McCarrs Creek - NSW Australia

[sirterrywatts]

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[colored_way]

The boats are sleeping, only water in the foreground is live, it never sleeps but the wavelets are silent and smooth so that the boats could sleep some more. The scene looks wonderful.

What I have learned is why a photographer should have a non-digital camera whle traveling.

[sirterrywatts]

With an old 35mm camera safely tucked away in the bottom of my bag this month, it will be interesting to see what I can find.

Over the next week I will have some time off.

I hope to be out in nature taking photographs.

Before the time comes again to go back to work and earn a living.

[jwg]

I remember when I was really into B&W film photography. I rigged my bathroom so that it could be used a s dark room and had fun with my enlarger and filters. I used Plus-X mostly.

One of the "advantages" of taking pictures with film, especially when traveling is that I was careful not to take too many pictures so I wouldn't run out of film. Did lots of color with ektachrome mostly.

In my recent (5 months ago) Southern African trip I took ~3,500 pictures - some with my camera and some with my phone. That would have been about 100 rolls of film to carry around.

[sirterrywatts]

There is something about bathrooms with no windows that make them perfect for the darkroom setup. Working away from home, my flat has the perfect light proof solution.

24 Photographs to make it or brake it. Recently I spent a year in outback Australia. More than 10000 on file, half were rubbish. But about 1000 of marketable quality. All aside: id still rather have 25 to 100 really memorable photographs.

Still nothing wrong with film when a skilled operator is behind the scenes. I took a photograph that was pin sharp in central Australia when it was over 50 degrees. Hard to beet the reliability of film. But also happy to blast away when a hawk was swooping by. At the end of the day it always surprises me how they turn out.