Rajasthan

[Freakscene]

Oh, I understand what you mean. I have a younger friend I recently gave my D7100, a 35/1.8 & a 50/1.8 to. We were talking about getting better and I commented about how it has taken me since my first Canon AE-1P in 1983 to get to where I am now, a pretty good landscape photographer with my own distinctive style.

I do enjoy shooting film but I do not miss printing 😉 The hybrid life for me! But I am not going to give up my digital cameras either. They're all good for specific things.

Desert is hard to shoot but when you find the beauty, it makes the work well worth the effort. I'd love to get there someday with both film and digital rangefinders in hand.

Around here this sort of country would be called ‘dry scrub’ not ‘desert’. I am sure there are some beautiful landscapes in there - there always are. It looked tricky to isolate the nice scenes from it to me, but what would I know about landscapes? And luckily for me the desert is full of life and interesting people.

 

[wlewisiii]

Heh. I live in the northwood of Wisconsin. I can tell you all about the nuances of the forest and wetlands. The open fields and streams. It would be fun to learn that much about a drier place someday - I spent some time in southern Arizona (Ft Huachuca) courtesy of Uncle Sam once but especially given the kind of school I was there for I wasn't doing any photography!

 

[p.giannakis]

have thousands of catalogued rolls of 35mm film that have no, or sometimes at best, one or two decent frames on them.

That's what I thought for years for a lot of my pictures but with time although they might not be high on my aesthetic standards, they have historical value added on them. That's why I started posting my slides from the 90s.

I remember reading an interview by Erich Lessing saying that actually there were only a handful of pictures that he really liked from the Hungarian revolution but the rest were also part of the history.

 

[Freakscene]

That's what I thought for years for a lot of my pictures but with time although they might not be high on my aesthetic standards, they have historical value added on them. That's why I started posting my slides from the 90s.

I remember reading an interview by Erich Lessing saying that actually there were only a handful of pictures that he really liked from the Hungarian revolution but the rest were also part of the history.

Yes, this is why I have them. History. My roll PS-00001 (first logged roll from my Spotmatic - my first decent camera) is 31 years old. Even the object is old.

Edit: I like the youthful arrogance of assuming I would log tens of thousands of rolls. In the end I had to add a digit 😵‍💫

 

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[Zuiko-logist]

Agreed. Great work.

 

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Agreed. Great work.

Thank you.

 

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[lynnb]

Simply outstanding images. Thank you for sharing them - and for the story.

 

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[peppard]

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To me this picture is the most descripting capture of every day life in Rajasthan. I feel like I am a native immersed in the place, just observing what's going on around me. Great, I mean great and masterfully seen. Thank you for your efforts and work.
Giorgio

 

[Freakscene]

To me this picture is the most descripting capture of every day life in Rajasthan. I feel like I am a native immersed in the place, just observing what's going on around me. Great, I mean great and masterfully seen. Thank you for your efforts and work.
Giorgio

Thank you, the positive comments are really encouraging.

 

[GMOG]

I really enjoy seeing this kind of work. Thank you for sharing!

 

[Freakscene]