At 19:54 6/3/99 , Lars Haven wrote:
>Now, let's go out and use these fine Oly cameras for something useful.
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RECENT CONVERSATIONS AT HOME, A VIGNETTE IN ONE PART AND TWO SCENES:
Scene I: One Night After Work
Me: Hi dear, I got my photographs back today.
Better Half: Did you take pictures this time?
Me: I took *photographs*. The medium format roll is color negative, the
35mm roll is color slide.
Better Half: I wish you'd just take pictures.
Me: Do you want to see them?
Better Half: OK, let me see the pictures.
[Better Half looks at the prints made from the 120 negatives; ignores the
35mm slides]
Better Half: Ooooooh. I'm keeping the pictures of the dog, cat and
Sieberling Mansion. You could have done the Sieberling when the daffodils
were blooming, though!
Me: But I was out of the country on a business trip when the daffodils
were blooming!
Better Half: Yes, but the Sieberling would have been better when the
daffodils were out.
Me: OK, next Spring I'll make sure I get the Sieberling when the daffodils
are blooming. Do you want to see the slides?
Better Half: Do I have to? OK. I don't know why you can't just take
pictures.
[Projector gets set up, screen gets pulled down, slide tray gets loaded,
and the show starts.]
Better Half: I like the tulips in the back garden . . . I also like the
close-up of my African violet. Why couldn't you take a *pictures* of them
. . . and the I'd like the Sieberling better with the daffodils.
Me: I did photograph them. Thought you might want to see what the tulips
looked like because you were out of town when they bloomed.
Better Half: But you didn't take *pictures* of them!
[Projector cools off and gets put away. Screen goes back up.]
Scene II: Following Night After Work
Better Half: I took your pictures to work and showed them to my buddies.
Me: What did they say?
Better Half: They liked the Sieberling and the portraits of the dog and
cat . . . thought they were good. Told them you spent well over a thousand
dollars on expensive camera equipment to get three pictures . . . and the
Sieberling would have been better with the daffodils.
Me: What about all the other photographs?
Better Half: Those aren't *pictures*, they're slides! I wish you'd just
take pictures!
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Since I exclusively shoot chromes with the 35mm gear and nearly all the
time with the 645, it is not possible for me to use my Oly for *anything*
useful, and rarely the 645, regardless of how many photographs I shoot.
Just after we got married (a good number of years ago), my better half
seized control of the photo albums. She also has a very good P&S (Oly of
course) and shoots a lot of color negative; many of them are very good. I
took 35mm color negative for a very short time after that. My prints were
always seized, cropped and mounted in albums. I could never keep proofs
archived with the negatives. So, I gracefully relinquished control of the
albums entirely and went exclusively to chromes in 35mm and about 950f
the time in 645. I keep the slide archives and produce the slide shows.
That way we have our own domains and do not trample each other's turf (in
spite of her never ending desire for me to switch back to color negative).
However, we had to establish some narrow definitions just to keep our
conversations straight. "Pictures" are prints from negative or
diapositive. "Photographs" are slides.
I'm ready for the Oly "contest" regardless of how many rules there are . .
. or who does the judging. Having lived with my Better Half as a critic
for quite a few years, I doubt very seriously anyone could say anything
about my photography that would even cause me to flinch, provided you
accept photographs for entries also, and not just pictures! I haven't done
much of anything useful with any of my camera gear for quite a few years,
but I have taken a lot of photographs.
-- John
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