On Sun, Nov 30, 2008 at 7:46 PM, Anthony Farr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Loggers and preservationists faced off in the mountains near Eden, New South > Wales, in 1989. Police presence kept tempers in check. It was a running > campaign of protests and counter protests, with the loggers blockading roads > to keep preservationists away from logging sites, and the "greenies" > attempting to infiltrate the blockaded areas overnight. After some days > everyone got bored and went home. > > I was there for a client with some Pentaxes and a ship-load of Kodachrome. > IIRC I used a Pentax SMC-M 24~35 1:3.5 for these shots. It was damn cold, > and snow was on the mountain peaks. At the summit of one mountain, where > the police had their radio communication centre set up in a caravan, I had > to put my cameras inside my coat between shots to keep the batteries alive. > > These shots make me a little nostalgic for film. The time I spent > retouching fungus off the images cured that nostalgia. > > "Showdown in Eden", > http://www.flickr.com/photos/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/3068259850/in/photostream/ > > "Keeping an Eye on Things", > http://www.flickr.com/photos/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/3068260666/in/photostream >
Well, the second one certainly reminds me that cops are cops all around the world (bless their little hearts). Obviously you have lantern-jawed steroid-enhanced proto-males along with slightly puffier and rounded donut-munchers. I think that's a wonderful photo. "Showdown" is almost too colourful. The bright colours lend a somewhat festive air to a very serious situation. I wonder how it would work in B&W? cheers, frank -- "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
