St Peter

[Summicron]

I love this shot, I know there is a lot of contrast here, if it had been a black and white print it would have been refered to as soot and whitewash. However, when I look at this picture I always think of Peter before he was called to be an apostle, just sitting there mending his nets, ready for the next evenings trip out on the Sea of Galilee, not even thinking he was going to be called into something so far removed beyond his own little world, that he would be the means to revolutionising the lives men, and the dynamic beginnings of the infant church. "I will make you fishers of men," says the Lord.
   This picture was taken in Malta, on St juliens bay, Michael.

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[Pat]

Yes, Michael, lovely emotive shot.

[JudyB]

I like the shot. 

You are right though about the black and white. 

Yes I can see Peter mending his nets too.

[Barbarian]

I like this shot most of all.   The contrast is perfect for the subject matter, and makes it more interesting.   The angle and the man's posture work with the contrast to make a very striking shot.

Am I to take it you are a leica user?   Since I went digital, I don't use mine much at all, which is a shame.   My favorite lens is an old Summaron, but I often use a 1.9 Canon for low light work:



According to McKeowin's, the camera was built the summer that Hitler invaded Poland.

Takes great pictures, although it's kind of a hassle fixing the film leader to fit in the camera take-up spool.

I think I'll go take some shots this weekend, with it.

[Summicron]

Dear Barbarian, Yes I do have a Leica, an M6, with three lenses, 50, 90, & 35mm. although the picture above was taken with an Olympus Om1. good idea to get the old camera out and use it again, I try to imagine I'm a journalist visiting my home town for the first time, it doesn't always work, sometimes the pictures are there. I'd love to get on holiday, away from this place for a while, but don't feel like going alone, and there's no one to go with so I'm stuck with my own locality at the moment.
   I like manual cameras, I like the shape and feel of them, and yours looks a beaut, forgot about having to trim the film to get it in the camera though, I got my Leica a couple of years back, I saw a minillux zoom in a camera shop window, so I started down the Leica road with that, and presently had the money to get a rangefinder outfit, it took me months to get over the shock of such a purchase, but I don't regret it, and the lenses have that certain something that's not to do with the lenses sharpness.
   I have a few books by Leica authors, Walther Benser, being a favourite, I like Brian Bowers series on Leica camera's and lenses. The book, Photographing Colour with Walther Benser, I'd been hunting for years, thought about getting a copy on the internet, but came across it in a secondhand bookshop in Blackpool £2. Well thats it, I'm feeling very down at the moment, can't put my finger on what's wrong, so I'll say goodnight for now, love in Christ Jesus, Michael.

[Barbarian]

Well, now, Summicron, I'm a bit envious.  I'd like an M6, or even an M1, but the darn collectors have them priced out of sight!   And it's a crime to take something like that and put it on a shelf and not use it.

I agree with you on manual cameras.   I like the elegance of mechanical solutions to problems that today we find a chip to solve for us.   My little IIa is amazingly simple, and tough as a rock.   I love my DSLR, too, but 60 years from now, I doubt if someone will lovingly use and care for it.

Stick around, and keep posting those great pictures.   And take care of yourself.  I hope you're feeling better soon.

[JudyB]

Our brother would sure love to take part in this conversation.  He is a photographer, and loves anything todo with the subject.  Unfortunately he is unable to check this out at this time...Perhaps later!

[Summicron]

Dear Barbarian. And it's a crime to take something like that and put it on a shelf and not use it. A quote from your last post to me. There used to be a columnist writing for Amateur photographer, who said something very similar to this, in that people who buy Leica's as investments, and stick them in bank vaults, "Should have them taken off them and given to people who would really use them," I agree wholeheartedly, the true value of such cameras is in the pictures they take, and the pleasure they give taking them.
    As you say, digital cameras seem to have a lifespan of a couple of years, and a cosmetic value of less than that, every week in AP they are reviewing more and more digitals. I could use one, people were asking me to do wedding invitations, and I would try and put a picture in of the church where they were being married, and a digital camera would have been most useful for that, also there are some utterl fantastic Christmas lights decorating the outsides of one ot two pubs, here in Lancashire, they put even the towns lights to shame, a digital would be useful for to share them with you all.
    I have a funny feeling about digital cameras, a lot seems to have happened this past six years, and I get a very creepy feeling that digital cameras are linked to the sudden rise of the new world order, lets just say this for the moment. I do not believe that 9/11 was the work of terrorists, neither do I believe that the London bus bombings were the work of suicide bombers, the damage to those buses could only be done with high explosives, not a bag of fertiliser, anywat this is getting onto completely different track, so we'll leave it there for tonight, I can always add on to this post another night, Michael.

[Summicron]

Here's the missing attachment, where the original disappeared too goodness knows, I only found this while browsing the net so here it is, St Peter mending his nets.