self-portrait in studebaker

[fish4570]

i am in here somewhere; bessa r, industar 50/3.5 rigid, kodak bw400cn, the usual walgreens processing/scanning:

[Minolfan]

Odd framing for a selfportrait. Could have gone a bit closer!? Or frame the car as principle part of the picture?

[mo]

A dot on the bumper bar does that count as a portrait ...nice car.

[fish4570]

the car was parked up to the guard posts. i only noticed later i was in the photo, so the self-portrait business is a bit of a joke. the car is a 1962 studebaker gran turismo. i was mostly just wringing out that little industar 50, slamming it with some bright pensacola, florida, winter sun. handled it right well, i think ...

more photos:

[mo]

Nice solid car...yes I did get the joke It handles the bright sun well.

[Katastrofo]

Love old Studebakers, nice catches.

[mo]

Its shape reminds me of another car...I can't think what?

[Nesster]

Maybe a combo of a Mercedes and T-bird?

[mo]

Yes the Mercedes...the same lines

[PaulC]

I did a self-portrait today, too, inspired by a sugar pot.



Sorry, it isn't MF or rangefinder but it seemed in keeping with the thread.

[fish4570]

dandy anyway. what is that facade or building in the background?

[PaulC]

It's a posh restaurant in Souq Waqif. I don't have a photograph of that building handy, but here is another part of the same road, as seen by a Nettar 516

[fish4570]

ah. thanks. is it a cultural issue to photograph women in burkas, accidental or otherwise?

[PaulC]

They are abayahs (cloaks) and shaylas (headscarves) in the Gulf. There are some other names for different styles of head covering. Burkas are Afghan.

As the women are covered and are in a public place full of tourists it isn't a problem. Some more fundamentalist Muslims might object - in fact, there is a general Islamic objection to any representation of any living human/animal form at all (risk of idolatory), which is why Islamic art is based on geometry, not nature.

It amuses me that the first hardline Muslims to go firmly against the rule of not depicting the human form for fear of idolatory, were some of the sultans, kings and emirs with their pictures on coins, stamps and banknotes, precisely because they wanted to be hero-worshipped by their followers.

Contrary to the Western belief that they are all hated despots, the Arab rulers generally manage to construct considerable personality cults. The adulation seems to be genuine, though the Arabs also have a remarkable capacity for switching sides if one ruler replaces another. Robert Fisk once observed that in the Arab world, conquerors are always welcomed as "liberators" and showered with flowers by those who are conspiring to stab them in the back.

[fish4570]

now, THAT is an observation ...

[PaulC]

If you check out the postage stamps of Saudi Arabia up to - probably - the 40s and 50s you will find none of them depict people or animals. In the 80s, a statue of an oryx was removed in Doha because Saudi religious people had objected to it but, apparently, they didn't have the gall to tell the emir to take his picture off the stamps (it doesn't appear on the currency).

[fish4570]

har!

[Farside]

[F16SUNSHINE]

Sorry if I stay on topic here.
Here is one I may have posted before. I bit of extra PP to deal with cyan (did not have the coding set).
It's not film but it is RF. M8 with Hexanon Dual 21/35mm.
I'm in there twice but your going to need to really search
Pretty car though but for the color.

[fish4570]

mirror and fender.

no, mirror and headlight trim ring.

could be a third one in the fender ... aieeeeeee!

nice shot, too ...