Topic: Weekend archive trawl 2022-01-21

[Francois]

I'm sick and tired of the cold.
This morning I woke-up to -31°C temperatures. There's frost on the inside windows in some rooms.
So here's a bit of archive digging for a bit of color.
I really need to load that supersampler some time...

[Bryan]

How about some happy sunny pictures from the tropics.

Village of Amanave, American Samoa, March 2014.  Petri FT with Kodak Ektar 100.
Amanave, American Samoa by Bryan Chernick, on Flickr

Pier on the island of Managaha in Saipan, CNMI, December 2014.  Rolleiflex Automat with Kodak Ektar 100.
Managaha Pier by Bryan Chernick, on Flickr

White-Headed Capuchin Monkey lounging by the pool in Manuel Antonio, Costa Rica, February, 2016.  Canon AE-1 with Kodak Ektar 100.
Pool Monkey by Bryan Chernick, on Flickr

[Francois]

I need to crank-up the heating to look at these properly...

[Kai-san]

Minus 31C, I thought the planet was boiling?    Here it's plus 7C and rain, but that's normal. Yesterday we had 5mm of snow, that's long gone. There's a saying here that you can have three seasons in one day, that's about right.
I got out on Monday to test a lens that I've hardly used although I've had it for more than a year. My version of the Russar was probably made between 1964 and 1972. I need to use it more.

Zorki 1D / KMZ Russar MR-2 5.6/20mm / Kodak T-Max 400 in HC110

[Francois]

Minus 31C, I thought the planet was boiling?   

Canada is the place in the world that's the most impacted by climate change.
Warmer temperatures in the south tend to affect the polar vortex which slips down to lower latitudes. So, we get arctic air in Montreal.
But since we're east of the great lakes, and that the lakes don't freeze solid anymore, the cold air pushes the moisture faster than it can make it condense into snow. So we get temperatures that are friggin cold and damp.
If we were on the other side of the great lakes, like in Winnipeg, we'd simply have dry and cold weather, which is bearable.

It used to be that we had cold dry days where your nostrils would stick together on a regular basis. Now it only happens every few years.

[astrobeck]

Cold!
It's been cold here too, so I'm going to share some archival (2014)  color shots from a trip to Tucson when it was warmer and all bloomy!
Vintage Diana with Ektar.

[EarlJam]

Weather here has been a little cooler than normal, but still pleasant. Going with this week's theme, a couple from a batch of 35mm Kodachrome my grandfather shot in 1940, taken in Laguna Beach:

0005 - my grandmother and my dad's younger sister
0007 - my dad's brother (on the right) and a slightly younger cousin; a couple of years later, they were both swept up in military service

[irv_b]

-31 BLOODY HELL! 
My wife and I were thinking of emigrating to Canada back in the early nineties but never really got it together to go-thankfully now because I would not be able to handle that coldness

Getting to grips with the Reality So Subtle  5x4 . 
1st one at 90mm ( 49 secs) and the others at 35mm (6 secs) focal length. FP4 + HC110(B)

[Francois]

-31 BLOODY HELL! 
My wife and I were thinking of emigrating to Canada back in the early nineties but never really got it together to go-thankfully now because I would not be able to handle that coldness
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The only surprisingly warm place in the country is Vancouver.
Apart from that, it's really cold in the winter and amazingly hot in the summer.
Just to give an idea, we're the country where there's the greatest temperature swings in the world.

[02Pilot]

Sticking with the theme, here's a very old (maybe 25 years or so) shot from the south of England.

[Sandeha Lynch]

A good theme for this weather. Archive shots from 20+ years ago when I was living in Oman. I've put up fresh scans in new folders in an extra Flickr account.

A beach near Raysut, on the Indian Ocean and about 100 miles from the border with Yemen. Two 35mm negatives stitched.

97_raysut-23 by Sandeha Too, on Flickr

Al-Hadd mudflat in the north of the Oman near Sur. A near-but-not-quite stitch of 35mm.

9801_alhadd-01 by Sandeha Too, on Flickr

The temps could easily go well over 40°C but nobody goes out in that.

[jharr]

Well, it isn't cold here, but I'll play along. This is from Black Butte Ranch, Oregon in the summer of 2013.
Portra 160 in a Speed Graphic.

Woody Reflection by James Harr, on Flickr