{"id":62,"date":"2007-01-13T22:17:37","date_gmt":"2007-01-13T21:17:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fotocycle.dk:80\/paws\/?page_id=62"},"modified":"2007-01-13T22:19:59","modified_gmt":"2007-01-13T21:19:59","slug":"week-52-futile-ir","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.fotocycle.dk\/paws\/?page_id=62","title":{"rendered":"Week 52: Futile IR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My pictures for the last week of 2006 span three countries: Netherlands, Denmark and Poland. All were made with my &#8220;new&#8221; Bronica 645 rangefinder. Digital is great, but sometimes medium format film is funner.<\/p>\n<p>The first image is from the island of Alr\u00c3\u0192\u00c2\u00b8, in eastern Jutland:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"uploads\/52.jpg\" alt=\"B2006_6_1\" \/><br \/>\n<em>(Bronica 645, 45mm lens, Tri-X)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The second one is from the harbour in the small town of Hov, also in eastern Jutland. The photographer in the picture is my best friend, Lars:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"uploads\/52alt1.jpg\" alt=\"B2006_6_2\" \/><br \/>\n<em>(Bronica 645, 45mm lens, Tri-X)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Then a flashback to earlier in the week, when I was still in the Netherlands. A rare posed image, of a vendor in Zaltbommel who sells warm waffles on the main square of the town:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"uploads\/52alt2.jpg\" alt=\"B2006_7_2\" \/><br \/>\n<em>(Bronica 645, 65mm lens, Rollei IR)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Now back to Denmark. Almost every time I am there, I have to drive across the Great Belt bridge, and almost always, I stop at the rest area on the Zealand side:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"uploads\/52alt3.jpg\" alt=\"B2006_6_15\" \/><br \/>\n<em>(Bronica 645, 45mm lens, Tri-X)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>During my visit, Lars and I went out to take pictures on Christmas Day, at a rather empty local train station:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"uploads\/52alt4.jpg\" alt=\"B2006_7_16\" \/><br \/>\n<em>(Bronica 645, 45mm lens, Rollei IR)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Lars lives in the village called M\u00c3\u0192\u00c2\u00a5rslet. I went for a walk one day and happened on this house, where the inhabitants put up their own sign protesting the absence of winter. It says, &#8220;we want snow, otherwise we will move to Greenland&#8221;.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"uploads\/52alt5.jpg\" alt=\"B2006_6_13\" \/><br \/>\n<em>(Bronica 645, 45mm lens, Tri-X)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The last three images are from Poland. In a small town, Sobotka, the local bakery is famous for the quality of its bread. People from the surrounding towns come to buy bread there:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"uploads\/52alt6.jpg\" alt=\"B2006_6_26\" \/><br \/>\n<em>(Bronica 645, 65mm lens, Tri-X)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I had brought some infrared film with me, but winter in northern Europe is not exactly conducive to IR photography. There was one sunny day during the entire two-week vacation, so I made some attempts. This is Plac Grunwaldzki in Wroclaw, seen from my sister&#8217;s balcony:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"uploads\/52alt7.jpg\" alt=\"B2006_8_3\" \/><br \/>\n<em>(Bronica 645, 65mm lens, Rollei IR)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>And this is a bridge across the Odra river in Wroclaw, Most Grunwaldzki:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"uploads\/52alt8.jpg\" alt=\"B2006_8_13\" \/><br \/>\n<em>(Bronica 645, 45mm lens, Rollei IR)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My pictures for the last week of 2006 span three countries: Netherlands, Denmark and Poland. All were made with my &#8220;new&#8221; Bronica 645 rangefinder. Digital is great, but sometimes medium format film is funner. The first image is from the island of Alr\u00c3\u0192\u00c2\u00b8, in eastern Jutland: (Bronica 645, 45mm lens, Tri-X) The second one is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":61,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fotocycle.dk\/paws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/62"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fotocycle.dk\/paws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fotocycle.dk\/paws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fotocycle.dk\/paws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fotocycle.dk\/paws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.fotocycle.dk\/paws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/62\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fotocycle.dk\/paws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/61"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fotocycle.dk\/paws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}