Post Bronica Photos... Any format. I just want to see Bronica photos

Colton, happy birthday. Nice, original selfie; how many more do we need from the Bean in Chicago or made with bathroom mirrors? I hope you will have many more years of shooting still to come, but whatever the time span, you've already got a nice body of work, at least judging from what the rest of us see online. And I presume you're preserving it in some other less ephemeral way (prints; curating negs) for your family.

I admire your doubling down on heavy iron (the Bronica, Pentax 6x7, etc.) even as you face ALS, and evidently testing the wheelchair accessibility of some of Oregon's great outdoors (judging from the locales of some of your photos). I haven't read much ALS research, but I'd have to think the medium-format lifting and doing something you love have to benefit you physically and mentally (respectively), or shouldn't do any harm anyway.

--Dave


Swift1 said:
Today is my birthday so I figured it was fitting I should post a self portrait.
In living with ALS (or any terminal illness), one tends to think a lot about life, the meaning of life, and death and the meaning of death. When most humans face death, we hope that our life had some meaning and that some part of us will continue to live on after we are gone.
In the last year, I have somewhat unintentionally started taking more self portraits. I say somewhat unintentionally because obviously there is intention in taking any photo, but I never set out to actively take self portraits. I think partly I wanted to try and show what I go through to take any photo, and more importantly, I wanted more of a record of who I am.

In the Light In the Dark
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Zenza Bronica S2
Nikkor-P 75/2.8
Kodak Ektar 100​
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Argenticien said:
Colton, happy birthday. Nice, original selfie; how many more do we need from the Bean in Chicago or made with bathroom mirrors? I hope you will have many more years of shooting still to come, but whatever the time span, you've already got a nice body of work, at least judging from what the rest of us see online. And I presume you're preserving it in some other less ephemeral way (prints; curating negs) for your family.

I admire your doubling down on heavy iron (the Bronica, Pentax 6x7, etc.) even as you face ALS, and evidently testing the wheelchair accessibility of some of Oregon's great outdoors (judging from the locales of some of your photos). I haven't read much ALS research, but I'd have to think the medium-format lifting and doing something you love have to benefit you physically and mentally (respectively), or shouldn't do any harm anyway.

--Dave
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Thank you Dave.
I definitely think that the enjoyment I get from photography in general has helped me immensely. With ALS, over exercise is very detrimental as it causes atrophy, but doing nothing is nearly as bad. Photography has inspired me to continue being as active as possible for the past 5 years.
It is definitely getting quite difficult nowadays but I plan to continue doing all I can.
In someways, my 67 and Bronica (both have WLF) are easier for me to use because I can rest them on my lap while I focus and compose. My manual focus 35mm cameras are really tough because I can't look through the finder and focus so mostly I have to guess focus and compose blind.
 
Swift1, happy belated and its really great you get out. I wasn't aware of your condition and likely wouldn't have noticed. Your shots are just as good as everyone else here!

Foma 100 Rodinal
 
Going for a walk with my ETR & 50mm

Going for a walk with my ETR & 50mm

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An early morning walk through Lynn Valley in North Van, so dim that the exposures were 2 to 4 secs and it was nippy ! Peter
 
I'm not playing at much in this thread as I've picked up my M2 again. So hard to get through a roll of 36. I just feel like i'm wasting frames to get through the roll so I can see something!
 
This is a photo that I took last April. I shot with my Bronica on Kodak Vericolor film but the image didn't really work in color. I almost never convert color film scans to B&W, but in this case it really helped the image so I did.

Zenza Bronica S2
Nikkor-P 75/2.8
expired Kodak Vericolor HC converted to B&W.

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