Moore Family Portrait

Brian Moore

Brian Moore

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Shot taken at The Stinking Rose in San Francisco last weekend. The booth we were stationed in had a mirror on the wall so I took advantage of it. I set my camera on the top of a water pitcher to hold it steady--"pitcherpod"--set the shutter speed to 1/15th, then used the self-timer to trigger the shutter.

Canon F1 with Canon FD 28mm lens and Kodak Tri-X 400 which I processed in Rodinal.

Left to right: Caitlin, Caitlin, SWMBO (given name: Linda), Unidentified Diner, Me, Megan, and Megan.


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And you even included a couple of small flying saucers for good measure! Worked well Brian and I like that you have partially obscured the camera from the reflection with the cunningly placed condiments!!

And so thoughtful of them to tell you how to use the door! I bet they used to have people stuck in there for days before that!! ;)
 
Pete,...I'm delighted you noticed the saucers. Funny thing about the exit. I went through that door after lunch and waited there a few moments while the girls went to the powder room. As you go through that doorway there is another doorway to the left and a stairwell going down. On the wall inside the stairwell is an illuminated exit sign. This confused me since we were already at street level so I asked a waiter if there was an exit downstairs and he replied "No,...why do you ask?" And so I pointed to the exit sign and he looked at it with what I would interpret as a degree of astonishment. He'd apparantly never noticed it in all his years in that restaurant. He confessed he didn't know why the exit sign was there. It was a bit surreal.
 
I'm sure I'm not the only one when I say we can like a picture, a lot, and not need words to say why. This is one of them to me Brian.

I was looking at your image so long I was logged out. Very nice indeedy.
 
Hang on a minute Brian, I've just realised who's missing. Propped up on a pitcher indeed!! That's why you can't see the reflection. There's a highly tuned skill at work here I can see. Well read and learned I would guess. So where exactly was Sadie then?!! And how many other of 'your' masterpieces should be more appropriately attributed?!! I smell a rat!! ;)
 
Gavin Robert said:
I'm sure I'm not the only one when I say we can like a picture, a lot, and not need words to say why. This is one of them to me Brian.

I was looking at your image so long I was logged out. Very nice indeedy.
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That's very nice of you to say, Gavin. Thank you very much!
 
Pete Askew said:
Hang on a minute Brian, I've just realised who's missing. Propped up on a pitcher indeed!! That's why you can't see the reflection. There's a highly tuned skill at work here I can see. Well read and learned I would guess. So where exactly was Sadie then?!! And how many other of 'your' masterpieces should be more appropriately attributed?!! I smell a rat!! ;)
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Now you hold on just a minute, Pete! I took this picture myself! That is a wild accusation you have made and I resent it! (Besides, we had invited Sadie along but she declined partially due to a sensitivity to garlic, but mostly due to a scheduling conflict, as she preferred to stay home and attend a lecture titled "Is Science Showing that We Don't Have A Free Will?" at UCLA.) So there! :p
 
I think I'd better check out this alibi. I'm sure they must have had something on the menu without garlic. Stay at home and attend a lecture - come on now, surely it is one or the other. The story seems to be unraveling a bit under 'cross examination'!! ;)
 
All sounds a bit Twilight Zone to me Brian - great idea for a picture though, and artfully executed.

Good job on liking the family - friends you can choose, family, not so much :D

PS Loving the Tri-X - just my cup of latte
 
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