2009-02-05 // 22:25:44
orezemit
second click, no vote. ;-)

as always your scans are as superb as your eye. i know. they are related. Riga is beautiful.

2008-10-14 // 00:07:27
hektor
I was just wondering how you did that.

But don't really wanna know.

Good secrets have to stay personal.

^ no big secret (ok, a little): at the pola right of this, i realized the colours get more intense if i let it develop longer (at least with this film, bit expired. and it just happened because i did not want to peel it on the street, so walked home, few minutes just). so with this, i did it on purpose. but - then i got home, and talked, and talked, and talked - and totally forgot it. for quite some time. but (to keep it a bit private, mystique, and haha keep others from simply copying): i am pretty sure it also comes together with a little fault from my lightmeter. or a cloud passing. theoretically, this film is self-terminating. but i think that#s not valid for expired film. or hardcore- overdevelopment. they sure did not test that. they test nothing anymore. ever seen a technical datasheet for artistic tz? haha

2008-07-08 // 11:25:44
CDR
I'm sorry i haven't answered your question about why people voted for this one.

So i'll try.

I don't think they voted for expiredness.... it didn't even look expired to me - it just has atmosphere and scale. And a slice of history i suppose. It looks like important things have happened there, but it doesn't really matter what they are. It's quite stimulating to wonder about them personally.

And the deep purple tinge helps carry all this along....

I like expiredness. I'm beginning to understand it's all a bit too easy but i think if i wanted to take a correct photo i wouldn't use polaroid. So even if people did vote for expiredness, don't worry!

2008-07-07 // 19:46:03
drewbaker
marvelous my friend.

2008-07-05 // 10:32:28
yoffrey
congratulation!

Y

^ paldies.

2008-07-05 // 09:53:37
Hugh Whitaker
Looks even better on the front cover :o)

^ :o) I like silent frontcovers. Good to see Rīga there once again. (I'm just irritated that there seem to be more people who have a crush on pink rooms ;-)

2008-07-05 // 05:56:14
Meg
fantastic!!

2008-07-04 // 01:31:30
CDR
i'll raise a glass to this photo. and building. and film. and colours.

and you.

^ oh. how could I reject that. nicely filled glasses are a pleasure I rarely can scorn. so let's have a sip togehter and muse about film, colours, building and all that magic. prieka. (do you think the people just voted for the 'expiredness' - though it was just forgetfullness and overplaying overdevelopment? sigh.)

2008-07-04 // 01:30:26
CDR
OH!

....


OH!

2008-07-03 // 19:41:14
hektor
oh waow, that's beautifull !

^ well, thank you! (but see below)

2008-07-03 // 10:40:44
Hugh Whitaker
Was excited when I saw the thumbnail, knew I was in for a treat :o)

^ haha! to be honest, I've been quite disappointed with this one. I had overdevelopped it (as the one on the right), but I think I overplayed it here (the one on the right was just a cigarette length, maybe bit more, this i totally forgot. half an hour or even more, i don't remember). could be also i just messed with the exposuremeter and it _is_ underexposed. ack. those venetian - blind were so perfectly pink. blue sky, wires more visible. sigh. but there are two things i really like about this one (next to the theme of course) - that the building goes so well along with the polaroid border, and that this one is of the very few, where seeing it on a display really is an advantage. polaroids depend so much on the light in which they are looked at - and the treat of this one you'll only get with perfect bright light. conserved now. good so.