Breaking ranks in the corps de ballet.
I took this photo nearly fifty years ago during a rehearsal at Covent Garden, and the negative is as pristine today as it was all those years ago. In response to Cheri inviting us to “find beauty in something broken” for this week’s Weekly Photo Challenge: Broken.
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Beeeautiful!!
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Thanks Laura. Best wishes
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Gorgeous! Absolutely stunning!
I just told another photographer that I haven’t been in a dark room in over thirty years….I wouldn’t remember what to do with a negative. Thank you for sharing this today!
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Many thanks Michelle. I have to confess that I haven’t been in a dark room for years either. I created this image by scanning the negative using my Epson V700 Photo Scanner, my digital “darkroom”. You might enjoy seeing some other scanned black and white photos in a slide show at the end of my post on Jan 30th: http://wp.me/p3gSod-1Gm Thanks again. Best wishes
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Good to know! I’ve been soaking up photography ‘lessons’ from the best and I was relieved to see that yours happens in a digital darkroom, too. I’m heading over to check out the black and white! Thank you, Andrew!
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that is so lovely and graceful, what a beautiful shot Andrew! Those old school cameras and film….. sometimes I miss them 🙂 Very Lovely.
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Thanks Debi. My old Pentax Spotmatic took the best pictures 🙂
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Pentax!! Great cameras 🙂 I could kick myself for selling my old one years ago – silly thing to do.
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Fortunately I still have mine although I don’t use it. My current SLR is a Pentax Kr and I love it 🙂
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Smart thinking, Andrew. All of your photos turn out so beautifully! My husband started buying me Canons & I’m used to them – but maybe, I could end up getting a “spare” camera…..(Pentax) LOL
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You can’t go wrong. The great thing is that the lenses from my old camera work with the new one.
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Gorgeous Andrew! Quick hands and a good eye. Love this. The stillness and the movement are perfect 😃
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Many thanks Robyn. Another one of those lucky moments 🙂
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Wow…just wow…that dynamic composition O_O
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Thanks Bob. I think you like it 🙂
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This is extremely beautiful, Andrew…I love the fact that it was taken from a ‘real’ camera, too 🙂
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Many thanks Bipasha. I loved my trusty Pentax Spotmatic that took the best pictures as you can see. 😊
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