Posts: RichardQ | Ugly Hedgehog

Challenge: No Host Just Post: Aug 24th and 25th, 2019

HardworkingGal wrote:

WOW! What a challenge it was yesterday shooting at... (show quote)

Nifty work, Vicki -- and I want to encourage you to further develop your narrative writing skills. Appropriate captions help an editor to understand what he/she is viewing, including location, names, etc.

Aug 25, 2019 22:04:20 #

Challenge: No Host Just Post: Aug 24th and 25th, 2019

This weird dream-like scene was shot on Long Island, N.Y. in the early 1970s. A large plot was landscaped by Grumman Aeronautics to resemble a lunar surface so they could test an experimental Moon Buggy. Two engineers went out to talk with the driver, creating a juxtaposition that I couldn't resist. (The Buggy was not chosen to go to the Moon.)

That's not a UFO driven by an alien

Aug 25, 2019 00:42:01 #

Rolk wrote:

When you stop and think about, solitude is nothing more than
a state of mind. It doesn't matter how you got there. It doesn't
matter if you're alone. It doesn't matter if you're surrounded
by 8.623 million people, like we were when we were in NYC.
...it's a state of mind to embrace...
Tim

PS - Please consider using "download" on the last
image...

Hi, Tim! I apologize for not commenting earlier on the stunning first frame showing the reflecting pool. It stopped me when I first scanned through this Challenge but I was rushing to see the whole range of submissions and ran out of time to go back and comment. I don't recall ever seeing this angle, which REALLY emphasizes the fact that a major building evaporated, as if by magic. I get the impression the crowd of spectators around the rim was hushed.

Aug 24, 2019 23:54:39 #

Rolk wrote:

Pg 48 - Another excellent image, RichardQ!
Tim

Thanks, Tim! Very kind of you to comment!

Aug 24, 2019 17:58:33 #

Transbuff1985 wrote:

Nice capture RichardQ pg48 - at peace with ones self -

Thank you, Transbuff! Because this was shot only a year after the Nazi surrender, I suspect this fisherman could have been a newly released POW. Our Occupation Army didn't want the responsibility for feeding the German POWs any longer than absolutely necessary to meet the rules of the Geneva Convention.

Aug 24, 2019 17:29:43 #

William wrote:

page #48 is classic post war
and you were/there what a)
life/experience with the lens
did he catch a fish@@@@@
Bill@@@@@@@@@@@@@

wonder what the gear/Rollie

Thank you for your comments, Bill! I didn't want wait around any longer than to take the one exposure, since I was really in the area to photograph bombing ruins. This was taken in Spring of 1946 with an amateur 6x9-cm German Kodak(?) folding camera (see photo), one of several cameras I carried in a kit bag. Frankly, I was surprised by the negative's sharpness when I enlarged it decades later. It was originally composed in the vertical position because at the time I mentally wanted the extra negative space top and bottom for the eventual enlargement. I doubt that my Rolleiflex would have delivered a negative any better than this.

Aug 24, 2019 16:45:10 #

SueScott wrote:

I REALLY, REALLY like this one! It's minimalistic but tells a great story - I think this is my favorite of all the images you've posted!

Thank you so much, Sue! The 1946 negative was buried in my archives with a contact print for more than 50 years before I decided to make an enlargement. It was buried under an assortment of dramatic views of wrecked buildings.

Aug 24, 2019 16:36:42 #

judy juul wrote:

HE MUST HAVE HAD TERRIFFIC BALANCE, RICHARD!

No waders , yet!

I didn't want to intrude on his solitude, Judy, so I only made one exposure and slipped away -- but I would have loved to see how he handled any fish he caught.

Aug 24, 2019 16:30:49 #

creativ simon wrote:

Creative thinking haha Like it Richard

P 48 Thanks for the comment, Simon! I only wish I could have secretly watched him create his perch!

Aug 23, 2019 14:01:44 #

Every angler seeks solitude. This German fisherman went to extra lengths to achieve peace.

Aug 22, 2019 02:51:45 #

I was totally alone in 1946, standing on an ice-covered alpine lake so I could capture this view. I don't know how thick the ice was, but the air was frigid. The static electric discharge in the image apparently was produced when I advanced the film -- or maybe when the Compur shutter blades opened and closed for this one exposure. But I suddenly heard sounds and looked down to see thin spidery lines fanning out in the ice under my combat books. I was quite a few yards out from the shoreline, but I managed to carefully get back to the shore. I apologize for the 73-year-old negative's quality, but the scene was such a prime example of stunning solitude that I decided to share it with you. The site was Konigsee; today there are lake cruises there for tourists.

Aug 21, 2019 19:20:51 #

Roadrunner wrote:

Always enjoy your photos Richard, always. Thanks for sharing. I have done solitary there on my bike many years ago.

P 10 Thank you, Jim, for hosting this marvelous congregation of "loners!" Since I'm now mostly alone in my house, except for trips to various doctors (who apparently think I'll live forever), I look forward to the many photos posted by fellow Hoggers. Ladies and gentlemen, thank you all!

Aug 21, 2019 18:49:47 #

creativ simon wrote:

P8 Just love the last one Richard

Re your kind note: Many thanks for your compliment, Simon! Especially the triplet of "smilies!"

Aug 19, 2019 15:27:31 #

OOPS! My bad, Jim! I should have looked before I leaped, so now I see the subjects are all-inclusive as long as they are focused(Ha,ha!) on solitude.

Aug 19, 2019 15:16:56 #

Hi, Jim! Over the past 70 years, I did a lot of solitary prowling with my favorite Automatic Rolleiflex. Are you limiting the subject to forests, or can we submit urban solitude shots?

Evening solitude in Bavarian alps - 1948

Autumn solitude in Austrian alps - 1962

Winter solitude on the shore of the French Riviera - 1946