This is a TL120 image taken on Provia 100f film. I believe it was shot at f16 and 125th. I just had to get a shot of this fabulous statue on the top of the fountain in the square of Tabor, Czech Republic. We stopped in this historic town for some lunch, and as usual, I was delayed in ordering.
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Charles Bridge, Prague
If you go to Prague, you will inevitably find the fine stone bridge built by King Charles I. It is one of the oldest stone bridges in Europe and is a very popular attraction in the heart of the medieval town. This image was shot with my TL120 camera on Provia 100f film. Maybe on the next round I will have a similar, only hyper shot from my Lubitel hyper rig. I still have to take the film in for processing.
Avebury Hyper
This image is a medium format redo of one of my earliest stereo images, and one of my favourite places on Earth. I backpacked through England in my youth looking for stone circles to photograph. I borrowed my friend’s Revere and shot about 5 rolls of Kodachrome slides, my first experience with stereo (outside of Viewmaster). I still have my first ever hyper stereo (cha cha) slide, in Realist format (two actually). This was my proud return. I found the same spot and set up my twin Lubitel rig. Almost all shots on my Lubitels are 125th and f16. I set the shutters by recording the sound they make using Audacity, and I don’t dare try to change the speed settings. In the field, this rig is a bear to set up, so I also usually save time by leaving the apertures at f16 and wait for bright sunlight. This way I can leave the focus at the hyper focal, so I can concentrate on the composition. it’s a hyper rig, so most objects are near infinity anyhow. I trigger the rig with two cable releases. One in each hand.
The stone circle at Avebury was described by the archaeologist, Aubrey, as being like a great cathedral, compared with Stone Henge, which is more like a village church. This image shows only a small part of the circle. A large part of the town of Avebury is actually inside the circle. The stone my wife Kamila is posing in front of is called the “Barber stone” since one of the medieval residents who tried to destroy the “Pagan” circle was crushed by this stone when it was toppled, and he was found with a pair of scissors.
Organ player inside Saint James Cathedral
Organ player inside Saint James Cathedral at 65 Church street Toronto, Ontario.
http://www.stjamescathedral.on.ca/
Saint James Cathedral exterior rear side
Saint James Cathedral exterior rear side.
Toronto necropolis chapel interior
You can see where the coffin sits and where they bring the coffins inside from the exterior.
Their web site with more images.
“Praise him and magnify him …”
Organ pipes and stained glass windows inside Saint James Cathedral at 65 Church street Toronto, Ontario.
http://www.stjamescathedral.on.ca/
Watering “Upheaval”
“Upheaval” was the entry from the Verdun borough of Montreal in the Mosaicultures International exposition of horticultural art held at the Montreal Botanical Garden in 2013:
http://www.mosaiculturesinternationales.ca/en/
Original slide, taken with tripod-mounted Heidoscop at 1/15 sec. at f20 on Sept. 1, 2013.
Mother Earth
“Mother Earth” was one of the centrepieces of the Mosaicultures International exposition of horticultural art held at the Montreal Botanical Garden in 2013:
http://www.mosaiculturesinternationales.ca/en/
Original slide, taken with tripod-mounted Heidoscop at 1/50 sec. at f25 on Sept. 1, 2013.
The Man Who Planted Trees
“The Man Who Planted Trees” was an entry by Montreal 
in the Mosaicultures International exposition of horticultural art held at the Montreal Botanical Garden in 2013:
http://www.mosaiculturesinternationales.ca/en/
Original slide, taken with tripod-mounted Heidoscop at 1/8 sec. at f25 on Sept. 1, 2013.
All in a Row
“Al
l in a Row” was Madagascar’s entry in the Mosaicultures International exposition of horticultural art held at the Montreal Botanical Garden in 2013:
http://www.mosaiculturesinternationales.ca/en/
Original slide, taken with tripod-mounted Heidoscop at 1/10 sec. at f25 on Sept. 1, 2013.
Summer in Boise
From the winter of 2008, we move to the summer of 2008. That summer, the NSA convention was in Boise. I went and took my TL120-1 along. Aside from the good time, good conversations, and good theater, there was great weather. I don’t know what the folks in Boise thought of it, but it was warm and dry (certainly not Juneau weather) and it appealed.
These were the two better street-shots of the two rolls I burned in Boise. Both are from a hand-held TL120-1.
Not Too Close / Plowing Prow
The winter ice has been terrible at the Mendenhall Glacier this year. The combination of snow, rain, and avalanches has meant I haven’t ventured near it, much less tried to cross it to get new winter images of the glacier. These two views from 2008 (captured with my TL120-55) will have to suffice. The area of ice pictured here is now long gone. In the summer it is open water. In the winter, it is lake ice.
Not Too Close
This image is taken about a mile and quarter across the lake from where I laced on my skates. Because of the current lake level, 
there is a patch of stable, rocky beach here. Because of cliff and creeks, it isn’t possible to walk around the lake to get to this bit of beach. Crossing the lake is the only way. Everything off that bit of beach is in flux and subject to change at any moment.
The cracks parallel to the shore show that the lake ice has sunk, and may again. The white froth beside the green glacier is a flowing and frozen waterfall. There is another stream coming down closer to the camera. Both are flowing under the ice, taking relative warmth, and creating areas of thinner lake ice. The glacier is calving from above and below, even in winter. Because of all this, approaching the glacier is a dance with an uncertain beast. I hunt for images and capture them as I approach, never certain when I’ll decide I’ve gone close enough and its time to retreat.
This image was made early in the morning’s dance. The colors and textures beckoned me closer despite the poor ice conditions.
Plowing Prow
Closer (and farther to the left) than the previous one, I captured this image. My exploration is stymied. The lake ice has been broken and refrozen several times, 
and there is water between the farther cracks. The advancing glacier has plowed up the lake ice like I might my driveway. Farther back there are pieces of lake ice resting 10′ out of the water, having been lifted there by the rising glacier. The textures in the ice in front of me still beckon, but I declare the dance done and retreat.
Inaugural Offerings
Geoffrey Waldo is our newest member in 2013. As you may be able to discern from his images, New Mexico is home.
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- Camel Rock, New Mexico
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- Crazy House
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- North From Camel Rock
I’ll go out on a limb and suggest these images were created with a TL120-1.
–John Thurston
Foliage
Last fall, I got on a foliage kick. Finally, after many years of dismissing foliage imagery as “beneath me,” I thought, okay, it does look pretty spectacular, and maybe MF3d would be a good way to capture the beauty of some of our foliage here in Central VA. So for a couple of weeks I went around shooting foliage. Most of the shooting was digital video, actually, and there’s a video I ended up publishing on YouTube, best seen on a 3DTV in HD: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1mU646qYeM
But some of the trees I found were SO spectacular, digital could not do them justice. One of them is in the view I’ve put in this folio “Foliage.” I loved the structure of the tree, and the many different colored leaves that it had on display: lots of yellow and red, to be sure, but also greens and browns. The mid-morning sun was backlighting the leaves to brilliant effect. I had first been attracted to this tree, because it was dropping leaves. I was trying to get video of leaves coming down towards the camera(s). But then I noticed the tree for its own sake… The next day I went back to the tree, bringing the Sputnik and some rolls of Velvia, and it really captured the colors beautifully.
This view is almost as it would be if you were lying on your back underneath the tree. And I could have done so all day! Who needs TV, with trees like this right outside? The tree was in a busy part of UVA campus called “The Corner,” but you’d almost never see anyone taking notice of it. Truth be told, I had not noticed this tree until this fall, when I was really looking for foliage imagery, and I’ve been in that general area thousands of times over the past 30 years.
