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| Belts in Bergamo. Leica M6ttl, 35mm f/2.5 Summarit, HP5+, ID-11 and Adox MCC fibre paper. Yummy. |
There isn't much going on in The Liberties right now. The weather is most inclement. This week I've been out a couple of times along the coast, between Portstewart and Portrush. Both times I've stepped out of the car with the camera and though...'Hmm'. The cold was biting, the wind was fierce and the whole experience was pretty awful. Yesterday morning the Zeiss 6x9 folder I had with me went on protest - the shutter locked up. I retreated to the car and watched as the sleet came down sideways. Then I gave up and went home for a cup of tea. Perhaps not unexpectedly the Zeiss's shutter decided to work again pretty much straight away once it warmed up. Not so stupid, these old bits of metal and cloth...
So, they had an old suitcasefull of belts for sale, did they? Did you buy one as a substitute to your camera strap, or did you just simply snap the picture and went on with other business?
ReplyDeleteThose old shutters usually contains a fair bit of stiff grease these days, since they most likely have not seen a service man for the last six decades. But give them spring or summertime and they will sing along to any tune you throw at them. Just a couple of months now before the wind turns a tiny bit, and the sun will shine a bit longer through the days. The rain and the wind will still be more or less the same, of course. And should all of that stop you will get fog.
Snapped and moved on, Roy Gotta keep moving... :)
DeleteYes we're getting closer to Spring...the plants are pushing up in the garden but I don't know how they do it as it's a particularly cold spell right now. Sometime soon as you say things will change. Mind you, we can get snow-showers here in May... Hopefully, hopefully 2020 won't be one of those cold Springs, which can seem to last forever.
Nice belts and a nicely done photograph. I need to practise more photographs like this because I think about 'making art' so much that I forget what I'm trying to make a photgraph of. You've got both the composition and the content here. I'd go to the market today to practise if there weren't a risk of getting COVID-19.
ReplyDeleteThanks Marcus. Markets are usually good places to go with a camera, but I hear that SK (and Japan) are in some sort of crisis mode with regard to the COVID thing. Yesterday Northern Ireland had it's first confirmed case - someone brought it back from Italy with them. We'll see how things pan out here but for now it's business as usual. I guess you need to keep the head down over there where you are - but that's tricky when you work in a place with a lot of people, as you do. Have they closed the University yet?
DeleteUniversity is delayed for two weeks, apparently to quarantine foreign students in the residence buildings before the Korean students show up. But Korea and China have just agreed to not to have student exchanges during the epidemic, so the delay was unnecessary? It's possible it could be extended. Schools in Daegu (where most cases are) have just been delayed for another week. Some of my students are from Daegu, so I'm a little bit worried about that. And the amount of spitting that male students do, especially the smokers.
DeleteHmm...doesn't sound great, Marcus. Hard to know how it will all pan out, but best keep the head down (and the mask on!) for the time being.
DeleteThanks. Avoiding people is probably the safest thing to do. The other day I saw an old feller pull down his health mask and spit a gob of phlegm on the sidewalk. Nice . . . .
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