[Editor’s note: This appears to be an encore presentation of an image we saw in January, 2009. I’m looking forward to having another viewing opportunity with this one.]
Category Archives: FolioA
Where’s the rattlesnakes???
I think I goofed and already have the same or similar image in the other folio. Taken at Palo Duro State Park Texas, September 2012. Taken with the TL120 handheld. Palo Duro Canyon State Park opened on July 4, 1934 and contains 29,182 acres of the scenic, northern most portion of the Palo Duro Canyon. The Civilian Conservation Corps of the 1930’s constructed most of the buildings and roads still in use by park staff and visitors.
The Canyon is 120 miles long, as much as 20 miles wide, and has a maximum depth of more than 800 feet. Its elevation at the rim is 3,500 feet above sea level. It is often claimed that Palo Duro Canyon is the second largest canyon in the United States. The largest, the Grand Canyon, is 277 miles long, 18 miles wide, and 6,000 ft. deep.
Palo Duro Canyon was formed by water erosion from the Prairie Dog Town Fork of the Red River. The water deepens the canyon by moving sediment downstream. Wind and water erosion gradually widen the canyon.
Early Spanish Explorers are believed to have discovered the area and dubbed the canyon “Palo Duro” which is Spanish for “hard wood” in reference to the abundant mesquite and juniper trees.
A Dog’s Paradise
Taken with the TL120 in Beaumont, Texas in April 2013. Here is the link that tells more: http://www.roadsideamerica.com/story/7358
All it needs is a dog or two. Taken with the TL120 and handheld.
Home of the Pearl
This was taken in Port Arthur, Texas in April 2013. It is the childhood home of Janis Joplin. Taken in natural light with the TL120 handheld.
God Bless Texas
This image was taken with the TL 120 in a cemetery south of San Antonio, Texas. I was looking for a different kind of cemetery image. It sort of worked. Handheld under a bright sunny Texas sky. This was taken in 2012 when we had a bumper crop of color. I didn’t think to take thumbnails of my photos before I sent the folio on. So I dug out the extras I had and used the closest match.
Alpine Plants
I hope to go back to Whistler and try this again, I didn’t have a lot of time and would love to remove the distracting background. But I really like the small plants.
Mountain cha cha
This is an experiment, I was kilometers away from these mountains. I walked a long way (can’t recall now, maybe 60 paces?). I have rubber eyes so this works for me. If it is badly mounted, let me know, I can take it!
Chris Again
Here is another picture of my nephew Chris skating. TL120, not sure of the F stop, but probably not F22.
BC Cascade – Shannon Park?
I added this picture because I think this is from the same place Dale Walsh took his ‘Chillin’ picture. I shot this with my TL120, most likely F22
Steam Tractor
Image by James Mutch
Waterfall
Picture by James Mutch.
“Man’s Best Friend”
I’ll bet you this homage to the hog was shot in Shakespeare, Ontario.
Handheld, TL-120, metered through the camera, using expired Fuji RVP100.
“Tanks A Lot”
This is my brother-in-law, Gordon, and yes ladies, he’s single! This is another shot from last year’s beer run. Gordon plays an international online tank game, so we stopped on our way to the beer store in Vermont to shoot an avatar image for him. I captured a few shots with a Fuji W3, and then I bracketed some exposures with the Stereo Samulette.
I have another version of this shot that I like slightly better, as the background is sharper and there’s an American flag present, but the setting sun washed out some of Gordon’s features and his pose was more rigid, so you get to see this one instead.
I realize there’s a scratch or some sort of anomaly on the left film chip.
This was handheld, shot on HP5 processed by dr5 – I think the f-stop was 16, 1/100th of a second handheld, and the distance and hyperfocal estimation was guesswork (there’s no through-the-lens focusing on this camera).
“General Store”
My brother-in-law Gordon is a bière connoisseur. He makes regular pilgrimages to Vermont to frequent a specialty store there that stocks micro-brews from around the globe.
Last year I decided I’d accompany him on one of his beer runs to Vermont via the quaint Quebec countryside so that I’d have an opportunity to shoot with my folding medium format camera. If I did all the driving, I’d have control over where we stopped for a photo op. I am pleased with how the camera performed. I enjoy the vintage feel of this shot, marred only by the snout of the more modern vehicle peering out from the rear of the truck bed.
This scene reminds me of the subject matter that my late friend Earl Bennett was attracted to when he painted. He studied with Thomas Hart Benton in the 1930s and for the most part painted works that dealt with small town, mid-Western life.
This image was shot on HP5, processed by dr5. I wish I could say the shutter speed was 5 and the f-stop was 5, but no such luck. The f-stop was 32, handheld at 1/100th.
The camera was created by Sam Smith, fusing together two 1950s-era AGFA Isolette II folders. It has AGFA’s intermediate-level f4.5 Apotar lenses on S-Prontor shutters. When folded shut, it fits into a jacket pocket. It’s resplendent in faux ostrich skin. I wanted to name it “The AGFA Stereo Smith-O-lette”, but Sam liked the sound of “Sam-O-lette” better. For some reason, when I say “Sam-O-lette” I think of Frank Zappa’s “Camarillo Brillo” and the lyrics; “She had a snake for a pet, and an amulet…”, so since Sam told me to name this camera “whatever sounds good”, I’ve named it “The Samulette”.
“New York State Of Mind”
I shot this during a family trip to Manhattan a few years ago. I guess I was in a reflective mood (hahaha). This was captured with a 3D World TL-120 on expired Fuji RVP 100F, handheld, metered through the camera.