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A Weaver Spinning - Jerome Belthrop
A study of Women at Work || Click the image for full sized view please.
| Camera: | G2 |
| Lens: | 35 MM |
| Film: | Ilford FP4 125 ASA |
| Exposure: | Unrecorded |
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| Posted: | 29-May-2002 |
Rating: 8.62 (29 ratings)
Comments
Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful!
I love it! Such delicacy! Wonderful light, tones and textures and a lot of feeling here. Stunning! One tiny thing -- I wish there was a bit of highlight on top of the black sleeve to bring it out from the background and make her arm continue, if that makes sense.
Robin Kleb 29-May-2002 at 14:52Really Jerome
I recognize this shot. It's done by Curtis in the beginning of this century. Or, most likely, you have been sandbagging all the time - you are Curtis. You really are outdoing yourself Jerome. BTW, who allowed you to use the the 35 mm, and Sepia the whole thing. Wonderful. I wonder what Wilfred is going to do about all this. I wish I had done this, YOU .... BUT stay away from the baby folder. DO YOU HEAR ME .... :-)
Knut Skjærven 29-May-2002 at 14:53Walker Evans...
would have been proud to call this his own. Fine, fine work.
Anker Heegaard 29-May-2002 at 16:57well...
...apparently something has clicked into place lately, hasn't it, Jerome? You've gone from fairly good photos a few months ago to pretty close to awesome lately. This one is great. I like the tone. Only thing I wonder is what's that stuff that looks like dust in the white area under her wrist?
Richard Sintchak 29-May-2002 at 18:04Great
I vote this photo 9 marks! This is an excellent B/W shot with all the key elements applied. I appreciate very much you provide room for our imagination rather than showing all details in a small frame. (I guess the hands are come from a old mother, who is going to check the clothes for her not so young son). I would like to vote this 10 if the dusts on the cloth doesn't exist. Great work!
Frankie Leung 29-May-2002 at 18:21-
Weavers, wood carvers, shoe makers. Jerome has found a community of craftspeople right out of a children's story. If they perform their crafts at the level Jerome is displaying in this series, they are truly a talented lot. Perhaps Anker (our unofficial site photo historian) can confirm this but I seem to recall that Alfred Stieglitz did a series of similar shots of the hands of Georgia O'Keefe. Stieglitz and Walker Evans, not bad company to be associated with Jerome.
Bruce McKinney 29-May-2002 at 19:11-
Well Jerome, I am almost sheepish for having praised your train station image so effusively, for now you've topped it and I may be out of good adjectives. I love the softness of this image and the feel, and the hands glimmer. Lovely beyond words.
Robert Mirani 29-May-2002 at 19:29aesthetics and reality. . .
Frankie and Richard the dust--well that is actually clumps of wool fiber and weeds. This is raw unwashed wool being spun into yarn for weaving. I debated removing it in Photoshop--but knew when I sent the Master Weaver the URL to view the image she would see that I had 'doctored' the image.
So I left that element in the image. This was a case of balancing aesthetics and reality. :-)
Guilds, Hands, Lange, Babies, Details
Hands. . ..
Actually Frankie these are the hands of a 30ish year old, vital mother of 2. Here in Germany, she would be called a Weber Meisterin--a professional of her trade guild. She teaches students in a textile school museum--the art and craft of weaving, yarn spinning, and such. She does have a most excellent manicure.
Richard-Knut, yes, I think that I have become much more discriminating about the images posted. Rest assured, Knut, that I have drawers filled with so-so-- mucked up images. .
Bruce these figures are a dying breed. In the Old Country--they are becoming harder and harder to find--I looked for a scissor sharpener--a guy or woman with great gritty sensitive hands--for a few images--- I am still looking.
All, by the way-- the hands images--(I hope I have more to come) were inspired by Lincoln's suggestion in a comment about the Toy maker. Thanks you Lincoln for the motif suggestion. Lincoln
Knut, no fear--no problem--I am allergic to babies-- I feel even un-comfortable-- viewing and rating them on this site. ;-)
Robin, yes, I understand your comment 100 percent. I adjusted the curves to darken jut the spots you wanted to see detail in. Had I not done this-- I felt the center of interest--the hands-- would have been diminished.
simply wonderful Jerome
i can really enjoy the tones in this pic
Ed Ng 30-May-2002 at 01:06Appreciation...
Ed, David, I appreciate you two giving this image a critical view--and the thank you for taking the time to make a comment concerning your likes and dislikes--they surely help guide my further development.
Jerome Belthrop 30-May-2002 at 08:15Beautiful work
Just beautiful tones, simple interesting composition and stunningly printed.
Leonard Neumann 30-May-2002 at 08:39Spin...
Robin, now I just need to re-create this beauty--and spin more creative images of the same ilk. Thank you... for the encouragement.
Jerome Belthrop 03-Jun-2002 at 13:34Wonderful
Very nice work, very impressive. Great tonal range
Tyler Vance 03-Jun-2002 at 19:44Timeless
I wish I could write more, but I'm just too tired. It's beautiful and exquisite! I have been away from contaxg.com for a while; this was a great image to greet me.
Jean Lee 03-Jun-2002 at 21:36consistency . . .
Tyler & Jean-- I appreciate your comments. And, please be sure to be extra critical when I post--;-) I want to develop consistency--though your insightfulness.
Jerome Belthrop 04-Jun-2002 at 03:28Great shot, Jerome
I was following your learning path in these months. You have the numbers and this shot demonstrates this fact. Great work Jerome.
Carlo Consoli 06-Jun-2002 at 03:22OK guys,
going by the ratings I will always end up No. 3 in this competition. No way I can stand up against the excellent images the two of you contributed here. So I decided not to go by the ratings anyway, and make my final entry thematic after all - bringing one, two and three people into focus, respectively. This means I even had to put an image here that was rated a lousy 7.8 on average. But it's one of my personal favorites, so let's see what happens. Next time I *have* to go B&W, I suppose ...
Wilfred van der Vegte 27-Jun-2002 at 00:44Please ignore my previous
... comment on this image. It was never sent to the mailing list anyway, but I'm going to change my strategy in this competition, I think.
Wilfred van der Vegte 28-Jun-2002 at 07:15Excellent
Lovely tone and very cleaver subject. The finished print must be awsome
Robert Major 06-Jul-2002 at 16:36so nice
Jerome, I can't believe I never saw this one before ... just goes to show there are so many hidden gems on the site for us relative newcomers. This is a wonderful image and idea.
Gregg Humphrey 07-May-2003 at 20:33Woven . . .
Gregg, I appreciate that you have taken the time--to look. Dually, while you are praising the better images--lend me advice on the poorer ones, too. :-)
Jerome Belthrop 09-May-2003 at 03:10hands
there are no words to describe this shot, is simply a wonderful shot. I can see the woman through her hands.
Daniele Esposito 20-May-2004 at 18:40scenes
D. Thank you.
Jerome Belthrop 21-May-2004 at 02:22