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Fading
« on: October 30, 2015, 02:03:28 AM »
I recently shot the remains of one of the old Catskill Mountain houses, hotels that catered to city folk in the days before air conditioning, when summer in the mountains was one of the preferred methods of escaping the city heat. Today all that's left is the shell and the view, and for those who visited years ago perhaps a fond memory or two.













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« Reply #1 on: October 30, 2015, 03:03:03 AM »
Those are some excelent shots, great job! 
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Re: Fading
« Reply #2 on: October 30, 2015, 05:40:22 AM »
Nice, very nice! Scans of wet dark room prints? Or scans of negs with a border? Either way, really impressive images.
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« Reply #3 on: October 30, 2015, 07:28:57 AM »
Great series!
I love these old places.
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Re: Fading
« Reply #4 on: October 30, 2015, 08:55:45 AM »
Love 'em. I know it's not a competition but the second one would be my winner if it were.
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Re: Fading
« Reply #5 on: October 30, 2015, 11:47:12 AM »
Thanks for the kind words.

They're scans of negatives from two cameras: a Leica IIIc with my hacked Nikon L35AF lens attached, and my newly-acquired Zeiss Super Ikonta 530/2.
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Re: Fading
« Reply #6 on: October 30, 2015, 01:43:22 PM »
I love these! I don't know if they would technically be "urban" decay, or "rural" decay, or something in between, but it's a subject that I love nonetheless :)
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Re: Fading
« Reply #7 on: October 30, 2015, 06:20:16 PM »
Very cool series. Love the angle, tones and contrasts in shot 3! Do you know which hotel this was? I was up that way as a kid a few times with family.
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Re: Fading
« Reply #8 on: October 30, 2015, 07:09:48 PM »
Thanks guys. Adam, I don't think you stayed at this one - it closed in 1940.
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Re: Fading
« Reply #9 on: October 30, 2015, 08:18:17 PM »
Guess not!
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Re: Fading
« Reply #10 on: November 02, 2015, 07:32:48 PM »
ah, loving the look in these. very much how the stark sunlight can feel at times.
very much liking the layers of details in many of the shots
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« Reply #11 on: November 03, 2015, 12:28:17 AM »
Thanks, Jonas. I was definitely trying to capture the alternating layers of trees and structure.
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Re: Fading
« Reply #12 on: November 03, 2015, 11:45:31 PM »
Yeah, #3 & #4 are wonderful. The rest are just 'great' :)
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« Reply #13 on: November 04, 2015, 01:18:14 AM »
Thanks, James. Interesting that you singled out those two. There was no question about #3, but I struggled with #4. The latter is the only crop among these shots, and I had to try a few different versions before I was happy enough with it to include it. I felt there was something there, but unlike the others in this set, it took me a while to find exactly what it was.
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