Thank you. I owe that to upbringing and three years in the Boy Scouts.
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Thank you. I owe that to upbringing and three years in the Boy Scouts.
ThreeDoggies
Three Doggies on a trailer! Platinum/palladium print of three 2 1/4 negatives. Printed last night.
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A friend was driving my triplet boys and I around San Fran when we came across these three doggies on Treasure Island.
Rolleiflex or 'cord...don't remember. 2005, give or take a few years.
ShadSelfPortrait_ShellMtn
A Shadow Self-Portrait on Shell Mtn. On the occasion of my 60th Birthday (July 2014) I earlier post a print of a tree I thought was on top of the peak, but this is the tree and the other was off to the side. This tree sheltered me nicely from...
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This is perhaps one of my favorites on a personal level. This was taken with a Rolleicord (but possibly a 'flex) while on a solo backpack trip in 2014 -- about 25 years after leaving my Forest Service job in these mountains. I had worked for a dozen summer seasons, the first two counting steelhead in the river coming from these mountains, and ten seasons (May thru Oct) packing mules and maintaining 150 miles of trail in my District's part of the Yolla Bolly - Middle Eel Wilderness.
After several years working in these mountains, I finally got to the top of Shell Mountain (6700') -- not the tallest peak around, and lacking the serious bones that the Sierras and Trinity Alps have, the peaks are rounded. It is odd shaped country, and it was on top of Shell Mt that I finally got the layout of the wilderness and its rivers, creeks, ridges, and trails in my head. It is an important place in my life...and I doubt I will return there.
On this early July 2014 solo one-week trip, I had a dry camp on top of Shell Mt, just a few days short of my 60th birthday. There is a western Juniper on top for shade and company. Late in the afternoon, the sun cast my shadow on the Juniper. In the background and to the far right is Solomon Peak, I camped on top of that peak on my 30th birthday -- still working for the Forest Service, but was on a solo bus driver's holiday. I was buzzed a couple times by a dive-bombing sparrow hawk...nice birthday present!
The last time I was on Solomon Peak was with one of my sons in 2016 -- and hopefully again this June for some volunteer trail work if my body holds up! That area is the southern end of the new Bigfoot Trail.
The Bigfoot Trail
A pathway through the wild heart of the Klamath Mountains—built by community, held by story, guided by care. Land Acknowledgement The rich and stunning
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Around 9 years ago I bought my first 120 camera, a rz67. Often lugged it around town, here's one of my favourites at that time. I sat the camera on my lap with a 180mm lens, picked my frame and waited for the right moment someone would walk by. Saw this guy loitering around then he walked into my shot. Love the crinkled shirt.
I'll bite. A favorite still life: Rolleiflex 6008i, Schneider Apo-Symmar 90 mm f/4, Ilford HP5+. Came across this manila branch with a seed pod, brought it home, lit, shot and printed it.
This was made sometime around 1983, in Los Angeles. My wife and I were on our way to breakfast I think, early on a Sunday morning. The foggy light hiding the buildings against the traffic lights said “make a photo of this right now”.
I pulled over, got the camera out, walked out to the middle of the street for the picture. Fortunately it was early enough that there was hardly any traffic.
This was made with a Hasselblad 500C. My biggest disappointment about it is that I was using a 4.5cm square back, so the image is grainier than I’d like in a print.
I pulled over, got the camera out, walked out to the middle of the street for the picture. Fortunately it was early enough that there was hardly any traffic.
This was made with a Hasselblad 500C. My biggest disappointment about it is that I was using a 4.5cm square back, so the image is grainier than I’d like in a print.
When I restarted my film based photography activities in the early 2010s I imaged some architecture in the Ruhr area which was rebuild in the context of the RUHR.2010 initiative. So now some of these images show the past in an interesting way.
Information on the kit used is included in the gallery posts. In these two examples it was my 6x9 Linhof. Other shots were also taken with my easier to carry Makina 67.
Information on the kit used is included in the gallery posts. In these two examples it was my 6x9 Linhof. Other shots were also taken with my easier to carry Makina 67.
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About seven-ish years ago, I decided for no reason I can articulate to start shooting some film again after an almost 20-year digital-only hiatus. So I bought a Mamiya Press Universal -- not quite as far from a modern electronic camera as you can get, but close.
I was still learning its wonders and (considerable) foibles when my elderly aunt and uncle called me to ask if I was available to drive their car from the San Francisco Bay Area to their new home in northern Washington state. Take the long way if you want, they said, and thus began a 6-day road trip up the Pacific Coast.
It was fall, and I was traveling during the work week, so I had many beaches and trails to myself, or nearly so. That trip is still a treasured memory.
Just after dawn one morning near La Push, WA, I hiked out to Second Beach. It was raining lightly, and misty, and it was just me and the gulls. A small creek, nameless as far as I can tell, was flowing off the coastal ridge, through the sand, and into the ocean. There's nothing like solitude, a misty morning, and nothing but the sounds of the ocean.
I struggled a fair bit with the Universal, which I had never used in the rain before and was trying to keep dry with a plastic bag. Of course, the bag was blowing all over the place -- into the lens, blocking the viewfinder etc. A Mamiya Press camera is pretty old school -- you have to remember many small things, and do them in the right order, to get a picture on film without getting a blank frame, a double exposure, exposing your film to open light, and who knows how many other disasters. The gulls heard quite a copious volume of rather rude language that morning.
But eventually I made an exposure. I had many failures with that camera on that trip, and I was pretty dubious about this shot, too. But to my surprise, it turned out to be my favorite picture of the trip, and that morning is one of the best I've ever spent.
Cropped from 6x9. Mamiya Universal, 100mm f/3.5, TMY-2.
I was still learning its wonders and (considerable) foibles when my elderly aunt and uncle called me to ask if I was available to drive their car from the San Francisco Bay Area to their new home in northern Washington state. Take the long way if you want, they said, and thus began a 6-day road trip up the Pacific Coast.
It was fall, and I was traveling during the work week, so I had many beaches and trails to myself, or nearly so. That trip is still a treasured memory.
Just after dawn one morning near La Push, WA, I hiked out to Second Beach. It was raining lightly, and misty, and it was just me and the gulls. A small creek, nameless as far as I can tell, was flowing off the coastal ridge, through the sand, and into the ocean. There's nothing like solitude, a misty morning, and nothing but the sounds of the ocean.
I struggled a fair bit with the Universal, which I had never used in the rain before and was trying to keep dry with a plastic bag. Of course, the bag was blowing all over the place -- into the lens, blocking the viewfinder etc. A Mamiya Press camera is pretty old school -- you have to remember many small things, and do them in the right order, to get a picture on film without getting a blank frame, a double exposure, exposing your film to open light, and who knows how many other disasters. The gulls heard quite a copious volume of rather rude language that morning.
But eventually I made an exposure. I had many failures with that camera on that trip, and I was pretty dubious about this shot, too. But to my surprise, it turned out to be my favorite picture of the trip, and that morning is one of the best I've ever spent.
Cropped from 6x9. Mamiya Universal, 100mm f/3.5, TMY-2.
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i am SO JEALOUS at the instax results you have! ive gone through probably 200-250 shots with Instax Wide (crown graphic with a lomography back) and have gotten about 60 that werent thrown straight into the trash and MAYBE 18 that i would ever consider even showing anyone.
it has such narrow exposure latitude that if you have even a modicum of highlights or shadows youll never get either
my first foray into medium format was with this Super Ricohflex 6x6 TLR my mom found at a garage sale. i enjoyed playing around with it but i had no meter and everything was guessed at with sunny 16.
then my junior year in high school i took a photography class. id already been shooting 35mm for a while and so i had a better grasp of things (except film developing and printing). we had to do a photo story for the class so i borrowed an old YashicaMat 124 from the school and shot my dad in his side business of sharpening saws. i still have that pasted up photo story.
i recently (in the last 3 years) started playing around with that YashicaMat again and a Graflex 23 film back on my 4x5 crown graphic.
my development skills have deteriorated in the 33 years since i was in the Air Force but here are some 120 images.
YashicaMat 124 80mm f4.5(?)
graflex 23 film back in my Crown Graphic (kodak ektar lens 127mm f4.7)
graflex 23 film back in my Crown Graphic (kodak ektar lens 127mm f4.7)
the first image was scanned by the lab i had develop the film.
the last two i 'scanned' by shooting them with my R6m2 on a light table. hence them being out of square and skewed. the last one, the film sat on my shelf since Memorial Day 2024.
then my junior year in high school i took a photography class. id already been shooting 35mm for a while and so i had a better grasp of things (except film developing and printing). we had to do a photo story for the class so i borrowed an old YashicaMat 124 from the school and shot my dad in his side business of sharpening saws. i still have that pasted up photo story.
i recently (in the last 3 years) started playing around with that YashicaMat again and a Graflex 23 film back on my 4x5 crown graphic.
my development skills have deteriorated in the 33 years since i was in the Air Force but here are some 120 images.
YashicaMat 124 80mm f4.5(?)
graflex 23 film back in my Crown Graphic (kodak ektar lens 127mm f4.7)
graflex 23 film back in my Crown Graphic (kodak ektar lens 127mm f4.7)
the first image was scanned by the lab i had develop the film.
the last two i 'scanned' by shooting them with my R6m2 on a light table. hence them being out of square and skewed. the last one, the film sat on my shelf since Memorial Day 2024.
We don'get foggy mornings often here in the New Mexico desert, so I got luck with the timing on this. The fog cleared up 10 minutes later. This is a pecan orchard south of Mesilla, New Mexico where I live.
The camera was a Bronica SQ-A with the Zenzanon PS 80mm ƒ2.8 lens. I don't remember the film or camera settings though.
The camera was a Bronica SQ-A with the Zenzanon PS 80mm ƒ2.8 lens. I don't remember the film or camera settings though.
Ilford Delta 3200 metered at EI 1600. Mamiya C220 TLR + 80mm f2.8, 1/2 second exposure at f16. I knew I would not be able to hold the lantern still for 1/2 second, so I suspended the lantern on a wire from above, and rested my hand on the lantern.
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Stunning. I'd buy a print if you're ever doing a run.
My father never let his guard down, especially to show his soft side. I knew I would have to wear him down to get what I wanted and had to be ready. He spent 20 shots being uncooperative and somewhere in there he gave me a couple of seconds. They both are gone now and I'm glad I wore him down.
i forgot to add these to the post when i made my initial comment.
Super Ricohflex. my first foray into medium format photography. probably about 9th grade
i seem to think the shutter was fubar due to a bad cocking spring but it didnt seem to be when i got it out to shoot these photos.
the FOCUS is next to impossible to adjust. the lenses are geared together and they are very very VERY stiff. ive thought about seeing if a little lighter fluid on the teeth would make things turn easier but i think its the internals gummed up
Super Ricohflex. my first foray into medium format photography. probably about 9th grade
i seem to think the shutter was fubar due to a bad cocking spring but it didnt seem to be when i got it out to shoot these photos.
the FOCUS is next to impossible to adjust. the lenses are geared together and they are very very VERY stiff. ive thought about seeing if a little lighter fluid on the teeth would make things turn easier but i think its the internals gummed up
Every time I have visited Taos i've made it a point to visit the famous mission church, and each time i've come away with different images. The last time I had finished working & was putting my 5x7" kit back in the car, I turned around to see this scene. I just had time to grab my Fuji GW680lll and fire off a couple of frames before the light and the shape of the cloud changed. it's not an easy negative to print,because of the dynamic range, but the results are worth it.
Lake Erie at Dunkirk, NY. The wind was blowing too hard to unfurl my LF kit so I grabbed my RB67 then tripod and hopped onto the top of the seawall for this shot.
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Wonderful!
Been there, got the T-shirt! I just love the U.P. and have spent much time there.
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