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Thanks. I could not get a ticket to the performance in Preservation Hall, so I was trying to get a vintage look of old times Jazz atmosphere in New Orleans through the window.

Canon F1N or T90 with Canon 50mm 1.2.
Film: Scotch 1000 transparency film. A grainy film.

Link to this image in RFF Gallery: https://www.rangefinderforum.com/gallerysoft/gallery/3565/U3565I1154828419.SEQ.0.jpg
I am sure that this image was also published in Shutterbug Magazine in my article "Night Photography in the French Quarter".

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I feel the mood Raid! Jazz forever!
 
Joe Patti's Seafood Market has been for many years my main photography location in Pensacola. I used to drive there in all type of weather conditions, and the results were mostly wonderful to my eyes. This is Joe's son, Frank Patti. Once in a while he sits inside the market and he calls out the numbers of the customers standing in line for fish.

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RFF Gallery link: Photo: Mr. Frank Patti: Joe Patti's Seafood, Pensacola, Florida | By: raid | LENS MODEL NOT SET | rangefinderforum.com

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raid said:
Joe Patti's Seafood Market has been for many years my main photography location in Pensacola. I used to drive there in all type of weather conditions, and the results were mostly wonderful to my eyes. This is Joe's son, Frank Patti. Once in a while he sits inside the market and he calls out the numbers of the customers standing in line for fish.

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RFF Gallery link: Photo: Mr. Frank Patti: Joe Patti's Seafood, Pensacola, Florida | By: raid | LENS MODEL NOT SET | rangefinderforum.com

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I wonder how many of us fall into the rhythm of shooting what is near. I have seen your shots at this location for years now and you get some good ones. And if we look at the great master painters, Van Gogh comes to mind, they painted what was close. Convenience? Making the most of what is at our doorstep? I'd bet that a lot of good subjects can be found within a mile or two of our doorsteps.

I have traveled around and seen some interesting things when doing this. OTOH I got a nice shot of some Foxglove alongside my driveway last year, right at my door. I think it calls upon our skills to see the beauty and magic which is in this world. Far away or close at hand. It does not have to be Bali to be beautiful.
 
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I wonder how many of us fall into the rhythm of shooting what is near. I have seen your shots at this location for years now and you get some good ones. And if we look at the great master painters, Van Gogh comes to mind, they painted what was close. Convenience? Making the most of what is at our doorstep? I'd bet that a lot of good subjects can be found within a mile or two of our doorsteps.

I have traveled around and seen some interesting things when doing this. OTOH I got a nice shot of some Foxglove alongside my driveway last year, right at my door. I think it calls upon our skills to see the beauty and magic which is in this world. Far away or close at hand. It does not have to be Bali to be beautiful.
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I think it is much more challenging to photograph your own neighborhood. I lived in San Francisco and everything is too familiar to be interesting. It take fresh eyes I guess.
 
Rayt said:
I think it is much more challenging to photograph your own neighborhood. I lived in San Francisco and everything is too familiar to be interesting. It take fresh eyes I guess.
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At one time I seldom took pictures except when I was on vacation or on a long weekend holiday. But after awhile I realized they were just poor copies of the travel brochures I had seen. When I had some health problems that prevented me from traveling, I started shooting photos around the local neighborhood, carrying a camera everywhere I went locally and making photographs of the familiar. It was something of a revelation. I liked my photos better and, the more I photographed, the easier it became to make pictures I liked. But I think people are all different in how they respond to their surroundings. Some need the unfamiliar to be stimulated while some find both stimulation and comfort in the familiar.

Even a trip to the supermarket can be inspiring:

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Dogman said:
At one time I seldom took pictures except when I was on vacation or on a long weekend holiday. But after awhile I realized they were just poor copies of the travel brochures I had seen. When I had some health problems that prevented me from traveling, I started shooting photos around the local neighborhood, carrying a camera everywhere I went locally and making photographs of the familiar. It was something of a revelation. I liked my photos better and, the more I photographed, the easier it became to make pictures I liked. But I think people are all different in how they respond to their surroundings. Some need the unfamiliar to be stimulated while some find both stimulation and comfort in the familiar.

Even a trip to the supermarket can be inspiring:

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Yes. I travel less now due to age. And I have the harbor just down the hill from my back door. It is commercial with fishing boats and the occasional large boat or ship. I put together a book of images at Printique and sent a PDF of it to the harbor office. Their response was to increase security and install new fences barring entry to places I had been able to previously enter easily. But there is still much I can get at and the other places can be accessed, just with more difficulty.

The response is pretty typical of the town.

But there is still much to be seen and a lucky day and a good eye can get me the occasional good pic along with all the dross. The more pictures I take the more good pictures I will have, along with a lot of dross. ;o)
 
I'm quite fond of this portrait of a stranger I took in June 2023.
Who is she, what is she thinking, where is she now? Is she happy, is she sad? I'm intrigued by this picture of a stranger.​
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boojum said:
I wonder how many of us fall into the rhythm of shooting what is near. I have seen your shots at this location for years now and you get some good ones. And if we look at the great master painters, Van Gogh comes to mind, they painted what was close. Convenience? Making the most of what is at our doorstep? I'd bet that a lot of good subjects can be found within a mile or two of our doorsteps.

I have traveled around and seen some interesting things when doing this. OTOH I got a nice shot of some Foxglove alongside my driveway last year, right at my door. I think it calls upon our skills to see the beauty and magic which is in this world. Far away or close at hand. It does not have to be Bali to be beautiful.
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Very good post. Interesting to think about the painters, thank you. It is only a hundred years we've had cars to have choice of zipping about to distant subjects. For me it began as a necessity, near work or near home. I work(ed) too hard. In a foreign city there is the excitement of the new, the adrenalin of travel, the leave taken from too many commitments.

But at home there is the regular exposure to familiar scenes, so easy to take for granted and ignore, but never actually the same, with changing seasons, regular walks at different times of day, different light, and combinations of the above. Someone puts an interesting object on their verandah, or clears something to reveal a nice table. They repaint for better effect, or a favourite subject is completely ruined by a repaint, giving a further lesson. Always take the shot; never intend only, to go back for it. The shot may well have gone. One magic scene has not gone, so much as disguised itself in days as the blossom dropped and new leaves formed. I saw that today. Hard to believe this was the subject I photographed only a few days ago. You learn to remember a few spots. One I had to wait till summer to get the late afternoon western sun glancing across the south face of the building. Another was revealed in all its glory in winter sun when a house next door was pulled down. David Hurn in On Being a Photographer would dismiss this sort of thing as boring. He might not be wrong. But the thing itself, he recognises that. Your foxglove by the door is no less precious than any other flower the way you will have taken it.



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Always take the shot indeed. This one is alright. But 60 seconds before the inside of the right railing caught the sunlight just right and glowed. I took my time getting out the camera. It was a lovely shot when I first saw it but not when I shot it. The lesson? Be ready. Good shots do not last forever. Here is the shot but just imagine it with the inside of the right railing a glowing gold. I just have to be ready, or readier.

The trolley bridge coming into town. by West Phalia, on Flickr
 
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This I’ve experienced too many times. But it is also a wonder, the actual movement of the world in real time visible. I first encountered that thought as a teenager reading Thomas Hardy, perhaps Tess herself, lying on the grass, seeing the stars rotate above, sensing almost a palpable movement of the earth beneath her.
 
Richard G said:
Reminds me of HCB’s Alexander Calder portrait. Well done regardless.
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Thanks! But Jorge looks a bit friendlier. Yes, Cartier-Bressons portraits are great, I've studied them for many years. A good example is worth following. I have his "Photoportraits", with an introduction by André P. de Mandiargues (1985).

Calder was the neighbor of Arthur Miller and Inge Morath, so Cartier-Bresson knew where to find him.
 
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