For introduction

[otthe]

As part of my introduction, two pictures:


An old flower mill (for oats to be exact) in the village where I lived for tha last 12 years. As part of my introduction, two pictures:

The mill was built around 1650 – and is still operational.
Too bad I could not get inside the fence – so that I could not help but get the newer house in the background onto the picture too.

Taken with my favourite camera, a Zeiss Ikon Contaflex super, standard Tessar 2,8/50 on Kodak print film

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and here the second picture, taken with a Zorki 4 with industar 22 standard lens - don't rember the film.



Greetings

Josef

ww.kamera-geschichte.de

The picture sure is much less than perfect - but I personally like the mysterious "bewitched" feeling the lens is actually adding to the picture. Taken in the morning light on a damp foggy morning.

comments please!

[litesong]

Americans present their best facades on our building fronts, but often let the backyard go to pot. You captured a 356 year old building back showing its nice paint, roof, & excellent foundation. That's why it still exists 356 years later(even tho the 2nd floor isn't quite straight). Your field photo isn't "bewitched". It has the classic U shaped background(my painterly wife told me this), color fading & genteel atmosphere of an impressionistic painting. The "less than perfect picture" adds to the "photograph-painting" showing that paintings & photographs both change over the decades or centuries. Grace & Peace to you,Joseph & all readers...litesong

[John Parry]

Thanks for posting these Josef - very nice indeed

I like the mill, although I can't see the newer house that you mentioned...

The second is lovely. Litesong is right (or his wife is) it looks almost impressionistic. I spend a lot of time trying to get arches and similar to frame the top of my pictures. Here you have the opposite effect - the arch forms the base of the photograph.

Really, really nice.

Litesong;

Why don't you get your wife to join up too?

Regards - John

[otthe]

johnrparry said:

Thanks for posting these Josef - very nice indeed

I like the mill, although I can't see the newer house that you mentioned...



Regards - John

Hi John - Thanks for our comments.

The scond house is there: If you look on the right side of the picture - maybe 1/2 inch wide - there is a different building. You can tell by the horizontally-running boards of the balcony banisters on the ground floor and also on the top flooer.

That house was built in the 1970s - but since the builduing style has not changed in 300 years - it does almost blend in.

Regards

Josef

[Rachel]

Excellent Josef. That second picture is very atmospheric.

[Microdad]

Josef; The shot of the mill is one that I would say is inviting. I say this because it is an image of a place that I think would be fun to go to and explore.

The one the field is quite astonishing. This is definately one I would enlarge and have printed on some nice fiber paper.