flickr – B12 Solipsism

My photo “Don’t Know How Much Longer I Can Wait” was added to Flickr Explore

December 31, 2023 Seth Anderson0 comment

I believe for the first time since Flickr parent SmugMug tweaked the algorithm, a photo of mine made it into Explore December 30th, 2023.

I took this photo December 28th, 2023, and developed it in my digital darkroom the next evening.

Photo Gear

Nikon D7000
35.0 mm f/1.8
ƒ/2.8
1/50 (the slowest shutter speed I can reliably use without a tripod)
ISO 400

Location: At the intersection of Lincoln, Halsted and Fullerton, in Lincoln Park, Chicago. I chauffeured to a local physical therapist¹, and while waiting the hour for the appointment to be over, I walked around the area. It started raining pretty hard, and I was nervous that my camera might get wet but kept on walking, headphones on, listening to music, including to the Bob Dylan outtakes/alternate takes from the Time Out Of Mind Recordings. By the time I took this photo, I was pretty well soaked, but continued on for another mile or so. In my car, I had a raincoat, and a plastic protective sleeve for my camera, however was too lazy to trudge back to properly gird myself against the elements. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

At least I got a few good shots of the amazing city light during a rain storm out of it…

Darkroom (digital): Won’t bore you with every detail of what I did in Photoshop, but I do remember I used a graduated neutral density filter (in emulation) to balance the light, and Alien Skin’s Fuji Reala film (in emulation).

Footnotes:

torn rotator cuff, yikes [↩]

It All Spoke Together – Triptych

October 23, 2021October 23, 2021 Seth Anderson0 comment

I took this photo in the Cook County Forest Preserve somewhere in 2015, and processed it in my digital darkroom on October 22nd, 2021.

I like some aspect of all three versions, and instead of discarding 2 of the three, decided to publish all three as a sort of triptych. If and when I print them, I’d like to make a 3d triangle sculpture, and hang it on a thread so it can rotate.

These are the thumbnails, but the image is better when bigger, imo.¹

The original version of the photograph. I especially like the golden reflections of tree trunks in the pond. Also the faint reds of the leaves at the bottom right.

The tinted version speaks a different emotional language, achieved by using cross-processing² of Ektar film. Maybe I’d use this as my LP album cover, when I release that sometime in the future.

The black and white version, using Fuji Neopan 1600³ is more stark, yet beautiful because of it. There aren’t quite enough visual clues to ascertain exactly what this is a photo of until the viewer studies it for a moment.

Nikon D7000

35.0 mm f/1.8
ƒ/3.5
shutter speed 1/50
ISO 100

Footnotes:

Click it to see a slightly larger version at Flickr [↩]
in emulation [↩]
in emulation, of course [↩]

Lobby Ceiling Millennium Biltmore Hotel was uploaded to Flickr

October 26, 2020 eggplant0 comment

Los Angeles

1923 standards are different…
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millennium_Biltmore_Hotel

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https://flic.kr/p/2jZnF92

I took Lobby Ceiling Millennium Biltmore Hotel on January 31, 2013 at 12:37PM

and processed it in my digital darkroom on October 26, 2020 at 09:32AM

Confutatis Maledictis was uploaded to Flickr

September 24, 2020September 24, 2020 eggplant0 comment

or something

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https://flic.kr/p/2jKPfRp

I took Confutatis Maledictis on September 24, 2020 at 03:23AM

and processed it in my digital darkroom on September 24, 2020 at 08:50AM

Obviously, didn’t take this photo at 3:23 AM in my local time, but there is some bug in the system that insists upon subtracting 5 hours from this automated time stamp. Usually doesn’t matter, but this photo is not of a moon.

confutatis maledictis

According to Google Translate, this phrase means, “Doomed”, but I don’t think that is completely accurate.

Wikipedia has two translations of this phrase from the Dies irae:

When the wicked are confounded, Doomed to flames of woe unbounded, Call me with Your saints surrounded.	Once the cursed have been silenced, sentenced to acrid flames: Call me, with the blessed.

Truthfully, Mozart’s Requiem came on my iTunes shuffle this morning, and I liked the phrase. Only later did I wonder what confutatis maledictis really means, and researched a bit (including asking my brother who studied Latin in school).

Name The Thing Without Naming It was uploaded to Flickr

September 14, 2020 eggplant0 comment

reflection, Chicago’s Loop

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https://flic.kr/p/2jGABiX

I took Name The Thing Without Naming It on April 09, 2017 at 05:42AM

and processed it in my digital darkroom on September 14, 2020 at 12:41PM

The Streets Are Filled With Vipers was uploaded to Flickr

September 11, 2020 eggplant0 comment

Alley, Wicker Park

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https://flic.kr/p/2jFEwyV

I took The Streets Are Filled With Vipers on September 26, 2015 at 12:28PM

and processed it in my digital darkroom on September 11, 2020 at 05:32PM

Random Acts of Malevolence Against the Haymarket Riot Memorial was uploaded to Flickr

June 1, 2020 eggplant0 comment

Pointless destruction.

Does the orange paint symbolize anything? The only orange thing I can think of is the current resident of the White House. This did happen after Trump promised that Saturday night was going to be MAGA Night, whatever that means.

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https://flic.kr/p/2j7QBQz

I took Random Acts of Malevolence Against the Haymarket Riot Memorial on June 01, 2020 at 03:35AM

and processed it in my digital darkroom on June 01, 2020 at 10:34AM

Hands Beginning To Tremble was uploaded to Flickr

May 21, 2020 eggplant0 comment

Fog, Chicago downtown

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https://flic.kr/p/2j4gd2S

I took Hands Beginning To Tremble on May 19, 2020 at 06:04AM

and processed it in my digital darkroom on May 21, 2020 at 09:59AM

Somewhere Nowhere At All was uploaded to Flickr

May 18, 2020 eggplant0 comment

Bridgehouse, Chicago River

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https://flic.kr/p/2j3oFLb

I took Somewhere Nowhere At All on April 09, 2017 at 05:33AM

and processed it in my digital darkroom on May 18, 2020 at 01:21PM

Answering Words That Shine And Expire was uploaded to Flickr

April 25, 2020 eggplant0 comment

Underpass, West Loop

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https://flic.kr/p/2iUdmoF

I took Answering Words That Shine And Expire on October 16, 2015 at 06:14AM

and processed it in my digital darkroom on April 25, 2020 at 10:29AM

Tempting You To Deny It was uploaded to Flickr

April 10, 2020 eggplant0 comment

Freshly painted underpass, Fulton Market, West Loop, Chicago

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https://flic.kr/p/2iNUidu

I took Tempting You To Deny It on December 25, 2019 at 10:44AM

and processed it in my digital darkroom on April 10, 2020 at 10:27AM

Irresponsible Rhetoric – Explored

March 15, 2020 Seth Anderson0 comment

Another photo of mine made it into Flickr’s Explore

Columns, Federal Reserve Bank, LaSalle St. and Jackson, downtown Chicago

I took this photo February 2nd, 2020, and processed it in my digital darkroom on March 13th, 2020.

Equipment: Nikon D7000 18.0-200.0 mm f/3.5-5.6

ƒ/4.2
32.0 mm
1/50
200 ISO

Sort of an unusual angle, I suppose, and cropped so as to look like the columns are leaning to the right. I bumped up the contrast, and used a Kodak Ektar filter (emulation of film stock).