I recently updated The Fifty Project for the new version of my website. The next “old web gallery” update is from the Flower and Bird Markets of Hong Kong. These images were made on 120 format color film (a huge leap for me at the time). In order to digitize these negatives, the first thing I had to do was find them. When going through the three ring notebook of polyethylene negative sleeves (remember those?) I came across some photographic buried treasure.
About fifteen years ago I was at a tech crossroads and I was simultaneously creating images with 4x5 and 5x7 sheet film, a digital camera and a Fuji 645Zi medium format camera. I uncovered a whole series of images in 120 format of The Heckman Farm, the source material for the Sense of the Seasons folios. ( Scroll about half way down the page to find those projects.) I haven't started to work through the images to see what is there, but I'm sure there will be some interesting images.
Ah, a dilemma; what to do when one finds new material for a completed project. It’s happened before, (See the Chicken Shack in the May 2020 Journal) and also with several single images. Fortunately the Daily Photograph blog will be the perfect home for these buried treasures.
Here's an example of such an image. The project, "Light Exercises" was completed in early 2019 with images made in the Summer of 2018. A few months ago I was looking again and saw this. Too good to pass by, I just had to capture the image. For the technically inclined, I include the following information just because it's so darn weird. The image was captured on my iPhone 7, f/1.8 at 1/320 with an ISO of 20. Even in my view camera days I can't remember EVER photographing with film that had an ISO of 20.
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