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Posts from the ‘Pentax K1000’ category

Evanescant: Retro Rain

This weekly theme is ‘evanescant’.

A shower in Spring 1980.

About the B4 retouch series:
I browsed my archive for pictures to publish. Some of them are partly retouched but most do have scratches, dust and stains.

The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – April 1980

The  picture was are originally shot with a Pentax K1000 on Ilford FP4, scanned from negative and tweaked using Snapseed and Marksta. Click the picture for a larger version.

A list of other entries to this theme; if you do not want to be on this list let me know and I remove the link

Danger: No Nukes 1982

The weekly theme is ‘danger’. 

In the 1980’s at the end of the Cold War there was a strong anti nuclear platform in The Netherlands: the intention to deploy tactical cruise missiles in The Netherlands met a lot of opposition. One of the events was No Nukes, a concert with bands in Utrecht. This is one of the photos from the archive of that event. It was a grim period, where the mutual threat of nuclear annihilation of the Eastern and Western block was thought to save us all just from that. It seems we are heading into a new nuclear race again. Not a thrill, just danger.

About the B4 retouch series:
I browsed my archive for pictures to publish. Some of them are partly retouched but most do have scratches, dust and stains.

 

The Netherlands, Utrecht – April 1982

The  picture was originally shot with Pentax K1000 on Kodak Plusx, scanned from negative
and tweaked using Snapseed and Marksta. Click the picture for a larger version.

A list of other entries to this theme; if you do not want to be on this list let me know and I remove the link

Wanderlust: Oracle 

The weekly theme is ‘wanderlust’. 

The amphitheater in Delphi Greece, where people came long ago for help to the oracle.

About the B4 retouch series:
I browsed my archive for pictures to publish. Some of them are partly retouched but most do have scratches, dust and stains.

 

Greece, Delphi – July 1983

The  picture was originally shot with Pentax K1000 on Kodak Plusx, scanned from negative
and tweaked using Snapseed and Marksta. Click the picture for a larger version.

A list of other entries to this theme; if you do not want to be on this list let me know and I remove the link

Wanderlust: Venus

The weekly theme is ‘wanderlust’. 

British Museum holds a big collection of art found by wandering.

About the B4 retouch series:
I browsed my archive for pictures to publish. Some of them are partly retouched but most do have scratches, dust and stains.

 

England, London – September 1980

The  picture was are originally shot with a Pentax K1000 on Ilford FP4, scanned from negative and tweaked using Snapseed and Marksta. Click the picture for a larger version.

A list of other entries to this theme; if you do not want to be on this list let me know and I remove the link

Wanderlust: Rosetta Stone

The weekly theme is ‘wanderlust’. 

The Rosetta Stone found in Egypt near Rosetta by Napoleon Bonaparte. The key to decypher Egypt hieroglyphs. Now in the British Museum.

About the B4 retouch series:
I browsed my archive for pictures to publish. Some of them are partly retouched but most do have scratches, dust and stains.

England, London – September 1980

The  picture was are originally shot with a Pentax K1000 on Ilford FP4, scanned from negative and tweaked using Snapseed and Marksta. Click the picture for a larger version.

A list of other entries to this theme; if you do not want to be on this list let me know and I remove the link

Earth: Path

The weekly theme is ‘earth’.

About the B4 retouch series:
I browsed my archive for pictures to publish. Some of them are partly retouched but most do have scratches, dust and stains.

England, Par – September 1980

The  picture was are originally shot with a Pentax K1000 on Ilford FP4, scanned from negative and tweaked using Snapseed and Marksta. Click the picture for a larger version.

A list of other entries to this theme; if you do not want to be on this list let me know and I remove the link

Earth: Links

The weekly theme is ‘earth’. 

The coast of Cornwall, a walk on a links course.

About the B4 retouch series:
I browsed my archive for pictures to publish. Some of them are partly retouched but most do have scratches, dust and stains.

England, Par –  September 1980

The  picture was are originally shot with a Pentax K1000 on Ilford FP4, scanned from negative and tweaked using Snapseed and Marksta. Click the picture for a larger version.

A list of other entries to this theme; if you do not want to be on this list let me know and I remove the link

Security: Penzance

The weekly theme is ‘security’.

A view from the harbour of Penzance looking over Mount’s Bay  to St. Michael’s Mount.

About the B4 retouch series:
I browsed my archive for pictures to publish. Some of them are partly retouched but most do have scratches, dust and stains.

The  picture was are originally shot with a Pentax K1000 on Ilford FP4, scanned from negative and tweaked using Snapseed and Marksta. Click the picture for a larger version.

The Road Taken: Looking (from the) Back

This week’s theme is ‘the road taken’.

Looking from the back of the train on the tracks.

About the B4 retouch series:
I browsed my archive for pictures to publish in – an originally – small series. That series caught on a bit more than I thought. All of them are not retouched yet. Scratches, dust and stains are not removed.

The Netherlands, Utrecht – May 1981

The  picture was are originally shot with a Pentax K1000 on Ilford FP4, scanned from negative and tweaked using Snapseed and Marksta. Click the picture for a larger version

 

Against the Odds: Phil Collins 1981

This weekly theme is ‘Against the Odds’.

Michelle promised bonus points for a photo of Phil Collins, well here it is.

October 3rd 1981, Groenoordhal Leiden. Genesis is on tour promoting their Abacab album.  Genesis’ frontman Phil Collins remembers that night as he got angry when  the Dutch audience booed the new songs: “Just to make it worthwhile for people who like the old shit….”. (the quote starts at about 53:15).

In August 2008 he came back to Leiden when his daughter Joeley married. In an interview he said that Genesis was first booed in 1981 in Leiden, so he returned with mixed emotions. But he was joking ‘I hope the father and mother of my son in law did not attend the gig’.

‘Against all odds’ was already written by Phil Collins on the 3th of October 1981, but still on the shelf. The Groenoordhal no longer exists.  And Phil Collins? He is luckily not dead yet and just published his autobiography by that title. A remarkable career in music. And a brilliant drummer and musician.

The photo is of the 4th of October 1981.

The Netherlands, Leiden – October 1981

Shot with Pentax K1000 on Kodakcolor II, scanned from negative and edited using Snapseed and Marksta. Click the picture for a bigger version

A list of other entries to this theme; if you do not want to be on this list let me know and I remove the link