2018-10-14 // 17:58:19
69Pola
Great SotD, bravo !

2008-03-25 // 23:53:06
LiA
I was away, I couldn't see anything before :-)
This is mindblowing!

^ Paris is a reasonable raison d'être ;)) thank you!

2008-03-25 // 17:01:53
LiA
wow....

^ finally you! and you know you are a special polanoider to me... ;)

2008-03-16 // 15:31:20
Stefano

Hurrah! Chocolate calicant on the cover! Good. Very good.

And five more boxes you say? 100 chocolates? Good. Very good!

^ Glad to put my old tower near your modern chairs! ;) ahem... I'm so positive that I see two boxes in one... 50 chocos!

2008-03-16 // 13:50:10
dimitris
Congratulations!
I like a lot this series!

^ thank you! polaroid choco is a great film

2008-03-16 // 11:20:02
sleeptonyc
complimenti al mitico calicant! grande SOTD!!!

^ grazie ragazzo! mi sono fatto una trentina di chilometri verso Zerbinate venerdì pe questa. domani te la porto. ma se invece di continuare a macinare rulli 220 con la mamiya... ti comprassi un polaroid back? ;))

2008-03-16 // 02:48:49
g.
RĪGA feels glad and honoured,
and sends silent night greetings:-)

^ LOUD thanks to all sleeping RĪGA :-)

2008-03-16 // 01:29:49
colourspace
CONGRATULATIONS! great to see it made SOTD!

^ you are right, it is a sad picture as many of mine are... glad to see you are uploading again here :) thank you

2008-03-16 // 01:25:08
My.Iowa
oops--hello again! congratulations!

^ hey ho, thanks!

2008-03-16 // 01:05:39
My.Iowa
amazing. so beautiful, these chocolates. i love this one--looks like the tower and its shadow have parted ways--tower to the left, shadow to the right!

^ good point out! and a providential light leak makes more noticeable this separation...

2008-03-15 // 21:01:37
colourspace
wonderful and sad but beautiful!

^ thank you it is physically isolated... ps: I still did not get macro lenses ;) happy to see you here again!

2008-03-15 // 16:25:26
g.
aahhh, now I get it. but how wonderful the lightleak plays in here.

hihi, and now I also realize you as well still switch the camera from landscape to portrait though it's (nearly) square anyway ;-)

^ You are a good observer. This is the forth of four tower shots and after the first results I did not have a care in the world about light leak... I found myself to frame vertically very often yesterday. I'm a knee-jerk man :)

2008-03-15 // 03:38:53
jkreileder
perfect

^ thank you (film did all work... ;)

2008-03-15 // 03:10:01
g.
so glad to see somebody else who really gets into it. wonderful subject for the first try. and seems you have a scanner which is able to capture the 3d-haptic of choco quite well. how warm was it in bondeno?
did you follow the advice for dev.-time on the package or what s. and I said? dunno which info you already gathered, but want to share with you in one place: for time, i think i left it at my 'poet' (or nearby). for choco itself, what polaroid said, in the tips to the choco-eyes. and this i just read in the data sheet for the 56 (which is finally got hands on and will try out soon to see which mix they probably used on their own, and if it's choco or not):
cold = more brown; warm = too yellow. longer dev. = gilding (metallic sheen in the dark areas of the print, giving it a daguerrotype appearance), curling print, damage in surface (but worth, haha, see poet also) also, regarding the colours, it's sure a bit different here, diff. mix, so purple, green and pink sometimes appear...more brown for sure in the choco80.
ah, so glad too see some results with a decent camera,which brings out what choco has. such a waste with the plastic square ones :-(

really like this for the structure and the dark part on the ground (which i still don't really understand ;-)

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oh, and btw., the brooklyn bridge: it looks totally different in real. he sent it to me. and i knew it. but i don't blame stefan, not at all, for one he got my doubts very soon and took them serious, and for the other, i know how hard it is to scan the choco - And i still (or not still. more than ever) like it. I always wanted to have a good photo of the twintowers. now it's here. they are missing. on an 'old' choco. perfect.


blahblah. this commentbox explodes.
wonderful silent image.

^ I'm realizing that you remain 'poet' even when you are talking about metallic sheen... ;) Yesterday was a warm and sunny day (today foggy), tower here in bright sun and yes, overdeveloped. I'm also totally impressed by the dark grass (partially covered on the left by a light leak): they were so kind to leave it in as a carpet to reach the tower and all around sowed fields.

2008-03-14 // 20:44:54
Joakim
superb !

^ I'm really impressed by this choco!

2008-03-14 // 20:00:33
Stefano

Speechless at first.

Absolutely stunning. Composition. Setting. Tones. Magnificent! One of the best chocolates in the archive for sure.

These four Torre Torri photographs are like consecutive static shots of five seconds each in a chocolate neorealist film. (Votes for all. They would make the front page a riveting place to visit.)

One of the reasons I like chocolate is that I am often reminded of old drawings on textured brown or pink artist's paper — especially with tones like this, and the sharp detail of the main subject. So gorgeous and rich.

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Superb upload. (And many thanks for the dedication.)

(Please tell me you bought more than one box!)

^ Thank you for all your support, since I have seen your very first shot of the Brooklyn bridge. I could only imagine how this film could be: touching pictures is touching. I love how different colors are rendered (dark grass under the sun here), the details in darker and brighter areas... ... other five packs are waiting for me :)