POLL ADDED New old film challenge #33. subject. MONUMENTS. entries thread.

[medwaygreen]

Here you go guys and girls the subject is MONUMENTS, any shape, size and material and of course in any country.

Must be taken on film and prior to the start date of challenge.

Please give your entry a title(easier to add poll) and tell us a bit about the kit and film if you can.

Challenge will remain open until Friday the 11th when I will put up the poll for voting.

Good luck.

 

[Carl Hall]

The Temple of Apollo, Stourhead Gardens, Wiltshire.

Arca Swiss 4x5 monorail, with a 150mm f/5.6 lens. Fuji Pro 160NS in a Tetenal C-41 kit and scanned in two halves on a V550


Temple of Apollo by Carl Hall, on Flickr

 

[excalibur2]

Well I like a history behind a monument even a sad story. This monument\grave was for Valentine Baker (near me) who formed a company with James Martin (which now is Martin-Baker who make ejection seats (also near me).
While testing a new plane (MB3), Baker was killed in landing and the story is that Martin was so badly affected at losing his partner decided to concentrate on the pilots safety, although did continue to develop the fighter aircraft to MB5 (looks a bit like a Mustang).
Fearless pilot......superia 200

 

[simon ess]

A monument to all the Staffordshire miners who gave their lives in the pursuit of coal.

I'm fairly sure it was taken with a Nikon FA and T-Max 400

img587 by Simon, on Flickr

 

[Andysnap]

A monument to a very funny and nice man.
Eric by Andy, on Flickr

Voigtlander Bessamatic, Voigtlander 50mm f2.8 lens on Acros.

 

[abdoujaparov]

I only took this last week, but it still counts, right?

Robert Falcon Scott memorial lighthouse, Roath Park, Cardiff. Nikon L35, Vista.

 

[trevorbray]

Brookwood Military Cemetary

Bronica SQ-A. Ektar

Remembered by -Captures...Moments....Forever-

 

[wontolla]

First results from the first roll of film through a Yashica 35 ME camera I bought from a charity shop in Kendal, Cumbria. Plus Agfa Vista 400.
Taken on holiday down in the South West England. Pretty pleased with the results from a £4.50 buy!

Airman - Battle of Britain Memorial

Airman - Battle of Britain Memorial by Barry Smith, on Flickr

 

[Kevin Allan]

A detail from "The Response", a WW1 memorial in Newcastle-upon-Tyne:



Fujifilm GA645Zi and TMax 100

 

[RaglanSurf]

Warsaw, the Monument of Those Killed and Murdered in the East, September 2012.
Bessa R, 25mm Snapshot lens, Ilford HP5+
Warsaw, the Monument of Those Killed and Murdered in the East by Nick Watson, on Flickr

 

[happygolucky]

film (2 of 1) by Andrew Bray, on Flickr

Sculpture. Acros if I remember correctly. Yash mat

 

[Cannyekerslike]

Monument in detail - Canon A1 35-70mm lens - Agfa Slide Film


Monument-Detail_01 by Cannyekerslike on Talk Photography

 

[NickT]

A strange object on a street of Georgian houses. It is, however, a tomb



http://www.spookyisles.com/2012/06/the-great-pyramid-of-liverpool/

Taken on a Canon A1 in 2013, Tri-X I think.

(I was about to post my favourite monument photograph, as it has my bike leaning against it, until I realised that I had taken it with the camera on my phone.)

 

[Peter B]

The graveyard at Oldshoremore in NW Sutherland which sits between the carpark and the beach. Great light, great camera (Bronica RF645) and great eejit for selling it!

 

[Asha]

Located up in the mountains above Auron ski resort, this stone is in memory to Joel Fabri who was accidently electrocuted whilst working on the cable car station / terminus in 2007





Nikon FM
Film dunno, with the grain it looks like it was probably HP5 in Rodinal
Winter 2013 / 14

 

[Jao]

Light so the darkness is never forgotten -Holocaust Memorial, Cora-Berliner-Straße, Berlin
Nikon F100, Cosina 19-35mm @19mm, Fuji Reala 100, converted to monochrome

 

[medwaygreen]

A tribute to the French of North Africa.

Fuji GSW690 II Pro400H film.

 

[The Matt]

Untitled by the matt1, on Flickr
Mausoleum, Welton Dale
(Agfa Vista, Pentax me super, 28mm...?

 

[TheGreatSoprendo]

Abandoned graveyard in forest surrounding Castle Caldwell, Co. Fermanagh, Ireland.
Nikon FA, Nikkor 20mm f4, Fuji Neopan Acros 100

 

[ChrisR]

This was taken in 1967 on the Werra 1, unknown black and white film, somewhere near Reading. I was wandering through the graveyard (or park?) on my way to somewhere else, and I was struck by the image of this wistful stone naked lady sat atop the grave. It made me chuckle, wondering what kind of man Charles Frohman was, that his friends or family would commemorate his "happy memory" with this adornment!



The wonders of Wikipedia tells me, however, nearly 50 years later, that Charles Frohman was an American theatrical producer who was active in the UK as well as the US, and died when the Lusitania was torpedoed in 1915. Wikipedia reports "As passengers began to panic, Frohman stood on the promenade deck, chatting with friends and smoking a cigar. He calmly remarked:

“This is going to be a close call."[9] Frohman, with a disabled leg and walking with a cane, could not have jumped from the deck into a lifeboat, so he was trapped. Instead, he and millionaire Alfred Vanderbilt tied lifejackets to “Moses baskets” containing infants who had been asleep in the nursery when the torpedo struck. Frohman then went out onto the deck, where he was joined by actress Rita Jolivet, her brother-in-law George Vernon and Captain Alick Scott. In the final moments, they clasped hands and Frohman paraphrased his greatest hit, Peter Pan: “Why fear death? It is the most beautiful adventure that life gives us." Jolivet, the only survivor of Frohman's party, was standing with Frohman as the ship sank. She later said, “with a tremendous roar a great wave swept along the deck. We were all divided in a moment, and I have not seen any of those brave men alive since."[10]

On balance, he deserves a wistful naked lady as his memorial!

 

[medwaygreen]

Closed for entries poll added.

 

[medwaygreen]

And the winner of challenge #33 Monuments is RaglanSurf with his very fine B&W photograph.

Well done Nick congratulations and over to you for #34.

 

[TheGreatSoprendo]

congrats @RaglanSurf !

 

[Peter B]

congrats @RaglanSurf !

 

[wontolla]

Well done the forum idiot! (Official)