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Film: Stillness and movement.

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Maris Rusis

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Sedges and Wind, Burgess Creek

Gelatin-silver photograph on Agfa Classic MCC 111 VC FB, image area 16.2cm X 21.5cm, from a Tmax 100 negative exposed in a Mamiya RB67 camera with a 127mm f3.8 lens.​

Photography was the first picture making medium that offered unalloyed stillness; the abililty to stop the world so that aspects of it could looked at in detail and at leisure. Until images could fixed by technical means no one could see exactly how a horse galloped or appreciate the successive forms of a breaking wave.

Even sedges swaying in a gentle south-easter have their own signature of movement. It is a photographic artifact but nevertheless beguiling; at least for me.
 
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Michael Nagel

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I like the not so usual interpretation of this photographic concept. There is even a little twist - the creek is not still, its movement is just not visible.

Best regards,
Michael
 
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