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    The sparrow hawk who visits my garden from time to time, doubtless to snack on a wee bird, is very cool and fearless about having her photograph taken from about eight feet away. Do hawks understand the concept of glass and that while we are behind it we can do her no harm?

    She watched us at the window, her head rotating through most of 360 degrees like an owl's, so that she could study us with one eye and then the other, making of us whatever it is that hawks make of humans: inedible and possibly dangerous.



    I'm ambivalent about her (she has the female colouring). I love her grace and ferocity, the sleek body built for speed, the intelligent eye which sees much more than we poor creatures are capable of. She's an image of ferocity and yet she's no more fierce than a shopper in the supermarket. I'm highly privileged to see her so close but I wish I didn't make slaughter so easy for her by feeding the birds. I don't want to be Burger King for hawks. Photos are courtesy of Deb. I'm a crap photographer.

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    Default Re: For the Love of B&W Photography

    Eachan the very morning after you posted Deb's photos on this thread I also had a visit from a sparrow hawk. It was really early in the morning and very sadly one of the male blackbirds was caught unawares so when we got up the local male 'sprawk' was having his breakfast under the shade of a conifer tree. I only had my iPhone and snapped a few shots that didn't come out very well. I've played with this one a bit so it's neither too dark nor too graphic but if you squint a bit you can just about tell it's a male sparrow hawk eating a meal.

    You don't make slaughter any easier for a sprawk just because you attract birds to your garden. They don't have that great a hit rate anywhere and probably only catch something to eat every couple of days. By comparison UK cats kill 27 million birds in spring & summer. And I'm only quoting a Wiki fact there. I'm a cat lover myself.

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    Yes, I see him there. The male colouring is quite different. Thank you for putting my mind at rest about our sparrow hawk's visits!
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    Isn't that Jordan?

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    So much nice work posted on this thread, I'm a little hesitant to trot out my own efforts. I've just recently, after a hiatus of many years, started shooting film again. Here are four photos I took a few weeks ago in the redwoods, near where I live. I used a HolgaGNCF with Ilford Delta 400.


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    From " the Gritty London" series.

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    Here are a few more photos. The one of the Eel River was originally shot in Ektar 100 in a Nikon N2000, scanned, and converted to black and white in Photoshop. The other four were taken with a Nikon D3100 (digital) in color and converted to black and white in either Lightroom (the grass, Kanga the kitty cat, and the rocks) or Photoshop (the sea gull). They were all taken within the last year. (BTW, I do shoot black and white film, too, usually Ilford Delta 100 or 400, or TMax. Occasionally Tri-X. Will try to dig up a few of those to post when I get a chance.)

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    Love the organic aspect of the B&W.

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    I finally finished editing my photos. A friend of mine who never shoot with a film camera was surprised that I took "only" 300+ photos on a 9-day trip. For me, that is already too much, when would I have time to edit it?

    Anyways, I'll share some in this space starting with this one:

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    My images are not as well organized as they should be. Still, I somehow managed to dig up this photo of the Eel River in Fortuna, California. I took it on a cloudy day with Ilford Delta 400 (120 roll film) in a Lomo Lubitel 166U, a Soviet-era knock-off of the Voigtlander Brilliant twin lens reflex.

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    Here's another one I forgot I had. I originally shot it in 35mm Kodachrome about 30 years ago with a David White f/2.8 Realist Stereo camera. It takes two side by side images simultaneously from its two lenses, which are separated by about the average distance between a pair of human eyes. Mount the "chips" (half frame transparencies) in a slide holder, pop it into a Realist viewer, and and voilŕ -- 3D! I had the slides scanned ages ago, and I converted the scan of one of the chips of this view to black and white in Lightroom, where I also added a little grain because, why not? And cropped it square. I apologize to any purists who are appalled by such behavior. It's a place called College Cove in Trinidad, California, about 300 miles north of San Francisco and about 85 or 90 miles from the Oregon border.

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    One more. Ilford Delta 400 in the Lubitel 166U. Trees in field near the Eel River in Fortuna, California.

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    Calumus... Lubitel eh? Amazing. When I first went to art college my dad bought me a Lubitel, he was horrified at the cost of a 'blad, which the richer kids got.
    I think Lubitel was a Russian or East German camera? It was a bit cheap in it's feel and handling, but I did some nice shots with it way back then. Lubitel... I'd love to see a pic of yours, assume it's a medium format SLR like a 'blad?
    Ah, now I've read your earler post.. so it is a TLR Like a Rollieflex yes? (I have a couple of beautiful Mamiyas -a TLR and a 645 that sadly never get used nowadays).
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    I sold the Lubitel so I could buy a CLAed 1934 Zeiss Ikon Ikonta, and just shot my first couple of rolls of film in it yesterday. I sure hope they come back looking good! Fingers crossed. It takes 6x9 exposures, 1 1/2 times the size of the Lubitel. But I do have a picture of it. I put a step-up ring for filters and a lens hood with lens cover on the taking lens, and got a lens cover for the viewing lens.

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    Here's a picture of the Ikonta.

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    About 1 hour from Seattle, WA

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    Penwash, did you take this photo and the one above at #109 with your Rollei (I guess that's a Rollei in your avatar pic)? Also, what kind of film did you use?
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    Quote Originally Posted by calamus View Post
    Here's a picture of the Ikonta.
    Great, I like the 4.5 Tessar on my 6x9 a lot.
    It took a while to get a 37mm sunshade for it...
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    Quote Originally Posted by calamus View Post
    Penwash, did you take this photo and the one above at #109 with your Rollei (I guess that's a Rollei in your avatar pic)? Also, what kind of film did you use?
    Thanks.
    The answer would be "yes" if I'm still doing B&W photography. I left that hobby and switched to fountain pens + sketching, partly because I don't have the time nor the space to do it -- in the manner that I want to -- anymore.

    For several years now, I have been using a full-frame digital camera (Sony A7) + my old manual focus OM lenses.
    The above photo in particular was taken with the 85/2.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Schaumburg_Swan View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by calamus View Post
    Here's a picture of the Ikonta.
    Great, I like the 4.5 Tessar on my 6x9 a lot.
    It took a while to get a 37mm sunshade for it...
    Enjoy
    Jens
    Thank you!

    I found a Kodak push-on 37mm filter holder on eBay, along with a 37-52mm step-up ring and a lens hood with openings around the base so you can see through it when framing a shot. Works really well.
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