This is Brian Reynolds’ contribution for loop d20, grandfathered in from loop 20 of MF3D Folio II managed by Brian himself!
Bay Blues. Grand Turk. Feb 2018. Fuji RDP III.
Holland America Line. Grand Turk. Feb 2018. Fuji RDP III.
Carnival Sensation. Eastern Caribbean. Feb 2018. Fuji RDP III.
Cruise center. Grand Turk. Feb 2018. Fuji RDP III.
This is Bert McIlwain’s contribution for loop d20, grandfathered in from loop 20 of MF3D Folio II managed by Brian Reynolds.
Artcar. Austin, TX. Mamiya c-220s. RDP III.
Panther Creek. Oakalla, TX. Mamiya c-220s. RVP 100.
900-Ft. Jesus (Partial). Tulsa, OK. Mamiya c-220s. RVP 100.
Wall Flowers. Austin, TX. Mamiya c-220s. RVP 100.
This is Paul Talbot’s contribution for loop d20, grandfathered in from loop 20 of MF3D Folio II managed by Brian Reynolds.
BR20-01 – Canada, 2003-Jun-24. RVP R13/2.
BR20-02 – Canada, 2003-Jun-24. RVP R11/2.
BR20-03
BR20-04
This is Jim Harp’s contribution for loop d20, grandfathered in from loop 20 of MF3D Folio II managed by Brian Reynolds.
San Francisco. 5/17. Twin Mamiya c-220s, 135mm lenses.
Chicken of the Sea. 6/17. TL-120, Coney Island Mermaid P.
Pink Mermaid. 6/17.TL-120 with Vivitar 285H Fill Flash.
Ghost Child/twilight. 5/12. TL-120, Kaohsiung – (Taiwan).
Right Side
If the Juneau tourists get a bus to the Mendenhall Glacier, a mile long walk along the willows on the lake shore will bring them to the bottom of Nugget Creek. It offers a nice waterfall, and good view of the glacier.We’ve been here before.
Left Side
And if one walks several miles up the “left” side of the lake, and climbs a little, it is much quieter and less crowded. Not many unguided tourists make it this far up the trail, so when I meet one I try to make them feel welcome. If the lenses in your viewer are good, you can see the crowd of tourists on the beech at the base of the waterfall.
Twenty years ago, all the open water in both images was ice. The face of the glacier was just past the rightmost iceberg in the second image. At that time, the bedrock was below more than 100′ of ice, and Nugget Falls disappeared under the edge of the glacier.
Both images are from my TL120, Nugget Falls has been captured with Kodak E100G rather than my usual Provia.
So Many Choices
Juneau is historically a gold town. More recently, it is a tourist town. On a ‘good’ day, cruise ships can deliver more than 15,000 passengers to shore. And when all those people get ashore, they need to find something to do. Most of the ships work hard to sell package tours on board to their captive audience, but there are still folks on the sidewalks ready to help put tourists on buses out to the glacier or to another dock where they can grab a whale-watch tour.
Whales, Whales, Whales
Most of the vendors are seasonal workers. They arrive from Outside at the start of the season, rent their booth, and sell tours on commission. They’re assertive, but friendly. I’m not often mistaken for a tourist (wrong clothing and not enough tan), but when I am I listen to their pitch before turning them down.
Both of these are from my TL120 on Provia.
As a bonus image, I’m including a little bit of blue. Like all of my under-glacier images, the light is dim and the location is long gone.
I’m standing in the stream which has cut its way under the ice. The ground is gravel over bedrock, and the deeper one goes the thicker the layer of gravel is. By this point, the gravel is thick enough so the stream is completely contained in the gaps between the stones. The running water carries heat under the ice which creates a gap. Then warm air start to move through and widen the gaps. The color variation in the ceiling is from the variation in thickness and sand content.
I’ve tried several times to try to duplicate this image by print and by film. In call cases, the color reproduction has stymied me. The colors reproduced by the film are not easily obtainable in any of the ink or film-recorder color spaces I’ve tried. I’ll try again in a few more years. Until then, please enjoy this original with all of its subtle colors.
Adapted from “A Complete Guide to Heraldry” by Arthur Charles Fox-DaviesTo provide a bit of history, originally there were two independently organized sets of folios:
The comments page for both sets of folios was a custom-written piece of software by Joel Alpers. When John Thurston took over the management of “MF3D Folio I – Alpha” from Sam Smith in 2008, he went looking for an comments solution with a few more features than the jkalpers comment page. John ultimately developed this comments site powered by WordPress. When John assumed management of “Folio I – Beta” in 2009, its comments were also re-hosted here. Beta was retired in 2012, and its members rolled into Alpha.
The jkalpers comments page had continued to be used by “MF3D Folio II” up until early 2017, when the site went down. Tragically, the source code and admin password to the server running the software were lost, along with the archive of the many years of comments. The folio continued on for a while without a comments solution. In April 2019, Brian Reynolds transferred management of “MF3D Folio II” to me.
At this time, John generously offered to expand this WordPress site to be able to host comments from “MF3D Folio II”, so once again all of the active MF3D folio comments pages are consolidated in one place. The “MF3D Folio II” was renamed “Dragon Folio” under the suggestion of Boris Starosta. This name was chosen as to not be confused with the other active folio at the time of this writing, “Folio A”.
Here’s to many successful years of MF3D folios!
Shot through the side of the Gelato Vendor’s stand, in Rome, I think. It was a quick grab-shot, hoping for the best. Provia 100 – Sputnik.
Atlantis Book store on one of the Greek Islands. I must have opened up one stop from Sunny 16 to keep from losing all detail in the shaded store entrance. So, the stark white walls are almost blocked up, but I had to do it -what an amazing scene! I left that Tilley Hat on the airplane, coming home.
This shot, made early one morning, gives a feel for the atmosphere on the boat. They usually had at least some of the sails up, even when under power. We boarded in Istanbul and sailed/motored to the Islands first, and then on to Corinth and Athens. Our cabin was through those doors behind the rope, and down the stairs. We had a porthole just above the waterline – very peaceful.
I thought this looked a bit saturated for Provia, and sure enough, looking back at the rest of the roll it is RVP100 -Velvia100. I had forgotten that I took any Velvia on the trip, so I mislabeled the view itself. Seems as though Velvia is a good bit “softer” in sharpness than Provia. Consulting the image/data made on my iPhone, using the Pocket Light Meter app,I used 1/60th at f-16.
Sea and Santorini
Santorini is one of the Greek Islands we visited during a “Journeys of Paul” tour that Diana and I were on in June of 2017. Our vessel is the sailing craft in the upper left corner of the view, also depicted in Aft-Deck Morn, one of my other views in this round – quite an amazing boat. This was taken with my Sputnik, the only film camera I had on the voyage. Pretty sure I used the Sunny 16 Rule, shooting at 1/125.
This shot is from 2000, I took it with my carefully adjusted Sputnik with a Vivitar 285H fill flash on a tripod. Probably 8 seconds at f16. This is an example of the terrific results the Sputnik can produce, this is one of my all time favorite slides.
The center island of the Miracle Mile in Coral Gables is lined with these trees. I used a TL-120 on a tripod with a Vivitar 285H fill flash, this was taken after sunset. The fill flash brings out a little touch of detail in the passing cars. I used an incident meter to determine the exposure, hoping to bring out the detail in the trees at the expense of blowing out the store in the background. I think this was a 30 seconds at f22.
This is the famous Infinity Pool at the top of the Sands three-tower hotel in Singapore. You’ll find a lot of images online of this pool that feature the illusion that the back edge of the water drops off to the Singapore skyline, you’d think swimmers were in danger of falling off. This shot shows why they aren’t.
May 2018. I used a TL-120 with Provia 100F pushed one stop.