[alt-photo] Re: Alt-photo-process-list Digest, Vol 453, Issue 1
BOB KISS
bobkiss at caribsurf.com
Fri Jul 22 21:32:22 GMT 2011
DEAR PAUL,
Are you sure you won't be bored?
I am only 60. Since moving to Barbados in 1993 I have continued
some advertising and commercial work when the fees are high enough but I
have been concentrating on my personal work since 1998 when I had my first
show. I was an advertising and fashion photog in Manhattan for 20 years.
I first came to Barbados Xmas/New Years 1983/84 because my brothers
had both sailed on the passenger ships out of NYC and spoke very highly of
Barbados. I used to vacation here regularly then discovered in the late 80s
that I could have an apartment year round here for what it used to cost me
for a hotel room or villa for two weeks (no longer!).
In 1989 I was in Sao Paolo, Brazil shooting for Brazilian Vogue,
Claudia Moda and was booked to shoot for Dillards when I had a near fatal
horse riding accident in the mountains in Campos Jordao. I was stabilized
in Albert Einstein hospital in Sao Paolo then flown home to spend the next
three years having 7 surgeries and physiotherapy. It gave me time to
consider what I really wanted from life and what I was willing to give to
it. I realized that I had had enough of fashion and advertising. I grabbed
my portfolios, flew down to my apartment here, and started seeing the few ad
agencies and fashion designers working locally. In 1993 I got a work permit
and permanent residency in 1994.
I had lost my appetite for photography in general until I saw the
beautiful, sensitive work of late, local photographer named Euchard
Fitzpatrick. I cleaned his negs and printed a show of 40 of his images
under the auspices of the Barbados National Trust. I realized that I had
thrown the baby out with the bath water, as it were, and fell back in love
with photography.
You asked for it!
CHEERS!
BOB
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Paul Viapiano
Sent: Friday, July 22, 2011 5:04 PM
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Subject: [alt-photo] Re: Alt-photo-process-list Digest, Vol 453, Issue 1
Bob,
Are you in retirement or do you currently work there? I've always been
curious about that...what brought you to Barbados?
Paul
----- Original Message -----
From: "BOB KISS" <bobkiss at caribsurf.com>
To: "'The alternative photographic processes mailing list'"
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Sent: Friday, July 22, 2011 1:58 PM
Subject: [alt-photo] Re: Alt-photo-process-list Digest, Vol 453, Issue 1
> Though I have to manage my processing temps year round due to the tap
> water
> maintaining a pretty steady 80 F I also enjoy very moderate tropical
> temps.
> We never go below 70 F on the coldest night in Feb and never go above 90 F
> on the hottest day in Sept/Oct, our hottest months. The humidity can
> climb
> pretty high in Sept/Oct but, other wise, we are pretty lucky. When I
> lived
> in Manhattan I used to amaze my friends by telling them that I was flying
> about 2000 miles south to Barbados the end of July and beginning of Aug
> because it was COOLER! Strange but true!
> Gotta love that inter tropical convergence zone and those trade
> winds. When I take visitors to the beach here on the Atlantic side of
> Barbados, I point out to them that the wind they are smelling left land in
> the Cape Verde Islands just off the west coast of Africa. As a matter of
> fact, we have very strange sunsets because, especially in March and April,
> the air is filled with Sahara dust!
> Strange and wonderful how interconnected this planet is.
> CHEERS!
> BOB
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: alt-photo-process-list-bounces at lists.altphotolist.org
> [mailto:alt-photo-process-list-bounces at lists.altphotolist.org] On Behalf
> Of
> dhbloomfield
> Sent: Friday, July 22, 2011 4:44 PM
> To: The alternative photographic processes mailing list
> Subject: [alt-photo] Re: Alt-photo-process-list Digest, Vol 453, Issue 1
>
> Well, it's 103 here today (NC), and with the humidity index, it must be
> about
> 115. Unbelievable.
>
> Chris, I do remember some years ago, when we had a huge hurricane here
> (Hurricane Fran, early September 1996), and all these tree-removal guys
> came
>
> down from NY, (Adirondack area) to help out-- and they were hauling off a
> huge
> old oak from our front yard (that actually across the house-- a whole
> other
> story), and they asked for some water. I went in the house to get them
> something to drink, and they said-- "No, no, we like it from the outdoor
> spigot." So I showed them where it was-- and for the longest time, they
> just
> let the water run. I could see them just standing there, kind of looking
> at
>
> each other, dumbfounded. So I asked what was wrong. They wanted to know
> if
>
> there was something wrong with our water-- if that's the way it just comes
> out
> of the ground. I had no idea what they meant. Finally, they said, "Well,
> is
> this is? Does it ever get cold?" They'd never seen water come out of an
> outdoor spigot that wasn't ice cold. And I never knew water came out of
> an
> outdoor spigot any other way-- other than bath water temperature. :)
>
> But how incredible to be in a climate where you don't need the air
> conditioning.
>
> Well, I have nothing to keep this on-topic-- except that when I returned
> the
>
> brand-new (dead) 3880 that I'd purchased from B&H, I did end up just
> buying
> a
> refurbished 3800 from Epson. It's been working like a charm. The repair
> shop
> here did end up fixing mine, but it took and a while, and they basically
> rebuilt
> it. Given what they did, and their (fixed price) repair quote, I *think*
> I
> came
> out ahead. At least I have 2 working printers now, so if one goes bad, I
> have a
> back-up. So I've been printing away here in my (newly renovated) and
> nicely
>
> cooled studio. The outside humidity doesn't seem to be having an adverse
> effect
> on anything-- well, on my prints.
>
>
>
>
>
>
> ________________________________
> From: Nelson Mark <ender100 at aol.com>
> To: The alternative photographic processes mailing list
> <alt-photo-process-list at lists.altphotolist.org>
> Sent: Fri, July 22, 2011 3:47:53 PM
> Subject: [alt-photo] Re: Alt-photo-process-list Digest, Vol 453, Issue 1
>
> Paul,
> hehehehe I know what you mean!
>
> About as important for me when I am traveling around the country is the
> HUMIDITY! You run into such variations and it really makes a difference
> in
> printing PT/PD and photopolymer gravure platemaking.
>
> Best Wishes,
> Mark Nelson
> www.PrecisionDigitalNegatives.com
>
> PDNPrint Forum @ Yahoo Groups
>
> www.MarkINelsonPhoto.com
>
>
> On Jul 22, 2011, at 2:30 PM, Paul Viapiano wrote:
>
>> Well, I'm here in LA and temps have been mostly bearable. We've only had
> a
>>week of near 100 temps since summer, but many days btw 88-92. Fortunately,
> my AC
>>doesn't need to be on until the later afternoon most days and we shut it
> off
>>after sundown unless it's still in the high 80-90s. But we do use heat in
> the
>>winter, not as much like eastern climes but still need it. The difference
> is
>>that most of the homes here have terrible insulation unless they've been
>>retrofitted. All these crackerbox houses built in the years following
>>after
> WWII
>>are horrible compared to other parts of the country, and the crappy ones
>>in
> the
>>worst neighborhoods are still going for $500k...! Don't get me started...
> ;-)
>>
>> Paul
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Nelson Mark" <ender100 at aol.com>
>> To: "Richard Knoppow" <dickburk at ix.netcom.com>; "The alternative
> photographic
>>processes mailing list" <alt-photo-process-list at lists.altphotolist.org>
>> Sent: Friday, July 22, 2011 10:49 AM
>> Subject: [alt-photo] Re: Alt-photo-process-list Digest, Vol 453, Issue 1
>>
>>
>>> It's been beastly hot here near Chicago.... We had a storm front come in
> last
>>>night and it is cooled down some. I'm always surprised when I travel to
> other
>>>parts of the country where people don't need air conditioning or don't
> need much
>>>in the way of heating. Here near Chicago with extremes in cold/hot &
> humidity,
>>>it seems we either have the air conditioning or heating running all year
> round.
>>>
>>> Best Wishes,
>>> Mark Nelson
>>> www.PrecisionDigitalNegatives.com
>>>
>>> PDNPrint Forum @ Yahoo Groups
>>>
>>> www.MarkINelsonPhoto.com
>>>
>>>
>>> On Jul 22, 2011, at 12:28 PM, Richard Knoppow wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Christina Anderson"
> <zphoto at montana.net>
>>>> To: "The alternative photographic processes mailing list"
>>>><alt-photo-process-list at lists.altphotolist.org>
>>>> Sent: Friday, July 22, 2011 8:40 AM
>>>> Subject: [alt-photo] Re: Alt-photo-process-list Digest, Vol 453, Issue
>>>> 1
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> Well, it is was so hot here in MN that my wood floors which are atop a
> cold
>>>>>basement in this almost 100-year old house were wet. No air
>>>>>conditioning
> here.
>>>>> But the heat finally broke, sort of.
>>>>> I remember when I moved to South Carolina for grad school, I was
> shocked to
>>>>>find out the water came out of the faucets bathtub temp. I had never
> even
>>>>>thought that occurred, always having lived in northern climes where the
> well
>>>>>water or city water pipes were buried deep in the ground and hence
>>>>>water
> was
>>>>>always 55 degrees or so.
>>>>> To keep it on topic, when I first started using Maco Infrared film,
> that
>>>>>emulsion was so soft that it would ding and slough in the 70's. Had to
> always be
>>>>>careful to keep the developing temp low with that film.
>>>>> Chris
>>>>>
>>>>> Christina Z. Anderson
>>>>> christinaZanderson.com
>>>>
>>>> Allowable processing temperatures have gone up considerably over the
> years.
>>>>Up to about 1940 the "standard" temperature was 65F, then it was
> increased to
>>>>68F. Not a big difference but it showed the progress in emulsion
>>>>hardness
> of the
>>>>time. Emulsion frilling, reticulation, and grain migration due to
> emulsion
>>>>swelling were common problems. I think we have stepped backwards with
> some of
>>>>the current films made by small companies who don't have or can't apply
> the
>>>>technology developed by the big guys.
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Richard Knoppow
>>>> Los Angeles, CA, USA
>>>> dickburk at ix.netcom.com
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