Godfrey
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Following on from participating in Dave's thread on "a modern SWC" in medium format digital ...
https://www.getdpi.com/forum/medium-format-systems-and-digital-backs/66312-modern-swc.html
... I thought a thread in the Leica forum concentrating on the CL used with this amazing Voigtländer HyperWide 10mm f/5.6 lens might be apropos. I posted a few photos already in Dave's thread; here are a few more photos.
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All of these with the Leica CL and Voigtländer Hyper-Wide 10mm.
Some are more heavily processed than my usual.
From last Sunday's cycle ride around and in San Jose, it was Father's Day and the restaurant next door to the cafe I stopped at was hosting a private family party. A few minutes after I sat down with my snack/lunch, the party broke and a huge wave of folks spilled onto the sidewalk...
One of the musicians from the party pulled his rental scooter over and sat down to rest a moment. I guess he was tuckered out by the party.
I was having a grand day's ride and pushing ... realized I hadn't eaten since an early breakfast and needed some calories ... so a quick cafe snack for lunch.
Next stop on my ride was Japan Town. I wanted to make a photograph of the memorial there to see how the ultrawide lens would work, but I couldn't help a little beauty shot of my bicycle parked on the corner.
This is really what I stopped for: I've often tried to get a good photograph of the memorial but it's difficult because the ideal place to stand is right in the middle of a busy intersection. The ultrawide lens allowed me to be closer and still capture the whole thing, albeit not with my usual square crop but with the full format, then crop to a long 16:9 proportion. I decided a diptych was the right way to present it, showing the small but critical element: "February 19, 1942" ...the date of Executive Order 9066, which gave the U.S. Army the authority to remove civilians from the military zones established in Washington, Oregon, and California during WWII.
Borrowing from https://jacl.org/events/day-of-remembrance/
Whenever I ride through Japan Town and see the memorial standing there in its mute testimony, I think of her and of what it stands for.
Onwards...
G
https://www.getdpi.com/forum/medium-format-systems-and-digital-backs/66312-modern-swc.html
... I thought a thread in the Leica forum concentrating on the CL used with this amazing Voigtländer HyperWide 10mm f/5.6 lens might be apropos. I posted a few photos already in Dave's thread; here are a few more photos.
---
All of these with the Leica CL and Voigtländer Hyper-Wide 10mm.
Some are more heavily processed than my usual.
From last Sunday's cycle ride around and in San Jose, it was Father's Day and the restaurant next door to the cafe I stopped at was hosting a private family party. A few minutes after I sat down with my snack/lunch, the party broke and a huge wave of folks spilled onto the sidewalk...
One of the musicians from the party pulled his rental scooter over and sat down to rest a moment. I guess he was tuckered out by the party.
I was having a grand day's ride and pushing ... realized I hadn't eaten since an early breakfast and needed some calories ... so a quick cafe snack for lunch.
Next stop on my ride was Japan Town. I wanted to make a photograph of the memorial there to see how the ultrawide lens would work, but I couldn't help a little beauty shot of my bicycle parked on the corner.
This is really what I stopped for: I've often tried to get a good photograph of the memorial but it's difficult because the ideal place to stand is right in the middle of a busy intersection. The ultrawide lens allowed me to be closer and still capture the whole thing, albeit not with my usual square crop but with the full format, then crop to a long 16:9 proportion. I decided a diptych was the right way to present it, showing the small but critical element: "February 19, 1942" ...the date of Executive Order 9066, which gave the U.S. Army the authority to remove civilians from the military zones established in Washington, Oregon, and California during WWII.
Borrowing from https://jacl.org/events/day-of-remembrance/
This has some personal significance to me: One of my good friends from college days spent some twenty-plus years of her life working with the effort to obtain some compensation and restitution for the losses of her mother and father, and the whole Japanese-American community by extension, which were only finalized a little over a decade ago, half a century later.... This Executive Order led to the forced removal and incarceration of some 120,000 Americans of Japanese ancestry living on the West Coast, who had to abandon their jobs, their homes, and their lives to be sent to one of ten concentration camps scattered in desolate, remote regions of the country.
No Japanese Americans were ever charged, much less convicted, of espionage or sabotage against the United States. Yet they were targeted, rounded up, and imprisoned for years, simply for having the "face of the enemy."
Every February, the Japanese American community commemorates Executive Order 9066 as a reminder of the impact the incarceration experience has had on our families, our community, and our country. It is an opportunity to educate others on the fragility of civil liberties in times of crisis, and the importance of remaining vigilant in protecting the rights and freedoms of all.
Whenever I ride through Japan Town and see the memorial standing there in its mute testimony, I think of her and of what it stands for.
Onwards...
G