Vincent Goetz
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He had vision, your father....
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Thank you Vincent. Here are three more. One is significant to me because in 77 years of coming to LBI (NJ shore) I have never seen the ocean frozen. All taken with Super Ikonta A with uncoated Tessar lensHe had vision, your father....
This is a great story! Wonderful pictures too.My Father died in May 1940, at age 29. I was three. He was an electrical engineer, and raised on Long Beach Island, NJ, and a nationally known fine art photographer, having been published in national magazines. His negatives were lost for 72 years and recently found and returned to me. I just started going through them. I scanned the negative on a high end, high resolution film scanner, and I interpreted the negative in the spirit and style of Alexander Gurtcheff. Hope you like it
NOTE: The camera was I Zeiss Super Ikonta A with Tessar lens, which my Mother saved for me.
I would be very happy and honored to have you post for me.This is a great story! Wonderful pictures too.
May I ask the permission to re-post these in a Chinese photography site (www.xitek.com)? Of course I will do the translation. It is the largest online community of photography in China. And I am a frequent contributor and a moderator there.
Thanks for sharing!
laopai aka 老派
Dave...Thank you Vincent. Here are three more. One is significant to me because in 77 years of coming to LBI (NJ shore) I have never seen the ocean frozen. All taken with Super Ikonta A with uncoated Tessar lens
Dave in NJ
Thanks all for the comments about my Dad's pictures. Here is a picture I made which tells part of the story:Terrific Images Dave! He certainly had a photographic eye for shapes and tectures as well as composition. I especially love the the firsta nd last of the four posted images (the sand around the wooden piers and the rope and chain image). What an exception gift it must be for you to be able to view these images. I have a few random pictures from my own dad and I cherish them. Thanks for sharing these with us.
Dave (D&A)
This is very nice and the rendering of the lens is extraordinary.
Orange
Hasselblad H4D-50 | HC 100 | f2.8 | 1/500s | iso 50
I really like this one.One of my favorites from my Father's lost for 72 years negatives. His artistic eye, and feelings for me, in one photo. It is my cousin and I around 1939
Dave in NJ
Great story Dave. Interesting aspect of film: you have the film your father loaded (and developed?). It was there when he took the shot and saw the same light he did. That's an emotional and physical connection that a digital file could never carry.Thanks all for the comments about my Dad's pictures. Here is a picture I made which tells part of the story: