On the Road is a weekday feature spotlighting reader photo submissions.
From the exotic to the familiar, whether you’re traveling or in your own backyard, we would love to see the world through your eyes.
phillybits, Coming up fast.
Montysano, Sipsey Wilderness, northwest Alabama. Shot on medium format film with a Minolta Autocord camera.
Email me a link to your one or two favorite pics on a photo site like Flickr (do not send the image itself please) and I will put up favorites in open threads. Send a short caption if you want one.
Two helpful notes: Click each picture for a link to the photographer’s own site. To see all of our photo threads on one page, click on the ‘photo blogging’ tag at the bottom of the post.
Just Some Fuckhead
Really like the first one, even though I don’t recognize the pseudonym.
arguingwithsignposts
Since this is an open thread, I’d like to complain *again* about the tremendous amount of boilerplate fundraising/action e-mails I’m getting from progressive groups and politicians. Someone needs to coordinate all this crapflood of e-mail before I unsubscribe to them all. Signal/Noise, people!
R-Jud
Mmmm, black and white. Makes me want to dig out my old SLR and go take pictures. Unfortunately, it’s been dark here for almost half an hour now.
And this is nice: Rupert Murdoch doesn’t think President Obama is a racist. Rupe is also mulling over blocking Google searches from accessing NewsCorp websites once he switches to a paid content platform. Great idea!
The Saff
@R-Jud: Good article by Michael Wolff in the November issue of Vanity Fair.
Captain Goto
A Minolta Autocord! Holy Crap!!!
My big sister used one of those, as a yearbook photographer…**forty freaking years ago!!!**
Scheiss, I’m old…
twiffer
@R-Jud: so, the logic is…we’ll build our subscriber base by making ourselves harder to find? brilliant! after all, removing your websites from the indices of the most popular search engine in the world is a fantastic way to attract new readers.
here’s an idea: if the problem is that search engines are bypassing your subscription block then FIX YOUR DAMN CODE!
twiffer
also, damn fine photography.
evolutionary
Nice Pictures!
Re John’s desire for apples with flavor. Look for ‘Northern Spy’ or ‘McCoun’ (pronunced Mac-Cow-an by the Scots and Mc-Coon by most Americans). These two are my favorites!
ellaesther
These photo threads really serve to prove that the notion that digital photography has made us all professional-grade photographers is sheer silliness.
Lovely. Thanks again.
ellaesther
@arguingwithsignposts: Also: This.
I just delete without paying attention anymore. Surely there’s a better way. Though I can’t imagine what it might be.
R-Jud
@twiffer: Rupert Murdoch: He fails at Internets.
twiffer
@evolutionary: macouns are the best out-of-hand apples. mutzus (aka crispins) are also a good eating apple, if you prefer green.
Captain Goto
Re: apples—
of the ones I can find in the store, I really dig those good old Rome apples.
Sweet, and with a texture that’s almost…creamy?
It seems like I can only find them in the stores around Pgh. maybe eight months out of the year.
Kilkee
Beautiful pictures, which are further fanning the flames that led me, just last week, to lay out just under $1000 for a Pentax 6X7 with 45, 90, and 200mm lenses. Can’t wait to get out there with that behemoth.
lutton
Hi all:
Phillybits is a buddy of mine up here in–you guessed it–Philadelphia. He does some political blogging, but lately has been much more focused (ha!) on his photography:
http://phillybits.blogspot.com/
http://phillyphoto.wordpress.com/
His brother is Brendan Calling: http://brendancalling.com/
lutton
dang it the site eated my post…
Anyway, basically it said, Phillybits is a buddy of mine up here in Philly. Does some political blogging but more focus (ha!) on photography right now.
http://phillybits.blogspot.com/
http://phillyphoto.wordpress.com/
His brother is Brendan of Brendan Calling: http://brendancalling.com/
Phillybits
Thanks for the post Tim!
Grumpy Code Monkey
God damn, both of those are reawakening the itch for medium format or 4×5 gear. Then I remind myself that a) I can’t afford it, b) I don’t have time for it, c) I don’t have a space that can serve as a darkroom anymore, and d) I suck as a photographer.
Xenos
Pictures like this get me onto Ebay, looking for cheap medium format cameras. Just watched a Mamiya RB67 with a 180 mm lens go for $ 227.50 Not the greatest camera ever, but at a price like that? Wow.
They have come out with 40 megapixel digital backs for just $40,000, so I might just spring for one or two.
Warren Terra
I haven’t bothered to comment on these photo threads before, but I feel that I should chime in and say that the pictures you’re receiving and posting are pretty darn awesome.
The ability to click through and see other pics the photographers uploaded to Flickr (or, I suppose, to other services) is an especially nice part.
fred
Beautiful once again. Great feature. And thank you for the place names.
asiangrrlMN
@arguingwithsignposts: Yes, these. I delete them en masse now.
Wow. I love B & W photos, and these two are magnificent.
asiangrrlMN
@asiangrrlMN: Yes, THIS! Damn damn damn. I am now going to have to triple-check before I submit. Er, press the submit button.
twiffer
@Captain Goto: romes are good for making baked apples, but i find them too hard for much else.
but, i also live less than 5 miles from about 6 orchards, so i’ve got options. fall is a happy time.
Kilkee
@Grumpy Code Monkey: I had all of those thoughts. Then I bought a Pentax 6X7. I doubt I’ll regret it. I suspect that if I get even a few pictures from it of the sort I imagine I might, that will be enough. And as pointed out below, the prices on Ebay for medium format cameras now are incredible for those of us who remember when a Hasselblad could only be dreamed of by a non-professional, and cost a year’s salary. Thanks for the digital revolution, these babies are becoming highly affordable.
General Winfield Stuck
Both of these are excellent Black and White photos/ Reminds me of the beloved Minolta slr camera I used in college for the two photography classes I took. Mostly with B and W film. And then developing them myself in photo lab. Those were the days, now it is so much easier.