Yellow Rose II:

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Pentax Spotmatic, f-1.4 lens + many extension tubes with a large aperture opening. An old image. Kodachrome 64 from a backlit yellow rose. This image has survived my 0-DOF edits for many years.

-- Bahman Farzad (cpgbooks@mindspring.com), February 03, 1999

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Another nice minimalist composition. I like it. Since you refer to this series of images as old, it makes me wonder what you're doing now days. Was this a test that ran its course or do you still work in that vein? Cheers

-- Mike Green (mgprod@mindspring.com), February 04, 1999.

Mike- I use the forum as a positive push to digitize and clean-up my older nature images! The nature photography is not my specialty! Lately I have been working on two books, one about on-camera spotmetering and I am re-publishing my older and out-of-print book about simplified zone system. I do have some new black and whites that are in medium format and 4X5. I have ordered a Microtek scanmaker 4 that scans from prints as well as up-to 8X10 slides and negatives. Hopefully you will see some new nature work shortly! Thanks again. Bahman

-- Bahman Farzad (cpgbooks@mindspring.com), February 04, 1999.

Too abstract for my visual cortex.

-- Larry Korhnak (lvk@gnv.ifas.ufl.edu), February 04, 1999.

Bahman,

All of your "minimalist" nature shots should survive a lot longer, both because of using Kodachrome and due to their fine design. As I've already said many times in individual critiques, I look for interesting graphic designs in photos as a primary criterion of quality and yours have been of the first rank. They'd make a fine solo show! If you are looking for a gallery to display them as framed prints, I can recommend my old co-op, Gallery 9, here in Thousand Oaks, CA - write me for details, if you are interested.

Frank

-- Frank Kolwicz (bb389@lafn.org), February 09, 1999.