My Pink Oktober

Discreet and under-the-radar doesn't apply here.

I want to go with you while you are packing that thing around. I'll bring my LCA-120.

Nobody will know I'm even there at all. :D
 
I have friends who lurk and buy stuff in craft shops and I've often thought that some of the leathers etc I seen there would enhance a few cameras. I have looked at snakeskin, white leather and have often wondered about the sharkskin you see on antique firearms.

I'll stop now as this is getting serious. ;-)

Regards, David
 
David Hughes said:
I think it needs one of these to complete the ensemble...

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Regards, David
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Wow! Are those at all close to the size of the red Leica logo that people get so worked up about (and props up the black tape industry in no small way I am sure...)?
 
David Hughes said:
I have friends who lurk and buy stuff in craft shops and I've often thought that some of the leathers etc I seen there would enhance a few cameras. I have looked at snakeskin, white leather and have often wondered about the sharkskin you see on antique firearms.

I'll stop now as this is getting serious. ;-)

Regards, David
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David, Aki-Asahi may have what you are looking for. They have numerous colours and finishes, plus they are cheap, ship immediately and fit perfectly.
Unlike Cameraleather.com who I used to deal with in the past.
 
css9450 said:
Wow! Are those at all close to the size of the red Leica logo that people get so worked up about (and props up the black tape industry in no small way I am sure...)?
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Not sure how big the red dots are but those things were bought in a mobile phone shop and are about 11 to 11½mm across.

You can get similar metallic stickers like hearts and that kitten in craft shops and toy dept's.

Regards, David
 
Huss said:
David, Aki-Asahi may have what you are looking for. They have numerous colours and finishes, plus they are cheap, ship immediately and fit perfectly.
Unlike Cameraleather.com who I used to deal with in the past.
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Thanks, I'll have a look and ponder; I've already got a Leica M with dark tan/brown leather and it is very good looking, imo, but very difficult to photograph as it comes out so near black...

Regards, David
 
kuuan said:
it's Thailand :)
pink by andreas, on Flickr, CZJ Pancolar f1.8/50mm, Pentax *istDs, Thailand 2009
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Hi,

Would you believe I'm jealous? My part of the world seems to have fewer and fewer opportunities for photography other than the commonplace and most places are beginning to look the same.

Regards, David
 
David Hughes said:
Hi,

Would you believe I'm jealous? My part of the world seems to have fewer and fewer opportunities for photography other than the commonplace and most places are beginning to look the same.

Regards, David
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Hi David, permit me, I am not sure if you really mean it. It’s such a commonplace. Well, one in pink :) A color you wouldn't encounter much? What makes more look the same? Is it a corporate dominated color pallet that is simple and repetitive??
I must add: “It’s Thailand“, as on my flickr, was aimed at people who know Thailand well. Possibly they even see it represented well. I better put "it’s in Thailand :)" last thing I want is pushing simplifying and therefore stupid stereotypes.
 
Hi,

You and 2 or 3 others are very lucky as you seem to have much more variety in your countries to photograph.

Here there's a sort of conformity and, worse, inoffensive blandness spreading. Years ago most of the large shops started to look the same inside (apart from the prices) and nowadays the small shops have vanished and even (sigh) the charity shops look the same. And this has spread to our houses, gardens, streets, cars and so on. Worse still, I can't think of a decent street market nearby and 10 years ago there were plenty, unlike (say) France or Belgium.

Regards, David

PS I can guess the response I'll get from others and so I'll add that interesting things are still there but I have to travel a lot further and hunt them out; once upon a time they were on my doorstep or just down the road.
 
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David I guess you are right. What comes to my mind, not sure if it relates, hopefully it does:
For some 25 years I had been selling Asian handicrafts in markets in Austria. Soon I learned that anything unique, even if it was a beautiful antique, generally won't even get noticed. In order for a customer to be interested in something commonly it must be something that he has seen many times before. Best chance that someone buys if it is something that already had been seen in a magazine and / or if, at least something similar, already is owned by someone she/he knows.

pink October in Austria ;)

rose by andreas, on Flickr, Macro Takumar f4/50mm, Pentax *istDs, Austria 2008
 
That's more punk than pink and many, many thanks for giving me the chance to use an archaic word in its original sense. ;-)
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My pleasure, I took this picture in post-USSR Moldova and pink, instead of red may have been the appropriate color...
 
And Kuuan has given us a photo of something that's both pink and punk...

I am enjoying this thread and thank you Huss for starting it by reminding me that we don't all come out of the same box, unlike politicians the world over...

Regards, David
 
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