Greyscale
Veteran
I never intended to have a pandemic project. But it seems that I had one anyway. This is what happens when one has a lot of film cameras, a lot of film (much expired) and a lot of time on one's hands. Normal things, mainly, most shot on my morning walk and within a half mile of my front door, with a few short escapes, done to keep myself sane.
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p.giannakis
Pan Giannakis
Nice pictures, I enjoyed going through them. I found myself taking more pictures of my kids and the nearby forest during this pandemic and revisited some old cameras that did not receive a lot of attention.
Greyscale
Veteran
Thank you.
I would have preferred more people pictures, but it is just my wife and myself in our tiny bubble. I am hoping that the pandemic ends long before I run out of cameras.
paulfish4570
Veteran
nifty project ...
Timmyjoe
Veteran
You've got some nice images there Greyscale. I can certainly feel your project. I've rarely gotten more than walking distance from our home since last March. Looking forward to this being over.
Best,
-Tim
Best,
-Tim
robert blu
quiet photographer
Good! To have a project in such difficult time is of a great help.
Nice you had the possibility to go out!
Nice you had the possibility to go out!
lxmike
M2 fan.
Nice images, I carried a Rollei 35 on my way to work in the first lock down, (at the time I was a charge nurse on critical care), walking through Newcastle to get to work was so spooky, no one around, literally no one
markjwyatt
Well-known
Well you can definitely see the seasons in the pictures! I had some little projects also. I work from home, and that did not stop, but I still had a lot more free time since there was no travel.
One photo project is here: https://www.flickr.com/photos/markjwyatt/albums/72157714663602022
I also
1. Developed a process for digitizing B&W negatives, then digitized a bunch of old ones; I started color, but am not satisfied at this point.
2. I started developing at home again (B&W) for the first time in decades (5 rolls so far).
One photo project is here: https://www.flickr.com/photos/markjwyatt/albums/72157714663602022
I also
1. Developed a process for digitizing B&W negatives, then digitized a bunch of old ones; I started color, but am not satisfied at this point.
2. I started developing at home again (B&W) for the first time in decades (5 rolls so far).
Nitroplait
Well-known
...And a lot of cameras
During covid I have bought the following cameras:
- Nikkormat EL
- Nikon F2
- Nikon FE2
- Nikon F
- Minox 35 EL
- Nikkor-H Auto85mm 1.8 non-Ai
- <New> Nikkor 35mm 2.0 Ai'd
- Nikkor H.C. Auto 50mm 2.0 non-Ai
- Nikkor 50mm 2.0 Ai
- Micro-Nikkor P.C. Auto 55mm 3.5 non-Ai
- Nikkor 20mm 3.5 Ai
- 3x 100 feet HP5+ 35mm
- 20 rolls 120 HP5+
- 10 rolls Fuji Color C200
- Kinderman Steel tank
- 4 Hewes Reels (35)
- 2 Hewes Reels (120)
All developed but yet to be printed.
All in all - Don't tell my wife!!
BWF
Established
Thanks for all your photos on Instagram too. I always enjoy them as data about camera/lens/film combinations, in addition to the photograph itself. The sheer number of photos is great too and it goes well with showing the beauty of everyday life during a pandemic.
Ko.Fe.
Lenses 35/21 Gears 46/20
Fine exercise.
I do it periodically anyway. Getting one of my film cameras loaded and just walking in similar places, getting similar pictures. Walking and using film cameras feels much better than sitting at home and with cameras sitting in the cabinets.
I do it periodically anyway. Getting one of my film cameras loaded and just walking in similar places, getting similar pictures. Walking and using film cameras feels much better than sitting at home and with cameras sitting in the cabinets.
Dogman
Veteran
Not a helluva lot of difference between my COVID isolation photos and my standard daily photos. I've had several health issues since 2016 and today I have limited mobility so I don't get away from home much at all. Since the beginning of these problems, I've made it a habit to photograph mostly close to home--short walks and whatever I find nearby on my block or a bit further when I'm up to it. I shoot a lot from the car as well.
What I've discovered is there is a wealth of subject matter out there without having to search the world to find it. Simple items, everyday object and the people we see often. They're always changing with the light and they never look the same. They make good pictures, as Greyscale shows us.
What I've discovered is there is a wealth of subject matter out there without having to search the world to find it. Simple items, everyday object and the people we see often. They're always changing with the light and they never look the same. They make good pictures, as Greyscale shows us.
DownUnder
Nikon Nomad
Covid has thrown many massive spanners into the works of all our lives this year. For many of us, photography has proved to be a useful lifeline to help maintain our equilibrium or even sanity in such trying times. For a few, it has been a year to do much less photography and in two cases I know personally, to give it up entirely. Not by me, fortunately, altho like many, I found myself shifting gears and delving into new or long-neglected aspects of my cameras, image archives and darkroom.
At the start of 2020 I was madly rushing about in southeast Asia, shooting old architecture, a pastime I've indulged since the 1970s and since my retirement in 2012, pursued with what has at times turned almost into a frenzy, with more time spent away shooting in Asian countries than at home in Australia.
In early March I realized I had only about a week's time to finish up what I was doing in Malaysia and Indonesia and return home to Australia before our country went into lockdown. After a brief stop in Bali to secure our rented house and organize care for our rescue cats, I flew back to Melbourne and while quarantining for two weeks, made several decisions about my image files, my photo gear, and my photography pursuits in general.
Organizing the Asian architecture collection took six months. During this time I found many long-forgotten or lost images and there were times when the scanning seemed endless, enough for nine lifetimes. Careful sorting, entering data I had kept for the most part in random brain cells, culling and in a few cases destroying, has brought a strange order into my files. I can now find almost everything I've shot since 1980 on my computer spreadsheets. Films from the '70s and '60s are yet to be looked into as by October I was heartily sick of checking negative and slide folders, but will be done when I can face up to this task in early 2021.
About 30 unprocessed films mysteriously turned up during my cull, I've processed the black-and-white that for the most part revealed mostly blah! images, which may be why they were forgotten. Also some slide films I intended to do at home via an E6 kit, but have since decided to get them lab processed for convenience.
Next came gear disposal. A stash of old Nikons and Nikkormats were sold off, also several other old SLRs and some small point-and-shoot cameras from the '60s and '70s, purchased on Ebay and never used. Ditto darkroom gear I had accumulated and forgotten about. Film stocks were evaluated, some disposed of, some sold at discounted prices. One enlarger gone, one now left. Still eight or nine cameras to go, quality gear - Rolleis, Contax G kits, Zeiss, I had intended to put on consignment sale with a reputable dealer in Melbourne who alas! has now downsized and relocated out of the city, so no longer feasible for me. I may use Ebay, but I have some serious qualms about the site and its partner in, well, whatever, Paypal. So unsure what to do.
I want to take January 2021 off from all this and try to do some more, well, human pursuits. It's looking likely I will be stuck here in Oz until at last midyear when i hope to return to Asia to take up my volunteer work and help my friends there to set up an animal rescue center. So I've six months left to continue my photo clean-up, culling and maybe when I feel up to it, shoot some more. After all my years in Asia the prospect of photography in Australia tends to leave me cold, but I do acknowledge there is a lot here to be photographed.
Today is Christmas Day and after some preparation at home, I'll grab my Lumix G1 kit (gifted to me by a friend who now passed) and go walkabout in the paddocks behind our town. I'm not a bird or a landscape shooter but there are things in our bush that inspire me. Colonial era farmhouses, old barns, fences - and somewhere along a back lane an 1860s convict stone building fallen into ruin in a copse of gum trees on a farm property long returned to wilderness. When I find it, a detailed architectural shoot awaits.
That's pretty well me for this year. I feel I've done a lot - and I've written far too much about it as usual. My mom says I spoke in complete sentences from age two and my Aussie friends say I was vaccinated with a gramophone needle as a child. That's me summed up in one sentence, imagine that!
At the start of 2020 I was madly rushing about in southeast Asia, shooting old architecture, a pastime I've indulged since the 1970s and since my retirement in 2012, pursued with what has at times turned almost into a frenzy, with more time spent away shooting in Asian countries than at home in Australia.
In early March I realized I had only about a week's time to finish up what I was doing in Malaysia and Indonesia and return home to Australia before our country went into lockdown. After a brief stop in Bali to secure our rented house and organize care for our rescue cats, I flew back to Melbourne and while quarantining for two weeks, made several decisions about my image files, my photo gear, and my photography pursuits in general.
Organizing the Asian architecture collection took six months. During this time I found many long-forgotten or lost images and there were times when the scanning seemed endless, enough for nine lifetimes. Careful sorting, entering data I had kept for the most part in random brain cells, culling and in a few cases destroying, has brought a strange order into my files. I can now find almost everything I've shot since 1980 on my computer spreadsheets. Films from the '70s and '60s are yet to be looked into as by October I was heartily sick of checking negative and slide folders, but will be done when I can face up to this task in early 2021.
About 30 unprocessed films mysteriously turned up during my cull, I've processed the black-and-white that for the most part revealed mostly blah! images, which may be why they were forgotten. Also some slide films I intended to do at home via an E6 kit, but have since decided to get them lab processed for convenience.
Next came gear disposal. A stash of old Nikons and Nikkormats were sold off, also several other old SLRs and some small point-and-shoot cameras from the '60s and '70s, purchased on Ebay and never used. Ditto darkroom gear I had accumulated and forgotten about. Film stocks were evaluated, some disposed of, some sold at discounted prices. One enlarger gone, one now left. Still eight or nine cameras to go, quality gear - Rolleis, Contax G kits, Zeiss, I had intended to put on consignment sale with a reputable dealer in Melbourne who alas! has now downsized and relocated out of the city, so no longer feasible for me. I may use Ebay, but I have some serious qualms about the site and its partner in, well, whatever, Paypal. So unsure what to do.
I want to take January 2021 off from all this and try to do some more, well, human pursuits. It's looking likely I will be stuck here in Oz until at last midyear when i hope to return to Asia to take up my volunteer work and help my friends there to set up an animal rescue center. So I've six months left to continue my photo clean-up, culling and maybe when I feel up to it, shoot some more. After all my years in Asia the prospect of photography in Australia tends to leave me cold, but I do acknowledge there is a lot here to be photographed.
Today is Christmas Day and after some preparation at home, I'll grab my Lumix G1 kit (gifted to me by a friend who now passed) and go walkabout in the paddocks behind our town. I'm not a bird or a landscape shooter but there are things in our bush that inspire me. Colonial era farmhouses, old barns, fences - and somewhere along a back lane an 1860s convict stone building fallen into ruin in a copse of gum trees on a farm property long returned to wilderness. When I find it, a detailed architectural shoot awaits.
That's pretty well me for this year. I feel I've done a lot - and I've written far too much about it as usual. My mom says I spoke in complete sentences from age two and my Aussie friends say I was vaccinated with a gramophone needle as a child. That's me summed up in one sentence, imagine that!
farlymac
PF McFarland
My pandemic project was to get this apartment straightened up, get rid of the unnecessary things, and clear out the camera inventory. But once the VA started to open back up for business my doctors started making other plans for me, and my body also staged a small revolt.
So needless to say things have not gone as planned. I've a half dozen rolls of film that need processing dating back to March, but at least I've been able to get out more lately with the digital cameras. I also spent some time kitting out a couple of my favorites, while determining what cameras I'm willing to let go.
It's been really interesting following your camera adventures on Flickr, Mike. It reminds me of when I was doing the same thing, only in a much freer time. I've still got a bunch of cameras I haven't had the chance to test out, so maybe after I get through with my treatments I'll start up again. I just hope it's a time when we no longer have to run around masked up because I can fog up a viewfinder just as easily as my glasses.
Merry Christmas to you and the missus.
PF
So needless to say things have not gone as planned. I've a half dozen rolls of film that need processing dating back to March, but at least I've been able to get out more lately with the digital cameras. I also spent some time kitting out a couple of my favorites, while determining what cameras I'm willing to let go.
It's been really interesting following your camera adventures on Flickr, Mike. It reminds me of when I was doing the same thing, only in a much freer time. I've still got a bunch of cameras I haven't had the chance to test out, so maybe after I get through with my treatments I'll start up again. I just hope it's a time when we no longer have to run around masked up because I can fog up a viewfinder just as easily as my glasses.
Merry Christmas to you and the missus.
PF
Rick Waldroup
Well-known
Great shots. I really enjoyed viewing them. I am like most of you here. I have not done much since March. The wife and I stay at home most of the time except for brief excursions to grocery stores, etc. We have not been to a restaurant or bar or anything like that at all. And that is a real bummer because I like shooting in bars and pubs. I am so ready for this to be over. Everyone stay healthy going into the new year.