The Sounds of Silence

[Kalkadan]

Mandewa, Rajasthan

[jamesmck]

Beautiful, Dan.  I note that it's with "His Master's Voice."

James

[lesged]

Dan,

Superb!

Les

[Dennis Gallus]

Dan, that is beautiful in all its detail, and the lighting is superb.  That must have been a wonderful trip.

Dennis

[Kalkadan]

James - yes, I nearly fell over when I saw the HMV insignia in such a ... forlorn place.

Les!  so nice to hear from you.  Lots of love to you and Claudia for the New Year!  Keep snapping!  You will be amused to hear that I am lusting after - in no particular order - an M6 or a IIIg.  Why?  the dear old boy whose M4 and lenses I inherited via a friend (screwmount mostly, with M adapters) also had in his trunk a pristine IIIg manual and brochure.     Therefore I assume he had a IIIg at some time in the past.  My friend who gave me the M4 says there was a second camera in the stuff somewhere, but he cannot find it !!!  I see a few on KEH and one on Sherry Krauter .... nah, I'm a pensioner now 

Dennis - it truly was a wonderful trip.  I shall 'dine out' on it photographically for quite a while   I have the impression from some posts that you have returned to the East - trust that the cold is not too bad!  The lighting for this was about midday.  It seems fashionable  to despise the G10 as a 'point & shoot'.  A local photographer did that just the other day when I mentioned that I had taken only that camera to India.  Ah well, she had the advantage that she was very cute!  So I let it go.  But as Anne reminds me - when I get carried away with lust for an M digital or a backflip into the past with an M6 (the security blanket of an on-board meter!), or a IIIg (pure love of form over function) - I often used to exclaim during our trip how wonderful was the G10.

best

Dan

[LarryD]

DAMN! you did that one right great catch.

[Madrigal]

Gorgeous. Absolutely gorgeous.

[Julio1fer]

This picture embodies much of what  I felt in India: the strangeness, the dilapidated antiques feeling, the heritage. Warm colors and diagonals, along with the curve of the loudspeaker (?) makes it hard to stop looking at this one. Very well done! I suspect you are keeping a treasure of images, to be released slowly - that's fine with me!

As for gear, your results speak for themselves. You don't need more -- but then gear is part of the pleasure of amateur photography, isn't it? 

[rgeorge911]

Lovely.

[Kalkadan]

Thank you everyone.  I'm sorry not to have contributed lately, although I have been popping by and having a look.  Especially at some of that lovely sepia toned stuff that Les has been showing from so many decades ago with the IIIf.  Wish I knew how he did it 

Truth to tell I've been spending too much time attempting to understand the Leica system and product history which, for a boy raised on Nikon, is much like Osama bin Laden trying to come to grips with Sarah Palin.

And our Rosie (the Lhasa Apso) has just had a dreadful operation - pics tomorrow.  Yes, she survived.  Anne reckons that as there are many animal lovers here you should see this (?).

Julio, you said long ago in a land far, far away that you suspected I was "keeping a treasure of images, to be released slowly" with respect to our India trip.  Not really.  The album of my favourites is here:
http://www.pbase.com/kalkadan/india
all taken with the G10, for which I have a lot of respect.  I printed some of these direct from the camera via an Epson RX650 at A4 size - that's no 'curves' or sharpening or adjusting of white balance, just straight out of the camera jpg images, although mostly at max size for that camera.  And they looked marvellous!  The pores of the skin, the hairs in the nose ... you know the sort of thing.  I am now quite nervous about twiddling with any of the stuff this camera produces.

I have also been engrossed in B&W experiments - over to that section.

all the best

Dan

P.S.  Les!  I really do need to know how to get that delicate sepia look.

[Mike Kovacs]

Nolo wishes Rosie a speedy recovery!

[radiophoto]

Dan, that's a terrific pic.  I was in Dubai back in the early 90s and bought one of these HMV wind-ups for a song, and sold it a couple of years later in the states for $500.00, I think.  Anyway it was enough to buy me new tires for my truck.  The one I had was in a little better shape than the one here.