Natur Protection Area 'Santockie Zakole'

Natur Protection Area 'Santockie Zakole' very near Gorzów - my second Saturday morning excursion to that area, I startet at 6:00, most photos are with Canon EOS 5D III, EF 2.8/300 L or EF 2.8/70-200 L IS II, the two squares are with Hasselbald 203FE and Distagon CFE 4.0/40

 

 

The big bird on the right tree could be an eagle

  

 

 

 

Young stork

 

Shy beaver

 

The Canon EF 2.8/300 L, first version (my lens is from 1999), here mounted to EOS 1Ds III

Coolness from 1929/30

Cool like James Dean or Marlon Brando became known in the 1950 years, the rebellious attitude was widespread mostly by movies like 'The Wild One', USA 1953; 'On the Waterfront', USA 1954 or 'East of Eden', USA 1942.

„Cool is an oppositional attitude adopted by individuals or small groups to express defiance to authority – whether that of the parent, the teacher, the police, the boss or the prison warden. Put more succinctly, we see Cool as a permanent state of private rebellion. Permanent because Cool is not just some ‘phase that you go through’, something that you ‘grow out of’, but rather something that if once attained remains for life; private because Cool is not a collective political response but a stance of individual defiance, which does not announce itself in strident slogans but conceals rebellion behind a mask of ironic impassivity.” (Pountain, Dick; Robbins, David: Cool Rules. Anatomy of an attitude. London: Reaktion Books 2000, S. 19)

The motorcycle seems to be a fine racing Norton CS1 from about 1929/30 with typical Brooklands muffler. This photo is an original postcard photo, which I got from Great Britain. The number plate on the front mudgard looks English too, this style with there letters and up to three numbers was used from 1931 to 1963. 

The Norton rider definitely looks cool, 20 years before the term was known.

 

Further reading:


Minkin, Christa: James Dean & Marlon Brando Prototypen der Coolness. Diplomarbeit am Institut für Theater-, Film- und Medienwissenschaft der Universität Wien, Wien 2011

http://blog.wheels-and-waves.com/2008/10/norton-1927-cs1.html

New impressions from Gorzów

Today wonderful weather and in the afternoon I took the Hasselblad 203FE with Distagon CFE 4.0/40 for a little walk. 

Evening walk with Hasselblad 203FE and Planar 2.0/110

Short walk after work in the last sunlight from the Hotel to a near park in Gorzów. The Carl Zeiss Planar FE 2.0/110 mm is one of the most iconic lenses for the Hasselblad. This fast lens can only be used on focal plane Hasselblad bodies with built-in camera shutter, so fits perfect to my 203FE. All these photos are shot with nearly wide open aperture and especially the rose photo shows the smooth bokeh and incredibly shallow paper-thin depth of field.

Edward 'Ed' Jancarz (born August 20, 1946 in Gorzów - died January 11,1992)

The Qubus Hotel, where I stay since seven months.

Hasselblad 203FE with the Planar.

Seven month in Poland

Since seven month, exactly since middle of December 2015 I work in Poland. In a nice town named Gorzów Wielkopolski, located somehow in the middle between Szczecin (Stettin) and Zielona Góra. 

Since my Seoul blog (Walter Ulreich in Seoul, http://walterulreich.blogspot.com/) I wanted to start a new one, this is the first post. This blog will show old and new photographs, also historical ones and tell about old and new cameras. 

Here some shots from my first seven month in Poland: 

Typical small road alley

At the Baltic Sea

Houses in Gorzów

At the Warta promenade in Gorzów

Manufaktura in Łódź

Gorzów, Warta waterfront with floating round ice sheets

Sundown at the Warta water front

Graffiti in Gorzów

Rain