Category: Photography

Print Sale!

The Online Photographer, my favorite online site for photographers, is having a special sale on one of my photos.  I’m very excited; I’ve never had a one-man gallery show or an organized print sale in all these years.

DDB-Lincoln Memorial
Lincoln Memorial 1975

Some of you who live around Minneapolis will have seen the big print of this in my dining room. This sale is for a smaller version (9×12 image on 12×15 paper), but if anything even nicer (Ctein and I went back to our earlier file and looked at it again for this sale; some things changed for the smaller prints, some things probably just changed because of changing tastes). These prints are made by Ctein, to my satisfaction (after three shipments of proofs for the improvements for the small version), and signed by him on the back and me on the front. I think they’re utterly gorgeous.

I shot this on film in 1975; it’s taken a while for technology, my skill, and the number of friends I could get help from to get to where we could make first-rate prints from it, but we eventually won that battle.

You’ll find full details on the print sale at The Online Photographer. It’s on now, and runs through 7pm Central Time on Friday July 11. Price is $95 plus shipping (which will look anywhere from kind of pricey to remarkably cheap, depending on your familiarity with the art photo market).

Climbed the Witches Hat Tower

Yesterday was the day the tower was open (this year, it’s open two more days, June 12-13), and I managed to remember to go over, and got to see the inside and see the view from the top. It was rather hazy, which made photographs from there less interesting than they might be.  But it was still fun, and it makes an easy way to scout for places on the ground with a good view of the tower.

The line got rather longer, and by the time I left was around the tower, down two flights of stairs, and across a lawn.  (I posted a cell-phone picture on Facebook yesterday, so this will be largely redundant to my friends there.)

This was the line when I got there
This was the line when I got there
This was the line when I left
This was the line when I left

The Zeiss Super-Q-Gigantar 40mm f/0.33

I remember reading about this back in one of the mainstream photo magazines in the 1960s.  At the time, Zeiss was taking a lot of flack for making slow lenses (they made very good lenses, but for lots of uses, their lenses were too slow for the new, gritty, world of 35mm photojournalism).  This lens was a major counter-thrust in that war.  The lens consisted of an enlarger condenser element, cobbled into a mount, with an aperture and so forth.   Zeiss was saying very loudly that anybody can make a fast lens if you don’t care how good it is.

 

The Zeiss 40mm f/0.33 Super-Q-Gigantar
The Zeiss 40mm f/0.33 Super-Q-Gigantar

 

See Petapixel article for more detail.