Old Sem is the key to photography
Nelma Franke
On the background you see a photo of Sem Presser from the book Sem Presser, een halve eeuw fotojournalistiek ( 50 years of photo journalism) , a famous Dutch photo journalist who lived from 1917-1986. I couldn't find anything in English about him so the link to his website, with a large amount of wonderful photos, is only in Dutch. www.sempresser.nl/
On the foreground you see the Japanese Petri 35E, a 35 mm. camera from the early seventies, it took great pictures and was his time far ahead. The camera has about the same size and is just a little bit heavier than my Nikon Coolpix P5000 (240 g - 8.5 oz all in), a brandnew digital camera, also from Japan.
The Iron Photographer Challenge
Here are the elements for IP 26:
1 - a key
2 - something old
3 - close up
The first element is a key. You can take this literally or metaphorically. If you go the metaphoric route, we'd appreciate it if you can offer up a convincing road map for it.
When we say something old we're referring to something that has existed for a long time. I know we're going to be asked to define 'a long time' (hell, given past IP experience, we're probably going to be asked to define 'exist'). So let's just say 'old' means something at least 20 years old. BUT the old thing cannot also be the key. You can have an old key, but the key must have a separate existence from the old thing (there's that 'exist' again).
The final element, close up, should be fairly self explanatory.
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