Taken with my homemade camera. Taken from the Sunrise side of Mount Rainier. It’s August, and the flowers are mostly gone. In July there would be red and blue flowers everywhere. I exposed for the foreground, not the mountain.
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Blue Heron
This was a twin camera setup triggered with an air bulb. I can’t remember what cameras they were! But the sync was pretty good.
Alpine Lakes Wilderness
Taken on a backpacking trip to the Alpine Lakes Wilderness, also known as the Enchantment Lakes, or just The Enchantments. I think that’s Lake Leprechuan on the right. My first major outing with my Don Lopp-modified Sputnik. When the larch are turning golden it’s one of the most breathtakingly beautiful spots I’ve ever visited.
Corkscrew Colors #42
Taken in Corkscrew Canyon on a trip to the Southwest in 2008. TL-120, Provia 100F, f22, shutter speed unrecorded.
Red Rows Backlit
A scene from the 2010 Skagit Valley Tulip Festival. The sun coming from an angle behind the tulips gives them an added luminostiy, and I like the reflections and shadows. TL-120, and Provia 100F. Exposure settings unrecorded.
A Fine Bouquet
One of my favorite fireworks shots, especially for the fineness of the light trails, and the color. I shared this image with someone who told me it made her feel like she was on top of the magic castle at Disneyland — one of my all-time favorite responses to a 3D slide.
Shot with twin Hasselblad 500Cs sporting 150mm lenses. Approximately 40 foot separation (based on the half mile distance between me and the fireworks, and the fact that we don’t discern any details behind the firworks — otherwise the 40 foot separation would be a problem).
My Medium Format Slides
Taken cha-cha with my Fuji GA645W and a CU lens at my light table. This shot has images that have toured the folio before, so if you’ve been around, you’ve seen them in 3D 😉 There’s a nice image of our LA3DClub in there too with some 3D friends that may be your friends too (L-R.. Ray Zone, David Kuntz, myself, John Hart, Lawrence Kaufman, Ed?, ?, Oliver Dean, Cassie Kaufman, ?, ?, Steve Berezin. Fun stuff.
Griffith Park Trail
On another run, this time with the Fuji GA645w which I can pack and run with, using Provia 100. This angle is expansive from the Griffith Park trail that leads to the Observatory Overlook. You can see Silver Lake Resevoir, downtown Los Angeles and deeper in the background is the Palos Verdes Peninsula and behind it Catalina. Taken cha-cha style.
Sunset at Lake Balboa
The nearest lake and it’s only 4 miles from my house. I run here often. Lake Balboa is in the Sepulveda Dam Recreation area in the San Fernando Valley, a suburb of Los Angeles. I used at Sputnik and Fujichrome RDP III 100.
Kids at Paramount Ranch
Summer time at Paramount Ranch, Calabasas, CA is a wonderland for my family. We watch the Silents Under the Stars program put on by Hollywood Heritage and the National Park Service. I took this with the World 3D camera and it flarred so I cropped it. Left to right: Kevin is 8, Vincent 4, Emilie 6, and Valentine 5. Shot on Kodak EPR 64 Ektachrome.
Shwedegon Pagoda, Yangon Myanmar
The Schwedegon Pagoda is considered to be the most sacred Buddhist temple in Myanmar.
Photographed with twin Mamiya C220s using 135mm lenses, I used a tripod. Prove 100F pushed one stop. Probably a 15 second exposure at f22.
Great Wall of China
This is the Mutianyu section of the Great Wall located 45 miles from Beijing. It is one of the most thoroughly restored segments of the wall.
Photographed with a TL-120 using Provia 100F pushed one stop. No tripod, I get good results with this camera using a waist-level finder and letting it hang around my neck.
New York Kite Festival
This was a New York Stereoscopic Society activity, we all had a great time shooting stereo of kites against the Hudson river and NY skyline.
Photographed with twin Mamiya C220s with 135mm lenses. Prove 100F pushed one stop. I love the surreal quality the telephoto lenses give to this sort of scene.
Bagan, Myanmar
Bagan is famous for its thousand year old Bhuddist temples. Many of these belonged to wealthy families who built them next to their houses. The houses were made of wood and are long gone, but the temples remain.
Photographed with twin Mamiya C-220s using 135mm lenses, December 2015. Prove 100F pushed one stop. I used a tripod. It was challenging hauling this huge rig around Myanmar and my family got a bit impatient with me at times, but it was worth it to get shots like this one.
Ray Dillard – August 2016
All three of these images were captured in Elora, Ontario, Canada at the site of an old mill on the Elora River. I was fascinated by how much was left standing of this structure, although all things considered there was more missing than present! Matt Neima and Steven Lederman, featured in this folio, along with some other friends were out for this photo jaunt. It was a bright day, allowing some significant blue skies mixed with the deteriorating building.
“The Inner Garden” – As per my last run, I am still experimenting with multiple exposures, but this image is the only example I have included this time. It was very bright, so I had to do a bit of calculated guessing at the stacking of the exposure times. I was fascinated by the garden like aspect inside the walls of this building. I also loved the fact I was shooting through a chain length fence. All three images were captured on my Sputnik which I acquired from John Thurston.
“Under deConstruction” – The strange position of the construction barrel, with the bizarre rebar jutting out of the old foundation caught my eye here. It was also an interesting optical illusion that the supports appear as though they are pushing the crumbling walls over rather than supporting them. The Fuji Provia 100F film did a nice job with the blue sky and drab greys.
“Stuck in the Corner” – Experimentation is at the core of my shooting. I was intrigued at how much the person in the corner disappeared due to the brightness of parts of the building. My attempt here was to slightly over expose the brightest part of the building, hopefully then under exposing the bottom right area. Maybe it worked…
Thanks to Steven Lederman for developing this film for me.