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Title: riverside fun
Post by: imagesfrugales on June 02, 2017, 11:05:06 PM
About 2 weeks ago, I walked along a brige over the river Neckar in Mannheim shortly before sundown, not having a camera with me, and a scenery in storng backlight. I decided to come back with a camera to capture the strange but  beautiful scenario.

A couple of days later I brought my new favorite slr, the very first AF, a Mnolta 7000, equipped with a 2. generation 35-105 zoom lens. After all not the worst choice for this purpose. I have some expired (10 years or so) fast bw films that need to be used and choosed a Neopan 400, exposed at EI 200, developed as 400. And to make things more complicated, I decided to develop the film in a recently "developed" homemade developer with phenidone/vit-c, similar to Xtol 1+1 but with much less suffite like in 1+3 Xtol (hopefully not worth a flower foul).

The scenery is somehow strange, mostly young people hangig out by the River, enjoying the early summer evening, barbecueing, drinking, having fun, with an ugly "ironman" dominating the scene. Mannheim has a lot of industry at the river Neckar and Rhine, which come together not far away from this this place and has a quite big inland harbour. You can see some buildings in the background, i.e. the crooked building aof a huge cacao trade centre.

Let's start with an overview from the bridge.

(https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4286/34662432320_f0c10bceba_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/UP12vs)
Neckarwiese Mannheim (https://flic.kr/p/UP12vs) by Imagesfrugales (https://www.flickr.com/photos/imagesfrugales/), on Flickr

stepping down

(https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4256/34247400623_115a728576_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/UbjT3x)
Neckarwiese Mannheim (https://flic.kr/p/UbjT3x) by Imagesfrugales (https://www.flickr.com/photos/imagesfrugales/), on Flickr


approach

(https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4283/35057960835_3f04c8038e_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/VpXdmB)
Neckarwiese Mannheim (https://flic.kr/p/VpXdmB) by Imagesfrugales (https://www.flickr.com/photos/imagesfrugales/), on Flickr


the ironman

(https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4268/34862993151_1742bd0a4e_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/V7HXfP)
Neckarwiese Mannheim (https://flic.kr/p/V7HXfP) by Imagesfrugales (https://www.flickr.com/photos/imagesfrugales/), on Flickr


cacao plant, barbecue and 2(?) ironmen, my favorite of the series.

(https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4196/35057972735_fef9a5ac45_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/VpXgTM)Neckarwiese Mannheim (https://flic.kr/p/VpXgTM) by Imagesfrugales (https://www.flickr.com/photos/imagesfrugales/), on Flickr


dancing

(https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4251/34214322884_48700b7965_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/U8pmbG)
Neckarwiese Mannheim (https://flic.kr/p/U8pmbG) by Imagesfrugales (https://www.flickr.com/photos/imagesfrugales/), on Flickr


and playing frisbee

(https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4208/35009766596_6a6d4621ab_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/VkGcTs)
Neckarwiese Mannheim (https://flic.kr/p/VkGcTs) by Imagesfrugales (https://www.flickr.com/photos/imagesfrugales/), on Flickr


after sundown

(https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4276/34926484511_07ee699c18_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/Vdkn2r)
Neckarwiese Mannheim (https://flic.kr/p/Vdkn2r) by Imagesfrugales (https://www.flickr.com/photos/imagesfrugales/), on Flickr
Title: Re: riverside fun
Post by: cs1 on June 03, 2017, 06:37:19 AM
Nice documentary, well done! I like the depth of the images and the exposure is very good. Thanks for sharing!
Title: Re: riverside fun
Post by: GrainTrain on June 03, 2017, 04:38:48 PM
This was a very enjoyable read! Very well done, thanks for posting this here!
Title: Re: riverside fun
Post by: Bryan on June 03, 2017, 06:21:30 PM
Great essay Reinhold, I like the lighting.  "Ironman" is awesome, it has such a powerful presence in the photos!
Title: Re: riverside fun
Post by: imagesfrugales on June 03, 2017, 11:10:44 PM
Thank you for the nice comments.
Title: Re: riverside fun
Post by: jharr on June 04, 2017, 06:20:30 AM
Reinhold, well done. There is such a festive atmosphere there. I would expect there to be a concert or some event. I guess we have a similar phenomenon here in San Diego. The beaches are quite crowded in the summer evenings. I'm with Bryan, appreciating the vigilant presence of the ironman. The contrast of scale between 'him' and the people milling about his feet is very interesting. Thanks for sharing these.
Title: Re: riverside fun
Post by: calbisu on July 05, 2017, 11:15:23 AM
Beautiful set!