Adams print sells for $722K
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From: Peter on 24 Jun 2010 11:14 "Savageduck" <savageduck1@{REMOVESPAM}me.com> wrote in message news:2010062407310735001-savageduck1(a)REMOVESPAMmecom... > On 2010-06-24 05:37:09 -0700, "whisky-dave" <whisky-dave(a)final.front.ear> > said: > >> >> "Savageduck" <savageduck1@{REMOVESPAM}me.com> wrote in message >> news:2010062215015713512-savageduck1(a)REMOVESPAMmecom... >>> On 2010-06-22 13:10:59 -0700, Mike Russell >>> <groupsRE(a)MOVEcurvemeister.com> >>> said: >>> >>>> On Tue, 22 Jun 2010 20:21:11 +0100, Bruce wrote: >>>> >>>>> On Tue, 22 Jun 2010 10:06:41 -0700, Savageduck >>>>> <savageduck1@{REMOVESPAM}me.com> wrote: >>>>>> Anyway here is my pathetic shot of the Valley from the same "Tunnel >>>>>> View" position. Alas, no "clearing storm", no view camera, no Adams >>>>>> dark room print magic, no $722K. >>>>>> ...sigh. >>>>>> http://homepage.mac.com/lco/filechute/YosemiteValleyBWfw.jpg >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> Nothing pathetic about that. It is a very fine shot. >>>> >>>> Absolutely. BTW, I'm guessing its a scan of a paper print. >>> >>> Nope. Taken last year with a D300 + 12-24mm @ 24mm. >> >> So it's not an old print doesn't it have to be 50+ tears old >> before it's worth anything. ;-) > > Darn! > I thought it was the photographer who was supposed to be 50+ years (that > could be "50+ tears") old. > ...and all I am worth is my pension! ;-( > Don't cry. Add the value of the chemical composition of your body. -- Peter
From: Peter on 24 Jun 2010 11:13 "David Ruether" <d_ruether(a)thotmail.com> wrote in message news:hvvnfg$qtk$1(a)ruby.cit.cornell.edu... > > "Peter" <peternew(a)nospamoptonline.net> wrote in message > news:4c22dec2$0$5517$8f2e0ebb(a)news.shared-secrets.com... >> "David Ruether" <d_ruether(a)thotmail.com> wrote in message >> news:hvto16$3dk$1(a)ruby.cit.cornell.edu... > >>> Even though I had some early successes with showing and >>> sales of B&W prints to museums (see, for an idea of some: >>> http://www.donferrario.com/ruether/aht1.html, >>> http://www.donferrario.com/ruether/aht2.html, >>> http://www.donferrario.com/ruether/aht3.html, and >>> http://www.donferrario.com/ruether/aht4.html) but these >>> pages show only one of my many museum sales (and one >>> bunch was involved in a funny/complicated/finally-too-bad >>> story about their fate...). Now, though, I accept that I will >>> never be a famous photographer/videographer/painter/ >>> graphics-printer/poet/writer/singer/actor/musician/etc., and >>> that what I can do is enjoy the work of others. It's funny how >>> I can approach with pleasure works that I would once have >>> dismissed (and this is now costing me serious money as I >>> collect movies, music, etc...;-). >>> --DR > >> I must say I enjoyed looking at your work. Your style is refreshingly >> original. -- >> Peter > > Thanks. At the beginning (in the late '60s) I preferred to work > very graphically, pushing Panatomic-X to 64 ASA in Rodinol > and using benzotriozole for a limited 5-stop range with a clear > base (and "glittery"-looking negatives). I produced much using > this approach that I still consider the best of my work - but > while I still have the negatives (I hope!), I have misplaced > or lost many of the prints. My next "style" was the reverse, > involving pulling Tri-X to 25 ASA in POTA to give about a > 25-stop range. *Everything* included in the frame at once > (from the sun in the sky to room interiors, even in the same > photo) was recorded. Talk about "F L A T"! ;-) But the photos > had their appeal, if not to most photographers (although the > well-known fashion photographer Richard Avedon is reported > to have liked them [ http://www.richardavedon.com/ ] when he > saw the traveling-show catalogue of these photographs...;-). > Oh, I can't resist relating the following...;-) I got a show at the > Everson Museum in Syracuse, and I arrived with the "Soft Images" > show in small metal frames (the prints are about 3 1/3"x5"), and > a bunch of 5"x7" unframed prints of the high-contrast images > mounted on relatively large mattes. I was a little astonished to > find that "my room" had walls maybe 12' (or more) high, so I > decided to double-hang the small prints and place the larger > white mattes over far larger black mattes, held in place by double > sheets of Plexiglas, for which I expected staff help in cleaning > surfaces, assembling, and hanging. I got nothing but "Can you > hurry up - we're closing." comments when anyone came in at all. > The reason for this lack of (useful) attention was that John Lennon > and Yoko Ono were hanging their own show elsewhere in the > museum and all the staff were there... I was too busy hanging my > own show to go see what they were doing, darn! ;-) > --David Ruether > www.donferrario.com/ruether > d_ruether....@....hotmail.com Darn! You mean you're not as well known as John Lennon? Ah! the tribulations of not being famous! As a side note: I used to do a lot of lecturing to various accounting groups. After one lecture I was having dinner with my wife and in-laws. Someone came over to my table and mentioned that he thought my explanation of an accountant's potential liability when his client as the subject of a criminal fraud audit, was the clearest he had ever heard. He said that he would be calling me with a case involving that very issue. (He did and it as a substantial case.) I never told him that was not the subject of my lecture. -- Peter
From: John McWilliams on 24 Jun 2010 11:52 Savageduck wrote: > On 2010-06-24 05:49:26 -0700, "David Ruether" <d_ruether(a)thotmail.com> Savageduck" <savageduck1@{REMOVESPAM}me.com> wrote in message >> news:2010062315325825228-savageduck1(a)REMOVESPAMmecom... >>> On 2010-06-23 14:52:23 -0700, "David Ruether" >> >>>>> BTW, the first three url's are dead. -- >>>> Those URLs work for me (from your response post, and from my >>>> original [...] >> >>> OK. I see the URL problem. It was the hard terminal comma on the >>> first three. >> >> Did you copy/paste each URL (inadvertantly including the comma), >> or click on a URL in your newsreader's display? (Inquiring minds >> want to know - so I can get it right...;-). > > No. The URL shows in my reader window as a clickable link. With the > comma hard against the URL, and that corrupts the syntax for a URL. > so for any punctuation mark following a URL there should be a space. Those links do work in other news clients, however. To ensure the maximum "readability" of links, put each on a separate line, enclosed in angled brackets < >, with a space and a c/r at the end; nothing else. -- John McWilliams
From: David Ruether on 24 Jun 2010 12:40 "Savageduck" <savageduck1@{REMOVESPAM}me.com> wrote in message news:2010062407394721153-savageduck1(a)REMOVESPAMmecom... > On 2010-06-24 05:49:26 -0700, "David Ruether" <d_ruether(a)thotmail.com> said: >> "Savageduck" <savageduck1@{REMOVESPAM}me.com> wrote in message >> news:2010062315325825228-savageduck1(a)REMOVESPAMmecom... >> Did you copy/paste each URL (inadvertantly including the comma), >> or click on a URL in your newsreader's display? (Inquiring minds >> want to know - so I can get it right...;-). > No. The URL shows in my reader window as a clickable link. With the comma hard against the URL, and that corrupts the syntax for a > URL. > so for any punctuation mark following a URL there should be a space. > > Here is a screen capture of how your post appears in a Unison window on a Mac. > http://homepage.mac.com/lco/filechute/DR-01.jpg Weird-looking reader - I've never seen anything like that... It has mysteriously inappropriately drawn into the ending the comma which is obviously not a part of the link. Why not just manually remove it when entering the URL into your browser's address line (either before, or after, it fails)? I will try, though, to remember to keep an empty space after a URL in future posts (but I shouldn't need to do that...;-). --DR
From: David Ruether on 24 Jun 2010 12:46
"Peter" <peternew(a)nospamoptonline.net> wrote in message news:4c237668$0$5493$8f2e0ebb(a)news.shared-secrets.com... > "David Ruether" <d_ruether(a)thotmail.com> wrote in message news:hvvnfg$qtk$1(a)ruby.cit.cornell.edu... [...] >> The reason for this lack of (useful) attention was that John Lennon >> and Yoko Ono were hanging their own show elsewhere in the >> museum and all the staff were there... I was too busy hanging my >> own show to go see what they were doing, darn! ;-) >> --David Ruether >> www.donferrario.com/ruether >> d_ruether....@....hotmail.com > Darn! You mean you're not as well known as John Lennon? > Ah! the tribulations of not being famous! Yes, terrible, isn't it...? 8^) > As a side note: I used to do a lot of lecturing to various accounting groups. > After one lecture I was having dinner with my wife and in-laws. Someone came over to my table and mentioned that he thought my > explanation of an accountant's potential liability when his client as the subject of a criminal fraud audit, was the clearest he > had ever heard. He said that he would be calling me with a case involving that very issue. (He did and it as a substantial case.) > I never told him that was not the subject of my lecture. -- > Peter Being Asperger, and stupid, I likely would have...;-) --DR |