Thanks to all for all the wonderful cards I've received so far.
Todd's Gas Can by Greg- one of my favorites. He and Mr. Shovel look like they're holding the jumble behind them at bay.
I love randyman's "Ladder to nowhere". Great tones and composition.
The tonality in Allen Friday's shot matches the subject. Very nice.
Tim Gray's wheelie shot- I love how the rider is diagonal and everything else is very rectangular.
Art's cynaotype is just beautiful.
Likewise for pepmiro's rooftop view.
Kathy Whitmore's Night Stairs - 1.5 minutes handheld- I'm impressed. The lights look like UFOs.
Also impressed with Mike's color print of Toronto. What a treat to get a color postcard.
I love how the man seems like one of the stones in Klinger's Orkney shot.
Peter's Florida poolside shot takes me back to the 50's.
Mick's house guest - nice light and an excellent portrait.
Mark's Beijing shot- very evocative. Was that an open air market?
Ian's crab shot made me smile.
Mark Fisher's pig shot made me sad (but in a good way).
Eric's dog shot made me laugh.
Nicholas Linden's flamingo shot made me go "Wow, I wish I had taken that."
To Greg regarding the Diana- It's a cheap plastic camera made in the 60's and 70's in Hong Kong and has appeared under a number of names, sometimes as promotional giveaways. It uses 120 but shoots 4x4 so you get 15 exposures. The subject I used for the postcard was of the el in Sunnyside, Queens, NY. It's two consecutive exposures (complete with light leaks on the edges - a toy camera bonus) that made an interesting diptych. Shot on Plus-X dev in Xtol. Print was made from a scan on an inkjet printer since I no longer have access to a darkroom. It's kind of like a contact in that it just shows the two frames and surrounding unexposed film (which is why Diana's are so good for this type of thing - they make their own internal frames) but it was enlarged to fit the 4x6 card.
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