Someone was there

-- Stephane Bosman (stephane_bosman@yahoo.co.uk), March 19, 2002

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Hello Stephane,

Old factory II to VIII is fine, but what about no. I? Are we missing something very strong there??

Please let us see this one as well. Fine shots. Places like this are always an adventure. You can breathe the spirit of centuries there. To preserve this feeeling with a camera is a great challenge.

Thanks for showing.

Best wishes

-- K. G. Wolf (k.g.wolf@web.de), March 19, 2002.

Thanks for the comment. Here is the link to the first one...

First Post

-- Stephane Bosman (stephane.bosman@2ci.net), March 19, 2002.

Stephane, your photos make a nice series.

-- Preston Merchant (merchant@speakeasy.org), March 19, 2002.

Hi, Stephane:

I had seen Old Factory I some time ago and hoped there was more somewhere...

Good photography ! And yes, I think K G Wolf already said it in a very appropriate way: yours is a good achievement.

Might I suggest to include your series in a folder in Photonet so as to make for an easier reference .

Thanks for sharing. IMHO one thing is for sure: this IS the kind of posting we need in this site.

Regards, Stephane

-Iván

-- Iván Barrientos M (ingenieria@simltda.tie.cl), March 19, 2002.

Stephan thank´s for share, an impresive story of walls full of memories, good documental work, have you finish it?, are there more images to see?

keep up such a good work!

-- r watson (al1231234@hotmail.com), March 19, 2002.

Wow! It certainly is encouraging to post here :-) Thanks a lot everybody!

The folder exists on photo.net : Click Here

I think it is far from finished. I've spent about 1é hours so far on this site, and I have not even been in all the buildings. One I have not been seems bigger than all the rest combined! That place is huge!

What I hope to do over the next 12 months is to go there regularly, assemble a set of 2-300 acceptable proofs and from that select maybe 40-50 shots to properly enlarge and print. After that, I'll see if someone would be interested in allocating some space to display it... I love to dream :-)

My intent by posting these proofs is to check early on that I'm not wasting my time with something uninteresting for other people, because I only take pictures with the intent of showing them.

I have questions:

- Is it more appropriate to post a seperate thred per picture or one serie in one thread ?

- Would publishing a link to the photo.net folder when I add to it do just as fine ? Thanks again.

Regards.

-- Stephane Bosman (stephane.bosman@2ci.net), March 19, 2002.

Nice to know that the folder already exists but it was a pity that I couldn't access your photos from Venice.

Letting us know that new photos have been uploaded into your site will be motivation enough to re-visit it, hopefully often.

Good work. Good photos. Good news

-Iván

-- Iván Barrientos M (ingenieria@simltda.tie.cl), March 19, 2002.

Stephane,

I think that in a series these shots work. Taken out of the series and several of them would not be as strong and would be unsupported by the other shots. This one is an image that could stand alone. I think that as you assemble your series you should be cognisant of the strength of each piece. If each piece can stand alone. If each piece tells its own story or in other words conveys its own message, then each piece will add strength to the series making it powerful!!!!!

By the way I spent a week in an out 1850's wollen mill. The mill was very old and falling down, or so it seemed. All the machinery were atiques. I walked away with about fifty shots. I averaged around ten shots per day (eight hour days) and I really think the extra time spent added to the experience. The extra time spent allowed me the time need to explore the FINE details of the buliding and machinery. If you are serious about this project, set one Saturday aside (eight full hours) spend the time exploring and take fewer shots. You may find it everything you need to create a MAGICAL series. Best of luck to you!

-- Rob Schopke (schopke@attbi.com), March 19, 2002.

By the way I spent a week in an out 1850's wollen mill

should have been

By the way I spent a week in an "OLD" 1850's wollen mill

-- Rob Schopke (schopke@attbi.com), March 19, 2002.

Stephane:

These are excellent, despite any nit-picking that might occur. Posting one per thread is a service to those folks using a modem. All in one thread and then: their software would have expired before the download was complete. ;o)

Art

-- Art (AKarr90975@aol.com), March 19, 2002.

I like #8 very much. I like it for texture, composition, and the question it raises about who used these things, and what were their stories?

-- Bob Fleischman (RFXMAIL@prodigy.net), March 19, 2002.

Stephane,

Have you seen this? It was also excerpted at photo.net:

http://oboylephoto.com/ruins/

-- Preston Merchant (merchant@speakeasy.org), March 26, 2002.