Checking In from NYC

[David A. Goldfarb]

Greetings. Some of you may know me from other forums or APUG.org, where I volunteer as a moderator. Asher Kelman mentioned over on the Large Format forum that he wanted to encourage more LF users to participate on OPF, and having drifted by to take a look in the past, I thought I'd register this time around and participate.

I haven't kept my website as up to date as I should, but you can see some of my work at--

http://www.echonyc.com/~goldfarb/photo

 

[Asher Kelman]

Greetings. Some of you may know me from other forums or APUG.org, where I volunteer as a moderator. Asher Kelman mentioned over on the Large Format forum that he wanted to encourage more LF users to participate on OPF, and having drifted by to take a look in the past, I thought I'd register this time around and participate.

I haven't kept my website as up to date as I should, but you can see some of my work at--

http://www.echonyc.com/~goldfarb/photo

David,

I so apprecaite you coming here. The stength and depth of photography were made in film. Yes we are in the digital age and most photography is efficiently done with a DSLR at huge savings for most cases. However, LF film, unknown to a major segment of photographers does have unique creative possibilities.

This picture of yours, (hope you don't mind ) I love because it gives me the feeling of a submerged graveyard on the way to the tall buildings, an ominous metaphor of our time.

Welcome and please wade in and show us how to walk the walk, talk the talk and strut your stuff!

Asher

 

[David A. Goldfarb]

Thanks, Asher. Glad you like that one. I shot it handheld with a folding 6x9 Voigtlander Bessa II made in the mid-1950s, and when I turned around I realized that there were two NYC park police officers paying very close attention to what I was doing. Perhaps this pier is important to New York's transportation infrastructure in ways that I couldn't imagine.

 

[Shane Carter]

Nice stuff on your site... Welcome!

 

[Asher Kelman]

David,

Have you ever thought of this in terms of 911, a sort of premonition?

Asher

 

[David A. Goldfarb]

Thanks, Shane.

I made the pier photograph in 2004, if I remember correctly, so it was after 9/11. Otherwise, I don't think the Park police would have noticed, as long as I wasn't using a tripod. If one uses a tripod in the parks along the river from about Chelsea down to Battery park--and this was true before 9/11--one is likely to be questioned about commercial use, and then once they've established that you're just photographing for personal use, they leave you alone.

I don't suspect that anyone had a premonition in New York about the 9/11 attacks. I was listening to the radio as events unfolded. The first person to report on it was an accountant for the local Public Radio affiliate who happened to be in a meeting and was facing out a window looking at the towers when the first plane struck. Everyone was sure it was a freak accident involving a small plane until the second plane struck.

 

[Rachel Foster]

Let me add my welcome, as well. Your photos are wonderful.