I know many/most of you from the Dragon Folio, but this is my first submission in Folio A. I’m happy to be here with you all! I’ve submitted four completely unrelated slides…
Jess and Jon: Pond
This was candid shot I snapped while visiting my sister and her husband in New Hampshire toward the end of the winter. They took a moment to escape our full family and contemplate their favorite pond together. They didn’t know I took this until I presented a slide to them as a gift. This is an M-Chrome, so I could afford to give a copy away and keep a copy for myself!
Camera: Mercury Stereo 12
Lens: Mamiya 65mm
Film: 65mm 250D cine film (IMAX)
Atom Smasher “Love You”
This is the ruined remains of the Westinghouse Atom Smasher, which pushed the boundaries of atomic energy research in the 1940s. The Mamiya 55mm lens is one of my favorites.
Camera: Mercury Stereo 12
Lens: Mamiya 55mm
Film: Fujichrome RMS
Cranes
I hope this hyper blows your mind! Be warned! The main subject here is mounted perfectly legally, but by the background it exceeds normal on-film deviation, and the general level of complexity of this image can really confuse the brain. Some people can’t fuse this comfortably, but it is one of my recent favorites. This was shot on the special BW IMAX film that Kodak made for the film Oppenheimer. The production gifted me the remaining stock. It’s a joy to work with, and makes excellent M-Chromes, which is of course its purpose: to be contact printed into prints for cinematic exhibition. Only in writing this post have I realized that I submitted my first version of this slide, with an open mask. I later created another copy and masked it to a shorter vertical, which really helps. Oops- I put the older version into the folio! Oh well.
Camera: Rollei 6006
Lens: 150mm
Film: 65mm Double-X cine film (IMAX)
Magic Bus
This was just a casual snap on my way to work one day, but my partner Vicky and I just love the color in this one (which I can’t seem to replicate in the digital scan). This is shot on Kodak’s amazing 500T cinema film, in 65mm IMAX form, using one of my favorite MF3D lenses, the Super Angulon 47mm. This is another M-Chrome.
Camera: Mercury Stereo 12
Lens: Super Angulon 47mm
Film: 65mm 500T cine film (IMAX)