Shangri La is located near the province of Tibet in southwest China, in the Sichuan province. Not many tourists seemed to be there, despite the amount of local tourists in other parts of China. Maybe it was because there wasn’t much to see in the town except one of the largest prayer wheels in the world and a spectacular night time lighting of the local monastery. The town had been devastated by a large fire, destroying most of the original buildings only years prior to my visit. Needless to say, we did not stay in Shangri La very long, only 2 nights, before heading south to the more interesting provinces of Yunnan and Guangxi. Shot on my Sputnik MF3D camera with Fujifilm Provia 100f film.
Grand-Staircase Escalante
In April 2018 I went on a road trip to Utah with a few friends. We stayed in the campground in the town of Escalante and went on day hikes to Lower Calf Creek Falls, Escalante River and the Dry Fork Slot Canyons.
 Grand Staircase-Escalante – RDP III – Sputnik (Location) The Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument was (until recently) the largest National Monument in the contiguous US and comprises enumerable canyons, including some famous ones such as Bryce and Zion. On our first full day, we decided to visit the slot canyons nearby after speaking with the campground owner. I took this slide at the top of the Dry Fork trail which leads down to the slot canyons. |
 Slot Canyons – RDP III – Sputnik (Location) This was taken at the mouth of Peek-a-boo slot canyon. It’s quite high up and it was a bit tricky to get up with my tripod and Sputnik. There wasn’t too much stereo photography that could be done within the slot canyons since the narrow corridor would cause window violations. It’s a really neat place, and I recommend going if you get the chance. The road to get there is like a washboard though, so don’t take a nice new vehicle. Peek-a-boo was the shortest and easiest of the slot canyons here. We also went down Spooky canyon, which was extremely narrow at several points — I couldn’t get through with the backpack. It was also very dark in some places and the sky couldn’t be seen at all. Apparently the third canyon, Brimstone, is even narrower and has pools of water you have to wade through! We ran out of time to attempt it. |
 Heroic Hikers – RVP 100 – Sputnik (Location) On our drive back home, we stopped at Bryce canyon and hiked the Fairyland trail. It’s a very beautiful hike. These are my hikineg friends: Gabe, Derek, and Elliot. |
 Sinking Ship – RVP 100 – Sputnik (Location) All along the hike, I was wishing I had some sort of twin camera rig, or a bit more time to do some cha-chas. It’s sometimes hard to balance photography with other activities, like hiking with others. I do a lot of walking, so I’m able to take photos and keep up quite well, but it still takes a fair bit of time to stop, set up and level my tripod, meter the scene and take the shot. When we arrived back at our vehicle at Fairyland point, I decided I really ought to take a hyper — cha-cha style. Unfortunately I didn’t have a lens cap or Mike Davis’ spreadsheet, but I found a railing to slide my camera on and I covered one lens with my hand. My apologies for the slightly excessive on-film deviation and corresponding window violation. Otherwise, I’m quite pleased with how it came out. I wish I had taken more hypers, but we had to get going. I hope to come back some day and really take my time shooting. The tilted landmass in the distance is called Boat Mesa or the Sinking Ship. |
Thanks all for sharing your wonderful images. It’s such a pleasure to participate in the folio.
Ian Andvaag
Saskatoon, SK
Waterfall
Waterfall
This is an image from some of Don Lopp’s unmounted slides. Hazarding a guess it is taken using Don’s homemade 3D camera.
Mt Rainier With Foreground Flowers
Mt Rainier With Foreground Flowers
Mt Rainier Creek
Mt Rainier Creek
Mt Shuksan from Picture Lake
Mt Shuksan From Picture Lake
Atlas & Pat #2
The Atlas of Rockefeller Center faces off against St. Patricks Cathedral
Shot with a Sputnik in my early MF3D days. I like the framing of this “religion collision.” Had to work fast, because the guards came running out to chase me and my tripod away.
Bubble Star
Bubble master Tom Noddy displays the extremely complex Bubble Star
My friend Tom Noddy came over to my house so I could capture some of his amazing creations in 3D. The back wall is draped with black velvet. DOF is pretty narrow. Shot with TL-120, Provia 400x, and flash units aplenty.
The Bubble Star is a very complex bubble and takes some time to build, So by the time it’s finished it will not last long. Something is going to pop.
Tom was presenting once in Israel (he does a lot of science museums) and you can imagine the reaction he got when he presented this.
The Finally, Part 1
Independence Day fireworks over Lake Union in Seattle
The cameras are aimed into the sky during the day. This usually works out well, but last year I got burned. The cameras were aimed normally high but the fireworks were set off abnormally low. So I got almost nothing. This year I’m planning to shoot with a wider lens to capture more of the entire scene, and I’m in the process of running tests on those lenses to see if they match.
Reflection Lake Star Trails #3
Long nighttime exposure, with star trails, of Mt. Rainier from Reflection Lakes
My best guess is this is from 2010. This is a one-and-a-half hour exposure at f16 from 2 Hasselblads. These would be the 50mm lenses, and the film is Provia 100F. I don’t remember if I’d planned it this way, or if I later determined I’d gotten the exposure very wrong, but I ended up pushing the film 2 stops which was clearly the right thing to do. (I may have taken a test exposure from another film magazine to make the determination; just don’t remember). I probably had some children’s socks tied around the lenses, with handwarmers inside, to keep the lenses from fogging.
I’m impressed with the color and how blue the sky looks. Well, it is sunlight after all, it’s just getting to the scene via a large reflector in the sky. The moon would have been pretty full here. The challenge with these shots is to get enough light on the trees on the other side of the lake without blowing out the top of the mountain. I do like the reflected star trails in the water.
Go Raptors Go!
Because of the Toronto Raptors historic 2019 NBA Championship win over the Golden State Warriors I have decided to send all my images this round from that fair city. Interiors are Fuji Velvia RVP 100F and exteriors are Provia RDP III taken with the TL 120.
Ontario College of Art And Design It kind of looks like they wanted to preserve the building underneath and stuck this one on top of it.
Roger’s Toronto Late Afternoon. This is a cha-cha and I got pretty lucky with the
lack of clouds and so not much movement between shutter clicks in the bottom although I just noticed a ladder or small crane in one image and not in the other one. I took a bunch at sunset but they are unviewable because of the cloud movements in the sky. This was taken from the balcony of by brother’s appartement very close to the centre of the city which is basically Yonge and Bloor streets.
Stained Glass Silhouette Inside St. James Cathedral on Church Street. Tried to expose for the stained glass windows but maybe a touch too dark.
Scared Arts : Painting, Music and Sculpture. Inside St. James Cathedral on Church Street
Ian Andvaag d21 submission
Beechy Sand Castle
Hyper Hills
The first two images I have submitted were taken last summer at a unique location here in Saskatchewan called the Beechy Sand Castle and Sunken Hill. There are a couple of quarter sections of ranch land near the inlet of Lake Diefenbaker on the south Saskatchewan river that are home to some interesting land formations. It’s on private land, but the owner is gracious enough to allow visitors to come and hike around the area. Legend has it that an underground gas pocket collapsed, causing the land to give way. One day, the rancher went to check his cattle, and the tracks left by his truck a few days prior led right into the crater of the Sunken Hill!
The location is only accessible during dry conditions, since you have to drive through a field to get there. It was very hot the day I went and also quite smoky from forest fires out west in British Columbia. After walking around a bit and seeing the lay of the land, I knew I wanted to try out some hypers, but I had neither a laser rangefinder, nor Mike Davis’ stereobase calculator. I tried some anyway, but as you can see by my slipshod cutting to expand a panoramic mount, I didn’t get it quite right. Most of the hypers I took had very distracting retinal rivalry in the water, but this one didn’t seem quite as off-putting for whatever reason. This summer I have a goal to get a working system for hypers using two Agfa Isolettes.
Smell the Roses
Frosting
The other two slides are from my city, Saskatoon, on one of the few days of the year that we get hoarfrost. It’s always so beautiful and it’s one of my favourite things to photograph in MF3D. I titled the one slide “Smell the Roses”, because the frost can make even a pile of overgrown weeds in an industrial district look pretty, and it seems like many people don’t stop to take notice.
Now that I’ve got a workable B&W reversal process, I’m more motivated to shoot black and white. Hope you enjoy!
Snowmen
I took these slides on the first day of spring, March 21, 2018. For those of you from balmier climes, yes, there can be this much snow in Montreal on the first day of spring. These snowmen had melted a little, and were starting to lose the form and details bestowed initially by their young creators. A couple of them have lost their eyes. Some of their features are starting to look a bit abstract. I initially saw them as somewhat nostalgic relics from the long winter we had been through, perhaps on a smaller time scale the way ruins remind us of a long-gone past, like the statues on Easter Island. My wife found them scary, as though they had escaped from a horror movie, and the more I examined them, the more I could see her point of view. Shot with a Heidoscop on a tripod with Fuji Provia 100F film. Exposures were as follows:
Snowman with a cap and scarf – 1/50th @ f25.
Snowman with small head – 1/20th @ f25.
Snowman with scarf and toque – 1/25th @ f25.
Snowman whose grapefruit eyes fell off – 1/40th @ f25.
Joel Alpers d20 submission
This is Joel Alpers’ contribution for loop d20, grandfathered in from loop 20 of MF3D Folio II managed by Brian Reynolds.
Untitled.
Snowmelt #2.
Ceremonial Kiva, Mesa Verde.
Trail Ridge.
Don Lopp d20 submission
Note: Don Lopp passed away February 24, 2019. Bob Venezia has graciously continued to allow Don’s slides to circulate.
This is Don Lopp’s contribution for loop d20, grandfathered in from loop 20 of MF3D Folio II managed by Brian Reynolds.
Mt. Shuksan. 10-02. Velvia 50. Pol 22.0
Botanical Garden. Bellevue, WA. Velvia 50, f/22. Home-made camera – obviously inferior lenses from 1950s.
Bald Eagle. Provia f22.0 Heidoscope.
Pike Place Market – Tossing Salmon. 6/97. Heidoscope f16.0 Astia.