, I think they (her and a girlfriend) found a gap under a chainlink fence - which in itself suggests it must be quite touristy.
If it was twenty years ago, I don't think it was touristy at all. I went in 1991. Admittedly it was in October, so hardly peak season. But we only came across one other group of tourists during the whole day we were wandering about the valley. Having spoken to people who have been recently, it seems to have changed a lot - inevitably, I guess, as it's a truly spectacular place. There was only one large (empty) hotel when we were there. Now there are several full ones.From what I understand it was quite touristy even back then (we're talking 20 years ago). That's why she snuck in before dawn, to get the full effect without the other tourists (and to see the sunrise of course). I can't remember how she got in, I think they (her and a girlfriend) found a gap under a chainlink fence - which in itself suggests it must be quite touristy.
Just to make you green Kris - after Petra we moved on to Palmyra and Krak des Chevaliers! We'd been backpacking in Africa and were making our way back to the UK through the Middle East and Eastern Europe. Arrived back in Dover two days before Christmas, 1991. Happy memories.
Posted 05/03/2010 - 01:47
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The million dollar question now is did you take a camera?
Regarding the touristy-ness I've probably misremembered her tale. I don't know exactly when she went either, but knowing when she finished university plus some counting on my fingers it was somewhere between 1992 and 94.
Regarding the touristy-ness I've probably misremembered her tale. I don't know exactly when she went either, but knowing when she finished university plus some counting on my fingers it was somewhere between 1992 and 94.
Tim
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Posted 05/03/2010 - 02:14
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Just got back from the pub *hic*
Tim
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Posted 05/03/2010 - 08:19
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10:30!! Followed by a rather long lock-in
Tim
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Posted 05/03/2010 - 17:41
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bwichmawr wrote:
Would make a most intersting weekend for somebody, particularly if an identical lens could be used...
Regards,
Andrew
Sorry folks, I must have left the digital at home that day. I'll be back there in the summer and can take some more then Perhaps I should take the Horseman... Dr. Mhuni wrote:
Kris, did you have a digital body with you that day? Would be very interesting to see any shots you took with that if so, as a point of comparison.
What a brilliant idea! Can you recall during the early days of digital, AP and other publications carrying out direct film vs. digital comparisons? (Often to the detriment of digital at the time!) Nobody, to my knowledge has done this for a while. certainly not since cameras like the K10 were introduced.Kris, did you have a digital body with you that day? Would be very interesting to see any shots you took with that if so, as a point of comparison.
Would make a most intersting weekend for somebody, particularly if an identical lens could be used...
Regards,
Andrew
K.
Kris Lockyear
It is an illusion that photos are made with the camera they are made with the eye, heart and head. Henri Cartier-Bresson
Lots of film bodies, a couple of digital ones, too many lenses (mainly older glass) and a Horseman LE 5x4.
It is an illusion that photos are made with the camera they are made with the eye, heart and head. Henri Cartier-Bresson
Lots of film bodies, a couple of digital ones, too many lenses (mainly older glass) and a Horseman LE 5x4.
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On a totally random note: have you ever been to/photographed Petra? There was a programme on about it last night. It was (O.K. iust about still is) on my "to do" list before I shuffle off. Think I'd rather go there than Karnak.
I've never been, and rather annoyingly she now doesn't want to go back and spoil her memories of it.
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