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• Yashica-Mat
• San Bernardino
• medium format

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San Bernardino 


A week ago, I rediscovered my medium format negatives. Scanning’s a bore, and I’ll have to think twice before I single out anyone of them and subject it to that procedure.
I took this picture in September 1996 with my Yashica-Mat 6x6 twin-lens reflex camera. Cora was five years old then, just about the age of the girl in the foreground, and hey, she happened to have the same kind of mouse as this kid’s holding. Life is full of coincidences.

It is a snapshot, like all of my photos. Yet it has a formal quality which makes it stand out of most of the rest, I think. Anyway, it’s one of my all-time favorites.

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AbsoluteShower says:
Yes, there is something about the square format which actually offers a "new" perspective from the otherwise standard format these days.

The composition is marvellous here, which might be why you like it so much. I like it too. It balances well and there's a point of interest ... everywhere!
Posted 5 weeks ago. ( permalink )
Keespro replies:
Thank you, Nigel. Before going medium format, I read a lot of books and articles praising the square format. Though I settled for 6x7, the Zenza Bronica GS-1, I couldn’t resist when I got the opportunity to buy a second-hand Yashica, which I came to like so much that I almost regretted not to have gone for a Rolleiflex... Well, one can only have one definitive camera.
The digital revolution changed everything, but I doubt if I’ll ever have the same affection for some plastic camera that, after a year, will be outdated, and have become twice as cheap.
Posted 4 weeks ago. ( permalink )
Sherry ~ Rebujito says:
oh I can see why it's one of your all time favorites/personal best!
and the the little girl and mother do look so familiar
yes life is so full of coincidences
Posted 4 weeks ago. ( permalink )
Keespro replies:
Yes, the similarity is striking, isn’t it? I could swear the little girl was Cora, but why would she seek the company of this stranger? After all, it can’t be my wife (who doesn’t want to be on pictorial record).
Posted 4 weeks ago. ( permalink )

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