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| When I'm photographing, the process is entirely visual and often Zen-like. Hence any moral I might read into a picture is always after the fact. But it seems to me the moral here is obvious: those who assume "elderly" is synonymous with "feeble-minded" prove themselves to be morons. This was part of an extended essay on the life of a retired scientist, a project on which I worked from 2006 through 2008. The traditional veracity of black-and-white was achieved via Kodak BW400CN and commercial C-41 processing, the subtle purplish tinge reminiscent of what you got when you selenium-toned DuPont Varilure, the finest photographic paper ever made. The camera was a Leica, probably an M4, the lens most likely a 50mm f/1-point-something Voigtlander. Click on image to view it full size. Photograph by Loren Bliss copyright 2013. |
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OBVIOUSLY I'VE MISSED my self-imposed
Thursday deadline. This is because I've been sick all week with an
especially nasty upper respiratory virus – yet another bellicose bug the
government neglected to include in last fall's flu shot. I'll be back to the keyboard as soon as possible, Meanwhile my apology
for any inconvenience.
LB/19 April 2013
