Critique Welcomed Bolsa Chica State Beach in Winter

[Brian Moore]

I shot this image a few years ago. I posted a couple of others from the same roll but I don't think I ever posted this one.

I shot it with a Holga 120N loaded with Arista EDU 100 film (which I think is Fomapan rebranded for Freestyle Photo Company here in California). I didn't realize that I had the camera set to "bulb" mode so every image I shot with that roll turned out blurry. However, most of them I liked!

I processed the roll in Rodinal I believe.

 

[Julian de'Courcy]

I simply love this and remember well the other or thers you posted of these. Gorgeous gorgeous Brian a real triumph I think.
It is not unlike the quality used in the technique of black shades of ink used on Japanese or rice paper applied with squirrel hair brushes .

 

[Ivar Dahl-Larsen]

It is amazing what share luck or mishap and Helga can do to an image in the hand of a Scotsman, who at the time did not know what he was doing. Bravo, it is very artful Mr. Moore, honestly, I mean it!

 

[Rob MacKillop]

Yes, it's one of my favourite shots. Arguably the greatest photo in the history of the Cosmos - I jest not. I really love it. But if you look on the back, Brian, it has a sticker on it saying my name!

 

[Brian Moore]

I simply love this and remember well the other or thers you posted of these. Gorgeous gorgeous Brian a real triumph I think.
It is not unlike the quality used in the technique of black shades of ink used on Japanese or rice paper applied with squirrel hair brushes .

Thank you Julian I really appreciate that. But you give me too much credit!

It is amazing what share luck or mishap and Helga can do to an image in the hand of a Scotsman, who at the time did not know what he was doing. Bravo, it is very artful Mr. Moore, honestly, I mean it!

Yes you are correct Ivar, sheer luck! Indeed, it is the work of Miss Sarah Dipity. (She is a lady me and @Pete Askew know well as do all of us, though perhaps not by name.) By the way, I still don't know what I'm doing!

Yes, it's one of my favourite shots. Arguably the greatest photo in the history of the Cosmos - I jest not. I really love it. But if you look on the back, Brian, it has a sticker on it saying my name!

Thank you, Rob, and I agree that it is the greatest photo in the history of the cosmos. I never noticed the sticker on the back before you mentioned it. I'm glad it's there though because you are my geetahr and photographical hero!

 

[Rob MacKillop]

Well, that's OK then

 

[Paul Lange]

What a great happy accident. I don't remember seeing the others but this I do like.

 

[Ivar Dahl-Larsen]

Thank you Julian I really appreciate that. But you give me too much credit!

Yes you are correct Ivar, sheer luck! Indeed, it is the work of Miss Sarah Dipity. (She is a lady me and @Pete Askew know well as do all of us, though perhaps not by name.) By the way, I still don't know what I'm doing!


Thank you, Rob, and I agree that it is the greatest photo in the history of the cosmos. I never noticed the sticker on the back before you mentioned it. I'm glad it's there though because you are my geetahr and photographical hero!

No I meant shared luck.

 

[Brian Moore]

No I meant shared luck.

I should have known better than to doubt a Viking's English, which is undoubtedly better than me own!

 

[Pete Askew]

As with the others, I really, really like this (and the ones from the same roll). I think Julian has put his finger on some of the reason being that hand painted look they have.

 

[Brian Moore]

As with the others, I really, really like this (and the ones from the same roll). I think Julian has put his finger on some of the reason being that hand painted look they have.

Thanks, Pete. Much appreciated.

 

[Brian Moore]

What a great happy accident. I don't remember seeing the others but this I do like.

Thank you Paul!