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Palomar Mountain, April 2007.Snow+fog=cold.
Palomar Mountain, place of an observatory. There are 4 telescopes used during the night. Anyway, we arrived by the time they were closing. We stayed out just to take a few photos. Check =fLOWsd 's gallery for more (digital) pics to come (?).
Voigtlander, Bessa R3M, scan from neg, levels, converted to B&W.
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Snow and fog make photos that are not so easy to take but a real success when they're good!
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lucky you a beautiful moment suspended forever ...
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Fog gives a lot of mystery ("never know where that road leads, whahahaha"). Beautiful!
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that is very very nice...
your picture makes me want to go inside it and sit on the bench in the morning fog and listen to the birds
i would not change anything in this picture
/r
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Thanks Rebecka!
This is a very nice comment indeed!
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Me revoila...
J'aime cette photo pour son atmostphere, sa paisibilite, son grand calme blanc.
Y'a un debut d'histoire, banc seul, personnages s'eloignant, ils etaient sans doute assis puis, le froid aidant, s'en vont. Un peu comme Snoopy qui irait s'abriter sur sa niche quand il se met a pleuvoir.
Je l'aurai appelee 'A Pas Feutres' ou qqchse comme ca; sensation de vide sonique, de silence brumeux.
Le chemin est symboliquement coupe au premier plan par cette fissure; je trouve ca pas mal du tout et bienvenu car ca rajoute un peu a la sensation de malaise de la photo, et de calme, aussi, d'une certaine facon.
J'aime l'utilisation d'un vanishing point (les limites du chemin), et de la repetition (les arbres), qui guide le regard et donne du rythme a la photo, respectivement.
Tres jolis tons et composition. Un sepia ou autre aurait peut etre aussi marche.
Bravo, c'est beau
PS: tu oublies de preciser que c'est de la neige, au sol.
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Oh!!! Merci!!
Je vais printer ton commentaire et l'encadrer. Je vais dormir avec meme, avec lui dans mes bras, ma bouche collee contre le cadre et des etoiles dans mes yeux clos.
Merci encore!
Titi.
oui j'ai pas dit que c'etait de la neige... mais ca se devine? Et toi, quand est-ce que tu soumets tes photos de Palomar mountains?
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ah oui mes photos de palomar, j'avais oublie mais je crois que c'est surtout car elles sont pas terribles
bisous--f
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This is lovely, Karine. Its really tranquil and dreamlike.
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i love the general mood of this picture ... foggy ... interpretive ... enigmatic
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I didn't know they had snow and fog in southern California!
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Well... I didn't know either!
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like the mood of this shot.
get some agfa apx100, nice b/w film. you have some b/w film already? which one?
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Thanks!
For my Holga, I got Ilford HP5, Ilford delta 400 and Kodak Tri-x Pro.
For the Bessa, I have only Kodak Tri-X and Ilford Delta 400.
I like the Kodak Tri-X a lot (developed with Ilfosol-S). So far, it gives nice results.
Unfortunately, I'm not experienced enough to say that one is better than the others, and to distinguish the qualities of each of them... still have to shoot a lot!
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I shoot Agfa APX 100, APX 400, Fuji Neopan 400 and Neopan 1600. Haven't shot any Ilford yet, but have heard it's not a too good film. Tri-x has a good reputation, obviously it also performs well when pushed to higher speeds like 1600 or 3200. We process everything with Xtol actually. Just know that the guys (Severin/kinderschokolade, Bernhard/zort) were experimenting with different chemicals and found Xtol to work best. Something like that. At least Tri-X and Xtol are both Kodak products.
Anyway .. same here, couldn't say much about performance of different films, that's still what I have to learn 
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It looks like Severin/kinderschokolade is no longer on DA
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yea, he was banned some time ago. have a look at my blog (linked on my main page) and click on severin / bernhard to get to their blogs. could be interesting work. jamie stoker is good to, as well as markus/radiohat, like his stuff
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The developing solution had to be used within 1 year after opening. I opened it in January 2006. So their instructions are very precised!!
I bought X-tol for developing (I didn't open it yet!) but I still have a fixation solution from Ilford. I'll tell you what I found best (X-tol vs Ilfosol, even though it looks like more experienced photographers have already chosen! Good to know!). With Ilfosol, you know the developing time required for Kodak films because included in their instructions (which it's not the case for X-Tol about Ilford films).
I know a guy, here on DA, who develops his films with coffee... I can give you the recipe if you want. It works pretty nicely!
As you say, even though it's tough, I have to learn the hard way!!
Get to try the Neopan sometime.
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bernhard sent me a link to coffee processing lately. could be fun to try out once. btw, stupid question, but you take care that no air mixes with the developer? we always press the air out of the xtol bottle to avoid reactions with oxygen which would destroy the developer faster.
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Yes i watch out for air in the bottle... in my own way (by using parafilm). Anyway, it took me so much time to use just one bottle. This year, I have more time to take pictures, more negs to process and more developer to use!
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J'etais la mais franchement, les dernieres grenouilles que j'ai vues, elles etaient pas la
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Je confonds tjrs ces 2 mots. Tjrs!!
Dyslexie?
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Snow + "frog" ? En effet, des grenouilles et de la neige donnent souvent une froide journée ! Très belle photo blague a part ! L'athmosphere est magnifiquement rendue et le couple qui marche lui donne toute son Òme. Bien joué !
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Mon R m'a joue des tours!! 
Merci pour le commentaire!
Merci beaucoup!
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Mais comme toujours, je t'en prie !
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i really love this one.
it has a special atmosphere and looks like it's an old picture. don't know why, but i feel like i am a little child again, when i look at this picture.
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Thanks for the nice comment! I apreciate this!
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Very beautiful and calming. I love the fogginess.
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