From a bottle of Clos Napoléon, 1986, Fixin 1er Cru.
I have been carrying it around with me since that time – along with several other bottles that probably did not survive either.
May my friends forgive me …
Yes, I have been warned.
Archive for the 'treasure hunting' Category
As my collodion workshop quickly approaches, I am randomly looking around eBay to find interesting material related to the topic. I find it quite hard to believe that collodion was wildly used not so very long ago – where did all the stuff go? Because it is rather difficult to find anything useful or interesting.
So you can just imagine my big smile when I managed to place the winning bid on this piece of glas with a stereoscopic image of the anatomy of a man’s ear, dated somewhere between 1880 and 1900.
I am really inspired now … Ears, anyone?
For those who have not been following: my dog is a little treasure hunter and I am showing some of the objects of his huge collection.
I think this was a rubber duck once. A found one. Hunter adores anything with rubber on or in it. A real fetish dog!
I tried to give him an intact ducky some time ago, but the new one would look just the same as the found one 1 min later. Guess this is the way he likes them. And not just him – guess most of the dogs love rubber ducks this way, because that is always how we find them. Unfortunately the shops have not yet reacted and are still selling ducks with heads and tails. So much for consumer orientedness – shame on them!
It is actually difficult to photograph anything in this appartment. It is dark here. Always. We are up under the roof – near the skys but with small windows only. Very few spots with light – cave like. So without studio equipment – which would be a bit over the top for this – I am actually having a hard time to find the right spots for the objects. But it will do for what I have in mind.
Most people who know me are aware of my little dog called Hunter
What most people do not know is that Hunter is not a hunter but a collector. A very enthusiastic one on top of it all.
His preferences: rubber objects, wood knots and strange plastic things. Last week we had to convince him to leave a pink rubber sex toy behind, which he had found in the bushes and wanted to add to his home collection. You cannot imagine the drama that was.
On the pro side: we do not need to buy him toys as he finds them all in the woods: balls, balls and more balls.
It is not an easy task for him to carry some of these pieces home from wherever he finds them, but he does so proudly, tail straight in the air and totally sure of himself, even if he can hardly keep it up due to the size and weight of his findings – much to the amusement of people we pass. Once he collects something, we have to abort our walk and go straight home so he can put his new object in his treasure box. Is this a dog or what?
I am still annoyed at myself that we did not take a picture of that pink sex toy. But yeah, it was a bit disgusting (one more reason to regret the missing picture). Next time.
Why am I telling this here? Shhhhht … it is still a secret, but I will tell you soon. Promised.
After I posted the last images here, someone asked me if I do a lot of landscapes. Well … not really. I generally do take “reminders”, as I call them, “visual notes” on places that I could revisit. My personal location scouting so to say.
If you look at the image above, which is such a “reminder”, that would be a place where I would stick around to get that “extra”, which is not in there now. Also I would prefer a different light situation. Not a sunny, but a more gloomy one. That has also to do with the camera I am using, which is a Canon G10, whereas a larger format would be desirable here, if you really wanted to get all the detail. So I am not after the detail here … not with my equipment.
Sure enough once in a while I get this itching to acquire a large format camera, although I would not do it without a project making this step necessary. I like to keep things as simple as possible and definitively not more complex than necessary. Same goes for my equipment.
I have my G10 with me for this form of visual notetaking. And that is fine. You never know what images will come along and when – the G10 is always ready to go for it. And I collect them all, if I have the chance and if they fit into my pattern. It is a bit like treasure hunting and just as exciting. Even if the only place where they might get shown is in this blog, which for me is not a tight place to “sell a style” but a place of loose conversations and brainstorming.
Both of these images were on the sd card that I uploaded today.
