RogStrix Loc: UK

The last veiled picture in this comment shows a lot of sadness to me, is that what you intended?

cheineck Loc: Hobe Sound, FL

Agreed... some border on porn, others quite nice, others just nude images. Let us see art, not "snaps".

Timmers Loc: San Antonio Texas.

I suppose this needs redundant clarification, when I do snap shots they are curated by reputable organizations like the Museum of Art in San Francisco or end up traveling I Europe. There is a large distance between a snap shot as art by someone like myself and the exposures the average shutter bugs make. Just wanted to clarify that for you boys.

vertigo

I like that slow shutter too. I like the kinetic in the shoe but am fascinated with the idea of the veil moving as well. Some of the older pictures ( remember school pictures where the photographer pulled the lens cap off and counted before replacing it so shutter speed was around 3 or 4 "mississippi's") which would, I think, catch the movement of the veil toss. Can't say it would be better, just something I think about.

Oh, and in the very first one (I think) there is a tiny Porcelain? figure in the extreme lower right--chopped in two a sort of statement, to me, about the whole objectiveness of the female in your culture.

vertigo

Oops that should be "our" not "your." Old fingers don't type so well.

Timmers Loc: San Antonio Texas.

In the time when I worked with film I mostly used a 4X5 view camera (Linhof Kardon Bi). I never much used a lens cap, I used cable releases but almost always had the shutter on 'B' (Bulb) because I used long exposures. Even with flash I used 'B' because it was easier to work the shutter.

View cameras are the best for making images if you know the use of the camera controls. Another huge point is that the big bellows view cameras were better than a dog for getting and keeping people's attention. If you have a big (8X10 or 11X14) camera and look like you know what you are doing people where just enthralled with the big boys!

vertigo

Lady called me and said her ceramic kiln wasn't working and thee guy helping couldn't figure it out. What do I know? But I went and when I walked in several guys jumped back and said "OK you can figure it out!" I said I really didn't know much about that but they were impressed because I had a meter and figured that meant I knew something. Ha! actually about 2 minutes I found they hadn't turned the breaker on. Huge camera, multimeter----you can get credit with almost anything.

vertigo

But what is with the porcelain figure? Is it saying something that I'm missing? almost always you're saying something and I don't like missing it.

Timmers Loc: San Antonio Texas.

The porcelain figure is the decorative element of a slip cast ash tray. The 'finish' is not vary focused on detail with regards the glaze. It is a poor quality of an Art Nuevo style piece of 'brick a brack'. The 'design' for the reclining nude female is much in that period style and in the general representation of the classic female nude of this type of pose. In effect the representation of this nude female forum represented on such a common and utilitarian object attempting to be considered as 'art' is as laughable as fairies, big eyed deer or other such objects is simply gender specific.

The same 'kitch' was found in the American kitchen decorated motif for middle class homes. Doe eyed children looking starved.Keep clearly in mind that in modern art there is no such thing as good or bad taste any longer, our friend Marcel Duchamp did the deed on that position (reference is the ready madness of starving children in a kitchen.)

Hope that helps.

Tom G Loc: Atlanta, GA

Hey Timmers & Brucers, I suggest using Private Messaging for your weather reports & banal personal chatter? Or, exchange e-mail addresses.

Nobody else cares to hear it.

flathead27ford Loc: Colorado, North of Greeley

I always open your posts with trepidation. I never know what I'm going to see. I'll be honest, I don't like most of it, but that's my preference and I applaud you for sticking to your guns. With all that said, when I opened this posting, the first thing I thought of was a time in the 70s that these took me back to. You captured it well. Good job.

Timmers Loc: San Antonio Texas.

You should know that I was mostly an emotional wreck in the early 70's. I graduated from high school in 1969, but I was a dependent of the US Military in Augsburg West Germany (cold war). I then attended the University of Maryland in Munich. I returned to the US in 1971, just before the 1972 Olympic in Munich. If I did not already have cultural shock that put the last nails in the ol' coffin.

To have gone from Cali in the 60's, to West Germany in the early 70's, and then back to the US in the 70's to Sam Houston State University was quite the mind numbing altering of perceptions. But yea, I was in a state of massive transition that was for certainty.